They want to study how websites handle GDPR and CCPA, and that's probably what they submitted.
The IRB reasoned that "websites are not people", which is true, but failed to reason that "websites are operated by people", and therefore certain measures should be taken.
I agree with you, which is why I don't really understand what the point of improving FP64 perf by 4x is, if that is not the bottleneck for many apps.
Per node, a 4x MI250X node has more or less the same BW as a DGX-A100 (8x A100).
It has 2x more FP64 compute, but for most science and engineering apps, which are memory bound, 2x more FP64 compute does not make these apps any faster.
I wonder how they manage to keep the FP64 units busy. Seems this is an HPC product, but many HPC apps are memory bound. So to improve FP64 perf by 4 one might need to improve DRAM bandwidth by 8-16x. Otherwise the units would only be stalled waiting for memory.
But it seems they did not improve bandwidth by much?
Ideally it would be a constitutional ammendent, stating that privacy is a right of every citizen, and a human right.
Legislation to the right to encryption would then just follow from it, but having it in the constitution would make it harder for future governments to pass certain kinds of legislation, or if they pass them, the supreme court would declare them inconstitutional.
Excess mortality is the only fact that we know for sure given that every country counts "COVID deaths" differently.
Given that there is a statistical difference, the only thing we can probably know for sure is that an individual chances were slightly better in the EU.
The difference is small, like others have mentioned, so it doesn't seem like EU policies did a lot for the whole EU.
This makes sense, since for example Germany had pretty harsh policies, but due some of its neighboring countries having pretty lax policies (e.g. Austria), some parts of Germany were extremely affected (e.g. Bavaria).
This hints that it doesn't really matter if single states have harsher policies as long as neighboring states do not, at least for states of the size of Germany.
If we look at China, which had a very cohesive policy in all its provinces, the story differs.
This hints that if cohesive policies would have been taken at EU and USA scale, the outcome might have been different.
That didn't happen, so we will never know for sure.
This doesn't answer the OP question, but if someone claims to have an answer, they are probably lying, because we don't really have facts to back that answer up.
The CPU executes the two (or more) dependent instructions "as if" they were one, e.g., in 1 cycle.
The CPU has a frontend, which has a decoder, which is the part that "reads" the program instructions. When it "sees" certain pattern, like "instruction x to register r followed by instruction y consuming r", it can treat this "as if" it was a single instruction if the CPU has hardware for executing that single instruction (even if the ISA doesn't have a name for that instruction).
This allows the people that build the CPU to choose whether this is something they want to add hardware for. If they don't, this runs in e.g. 2 cycles, but if they do then it runs in 1. A server CPU might want to pay the cost of running it in 1 cycle, but a micro controller CPU might not.
Excess mortality in the USA and the EU in 2020 were ~470k and ~580k deaths.
The population of the USA and the EU in Jan 2020 was ~329 and ~447 million.
The excess mortality in the USA and the EU in 2020 was ~143 vs ~129 excess deaths per 100.000 inhabitants.
The USA had ~10% more excess deaths per capita than the EU.
People living in the EU during 2020 had statistically a significantly better chance of not dying of COVID than people living in the USA, even though COVID hit the EU first, which gave the USA longer time to prepare.
This doesn't really answer your question, because the answer is very personal. Some people were really scared and preferred to trade some freedom for more safety. And well we have many examples of vocal famous people that traded off safety for freedom, and died of COVID. These people would have probably been better off had they lived in the EU, even if they would have been breaking the law and paying fines.
They want to study how websites handle GDPR and CCPA, and that's probably what they submitted.
The IRB reasoned that "websites are not people", which is true, but failed to reason that "websites are operated by people", and therefore certain measures should be taken.
The IRB bears some responsibility for this.