Let me guess... you learned history in an American public school and called it "good enough"?
Poland and Czechoslovakia both had large German populations, the mistreatment of whom formed the justification for reunification. Hell, General Guderian had the German tank drivers decorate their tanks with garlands before "invading" the Sudetenland and everyone had a big party!
Hitler and Stalin were both convinced, pretty much correctly as far as I can tell, that the other was itching to invade. In 1939, they both had good reasons to postpone things.
Oh, and Hitler was no more a Capitalist than Stalin was. Both countries were central command economies, just with slightly different nouns. The Russians installed party officials to run the factories while the Nazis recruited factory owners/managers into the party.
Hitler and the Nazis were stridently anti-intellectual, for the very good reason that people who think critically are very difficult to manipulate.
No, they were anti-degeneracy and anti-communism, for the very good reason that they didn't want to happen in Germany what had happened in Russia 20 years earlier. The Frankfurt School and other communists worked tirelessly to make those terms nearly synonymous.
See also Critical Theory and compare it to the first sentence in the "Intellectual" page.
Tell me again why Noscript isn't the default mode of every browser?
Why does, for example, slashdot think that I want to run software provided by truste.com, janrain.com or pro-market.net? I don't know any of those sites, and while I appreciate that slashdot trusts those sites not to harvest my data or harm my computer, they aren't exactly the party with skin in the game.
If you want to see how fucked up the web is, how fucked up we've allowed it to become, install noscript and set your browser to treat OCSP failures as hard errors. We have the technology to fix this. We just don't care enough to use it.
Japanese culture makes effective crisis management difficult in situations where the solution doesn't revolve around peacefully queueing up. They should have hired some on-call Americans to Gaijin Smash the crisis.
Oh, and Google says that you are a liar. Those buildings were indeed "created due to voluntary safety measures" by the (military) people who were doing the early work that would eventually become the civilian nuclear industry. This was 2 years before the first "anti-nuclear" protests and about 20 years before the first "anti-nuclear power" protests in the 1970s.
LOL. I thought that DogDude was delusional until I read this. Comparatively, he is the voice of reason and sanity.
To answer your question, we are still here. We just got tired of losing and we've been abandoning Buckley's "Just like the Democrats but a few years later" movement.
Think of the alt-right as "decent, kind and principled" Republicans who woke up one day to notice that Conservatism hasn't conserved anything, and that the politicians we had been electing act a lot like the Washington Generals.
Of course, if you define decency, kindness or principled as willingness to let you win on every issue while we walk around on eggshells to avoid giving offense, well, enjoy the next 7 years... You earned it, we literally couldn't have done it without you.
On the other hand, the cost of nuclear power in the USA is pretty much 95% the fault of Democrats. Various Democrat sub-groups came up with a plan to use the courts to make nuclear power too expensive, and it worked. This has been very well known for about 3 decades now, despite nonstop gaslighting to push the myth that the cost of nuclear power is either a mystery or the natural consequence of physics or engineering.
Just FYI, any time you are given something of value, it is income. Someone lets you live in their house for free? Income. Someone writes off a debt instead of collecting it? Income. Someone waives a fee they normally charge? Income. A friend gives you an interest-free loan, or even just at below-market interest rates? The IRS has tables to calculate how much income you are required to report. I'm kinda astonished that these tuition waivers weren't always taxed, since everything else is.
There is an exemption for gifts, up to $13,000 per person per person per year. (not a typo) They must be bona fide gifts with no strings or conditions.
Just a minor correction: SRAM is big because it does not need to be refreshed. DRAM is a single cell, like a capacitor that needs to be pumped back up now and then (and when read) so the stored charge doesn't leak down to ground. SRAM is a network of gates in a feedback loop that remains stable until actively changed.
The rest of your post is right, and was the point that I was trying to make. The more general-purpose a chip needs to be, the more of it you need to spend on work that isn't being done right now, but will be doing later.
I assert that there is no task that is well defined enough to be used as a proof-of-work algorithm that isn't also well suited to being done more efficiently in a special-purpose chip.
8 gigabits is 1000 megabytes. 700 megabytes is a bit under 6 gigabits. 68 nanometers is the worst case gate pitch for 10 nm processing (TSMC).
Disregarding overhead... square root of 5.8 billion single-transistor (DRAM) cells times 68 nanometers is a bit over 5 million nanometers. That's where my estimate came from.
SRAM, of course, is much larger, since it is 6 or 8 gates per bit instead of 1 + overhead.
