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For the better part of a decade, a US hedge-fund manager who has never even set foot in China has been patiently betting that the yuan will stage a massive collapse, one so deep that its value could be cut in half.
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Since 2014, Crescat Capital’s Kevin Smith has been plowing as much as 10% of his $136 million macro fund into options betting against the currency. Sometimes it lost money. Sometimes it paid off, even though the major devaluation he was looking for never happened.
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Well, lots of dumb cunts believe the Earth is flat in that country too, it doesn't mean it's True or it's gonna happen.
 
ZeEa5KPul

ZeEa5KPul

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Kaeshmiri said:
This may sound controversial to Non Indians but Tucker is partially right here. British did attempt to civilize the Indian society

1. They banned Sati ( in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre.)
2. They allowed for Widow remarriage.
3. They introduced labour reforms.
4. They encouraged women education.
5. Codified concepts like rule of law, equality etc
6. Opened schools and colleges where for the first time untouchables and lower castes could study (for thousands of years this community was robbed of their basic dignity ).
7. Banned Female Infanticide
8. Outlawed Thugee and dacoity.

Now don't get me wrong, Britians primary aim was loot and plunder but nobody can deny that they did introduce civility amongst Indians. Also Indians should be thankful to British as the latter was responsible for the political and administrative unity of the nation. Without them the Indian subcontinent today would've been like 20 different countries.
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The English came to steal (naturally), but even they were so disgusted by what they encountered that they felt compelled to change it.
 
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Why is Intel’s GPU program having problems?​

Sep 2, 2022 by Charlie Demerjian
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In this case Intel is literally developing the DG2 drivers all over the world as they do for many things, hardware and software. The problem this time is that key parts of the drivers for this GPU, specifically the shader compiler and related key performance pieces, were being done by the team in Russia. On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and the west put some rather stiff sanctions on the aggressor and essentially cut off the ability to do business in the country.
Even if businesses decided to stick with Russia, it would have been nearly impossible to pay the wages of their workers due to sanctions on financial institutions and related uses of foreign currencies. In short Intel had a key development team cut off almost overnight with no warning.
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Poor old Charlie is still chasing Intel vs AMD vs Nvidia.

The biggest mistake Intel made with GPU was that it abandoned Larrabee in 2009. Around that time, the GPU market was dominated by Nvidia and ATI (acquired by AMD in 2006). After that, the GPU market has been a 2-horse race between Nvidia and AMD. Nvidia started GPGPU line based on its GPU architecture. AMD followed shortly after. It is actually GPGPU that is actually being used in super computers first and then bitcoin and now AI engines.

The rumor back in 2009 said that Intel had a decent short at a 3-horse race if it had kept the Larrabee project and improving on it. But like the mobile cpu segment, Intel abandoned Larrabee and never caught up in the GPU segment.
 
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