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  1. Re:whatever on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Space and CraveTV are both owned by Bell.

    Aren't oligopolies fun?

  2. Wait a minute... on Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Pigs.. low-fat... CRISPR-Cas9...

    Are they making low-fat, crisper bacon?

  3. Re:Pacific on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to pollute the oceans! You're a very, very bad man. /BabuBhatt

  4. Re:We need more fascinating stories like this on S on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I look forward to future stories on the maiting habits of Australian fruit bats.

    What do you mean? African or European Australian fruit b... D'oh!

  5. Re:The real reason why Hong Kong has no space on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    For a lot of us, PLA is PolyLactic Acid, used to make 3D printer filament.

  6. Do you want Soylent Green? on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that's how you get Soylent Green. /MaloryArcher

  7. To summarize the summary on Google Might Need To Recall the Pixel 2 XL Because of Defective Screens (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    OLED still sucks.

  8. Re: What's the point? on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    If you knew in 2010 the value of Bitcoin today, you would have mined even if it took almost three months to get one Bitcoin. Let's say $6000, divided by three months is $2000, that's $24K per year, more than some people earn by working 40 hours per week.

  9. It's not Silicon Valley, it's the Internet on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
  10. Re:The Hitchhiker's Guide on the Babelfish on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1
  11. The internet is a bottomless well of available grievance.

    SERENITY NOW!

  12. Re:Nope on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    The CPM is what Google gets. The websites showing the ads get much less than that.

  13. Re: What's the point? on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole Monero mining network is, as of this writing, 245.21 MH/s. The pool I'm in is at 16.3 MH/s and my own puny hash rate is only 429 H/s (CPU+GPU).

    There's plenty of competition. Tiny rewards is relative to the current value of Monero.

    It was pointless to mine Bitcoin in 2009~2010, too. If Bitcoin can go up to six thousand dollars per coin, there's a chance some of the other cryptos to go up to a few hundred dollars per coin like Bitcoin is today. Monero is already hovering around USD$85.

  14. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Who is to say a person in a manual car driving way below the speed limit is not going to be safer than whatever automation chooses?

    Statistics. That's what insurance companies use.

  15. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    If software is driving for them, the cars won't exceed speed limits. More software-driven cars means a more constant flow of traffic, means less accidents.

  16. Re:What's the point? on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no ASICs for Monero. It was designed to be mined with CPUs and GPUs only, so that normal people could mine it and keep control of it.

  17. Re:No. Also no. on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 2

    1. My place has electric heating. In the winter it makes sense to heat up the place and mine coins at the same time.
    2. My electricity doesn't cost as much as in the U.S.A.
    3. My electricity comes mainly from hydro-power.

  18. Re:Nope on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 2

    5) I doubt there is enough money in mining

    Since Monero seems to be the one used right now, let's see some numbers:
    - My Intel i5 3.2GHz, on four cores dedicated to the task of mining Monero, has a 24 hours average of around 140 H/s. Let's say Javascript can only run on one core, so 35 H/s. Let's say the websites don't want to piss off their users, so let's throttle back to 50% of one thread, let's round up to 18 H/s.

    According to various calculators and charts online, that only gives you about 0.0000146083 XMR / 0.00000021 BTC / 0.0012472178 $USD per hour of mining. That's an almost non-existant 0.00000034644939 $USD per second.

    But now, assuming the average visitors means how many people are viewing your page at the same time, constantly. All values in U.S.A. dollars:
    1K users = 0.00 per second, 0.02 per minute, 1.24 per hour, 29.93 per day.
    10K users = 0.00 per second, 0.20 per minute, 12.47 per hour, 299.33 per day.
    100K users = 0.03 per second, 2.07 per minute, 124.72 per hour, 2993.32 per day.
    1 million users = 0.34 per second, 20.78 per minute, 1247.21 per hour, 29933.22 per day.

    Even with only a constant one thousand visitors at a time, it's worth doing it for nearly 900 dollars per month. Let's say the actual numbers are 1/10th of that because of mobile devices, it's still worth doing it since it's free money.

    I don't know how much income ads would give to a website with a constant average of 1000 visitors but it's probably much lower than 90 dollars per month. It's probably less than their minimum number of visitors required for payments. With crypto-mining, you're not at the mercy of Google or others. Every fraction of a penny is earned.

  19. Re:Not on mobile on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you expect me to mine coins in the background?

    With a pickaxe, like the rest of us?

  20. I'm sorry but Temla is crap. The best one out there is the Tesra, no contest.

  21. Re:They're not the first by a long shot on Security Upgraded For NetBSD-amd64 with Kernel ASLR Support (netbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    PIC binaries? What about ATmega or at least ATtiny?

  22. Re:Porting NetBSD to Rust. on Security Upgraded For NetBSD-amd64 with Kernel ASLR Support (netbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, similar to JavaScript, Rust has enough marching morons behind it to stick around for a long time to come.

    So what's the alternative to Javascript for the Web? Java, Flash and Silverlight are not valid options.

  23. Re: Porting NetBSD to Rust. on Security Upgraded For NetBSD-amd64 with Kernel ASLR Support (netbsd.org) · · Score: 2

    Make it PHP + Javascript to be absolutely sure it's 100% safe.

  24. It's hard to follow others when you're in a constant state of dying.

  25. Re:If Tesla trusts its self driving on Tesla Plans Factory In China, Discounts Insurance For Self-Driving US Cars (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    When you drive your car, do you control all the external factors?