Power hungry is a good question. CMOS gates are nearly zero power - except for the instant when they change state (when they present as a very brief dead short to ground). SRAM in a CPU or GPU spends a large fraction of its lifetime being overwritten to handle cache misses. The effective power required will depend on how the memory is used. If the whole thing is written once per solution cycle, that's fine. If parts of it are being written constantly, then it'll be power hungry.
a reference implementation of a proof-of-work requiring 700 MB of RAM runs in 15 seconds on a 2.1 GHz CPU, increases the computations by the factor of 1000 if memory is halved, and presents a proof of just 120 bytes long.
Hmm... Needs less than 1 gigabyte. For external chips, that costs, let me see, $16 in modest quantities. Want it cheaper? Here is a magazine article from 4 years ago about people embedding memory in ASIC dies. In a modern chip process, 700 MB fits into what, a 5mm square?
They wave their hand over it in the paper, so it isn't like they ignored the cheapness-of-memory problem entirely. What if we assume that they are right and they have indeed found a problem with a critical dependency on memory throughput. Is there an obvious solution to that problem? What is the fastest memory in the world? (What word is entirely missing from their paper?) SRAM. In-die SRAM can be absurdly fast, like full core speed for arbitrary values of "core speed" and no wait cycles. It makes no sense to load a CPU up with piles of the stuff because caching has diminishing returns. But, what if your goal was to use ~6 billion cells of SRAM not as a cache, but as your main memory... How much faster would that ASIC be than a general purpose CPU?
Bottom line, if you imagine that you have a computation problem that can't be solved by building a single-purpose chip, you are almost certainly wrong. Either you don't understand your problem, or you don't understand the array of solutions available to solvers.
Each hopeful employer selects an amount, puts it in escrow. Escrow company notifies the immigration office, immigration office puts the bid in their list. Each month, the top 10 or 25 bids are selected. Office notifies the escrow company. Escrow company notifies the employer and the employee. Escrow company then pays one thirty-sixth of the escrow amount to employee as salary and benefits each month, starting on the day they enter the country and ending when the money is gone or the person leaves. (Escrow notifies the government when the money is gone and/or government notifies the escrow company when the person leaves.)
That's pretty much bulletproof.
Why 10 or 25 per month and not some large number? Because this scheme has always been sold to the American public as a way to catch the next Einstein, and how many of those are there really out there?
Egress control should have become a core feature of residential and small office firewall/router units back during the massive worm days, but it never did.
Why am I letting random_device_03 make unlimited, unfiltered, unmanaged outgoing connections in the first place? Well, I'm not. But why does my neighbor's plug-and-play router do that?
That database, the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, identifies people in different states who share the same name and birthdate. Crosscheck has long been criticized as using vague criteria that disproportionately target people of color.
Can someone please explain to me how "people of color" are more likely to have the same name and birthdate as people in other states? Also, how is "same name and birthdate" considered to be "vague criteria"? It seems perfectly clear to me.
Linear extrapolation is not science. It does not match the evidence. Go read the article on hormesis that I linked up.
Doesn't matter who repeats it, or how many times. It is not real. It was adopted as a legal fiction out of convenience, and since then it has inflicted trillions of dollars in counterproductive costs on us.
According to radiation safety experts, radiation exposures of 5 - 10 rem (5,000 - 10,000 mrem or 50 - 100 mSv) usually result in no harmful health effects, because radiation below these levels is a minor contributor to our overall cancer risk.
Safety recommendations are designed to keep your dose as low as possible.
It takes a large dose of radiation - more than 75 rem (75,000 mrem or 750 mSv) - in a short amount of time (usually minutes to hours) to cause immediate health effects, such as acute radiation sickness.
The first detectable effect is a minor change in the blood count. As the cumulative dose increases in magnitude, the effects become more observable. Examples of expected effects versus radiation dose include:
25 Rad: Onset of minor observable blood changes
100 Rad: May observe radiation sickness symptoms (nausea, diarrhea)
250 Rad: Possible hair loss
450 Rad: Established lethal dose LD50/30 - (Without medical aid: 50% mortality within 30 days)
tl; dr version:
ZOMG! The EPA is saying there is no reason to panic over radiation doses less than half the dose that causes effects in your body that medical science is able to detect!
After the Revolutionary War, there was a debate on the proposed new constitution. Many of the essays that we now cherish as The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers were published anonymously. In some cases, we still don't know who wrote them.
Apparently you've never done computer support work.
I've actually done a lot of support work, as I expect most of us have, which is why I said it was closer to home for us. We are all painfully aware that other people are ignorant about computers and technology and like to show it, but we don't usually join them.
Why do people keep calling these things "speakers"? It presumably has a speaker in it, but I don't call my car "engine" or "mirror". And, closer to home for most of us, I don't call my computer "CPU" or "hard drive".
I completely understand why Google, Amazon and Apple all want to misdirect as much attention as possible away from their motivation, but why do we go along with it? Why does a news site that claims to be "for nerds" go along with it?
