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Comment Nextdoor (Score 1) 213

Nextdoor is a great tool for informing your neighbors that the local US House Rep (in my case, Johnson) is taking $200k+ in 'donations' from the providers to keep their shitty internet connections on. My area has had frequent disconnects and outages...so now Johnson is going to get all the blame for it because he supports a shitty internet.

Comment Expect Nvidia to distance themselves from GPU (Score 1) 98

I'm really suspecting that Nvidia will focus on the high margin AI / Computer Vision markets as it pays much better than a GPU.

AMD on the other hand is already preparing several revolutionary generations of CPU's and GPU's based on their TSMC 7nm process to be released in 2019 with the second generation 14nm chips coming off the line this summer.

So it is likely that AMD will dominate market share for the GPU market while Nvidia will continue to report record revenues even while losing GPU market share.

Comment People tend to forget... (Score 1) 161

Lest anyone forgets $1B went missing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Oh and you wanna talk about baby killers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How about that opoid crisis? 20 million painkillers to a town of 3,000. ALL CASH. https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

Also...the anonymity isn't crypto's main feature. Just look at the most recent $10 Billion lawsuit. It turns out all those rich list addresses were owned by exchanges and things like that. Cash is far more anonymous than crypto. Why else would drug dealers have bedrooms full of billions of cash: https://www.veteranstoday.com/...

So please tell me how Crypto is killing fucking babies again. I dare you.

Comment A Ban will not stop it... (Score 1) 110

I realize that it will be banned on some sites, but just like a few popular memes, a simple google search will find deep fakes of Nick Cage and more all over the internet.

I think that at some point, we're going to have to come to terms with the technology and to deal with things that are far more important than border walls and stupid dictators.

Comment Here it comes... (Score 5, Insightful) 281

$0.99 / month internet!

(gets bill)

$0.99 Monthly Internet
$9.99 Facebook access fee
$9.99 Google access fee
$19.99 Slashdot access fee
$29.99 Porn access fee
$45.00 $1.00 per gigabyte fee. 45gb used
$9.99 Convenience fee
$5.00 Bill print fee
$5.00 Electronic payment fee
--------
135.94 due now or we cut you off.

Comment Re:I've been hearing the same argument since 2011. (Score -1, Troll) 284

Let's compare this to other 'speculative bubbles'.

Housing:
1930: $10,000 for a house? That's outrageous! The bubble will pop soon!
1980: $100,000 for a house? S&L is killing the housing market! It was stupid high!
2030: $1,000,000 for a house? Only a fool would buy a house! Renting is where it's at!

DOW
1930: $1,000 for the DOW? That's insane! There's a war on!
1960: $5,000 for the DOW? That's insane! We're about to be nuked!
2000: $11,000 for the DOW? That's insane! Y2K and the end is near!
2017: $23,000 for the DOW? That's insane! Donald Trump is president!

US Dollar
1930: $1 buys a meal for two people. Trust the dollar, it's STRONG!
1960: $1 buys a meal for one person. The US Dollar is the global standard!
2000: $1 buys two chocolate bars. Everyone trusts the US Dollar! We're printing more of it!
2017: $1 buys a box of mints. Bitcoin is a scam! Trust the dollar!

Please tell me again that Bitcoin as an innovator in the financial instruments space is something that should be ignored. This ignorance of the innovations that Bitcoin has put forward is just the same as the ignorance of the innovations of the early internet. I recall several prominent businessmen and journalists that predicted the death of companies such as Amazon, Facebook and Netflix and were all proven wrong.

Comment In other news... (Score 1) 72

Almost anything could be substituted and it would still work... A rogue BILLIONAIRE could take down large parts of the FIAT ecosystem, according to new research that will be presented in two weeks at the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Jose, USA. According to the researchers, there are two types of attack scenarios that could be leveraged via BILLIONAIRE hijacks to cripple the FIAT ecosystem: hijacking earnings, causing double-spending errors, and delaying transactions. These two (partition and delay) attacks are possible because most of the entire FIAT ecosystem isn't as decentralized as most people think, and it still runs on a small number of BILLIONAIRES. For example, 13 BILLIONAIRES host 30% of the entire FIAT network, 39 BILLIONAIRES host 50% of the whole FIAT earning power, and 3 BILLIONAIRES handle 60% of all FIAT traffic. Currently, researchers found that around 100 FIAT nodes are the victims of thefts each month.

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