Electric cars don't mandate the use of rare earths (apart from minute amounts in LCDs and microelectronics). It's totally possible to use AC motors that don't require anything more exotic than copper. Tesla does this, for example.

Unless you need to transfer A LOT of data from your cluster, Amazon AWS will probably be cheaper than dedicated hardware. Especially if you can use spot instances (that are 5-10 times cheaper than the regular Amazon EC2 instances).

They're covering the major highways first. There's a map of projected Supercharger network for 2016 here: http://www.teslamotors.com/sup...

Tesla has liquid battery cooling that can dissipate quite a lot of heat. It was quite difficult to hit throttling even during a race on a real racetrack (and impossible on regular public roads). And they've also reduced the throttling in recent software updates.

I traveled 8000 miles in 1 month on my new Tesla. Range and recharge time is not a problem - superchargers are almost everywhere where I would want to go in the US: http://supercharge.info/

The answer is that it varies - GPUs are anywhere from mediocre to useless at "normal" crypto.

It depends on whether the particular encryption algorithm/mode in use is parallelizable or not. For example, CBC is not parallelizable - you have to encrypt each block of data serially. GPUs are useless at CBC mode encryption. More modern modes like GCM and XTS are parallelizable to an extent, as you can encrypt multiple blocks at once, but there is still a serial dependency in the process (there is no real way of completely getting rid of all dependencies while keeping the algorithm usefully secure), so you still need to do some pre or post-processing of the data in a serial fashion. And even then, you're limited by bandwidth in/out of the GPU.

Public-key crypto (RSA, DSA, and ECDSA) isn't really parallelizable either as it only deals with small data sizes. And typical hash algorithms like SHA-1 and SHA-256 are also not parallelizable in their construction.

Thing is, CPUs these days have hardware AES encryption acceleration, making this mostly a moot point. GPUs are good at doing the same thing many times in parallel, which is what breaking encryption requires, but not regular usage.

It will, under specific conditions. Right now simply paying unemployed Greek people to sort matches and then mix them up again WILL improve the economy.

Of course, hiring people to do truly productive work is a better idea.

Why? It worked for Roosevelt, Reagan and Bush.

You did. Don't lie.

So you're telling me that your predictions are true. But they are just delayed by an unspecified amount of time, rapidly approaching infinity.

How about the same bet for the next 5 years, then? I'd bet for an even longer time, but I have much better use for my money over longer periods.

So how about this - we both put 1kg of gold in an escrow account with a reputable company and in 5 years I take all of it. If in the meantime an incident of hyperinflation happens, then you take all of the gold immediately. Are you willing to follow through your believes?

Don't have 1kg of gold now? I'm willing to give you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! You can place an IOU for $40000 into escrow instead of gold (I'll be placing real gold bullion).

No, you haven't. Where is that hyperinflation caused by all this fiat money? Hiding under the bed? Why hasn't the stock market collapsed once QE had stopped?

Oh, a coming collapse. Is it like the second coming of Jesus? When are we going to see it? The century or the next one?

I'm willing to bet 1kg of gold (or its equivalent in any other reliable currency) that there'll be no USD collapse (defined as sustained hyperinflation or exchange rate collapse) in the coming 3 years. Do you wish to enter this bet?

You are an idiot, provably. Your models give predictions that don't work. Mine do.

So instead of reconsidering your worldview you simply bury your head deeper in your anus. German economic "growth" was caused by forcing all the peripheral countries to carry the inefficiency of the German economy. For example, lazy Germans work 60% of hours compared to Greek workers and enjoy greater labor protections.

"Squeeze"? Syriza government decreased the unemployment (by about 1.5%) during the first months. Before the Fuhrer^W^W^W Angela Merkel decided to squeeze MOAR BLOOD from Greece.

Yet German people were quite happy to pump their debts into Greece, Spain and Italy over the course of last 15 years. Half of German economic growth was caused by this.

Factually incorrect. Greece has a primary surplus.

No, it has been thrown into jail. The further cuts will depress the economy even further, increasing the debt load. Also they'll lead to real starvation and homelessness for a large amount of population.