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  1. ASIC vendor price to the value of whatever the coin is worth at the time; essentially directly tied with valuation. What they're really selling is the ROI at current rates.

    It's not my place to tell if whether or not to invest. But IMHO, if I was diving in, I wouldn't be mining. I would be buying low and selling high. That's how volatile the market is. And, with an impending crashing looming, do you really want to be holding the bag on a debt of hardware that might never reach its payback period? Food for thought.

  2. Re:Trying to avoid a later crash on To Combat Shortage, Nvidia Asks Retailers To Limit Graphics Card Orders (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean now?? HODL the PHYZ bitchez!

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

  3. Re:Optimizing for AMD on To Combat Shortage, Nvidia Asks Retailers To Limit Graphics Card Orders (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's already been done, I'm really surprised that the Console market hasn't been poached for mining yet.

  4. Re:Uses of gold on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Gold recycling is huge. CPUs, motherboards, anything either made of gold or gold plated gets stripped clean in a chemical solution (aqua regia) only later to be re-solidfied and melted down into pure gold and resold.

    There's a reason all that e-waste gets shipped overseas. The labor is cheap enough to where it's worth-while to go through all the trouble.

  5. Russian Bank adds 223 tons of gold in 2017! on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news...

    Yeah. Gold is "like a religion" they say. Hah!

  6. Re:Idiot for buying a BMW on BMW's Apple CarPlay Annual Fee is Next-level Gouging (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Japanese tend to be very conservative and wait a while. So the Japanese cars usually aren't as cutting-edge as the German or even American cars.

    As they should be. It's a car, not a device to replace/upgraded every year based on a bleeding edge.

    The main problem with Japanese cars is that their infotainment tech is usually behind the others.

    As long as I can replace the dash cover with something that allows for a double-din receiver replacement, then were all good =). Custom dash hardware is bullshit, and should never be accepted. Not only is it obsolete, but replacing them is easily 4x the cost from a dealership - not including installation.

    BTW, I'm Toyota for life!

  7. BTW, what happened with Brad's wife? Why was she fired?

  8. Re:Not just the CPU rebooting !! on Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Dell Latitude with a SATA SSD in it running Win10 Pro. It's always been running just fine with BitLocker enabled. Since the Meltdown OS patch, I've had corrupted data that hose the OS from booting. Not even a repair with the recovery partition or automated OS repair processes could fix. I had a backup, so I'm good there.

    Long story short, the Samsung 850 Pro was error free and had the latest firmware. Even the Dell ePSA boot diags test reports good hardware. I strongly suspect this patch fucked with Disk I/O write-backs corrupting data back to the disk. Mind you, I haven't even applied the latest BIOS update yet as it wont be available from Dell until Feb 2018. ...this shitshow from Intel continues.

  9. Re:Hardware now faulting, hello warranty. on Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Intel CPU is working as expected in terms of performance. Security was never part of the equation unless specified in the marketing material. The real fucking irony here is that it's the actual fix, the microcode patch, that could allow for claiming "faulty hardware". So, the patch is to un-patch the CPU.

    What fucking universe did I wake up too? Intel was like the motherfucking GOLD STANDARD of CPUs. Not any more. Fine, AMD it is from now on

  10. Re:Intel's days are numbered on Intel Says Newer Chips Also Hit by Unwanted Reboots After Patch (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's a quantum CPU, it's both odd and even!

  11. Re:but this one goes to 11... on America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back -- And Hypersonic (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean this one? The one caught by Google Earth satellite imagery?

    https://www.express.co.uk/trav...

  12. Re:Where are these jobs they covered? on Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Energy sector too a hit in H-Town. That, combined with companies wanting full enterprise support and knowledge on the cheap. Those companies can fail, and fail alone. Don't waste my time.

  13. Re:Idiots! on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then they're just fucked =)

  14. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Luckily. Right. You know, it's pretty sad that as a race, we decide to abort our mistakes. If you can't make the adult decision to live with your choices, perhaps it's best to either abstain from sex, or get tubes tied (man and woman).

