It comes down to workload. Even without overclocking, Intel has been the single-threaded champ for quite some time, even though they occasionally get leap-frogged by AMD on single-threaded specs. If you have a single-threaded process that has to get done ASAP and power consumption is not important, then this Intel chip is the current top dog. Beyond gaming, there are very many real-world examples of this -- mostly having to so with existing CPU-bound algorithms that are impossible or impractical to re-write in parallel for a variety of reasons.

AMD's 7950X is the current value leader for most workloads. At its price point (street price under $550), you currently can't buy more per-core performance, and you get 16 real cores that are *almost *as fast as the performance cores in this Intel. It's also a lot more energy efficient than the Intel. The 7950X is an astounding value. But its single threaded performance isn't as fast as the Intel, and this is provable. For many people, this doesn't matter -- but for some, it matters quite a bit.

Know Thy Workload.

That is why you fail. If you don't have a signed contract, you don't have shit. You'd think with $235 million at stake, they'd take care of this most basic of prerequisites before doing any work.

A tightly controlled artificially stabilised currency is precisely what you do want as an investment.

It's definitely not what I want. I want to use a currency subjected to and tested by the full force of the free market, which makes it a hell of a lot harder to manipulate, and is what gives the currency its intrinsic value. And I absolutely never want a regime fixing a currency for their own selfish reasons, especially not one with the CCP's track record of controlling and abusing pretty much everything they touch.

It is much better to trade using a currency that is (1) stable

Naturally stable, as in its actual, steady value in the free market -- absolutely. "Stable" as in artificially fixed by the Chinese Communist Party, regardless of real-world market events or economic conditions -- definitely not.

The Chinese yuan isn't really a free floating currency like the USD. Its allowable range of value and its exchange rate is tightly controlled by China, even though they have "relaxed" that control since 2006 and call it a free floating currency in order to make it seem more legitimate. Not sure why anyone outside of China would want to invest in anything backed by Chinese yuan other than as an attempt to dilute the global influence of USD.

Tax rates in Europe can go to 40% of income, that would never fly in the US as long as we emphasize the individual and self reliance.

WTF are you talking about? The highest Federal income tax bracket in the US is currently 37%. Additionally, almost all states implement an additional income tax of their own. In high tax states, this can be up to another double digit income tax -- in California, for example, the top state income tax bracket is another 12.3% on top of the Federal 37%, for a total income tax of 49.3%. Additionally, those making over $1 million in CA must pay an additional 1% surcharge, which means over 50% of their earnings are taken as taxes by some level of government -- and I'm not even counting the additional municipal surcharges that are in place at the county level etc.

"Madoff and other employees on [floor] 17 punched in the stock prices on the IBM AS/400 and would just enter stock prices that would square with his fake returns." This stuff was likely COBOL. See https://www.informationweek.co...

. . . that the usual suspects on Slashdot -- some of the highest volume posters on this site -- are defending Hamas' actions and rationalizing the beheading of babies and the murder of senior citizens in their wheelchairs via idealistic, anti-Israeli rhetoric and patently false equivalences. You guys need to shut off your computers for awhile, go outside and interact with actual humans IRL, and get some perspective, because you're fucking broken inside if you actually believe what you're posting on this subject.

there's a larger moral gray area when using an ad-blocker

Wait . . . we're talking about Meta here, the parasites of the Internet who can and do monetize their own mothers' data for a few nickels, right? Moral gray area, seriously? Yeah, I can't say that's gonna keep me up at night. Fuck Meta and Zuck with a rusty rail spike. It's 100% upside for humanity if they crash and burn.

. . . AMD is busy working with companies like Supermicro at putting their top-of-the-line 7950X desktop / consumer-facing CPU on server motherboards with ECC RAM support and available 100G NICs to make killer workstations and high density nodes for "micro-clouds"." And they're cheap (relatively speaking)! Very interesting to see Intel and AMD conduct the exact opposite tactics.

Like the 5950X before it, the 7950X is a beast with a great combination of thread density and insane single-threaded performance. And low cost! It's really astounding how AMD has just brutalized Intel in the CPU market in an incredibly short amount of time (just over six years since the first Threadripper chip was launched).

That they had DNA like ours in and of itself would nearly disqualify them for being extraterrestrial.

Pish posh. Didn't you watch Prometheus?

It's even worse than that. They're giving free money to people who not only do nothing, but who waste tremendous amounts of electricity while doing nothing. Ban proof of work crypto already.

But there are real risks associated with being physically around other people right now

What?!?? Citation urgently needed, because this is such a BS statement that the browser automatically rendered in brown text on my screen. Hint: not wanting to resume commuting to the office does not count as "real risks."

If your employer says come back to the office and you don't want to, you are free to get another job.

You are also free to start your own company where you get to set the remote work policy as well as how much the employees get paid.

Otherwise, shut up and do your job. It couldn't be more simple.

I have the equivalent Fujitsu -15F units. While it's better than traditional central air, the colder it gets, the worse it works. You're only getting lukewarm air at best long before you get to -15F. This is true of all air source heat pumps, regardless of technology. To work better, you need to go ground source so you're heating from well above freezing, not from -15F. Of course, this is much more expensive and install in a lot fewer places.