Who are these people who have a budget of $750 a month to live on?

$9000 is below the FPL. Median wage is 54000. Something doesn't add up.

Their delivery drivers are not amazon employees but employees of independent shipping companies as far as i'm aware. That's a different setup which is even more disturbing since it means benefits and no clear way to unionize en masse since it's a collection of independent companies.

They are already facing staffing shortages across the board in warehouses right? so even if they built all these warehouses they'd run out of hirable people anyway.

Amazon is across the board always trying to squeeze out as much efficiency as possible. We don't have guaranteed delivery timing anymore and odds are it's only going to keep getting worse as they focus on profitability over customer satisfaction. Won't be surprised at all if the return policy takes a hit next.

Medallions should be owned by individuals only. It shouldn't be a company that owns medallions, it should be a driver is granted a medallion for being a good driver and applying for one. If you don't use the medallion for x amount of time you simply lose it but are on a fast-track approval to get one if you re-apply.

Cab companies, like auto dealerships really shouldn't be lucrative businesses. The whole system just fucks over the actual workers and the customers so that a middleman can make some bling and bring next to zero value for the majority of customers, all because "it's always been this way."

Give us the option to automatically mark all political emails as spam and auto delete them. Maybe keep it disabled by default, but when viewing a single email marked as politics it will let you know with a banner than you can perma-spam them all in whatever way you wish, by party or all of them.

The pump and dump methodology of US startup culture that is promoting nothing but short term gains. There's no foresight into the future. There's no more family business - it's just get big enough to have market share and then get bought out. Lots of big pay days for the founders and some early investors sometimes. Lots of big losers in terms of the workers getting paid less and less due to inflation while the short term owners get huge profits.

It's all a game to make your business look valuable despite it being a gold plated turd.

The biggest challenge is not selling the coins, but buying them. With a ~$1800 purchase price this is far beyond what a common person in Zimbabwe can afford.

So I am not an expert in how the computation works.

A typical gaming load where you're rendering all this stuff uses clock speed quite heavily. I assume it needs fast memory speed to minimize latency as much as possible and a GPU is probably tuned to maximize performance for gaming users more than anything.

The hashing functions of a GPU are bottlenecked by the memory speed. Hashing is intended to be computationally simple, so perhaps the math being done is trivial for a GPU but the comparison requires a great deal of read/write speed.

I don't know how easy it is to follow that, but a tl;dr based on my understanding is: GPU have beefy processors for doing graphics maths. Hashing has very low processing load but very high I/O load.

I'm using imaginary numbers here to illustrate the principle.

Let's say you pay 100$ for 100Wh each day.

Your card at stock uses 500Wh each day and mines at 1000 hash/day which translates to 1000 coins per day for $500 cost. $0.50 per coin.

If you overclock it to 600Wh you will mine at 1100 hash/day, which translates to 1100 coins for $600 cost. $0.54 per coin - your costs are higher per coin.

If you underclock to 250Wh and mine at 900 hash/day which translates to 900 coins for $250 cost. $0.27 per coin - you are making WAY more coins per dollar than stock.

Even if electricity costs for you are 0, when you mine overclocked you are radiating heat into your space and now you're risking failures from overheating, or you need to setup a good cooling system to handle the extra heat. Underclocking results in much less heat.

The wattage and hash rate here isn't a real world example as I mentioned, but from personal experience I can confirm that you keep the overwhelming majority of hashrate for about half power usage by dropping a card's operating frequency to as low as is stable. This has been true for AMD and Nvidia cards. You keep memory frequency high as mining speeds are heavily influenced by memory speed. I think even miners who are stealing power would rather underclock and deal with less failures, not that i've ever had a single card fail from mining. I even have a 1080Ti that I started mining on in the last huge spike back around 2018.

I'm primarily a gamer but I figured why not have my gaming rig make some money and pay for itself. I now have a few thousand dollars in stablecoins from last year since I traded away everything else from when the market was high.

Don't just think about back end infrastructure challenges. Those are solvable fairly easily.

Think about end user computers. If everyone is forwarding around gig email files, how much storage is going to be required on their computer? I have had many difficult executives and their assistants who refuse to delete email, ever, and who want every email from the dawn of time to be permanently accessible instantly from their computer - there is no time to wait for that 500 page deck to download from 5 years ago when they're on site with a potential client who suddenly mentioned when meeting that they were interested in work you haven't done since then... but they have guest wifi capped at 1mbps, and cellular signal doesn't exist beyond emergency calling so a hot spot is out of the question.... and outlook absolutely blows with significant issues over a mail item cap.

Then there are the 250 different versions of the file that would get emailed back and forth for each minor revision. Hope you have 500TB of local disk space on every exec's ipad, laptop, cell phone...

Email is an awful way to send large files. I haven't even covered all the caveats of this kind of issue. On-prem or remote cloud storage products like onedrive/box/whatever are infinitely better because a user can choose to sync certain mission-critical files but keep the things rarely use in the cloud. They generally do de-duplication and if a user runs out of disk space they can remove local copies without losing the file. Multiple users can see live-updates and work within a single file and also roll back to previous versions if they don't like a change. Hands down a better methodology.

The real question I have is why is this even a post on slashdot. Anyone with some technical expertise can understand this is a dumb idea.

The cost in "less developed countries" is also offset by the reality that the locals can't pay anywhere near US prices and often have real storefronts where pirated content is sold at bargain basement prices. There isn't much financial incentive going after these illegal distributors.

It's a huge untapped market and the content and delivery systems are already made, so the costs are marginal. There are still some interesting restrictions on licensing though where some content just doesn't go overseas through official channels.

Why support SMB1 at all in W11?

How are you nudging an oort object in a way that's easier than using a magnetic field and is much more energy efficient?

Just asking knowing we're ignoring the fact that an alien civilization that has interstellar technology likely has perfected a far superior energy source than what we have today be it Fusion or something else.

One mass driver launching a sizable asteroid and we'd be gone. Occam's razor wins every time.

One rock is all it would take to extinguish intelligent life on earth. We already send signals out.

Fearing a highly advanced civilization will use this information to develop a biological weapon is kind of insane though. For all we know some of the bacteria, viruses or other life in our ecosystems could be compatible in a way that could eliminate life without doing anything.

If their technology is advanced enough to come to us before we go to them, what is to say they wouldn't have already done genetic engineering to make a species that is smarter than us anyway, compounded with the likelihood of millions or billions of years of technological advancement beyond us. We can't even imagine how things could have changed to put them at an advantage which we could never catch up in billions of years.