I've said this dozens of times: Find the local impediment that keeps competitive cable companies from moving into your area, and fix it. Your state government, state public utilities commission (government), county government or city government is keeping competition out. Figure it out and fix it.
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That's kinda my point. We should have been doing a better job managing the defaults that the "normies" will be operating under.
Let me guess... you learned history in an American public school and called it "good enough"?
Poland and Czechoslovakia both had large German populations, the mistreatment of whom formed the justification for reunification. Hell, General Guderian had the German tank drivers decorate their tanks with garlands before "invading" the Sudetenland and everyone had a big party!
Hitler and Stalin were both convinced, pretty much correctly as far as I can tell, that the other was itching to invade. In 1939, they both had good reasons to postpone things.
Oh, and Hitler was no more a Capitalist than Stalin was. Both countries were central command economies, just with slightly different nouns. The Russians installed party officials to run the factories while the Nazis recruited factory owners/managers into the party.
No, they were anti-degeneracy and anti-communism, for the very good reason that they didn't want to happen in Germany what had happened in Russia 20 years earlier. The Frankfurt School and other communists worked tirelessly to make those terms nearly synonymous.
See also Critical Theory and compare it to the first sentence in the "Intellectual" page.
Have you tried offering more money? Maybe work with a local college to teach some courses on VHDL?
Tell me again why Noscript isn't the default mode of every browser?
Why does, for example, slashdot think that I want to run software provided by truste.com, janrain.com or pro-market.net? I don't know any of those sites, and while I appreciate that slashdot trusts those sites not to harvest my data or harm my computer, they aren't exactly the party with skin in the game.
If you want to see how fucked up the web is, how fucked up we've allowed it to become, install noscript and set your browser to treat OCSP failures as hard errors. We have the technology to fix this. We just don't care enough to use it.
If not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.
He "self identifies" as autistic. According to the left's rules, that's good enough for him to qualify as a woman or black. But not autistic?
Japanese culture makes effective crisis management difficult in situations where the solution doesn't revolve around peacefully queueing up. They should have hired some on-call Americans to Gaijin Smash the crisis.
Oh, and Google says that you are a liar. Those buildings were indeed "created due to voluntary safety measures" by the (military) people who were doing the early work that would eventually become the civilian nuclear industry. This was 2 years before the first "anti-nuclear" protests and about 20 years before the first "anti-nuclear power" protests in the 1970s.
LOL. I thought that DogDude was delusional until I read this. Comparatively, he is the voice of reason and sanity.
To answer your question, we are still here. We just got tired of losing and we've been abandoning Buckley's "Just like the Democrats but a few years later" movement.
Think of the alt-right as "decent, kind and principled" Republicans who woke up one day to notice that Conservatism hasn't conserved anything, and that the politicians we had been electing act a lot like the Washington Generals.
Of course, if you define decency, kindness or principled as willingness to let you win on every issue while we walk around on eggshells to avoid giving offense, well, enjoy the next 7 years... You earned it, we literally couldn't have done it without you.
Name something, anything, that doesn't have "some of the characteristics" of a pyramid scheme.
On the other hand, the cost of nuclear power in the USA is pretty much 95% the fault of Democrats. Various Democrat sub-groups came up with a plan to use the courts to make nuclear power too expensive, and it worked. This has been very well known for about 3 decades now, despite nonstop gaslighting to push the myth that the cost of nuclear power is either a mystery or the natural consequence of physics or engineering.
Just FYI, any time you are given something of value, it is income. Someone lets you live in their house for free? Income. Someone writes off a debt instead of collecting it? Income. Someone waives a fee they normally charge? Income. A friend gives you an interest-free loan, or even just at below-market interest rates? The IRS has tables to calculate how much income you are required to report. I'm kinda astonished that these tuition waivers weren't always taxed, since everything else is.
There is an exemption for gifts, up to $13,000 per person per person per year. (not a typo) They must be bona fide gifts with no strings or conditions.
Just a minor correction: SRAM is big because it does not need to be refreshed. DRAM is a single cell, like a capacitor that needs to be pumped back up now and then (and when read) so the stored charge doesn't leak down to ground. SRAM is a network of gates in a feedback loop that remains stable until actively changed.
The rest of your post is right, and was the point that I was trying to make. The more general-purpose a chip needs to be, the more of it you need to spend on work that isn't being done right now, but will be doing later.
I assert that there is no task that is well defined enough to be used as a proof-of-work algorithm that isn't also well suited to being done more efficiently in a special-purpose chip.
8 gigabits is 1000 megabytes. 700 megabytes is a bit under 6 gigabits. 68 nanometers is the worst case gate pitch for 10 nm processing (TSMC).