    It's not like shopping for groceries were you say "you know, I decided I don't want that apple", and then toss it.

    People that are pro-abortion have no say-so when it comes to the loss of life in war and strife. Human life is human life. At least be consistent about it.

  15. Re:Idiots! on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ideally, you turn away from people when you sneeze. If possible, walk a good distance away from people to sneeze so aerosol has a chance to clear the air as it falls to the ground.

  16. Idiots! on Why You Shouldn't Stifle Your Sneeze (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sneeze in the inside of your elbow with it placed just above the nose. Whatever doesn't get absorbed by the clothes or arm, will get directed downward. This shouldn't be complicated, but apparently there's enough morons in the world where it needs to be taught. FFS

  17. Re:UI failure on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 2

    Sorta like how a common utility function often used is right next to "delete". Drift a few pixels over and *poof*, gone!

    Hey UI devs, just because you're having a shitty day doesn't me the rest of us deserve it too.

  18. Re:State regulators decided? on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    So, CA outsourced its base-load. I truly hope the surrounding states ass-rapes Cali to the point where the solve the issues themselves that match their green initiative rhetoric. Maybe they can hire Elon to pitch the whole Powerwall thing. But in all seriousness, how can state full of high technology innovators not be leading the rest of the world on energy? Probably because all they're good at is VC and selling ideas?

  19. Re: Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    When Democrats are control, I'm no longer convinced they're simply the cause, rather, the effect of the populous being so fucking stupid to begin with. When you have a nation or state that's that fundamentally broken, you can kiss any and all hope goodbye for the future.

    When the indigent put a drain on the government, taxes are paid for by the middle class, not the wealthy.

  20. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Money is also printed, which dilutes the existing value of cash holdings. In effect, it's a form of "taxation" via tapping into the wealth of new money, then spending it first before everyone else does. Oh, but that new found debt also gets to be paid for via taxation too. Double-whammy

  21. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be talking about Government if it's in regards to performing unnecessary public sector work... My job is abstract, as most are, but yields tangible results in efficiencies. I'm capitalizing (getting a cut) on a portion of the savings from said increasing efficiencies. It's a win/win situation. Less energy consumed, more people employed to do other meaningful tasks, and better yield of other's time to perform said tasks. Someone, at some point, that works its way back in some small part in serving my life better; from the products I purchase, to the services of labor rendered to me in exchange for the money I give.

  22. Re:Trump takes our money. What's the difference? on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Entitlements. Why do we have them? When did it become so popular to rely on them? At what point did our fully functional democratic republic turn into a democratic kleptocracy?

  23. Re:DNC Hates middle class on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So your plan is a massive corporate tax cut (without removing any of the corporate deductions) AND an individual tax cut when your country is already running a huge deficit?

    When do you plan on paying down that deficit?

    I'm not the OP, but I'm responding because this question gets asked often.

    An economy in motion is a lot like an airplane in flight - you have height, and airspeed to manage. Ideally, you want both height and fast airspeed. A bad situation is low elevation and slow airspeed. At worst, you stall, then crash. Game over.

    Right now, our elevation isn't very good, but our airspeed is getting critically slow! We need drop the elevation to pick up airspeed. To do that, we need to reduce taxation and overall burden on the economic engine. Once airspeed has been regained, and increasing on its own, only then can we pick up elevation (start increasing taxes again). But if we were to start taxing more, we will stall and crash the economy.

  24. Davos: it's the place where leftists and globalists alike mingle. I'll grant you that the GOP has been sucking the cock of the wealthy elite, but no less so of those in the Democrat Party. Open your eyes

  25. Yup. And the "free market" is anything but. If we truly had a free market, we wouldn't have so many regulations that are specifically created as a form of protection racket.

    People clamor for more Gov. The Gov creates more problems in the form of a solution. People claim the Gov isn't doing enough, and double-down. Problems get exactly worse.

    Pain is supposed to mean "don't do that". Unfortunately, the populous aren't interpreting the signals properly, if at all!