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  1. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft Announces Xbox Live For Any iOS Or Android Game (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    SaaS

  2. Re:The invisible hand of capitalism on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    cool story, boomer.

  3. NAND is limited by how many chips are stacked behind the controller. microSD is limited to a single chip. This is why, even with current 90MB/s rated microsd, you still get 7MB/s speeds from it once you fill up the controller buffer. NVMe on a single chip shitNAND? lol. this is pure marketing bullshit.

  4. Re:Bad for me, but not for thee on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    anarcho communism.

  5. Re:Socialism != communism on Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com) · · Score: 0

    The scotsman in this case is "basic political awareness", bub.

  6. Re:Why? on Cassette Album Sales in the US Grew By 23% in 2018 (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Twenty One Pilots is *very* much a GenZ appeal band. Go to a concert and its pretty much *all* tween girls

  7. Re:If only ... on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Piracy is great as long as you avoid the cam rips. BR rips, DVD rips, OTA rips, Stream rips... as long as you're 1080+ at a good bitrate, you're often getting better quality than netflix. (4+gb per movie, 1+gb per episode, etc)

  8. bf on Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the black friday discount before going to the moon. get in while you can or be poor.

  9. Re:Divine Wrath! on Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilarious, thinking your "rules of debate" will save you from climate change. As if rules of debate even matter on some shitty backwater internet forum.

  10. Re: Best gaming CPU = best single threaded perform on Intel Debuts 9th-Gen Core Chips, Including Core i9 and X-Series Parts, With a Few Twists (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just built a ryzen 2600/vega 64 system. There's literally nothing wrong with it. It never crashes. the CPU gets 1300 cinebench, and games better than my i5 haswell did(ryzen has faster single-thread than the i5 too). the vega is rock solid and trades blows with a GTX1080/RTX2070. Witcher 3 runs fluid smooth at 4k max settings. I mostly game at 1440p though so this should last me the next 5-6 years. You may have PTSD from ATI, but AMD has been good for GPU's since the 290x, and good for CPU's since ryzen.

  11. Re:Oh thank god on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    Linux is a creation of communists anyway, why does this shock anyone? You want to keep in line, use windows. It's proper authoritarian!

  12. Re:Eve + Korean MMO + Pay To Win on 'Eve Online' Studio Acquired By Korean MMO Maker (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The current beta is 3 moons, 2 stations, and a shitty framework of a "game" that runs at 10fps on a GTX1060 at low settings and looks 5x worse than games like doom or E:D.

  13. Re:Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We call those "animals", behaving animalistically. Humans, at least the ones with humanity, are evolved beyond animal impulse, and any space faring species would have to follow this same evolution of ethics, else they destroy themselves.

  14. Re: Can't we find some way to blame Apple for this on Laptop Vendors Are Left Sitting On the Sidelines Waiting For the Next Waltz To Start (pcper.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel hasn't really released a new processor since sandy bridge. They just kept shrinking it and adding video decoder ASICs, but it's still the same CPU. Intel doesn't matter anymore.

  15. Re:Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    You're assuming that genocide is a genetic trait, when it isn't. Ethics are taught.

  16. Re:Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Genocide works, until you have a civilization that has evolved further than humanity in terms of ethics, and abandoned profit motive (or never got corrupt by money in the first place)

  17. Re:With morons like Trump "running things" on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    You can't move faster than light, so transit between stars is largely prohibited at the resource level required to accelerate and/or hibernate your species. Even assuming immortal lifeforms, a transit that fast, hitting even one dust, goes boom. Then, OUR efforts to detect life are lacking and may never work. RF is the only good underlying physicial principle on which to communicate advanced information, but it dissipates after a few AU, even a focused beam would only go a few light years. You'd literally need the output power of a star to make a signal across the universe, and the reward vs effort is lacking when the sender is just as unsure as us they'd reach anyone.

  18. Re:The Chicken Littles are wrong again on Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And here we have the prolific "useful idiot" serving at the behest of the corporatist propaganda they've been brainwashed with.

  19. How many times can you say December?

  20. Sadly, these areas and "areas where the air is breathable and you don't feel claustrophobic and anxious" are a 100% overlap.

  21. Re:Opportunity cost on Nobody Knows How Much Energy Bitcoin Is Using (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's cheaper to cool (move heat) than it is to heat (create heat), so mining is still a net benefit/draw.

  22. Re:California is ruining itself on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the brilliant part. Nobody! Without that subsidy, the free market will revert to deflation, and all that redneck money will skyrocket to the moon like bitcoin.

  23. Re:Rude summary on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If they follow the Uber model they can just have "independent contractors" pick them up AND charge them on their own dime. Then, when they all get "smart" and plug them all in at the local university, the legal proceedings aren't on Bird!

  24. When you download and run code, you don't sign an agreement with the maker that you will contribute $n compute cycles, no more, and no less. You download code, and it will use what it uses. This even varies per system depending on ram, arch, compiler versions, etc. It can not be specified, as doing so is flat out impossible. Additionally, there is a layer of informed consent on this matter where, you as the user, and owner of, of your power supply. It says (typically), on a label, through some fuzzy math with volts and amps and sometimes a flat wattage statement.. "up to 65 watts" etc. (800+ for some desktops). You agree, by plugging this into mains, that you may consume 65 watt-hours at a constant rate. There is no legal accounting that power-save exists and computers idle at 5-10 watts.

  25. Re:Current Miners Are Shit on Canonical Addresses Ubuntu Linux Snap Store's 'Security Failure' (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make the proof of work = number of pings. Call it DDOScoin and aim it to a small handful of bank IP's.