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There was some speculation back when the first Ryzen came out that Anandtech (among other reviewers) were pressured to not do the gaming benchmarks at all, or to do them last, since the gaming performance was so abysmal. I think they delayed those numbers for a few months.

It's very suspicious when Ryzen 2 numbers are that far off and whilst they keep getting all this amazing access to AMD for trips and CEO interviews and new toys.

Is anyone else kind of skeeved out by this site and the elektrec.co? Sites that are 90% worship of corporation X really rub me the wrong way, even for the companies I am a fanboy of.

I suppose there are similar sites like macrumors, but they seem to be independent and often critical. But these Tesla sites only push out the same positive, glowing stories over and over.

Some of us are old enough to remember the web and other services before they had ads. I remember quite well when the first started showing up, people called them "banners", and it was infuriating.

I never accepted the change in the expectation that everything will now be ad supported. That's a fundamental, massive shift. You can still say no that imposition, it's not actually baked into any of the technology, just a bunch of bloat glued on afterwards.

I recently visited SF for the first time in like 10 years, I was surprised at how safe and clean everything appeared after reading these sorts of articles for years. I walked 40 miles over the course of a week doing touristy stuff and spent lots of time in lots of neighborhoods at day and night and it wasn't nearly as "scary" as everyone seems to think it is.

If anything Denver has more homeless per street, and they seem to be much more aggressive and/or unstable. The Mission District was pretty hip and relaxed in comparison.

I generally love this blog but complaining about how irresponsible your valets are is just the most tonedeaf privileged nonsense I've ever heard.

I didn't own a car until I was in my 30s, I was ecstacic when I got that junker because it meant I could now sleep in the back of it instead of outside the library. I can't imagine most white people even believing that statement, I guess they got deleted dash cams to upload.

I'm so tired of every corporation comparing themselves to others to justify everything. "Well GE hid losses for decades with fradulent accounting so we can too!"

How about just stop exploiting a technically illiterate government that is incapable of regulating you? You know when you're doing it, everyone working on an analytics engine knows exactly what the fuck they are doing, trust me. How about you just stop?

It's the latter, 10% collapse in a 1 in 100 event. I used to do similar work in floodplain management. I don't even know what a 1 in 500 event is in earthquake terms, is it even possible to build something that withstands that level of quake?

The fact of the matter is in a best case scenario, 10% of these buildings are going to collapse in a major earthquake. 10% of the newest, shiniest, up to code buildings. Best case, that's the engineering code, that's the spec. They are designed to collapse 10% of the time.

In reality many more will collapse, because some buildings are older and not up to code, as well as earthquakes generally just being weird and unpredictable.

Do you think 10% of buildings collapsing is a "loose" or "tight" code? 10% losses is acceptable in say, human habitation?

"He suggested there were a lot of reasons for that including competitors who would call after his meetings and deliberately sabotage him"

It is depressing that this is (still) an everyday occurrence.

That a tech worker on a tech website knows some people at a major tech company? Guess what I know people that work at almost every tech company you've heard of, that's what happens when you get old.

Try just going to eat at the Pho place across the street from Google in Boulder sometime, you'll hear people openly complaining about Sundar and Susan and chatting about their latest projects at full volume without a care in the world.

So because IE6 was a trainwreck and you could dump dlls over port 80 you think Chrome needs anti virus?

I don't think this is a "bubble" problem, rather a "statistical arrogance" problem. Google seems to have plenty of the latter nowadays, I wonder when someone is going to stand up to all the data people making bad decisions.

I know multiple people who work at Google that are quitting because of this. Lots of people have lines in the sand when it comes to violence and military work, but those lines are deep for a reason and they don't really want to talk about them so you'd never know.

The last thing I want on my computer is anti virus. The last feature I want in my web browser is anti virus.

What on earth?

I wonder if they will be ARM only or if there is some sort of x86 solution built in too. This report has basically zero info.

