There are two cryptocurrencies that functionally specialize in helping criminals launder money and evade sanctions, Monero and zcash. They are inherently untraceable and can work as a one-stop money laundromat once you can get currency in and out of them, and the subset of cryptobros who are trying to take cryptocurrency mainstream don't want you to know this. A little money laundering flaring up with some random stablecoin is background noise in the criminal finance world of cryptocurrency.

Oh good I found a bot. Good luck training your llm here whoever you are.

There's a whole lot there, and I disagree with lots of it, but can't really be arsed to go through it all.

You yourself linked trans stuff and better Republican messaging. So whether you support Republicans or not, you are one of those people who identified this part of what Republicans did as being an important part of how they succeeded. And I therefore stand by my use of "you people". So by all means, disregard the part that talks about people who are invested in the future success of the GOP as being irrelevant to you; it's still relevant to the people who share that analysis with you, but are rooting for future GOP success.

As for the rest, your assertion that messing with people's children is any kind of a block to political success seems absolutely wrong to me. The GOP has supported the banning of books, has twiddled its thumbs while school kids die in numbers that would be politically suicidal in other countries due to gun laws, has a bunch of men with a track record of sexually assaulting children in power along with women who minimise it, has overturned child labour laws in some states, etc etc. The GOP has been messing with kids in terrible ways for decades, and it has not impeded its success.

The trans stuff was a vibe thing.

It's still the exact same silicon and it's got the same problems. Not all of them burn out but some of them do.

The real question is how long until it's replaced by newer or better hardware. Basically will we see custom hardware replace video cards soon for llm acceleration. Similar to what we saw with Bitcoin.

That Won't help consumers because the Fab capacity is just going to go to different silicone, but it does mean that a whole shitload of these gpus will become worthless. I guess some of them will show up on eBay. I got a lot of use out of an old rx580 that was a mining card. I think it did eventually die on me but I got about six good years out of it.

That's a one-time Bonanza though. And it's assuming we get it. The real loser there would be Nvidia since if they get replaced on the AI market with custom hardware then their market value is going to crash harder than I think any market value has ever crashed

Money laundering is the backbone of the entire cryptocurrency market. Although Trump has made corruption into a strong contender.

The greatest rap channel on YouTube, Patrick Boyle's, has a video about one of the major scams collapsing because the big boys have integrated crypto into sectors of our economy so there isn't enough excitement about it anymore to keep some of the financial scams going.

Also with the economy collapsing due to incompetent mismanagement from on high the stock market's going with it. And a lot of these scams were riding the stock market.

Still as long as we refuse to regulate the money laundering crypto isn't going anywhere. You'll Still lose your shirt when you invest in it and desperately try to hide it from your wife. But the big boys are in the pool now and so they're going to suck up all the scam money

Those sound like they might cut costs and complexity, but it's clear that this system brings its own costs and complexities, so they don't seem massively compelling. I guess we probably need to see them scaled and in the wild to see if they are commercially viable vs the alternatives.

Until the comment about equality. You need to work on your bait. When it's too obvious you just come off like an idiot.

I do sense a little desperation. A little bit of cope. Something is happening that you know is going to hurt you and your worldview isn't equipped to deal with it.

Working class people in the UK are not especially likely to require long (distance) commutes to work More than anyone else. Where on earth did you get that idea? They are more likely to have to rely on public transport, however, because lots of people can't afford a car in the first place.

There is no long UK drive that someone would do of a weekend that's any kind of issue in an EV. No-one is driving from Southend to Aberdeen. They might drive from London to Sheffield or similar, but that's completely fine in an EV.

Huh.

Every house is different, and I don't know anything about electricity beyond the basics, but at least for my house, what the electrician did was to split the supply for the EV off from the main feed with an external isolator switch near the incoming service (a small cable was then taken through the external wall to the consumer unit where the fuses are, required a small hole to be drilled in the outside wall). Probably depends on whether this is allowed, but it worked well for us. I guess another possibility would be a sub-panel. I understand Canadian codes are strict about breaker placement, conductor size, overcurrent protection etc, but I still think it may be possible.

Although obviously this is all theoretical because you're not buying an EV for decades if you can help it, right?

*once per week, not per day.

In any case my server with 2x 32GB sticks in it registers a hardware error slightly less than once a year (last one I see was in September 2024) and it's not like I live in a hardened bunker.

That is not cosmic rays. Are you sure your nextdoor neighbour isn't running a secret nuclear reactor?

Yes bit flips from cosmic rays happen. If you were to to say once or twice a year then I'd blame it on a bitflip (that's about in line with what Google's study estimates a a server with large amounts of memory would have), but if you were getting errors daily then its time to replace your RAM. If it's seemingly random across the memory channels then new CPU/Motherboard.

Well you're more than welcome to fly on Boeing...

You're assuming a lot. The software rollback may very well have to do with changes in error detection and correction routines. Hell here's a super oversimplified example: When you update your BIOS on a server there's a good chance you come out the other side with ECC turned off.

This isn't unreasonable. I've experienced a large compressor shutdown costing many millions of dollars thanks to a firmware update on a safety system from Honeywell which had a bug in error detection and handling which caused a simple random single hardware fault to escalate to a redundant failure that shouldn't have occurred. Honeywell withdrew the update globally and we were advised to roll back. This kind of shit happens.

Erm..the first link you provided was about LMR batteries being available in 2028. That's exciting if it happens, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

It just seems silly to me that people are so keen to deny the obvious: the Chinese successfully commercialised-at-industry-scale several important EV battery developments before anyone else, including LFP, sodium and semi-solid state.

No they should not. They should spend their money focusing on designs that are inherently resilient to soft errors rather than spending a fortune on buying hardened silicon to address a singular cause of a potential error. Boron-11 silicon is predominantly used in the medical imaging, space, and nuclear industry where equipment is expected to be continuously bombarded with high levels of radiation. Flights just don't qualify for that level of mitigation requirement in the silicon manufacture.