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  1. Re:PoW-based public blockchains should be outlawed on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, if the power required is much lower along with the payout, this means the big players will stop mining and will be replaced with thousands of single miners that will mine for the sake of the network and not for the profits.

  2. Re:PoW-based public blockchains should be outlawed on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Video games can't be implemented any other way.

    Sure they can. Nobody needs 4K videogames running at 120FPS. We could all return to 2010-era 3D graphics and developers would be forced to make fun and entertaining games instead of the sugar-coated-visuals crapfest they're making now.

    If that still requires too much energy, how about going back to SNES-era graphics? Still too much? How about Intellivision-era graphics? It's still videogames.

    Can you imagine how low power a 2018 Intellivision system could be? It would probably run on a CR2032 battery for over a month.

  3. Re:Pseudonymity on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...

    It's even been used by Weird Al Yankovic in his music video "Word Crimes".

  4. Re:What is the market? on Amazon's Alexa is Getting Clobbered (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I still don't have a good intuition as to what the market for smart speakers is, and how large it might be.

    Well, how many people are there on the planet, how many of them live in a country where these smart speakers are available, how many of them can afford one and how many of them are stupid enough to actually buy one?

  5. Re:Closed ecosystem on Amazon's Alexa is Getting Clobbered (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not getting a IVR until it also has a form in the shape of a cute 2D waifu. And so far the gatebox is Japanese only. But once a company can combine this with good AR, I'm buying one even if it's only for the constant companionship.

  6. Re:English collapsing, chinese market share overta on Amazon's Alexa is Getting Clobbered (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You're lucky your comment fits in 144 characters otherwise I wouldn't have read it.

  7. Re:Decaf result is interesting on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck knows. Maybe it's healthy to drink hot water.

  8. Re:Another correlation... sigh on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, 100% of the participants drive on the wrong side of the road so, yes, control for other causes would be preferred.

  9. Some people can get addicted to coffee, some get addicted to coke and others get addicted to pepsi.

  10. Re:With the amount of coffee and dark chocolate I on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Denial also works.

  11. Do not worry, little one. You were told the truth. Everybody dies one day or the oth{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER

  12. Re:12% Decrease in Death-100% Increase in YellowTe on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to my study, 100% of the people who masturbate died within 150 years.

  13. Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't speak for the others you motherfucker, but I'm only brave on the Internet. In real life, I run away from butterflies. Those random flight patterns are really frightening!

  14. Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    That's still two sugars above what you should be drinking.

  15. Re:More Coffee - Less Sugary Soda on Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There's three or four major "fake sugars" though, so I wouldn't make a generalisation just yet. Maybe one kind only affects the sugar receptors in your tongue but not the sugar receptors in the rest of your body, etc.

    I can drink diet stuff with sucralose just fine, but anything with the others and I feel like crap afterwards.

    Maybe different people react differently to the different fake sugars, too.

  16. Drop the fruit juice, it's mostly sugar.

  17. Re:Pseudonymity on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been told that Slashdot trolls are nicer than Reddit trolls.

    Oh yeah? What about this, then:

    Your handle is stupid because you used a ONE instead of an "i"!

    How's that for a "nice" troll? Not so funny now, eh?

  18. Re:The good ole BBS days on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I even met my future ex-wife on my BBS.

    If you knew she was going to be your ex-wife then why the hell did you marry her? DUMBASS!

    Hey, TheDarkener was right, anonymity is great!

  19. Re:I want to say Unpopular Opinions Anonymously on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    As a Mac user on the desktop, a unix user for servers and a PC user for gaming, I think your narrow opinion should be revised.

    Windows PCs are the best gaming computers.
    Unix PCs are the best servers.
    Macs are the best desktop computers... apart from the butterfly keyboards, the OLED touch bar, the forced thermal limits of the CPUs and GPUs, the limited or absent upgradability of RAM and storage drives, the single-mindedness of thin above everything else including usability. Apart from those flaws, Macs are the best.

    Posted from my 2010 Mac mini, later upgraded to 16GB RAM and its slow HDD replaced with a fast SSD.

  20. Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    "When people detach from their real-world identities, they can be more authentic, more true to themselves."

    And we all know how that ends.

    SHITCOCK!

  21. [...] the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement, or PIRATE [...]

    Anyone else getting flashbacks of Naked Gun 2½ when reading these new stupid backward-designed acronyms?

    "I'm very proud to welcome our guests from the nation's energy suppliers.
    First, head of the Society of Petroleum lndustry Leaders - better known as SPIL, Mr Terence Baggett.
    Now, chairman of the Society for More Coal Energy, or SMoCE, Mr Donald Fenwick.
    And president of the Key Atomic Benefits Office Of Mankind - KABOOM, Mr Arthur Dunwell."

  22. Re:If it's free... on Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data With Dozens of Companies (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    So, given the cost of Apple's hardware, they're the products?

    Shocking.

  23. Re:Seven DAYS? on Twitter Will Show Who Pays For Ads and How Much They Spend (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's way too much work. Just nuke the ads from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

  24. Re:Why on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying he should have used Google Wind instead?

  25. Re:Scare quotes "opened" - Ooooooo on BYD Claims New Battery Factory Will Be 'Largest In the World' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Nissan battery pants. Are they cooled pants or heated pants? Because with the current weather I'd sure buy a pair of cooled pants right now.