Disregarding overhead... square root of 5.8 billion single-transistor (DRAM) cells times 68 nanometers is a bit over 5 million nanometers. That's where my estimate came from.
SRAM, of course, is much larger, since it is 6 or 8 gates per bit instead of 1 + overhead.
Power hungry is a good question. CMOS gates are nearly zero power - except for the instant when they change state (when they present as a very brief dead short to ground). SRAM in a CPU or GPU spends a large fraction of its lifetime being overwritten to handle cache misses. The effective power required will depend on how the memory is used. If the whole thing is written once per solution cycle, that's fine. If parts of it are being written constantly, then it'll be power hungry.
I laughed and laughed and laughed.
From the paper (PDF):
Hmm... Needs less than 1 gigabyte. For external chips, that costs, let me see, $16 in modest quantities. Want it cheaper? Here is a magazine article from 4 years ago about people embedding memory in ASIC dies. In a modern chip process, 700 MB fits into what, a 5mm square?
They wave their hand over it in the paper, so it isn't like they ignored the cheapness-of-memory problem entirely. What if we assume that they are right and they have indeed found a problem with a critical dependency on memory throughput. Is there an obvious solution to that problem? What is the fastest memory in the world? (What word is entirely missing from their paper?) SRAM. In-die SRAM can be absurdly fast, like full core speed for arbitrary values of "core speed" and no wait cycles. It makes no sense to load a CPU up with piles of the stuff because caching has diminishing returns. But, what if your goal was to use ~6 billion cells of SRAM not as a cache, but as your main memory... How much faster would that ASIC be than a general purpose CPU?
Bottom line, if you imagine that you have a computation problem that can't be solved by building a single-purpose chip, you are almost certainly wrong. Either you don't understand your problem, or you don't understand the array of solutions available to solvers.
An auction actually solves all of the problems.
Each hopeful employer selects an amount, puts it in escrow. Escrow company notifies the immigration office, immigration office puts the bid in their list. Each month, the top 10 or 25 bids are selected. Office notifies the escrow company. Escrow company notifies the employer and the employee. Escrow company then pays one thirty-sixth of the escrow amount to employee as salary and benefits each month, starting on the day they enter the country and ending when the money is gone or the person leaves. (Escrow notifies the government when the money is gone and/or government notifies the escrow company when the person leaves.)
That's pretty much bulletproof.
Why 10 or 25 per month and not some large number? Because this scheme has always been sold to the American public as a way to catch the next Einstein, and how many of those are there really out there?
Egress control should have become a core feature of residential and small office firewall/router units back during the massive worm days, but it never did.
Why am I letting random_device_03 make unlimited, unfiltered, unmanaged outgoing connections in the first place? Well, I'm not. But why does my neighbor's plug-and-play router do that?
Can someone please explain to me how "people of color" are more likely to have the same name and birthdate as people in other states? Also, how is "same name and birthdate" considered to be "vague criteria"? It seems perfectly clear to me.
In other words, reality does not agree with your opinion, thus reality is defective and must be "fixed".
Please tell me more about this internet where all topics receive balanced coverage of opinions except "gay" and "jew".
Linear extrapolation is not science. It does not match the evidence. Go read the article on hormesis that I linked up.
Doesn't matter who repeats it, or how many times. It is not real. It was adopted as a legal fiction out of convenience, and since then it has inflicted trillions of dollars in counterproductive costs on us.
You lefties are pro science, right?
From the PDF:
What does a physics lab have to say on the topic?
http://sbhepnt.physics.sunysb.edu/~rijssenbeek/RadiationSafety.html
tl; dr version:
ZOMG! The EPA is saying there is no reason to panic over radiation doses less than half the dose that causes effects in your body that medical science is able to detect!
After the Revolutionary War, there was a debate on the proposed new constitution. Many of the essays that we now cherish as The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers were published anonymously. In some cases, we still don't know who wrote them.
I've actually done a lot of support work, as I expect most of us have, which is why I said it was closer to home for us. We are all painfully aware that other people are ignorant about computers and technology and like to show it, but we don't usually join them.
Why do people keep calling these things "speakers"? It presumably has a speaker in it, but I don't call my car "engine" or "mirror". And, closer to home for most of us, I don't call my computer "CPU" or "hard drive".
I completely understand why Google, Amazon and Apple all want to misdirect as much attention as possible away from their motivation, but why do we go along with it? Why does a news site that claims to be "for nerds" go along with it?
And seriously, does no one remember Mister House?
> social security number
> unique
Pick one. Even if you ignore the millions of illegals aliens sharing a few thousand stolen SSNs, they still aren't unique.
I've said this dozens of times: Find the local impediment that keeps competitive cable companies from moving into your area, and fix it. Your state government, state public utilities commission (government), county government or city government is keeping competition out. Figure it out and fix it.