> There was a great article back then too about why Apple and Dell weren't going all in on AMD chips

Because Intel paid them to not use AMD chips.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...

> just over a week into the Trump Administration.

It actually started long time before Trump. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/3363/laptop-search...

Nobody has mentioned the "Scroogled" short story yet? I really hope this is not the future that expects us. http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html

One of the best I have ever read. Does anyone now where to find more stuff like this?

You life in the Middle Ages definitely would have been way much better. /s

Don't get too nostalgic about the middle ages: the landed gentry who will own the AI/fully automated factories will occasionally require mechanical-turk-type work done by the serfs. Which side will you be on when your job gets automated?

That's an interesting twist. So my job that requires knowledge and brainwork gets fully automated, but mechanical-turk-type work somehow is not?

> The difference is that your average engineer in France costs them around 1.5-2.5 times the total take home pay, because of high, compulsory labor taxes. In exchange, employees get as standard

So, France could be great to be an employee, but it's horrible for entrepreneurs.

Yeah, if you're not a big firm, you'll have a lot of difficulties.

> I'm wondering why people focus on financial compensation so much?

I think that it's unjust when people are paid crazy money for doing poor job. As well as when people are paid little money for good job.

> Good journals, in theory, are more selective about what they publish, so the assumption is that if you have publications in a good one you must have done more groundbreaking research.

I wonder why nobody created a single peer-reviewed platform for all scientists to use? Elsevier is just piggybacking on other people's work and funds.

There are many possible platforms, however, there's a significant network effect since it's very harmful to your self-interest to switch to such a platform before everyone else does and (even more importantly) all the funding agencies acknowledge that this is the thing to look at.

So, the solution to a market taxed by a hegemon is to create even bigger hegemon?

What happens when the investors and shareholders of 'even bigger hegemon' start wanting their profits? Elsevier II.

Because there are more than a single one :)

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/

Even several different peer review systems would be much better than Elsevier.

Even if you know that, you don't really have an option to stop it. You can buy a smartphone with either Android or iOS - and both are spying on the user heavily.

Apple is not even in the same spyware league as Google. Don't try to muddy the waters.

But true, Google can't be stopped as long as software developers and companies continue to sell out for ad money.

"Apple is not even in the same spyware league as Google." - Why? Seriously asking.

They make money from products and are the only remaining big tech company not mining customer data. Google and Facebook are built on the idea of spying on users. Microsoft is moving in that direction.

They've also taken a public stand for privacy, whether out of self-interest or not, that's something Google will probably never do.

This can be a real breakthrough in computing technology. Just in time, as the improvement of desktop and server CPUs has stalled almost completely.

FPGA and CPU together is nothing new. AMD started offering Fiji + HBM in 2015 and recently nVidia joined with their Pascal + HBM2. Intel is lagging in general due to lack of competition.

HBM != FPGA

I never said that. Thanks for -1.

That's not mine. You wrote about Fiji and Pascal, but AFAIK they have nothing to do with FPGA.

No, it's a totally wrong apporach. It's your work that you are paid for, and nobody is ought to make your work for free.