I've been wondering for a few years now what it would look like if one of these tech behemoths collapsed, mainly in the context of how intertwined and globalized they all are now.

We're also not allowed to talk about how important and integrated these companies are with the defense industry, but they are. Lots of people working on lots of projects that they can't put on their resume. Some of these companies are practically governmental entities, particularly the telecoms.

Maybe too big to fail isn't the correct term, more like too integrated to fail. Market caps can move around but the apparatus must be maintained.

"And no, you can't get out of culpability by claiming statistical superiority"

Every MBA student needs this tattoo'd on the back of their hand in order to graduate from now on.

When your yield moves from 6 to 8% and your debt is rated junk (seven levels below investment grade) yes it is free fall.

The bond price/yield chart appears to be going parabolic in the past few days.

The possibility of financial collapse is very real, they start losing the ability to keep the lights on at that fancy plant in Nevada this year.

They need to raise some serious money in a new equity offering, guess we'll see if the market will tolerate that or not.

Normally I'd think this comment is a bit too lowbrow for the orange site, but I think it's justified in light of just how fundamentally the world shifted due to the Brexit vote. If this breach was part of that then people should be incredibly angry.

Welcome to how the internet used to be. It's amazing that people's memories are so short on this subject, if you have enough smart people pushing corporate experience X or Y then everyone assumes that's the only option.

The first step is rejecting the aggressive attempts at corporations to ensure you live in their "garden" as much as possible. It's bizarre that people are doing gymnastics about how if you just restrict yourself to this certain 3% of the food in that garden everything will be ok.

How about setting out on your own instead? How about starting from: "I don't need youtube, I don't need amazon, I don't need google analytics" and figuring it out?

That's what everyone used to do.

I think it's worth bringing up, one of the reasons I didn't buy a Tesla was because I didn't want the CEO immediately blabbing all over twitter about exactly how fast I was driving or how many times I left my lane if there happened to be some sort of accident.

They seem to take the same attitude as Facebook, mainly: we own all your data and you have zero rights to anything in the car.

Start here to see what all data they have on you and decide what you want to archive or delete.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

I deleted Facebook after the Beacon fiasco, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and move off google today. Mainly just gmail.

I wonder if there will be a backlash against cloud services more generally? Could we see people return to buying their own servers and hiring network engineers again? Everyone I talk to is so concerned about where their data lives now, I could see it happening.

The dollar number is a completely meaningless unit, it still boggles my mind that financial journalists report this like it matters. They should tell you what percentage of the company is being offered at what the total valuation would be at the expected price, the price itself is completely meaningless.

Paying off your mortgage is one of the absolute worst investments you can possibly make in an environment where house prices are rising.

If they stay still or decline by all means, pay it down faster, but otherwise DO NOT pay off your mortgage early. Invest the extra cash in some cheap index fund instead.

In 20 years we're all going to be laughing at how barbaric and abusive all these forced arbitration clauses were.

Yeah one anecdote, ageism must be solved! Good job Google, we did it!

You see why people criticize the orange site for worshiping corporate a bit too much?

Yep. What was even more bizarre is how they never really acknowledged it might be a problem, they just keep taking this arrogant attitude that the plebe users are wrong and just don't understand this amazing new data feature. It was the first time I recall them using analytics to justify their bullshit, it pretty much set the tone for where we are at now.

No I have nothing to do with facebook despite this randomly generated username

Gypsy is considered a slur by some nowadays, probably shouldn't drop that casually anymore. Sorry, I hate language police too, I'm not actually offended just letting you know in case you drop it in a meeting someday.

I'd argue it's still possible to ignore it all, but you need three browser extensions and two mobile apps, a vpn, and probably a few other measures in place to pull it off. I feel like I'm sailing out to war with a well equipped battleship every time I launch my browser.

This is dumb. How did we let technology get so bad? How did we let the web become completely subverted?