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Figure it out, sparky..

Bitcoin gaining users again. Crank the FUD machine up!

Bitcoin is unstoppable. It's packet networks to circuit switched telcos.

The freedom that BTC provides is worth many times the electrical cost. What is the cost of all the wars to hold up fiat?

Life in prison is already the law in Canada if you kill someone with a hack.

I suspect it's the same in the USA.

The problem is, you're never going to catch these people. Computers are basically un-securable, and the industry blames the users instead of it's own failings.

This is not being fixed any time soon.

What people don't want to say is the opposite could happen.

Climate warming opens up huge swaths of land, much of it with lots of water. In fact, it could even end up as a net positive.

The problem is .. well, it sucks to live in hell. Sorting out population migrations is going to be interesting.

Your ignorance of both geography and immigration policy are funny.

Clever? Stupid.

Find ways to work remotely and live a better life.

I live in a 7000 sq. foot house I paid $375k CAD for. I have gigabit fiber, and I work largely remotely .. when I want.

I can easily retire when I want.

Living in those environments is my idea of hell on earth.

Every decade or so, Intel takes another kick at the can.

Every decade or so, they fail miserably.

Intel is not a video card company. They don't have the internal culture to retain the talent required, and the talent they have is CPU-focused.

This story will end up the same. Unless they acquire nVidia. That would be utterly terrible for everyone.

You assume it's a guy. :)

If it was any other group, they'd be run out of town on rails.

Seriously. Fuck this show, it's stars, and it's producers.

They will accrue more experience, and beat you every time.

But they'll burn out!

Not everyone burns out. The winners will self-select.

The only way to win is to not play. But we don't want to talk about that.

If you're here, and you're programming, you're smart enough to do something else with your life. Law, medicine, plumbing, electrical, do anything else.

Engineering and programming are terrible career choices with little or no protection in law.

Restricting travel is a big step down the road to fascism.

You want to live your life, you do just that. When you start telling me how to live mine, we're going to have a problem, in a hurry.

Teach them how to manipulate people.

Seriously, it's an extremely valuable skill. People can be hacked just like computer systems. Psychology.. works.

I guess that makes me sound like a sociopath.. but seriously, my life got a lot easier after I figured a few things out.

It's brute force, but it works extremely well.

I did a lot of C++ early in my career, I still use C for embedded and Python for everything else.

Not scoffing at Python anymore. It is extremely powerful.

It's hard to sync a node, let alone actually build anything that any number of people use.

If it's good for anything, it's a great demonstrator of how NOT to build a dApp system based on blockchains.

Don't worry though! ETH 2.0 is coming. :rolleyes:

Are you actually running those in production, or just as morbid amusement?

It seems wildly irresponsible to not replace such equipment, and wasteful of power not to virtualize?

Production (e.g. makes me money) equipment is cycled out every 18-24mo.

I have much older kit around for amusement, but not in use.