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mircea_popescu: KRAMER: What do you want me to say? That the things haven't worked out the way that I planned? That I'm struggling, barely able to keep my head above water? That L.A. is a cold place even in the middle of the summer? That it's a lonely place even when your stuck in traffic at the Hollywood Freeway? That I'm no better than a screenwriter driving a cab, a starlet turning tricks, a producer in a house he can't afford? Is
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves lol drop it on the article comment section will ya :D
mircea_popescu: "top lies men will tell to your face : 1. I don't play games ; 2. I don't jack off ; 3. I don't drink, smoke or do dope ; 4. I'm not gay"
mircea_popescu: if one generator at one end has overcapacity and the one at other end undercapacity
mircea_popescu: if you have 100 generators 10 km apart each, you can actually move 1000km instantaneously
mircea_popescu: reeses romania has been exporting about 1/10 of its output since early 2000
mircea_popescu: but that's really besides the point. mooching isnt a business plan.
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure some states subsidize domestic power consumption,
mircea_popescu: in fact commercial power costs by and large the same all over the world.
mircea_popescu: if that were true the chinese govt would just export all the electricity and increase the production, exponentially, until balance were met.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 it's a false idea that chinese dc has no power cost.
mircea_popescu: power up the board for a time, see how much of it burns
mircea_popescu: MilkyLep it'd depend tho. see the thing is, unreliable chips are unknowns.
mircea_popescu: so your gen II process is in theory 3x as efficient in power as gen I, but if you get 99% reliability on gen I and 35% on gen II well... gen I is still more bang per watt.
mircea_popescu: now, it's much more likely to have blown cores in tight process.
mircea_popescu: which means it uses 7 times as much power as it actually needs.
mircea_popescu: here's a set of fun facts : in a 16 core chip which has 14 blown cores it is likely the blown cores are powered anyway.
mircea_popescu: however overall efficiency also includes hash output / cycle. which... you know, depends.
mircea_popescu: power efficiency (ie, consumption per cycle) correlates strongly with the process size,
mircea_popescu: the quality of the design is probably a degree of magnitude more important for performance
mircea_popescu: (risk can be mitigated a lot if you have a very well connected node, by blasrting your withheld block just as soon as anyone relays a competitor.
mircea_popescu: part 2 : if sega/ms can't make it into hardware... neither can randombitcoinforumcompany.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moral here is twofold. part 1 : microsoft xbox went nowhere in spite of being pushed by microsoft marketeers. originally it was going to do 200mn polycount. then 300mn. then 125. then it demoed 60.
mircea_popescu: reeses i am still surprised they didn't die the fuck out.
mircea_popescu: i mean what the fuck, since the dreamcast 10 years ago what have they done ?
mircea_popescu: sega made the same half billion. on ~5bn income rather that sony's 75bn, and while doing... nothing
mircea_popescu: so fucking hell. sony made half a billion. it does everything, from chips to being a total IP asshole conclave.
mircea_popescu: reeses be a darling leave the link as a comment ? will ye ?
mircea_popescu: i mean it's one thing to tell girls they prolly have a great body under the bikini. quite another to cold call people's reading.
mircea_popescu: and allow me to pat myself on the back quite publicly for my fucking otherworldly transcendent talkent picking abilities.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seriously, if you ever go bankrupt and everything you should probably start a voicing career.
mircea_popescu: "Drawing on extensive cross-domain industry experience along with broad and deep technical expertise and innovation, Art Taylor LLC translates business strategy and goals into predictable technology initiatives with solutions that produce measurable results."
mircea_popescu: also apparently the owner of the world's worst fucking tagline.
mircea_popescu: benkay old timer, got mostly cleanned out by smart investment long before asicminer was a glimmer in its daddy's eye
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they became the largest selling romanian rappers in history, and so consequently half the brandy drunk here is that, in spite of romania having much better stuff and definitely the world's best cognac on tap.
mircea_popescu: i distinctly recall a buncha romanian dorks being so fucking impressed with hennessy they put it on their song
mircea_popescu: the email came from a screenshot in the link. it found me all the guy's emails.