The incentive here would be that a new company could sell far more fridges when reasonably prices compared to their competitors and take all of their market share

But yes of course govt regulation is required when there is actual price fixing going on. I'd also like to know the alternative way of pricing goods/services from people with the alternate view

This feels like a lot of hoops to avoid reading a wiki page thoroughly But if you want to use gpt this may work

What's your new work flow? Always interested to see alternatives And if they're open source could maybe be polished up a bit

Probably because it hadn't been an issue until recently Strange times indeed

I'm a software engineer. And yes multithreading is difficult, just slapping on async isn't necessarily going to help you run code in parallel

Think about the workload a game is using, you have to do most calcs on a frame by frame basis and you tend to want effects to apply in order. So you have a hard time running in parallel as the state for frame 1 needs to be calculated before frame 2. And within frame 1 any number of scripts can rely on the results of another, so you can't just throw threads at the problem You can do some things like the sound system but beyond that it's not trivial

You'd need to look at the actual implementation, it's hard to speculate from a tiny amount of data. What game are you referencing?

And as someone who has done multi threaded programming I can tell you that for games it is unlikely that they can just add more cores. You need work that truly can be split up, meaning that each core doesn't needs work to do that doesn't rely on the results from another core

Graphics rendering is easy for this and it's why gpus have a crazy number of cores. But you aren't going to do graphics compute on the cpu

Fun fact for you. Modern firearms haven't used black powder for a very long time, that's why when people fire rifles you don't see huge clouds of smoke

There are also many kinds of gunpowder, rifles use different powders to say shotguns or pistols. Although often times shotgun and pistol ammunition uses the same class of powder (slower burn rate iirc)

They likely make him pledge something as collateral. I doubt they're just giving him unsecured loans just for fun

Actually quite interesting in the case of Ballmer as he was an employee compensated via stock rather than straight up cash

You'd consider that an investment as he was investing his time to be a business manager while being compensated probably less in cash that would be normal for the position

So as early Microsoft didn't have the cash on hand, or didn't want to give up that cash they could use elsewhere they gave equity as compensation

How do you suggest we should remove this situation? Should we not allow compensation in the form of equity? Or should ownership of equity not exist generally?

I don't really get this. Swap and go gas cylinders have existed for ages. You buy the bottle initially, and then it costs x amount to swap for a full one. And when it reaches its expiry its replaced by the company doing the swapping

Battery degradation just needs to be factored in to the cost of the swap

Maybe they just haven't cooled him down enough

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