So in essence this boosts their stock price by making them look more profitable than they are.
Sure it does. Any serious investor is going to look at their basic financial statement, not to mention the numerous articles written on the subject, and make an informed decision.
The rest aren't going to give a shit what their profits are. Most of them think revenue is profit anyway.
The only reason th US is where it is right now is because the dollar is still the world currency. It remains so because you need dollars to buy oil.
People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.
If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.
The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.
We don't need more military. In fact we need less.
The reason for the existence of the second amendment was to not need a standing militia. We DEFINITELY don't need both things.
Did they actually get it? I only saw it was proposed.
Will farmers actually get it? Farm subsidies are mostly claimed by large corporations.
They are understaffing on purpose not only despite the requirements, but because of their desire to not meet them.
This kind of thing can lead to insolvency crises which can affect you.
"If Beijing wanted, they could just send the PLA to occupy Siberia, and Putin couldn't do a thing about it"
China is not stupid enough to tip their hand. They will continue preying on Russia by doing sleazy business with them (like selling them the tires that got their advance stuck in the mud) as long as they can first.
I mean, sure you can mine some crypto, but the perceived value of those is essentially nothing.
The market cap for all those cited coins together is considered about $7 billion (Monero being the vast majority of that). So mining that won't do them any good to recoup expense unless they suddenly got all the crypto-bros to abandon BTC in favor of Monero (Etherium is at $380 billion, BTC is at $1.8 Trillion).
The network hardware usually lasts longer than the servers unless you get unlucky. For example if you bought a Cisco Catalyst 5000 then you only had max 5 years before you probably got rid of it due to y2k issues. (The switches WOULD keep working after y2k, but logging of dates wouldn't work correctly.)
We don't like what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but also, Leftist governments in the West disapprove of Uganda's anti-LGBTQ policies. So they then get to sanction Uganda?
Yeah, that's how it works.
What we are observing is a neo-colonial trend by Western countries to force others to toe their line.
Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?
If the West has such a problem w/ Russia, greenlight Ukraine to bomb Moscow: that alone should bring Russia to its knees
1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes
Well I'm not an expert on this, but search results say "Monero, Ravencoin, Vertcoin, and Grin" are all still good to mine with CPU or GPU. Also there's no reason they couldn't introduce another coin or ten.
The question is mine what? Etherium went away from GPU friendly proof of work, and Bitcoin proof of work hasn't been viable on GPUs in ages...
They aren't "video cards", since they generally neither have video ports, nor do they fit in a standard form factor 'slot' form factor.
If the LLM bubble evaporates, the workload appropriate to these devices will be dramatically lower. You *could* perhaps make a go of VDI and maybe someone takes another swing at a cloud gaming service (if someone went all in on Grace, then neither of those use cases would be well served either), but hard to imagine any of those markets sustaining the absurd footprint built out.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack Up"
