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Without getting political...it seems every 10 or so years we see another bubble burst, my question to you economic experts:
Do you think the current way wealth is distributed in the United States is one of the leading causes of this trend...and also do you think that if we had a "more fair" distribution of wealth (and I do not mean tax the rich and give it to the poor - I mean higher wages - I believe wages have been more or less stagnate, for most of Americans, for about 20 years)...[cont] a "more fair" distribution of wealth, the bubbles bursts would not be so extreme AND (in this case) Americans would have more money/savings for emergencies.
Currently money is pouring into the stock market again (greed and no alternatives), and we aren't even out of this mess yet, most likely because rich investors have no place else to put the money - with possible inflation around the corner, holding on to cash is risky (my take).
What do you think?
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Many people are at home...which gives you time to research and tweak your mining machines.
So, what are you mining right now and are you happy with the results?
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"The collapse of ETH is inevitable" https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/02/the-collapse-of-eth-is-inevitable/"Here’s a prediction. ETH — the asset, not the Ethereum Network itself — will go to zero. Those who already think that ETH will not see real adoption — thanks to a failure to scale, to adopt more secure contract authoring practices, or to out-compete its competitors — don’t need to be convinced that a price collapse would follow as a consequence. " I'm sure many of you will disagree with this article... |
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I think the most profitable use of 1080tis right now is Overwatch, or maybe Destiny 2. Having some fun now and then, during hot summer especially, sounds better than mining!
Okay that's funny! |
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Intel fires back: "While the database entry lists the processor as “not being recognized,” the specs suggest this is the Core i9-9900K: 8 cores, 16 threads, and a Turbo clock of 5GHz. It’s also expected to come with 16 MB of L3 cache, a TDP of 95W, and an Intel UHD 620 graphics chip. In 3DMark's Time Spy test, the CPU scores 10719 and 9862 overall. It achieved this using an Asus ROG Strix Z370-F Strix Gaming motherboard with 16GB of G.Skill DDR4-2666 memory, a 500GB Samsung 960 Evo SSD, and a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. This does suggest the 8-core/16-thread chip is compatible with Z370 mobos—probably through a BIOS update—as well as the upcoming Z390 chipset, which might end up being a rebranded Z370. Compared to the Ryzen 7 2700X (overclocked to 5GHz), the 9900K is way ahead of the AMD chip's score of 9387 points. Intel's own 6-core/12-thread i7 8700K is also lagging behind with 8935." https://www.techspot.com/news/75715-intel-core-i9-9900k-benchmarks-show-easily-outperforming.html |
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Has anyone looked into the specs here, looks like a nice upgrade for some of you.
If you're looking to build a gaming PC that could be used for mining while you aren't using it, then this could be for you. However, if you are solely at it just to profit from mining, then this CPU would probably be a bad idea. GPU-mining is coming to an end, much more CPU mining. Invest wisely, do the math, don't just be blinded by the specs. Well since monero has promised to fork against asics. This cpu could be okay Along with the m.2 fpga accelerator and one Vega gpu Gotta love Monero's dedication to CPU mining! |
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Has anyone looked into the specs here, looks like a nice upgrade for some of you. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/06/amd-unveils-threadripper-2-up-to-32-cores-64-threads-for-an-enthusiast-chip/"AMD's Threadripper platform gave a hefty boost to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market: 16 cores and 32 threads using AMD's Zen architecture. Today, AMD announced the second generation of Threadripper: it's twice as big again, with up to 32 cores and 64 threads, and it uses the revised Zen+ core of the second-generation Ryzen chips." [MORE] https://www.techspot.com/news/74951-amd-reveals-32-core64-thread-threadripper-2.html"The flagship processor—the 32 core—will have four Ryzen die inside the package. Those are tied together with AMD's Infinity fabric that allows those four die to act like one monster processor working altogether," said AMD senior vice president and general manager of computing and graphics, Jim Anderson. Some current X399 motherboards could struggle with Threadripper 2 when it comes to power delivery, though this might only mean more restrictive overclocking. However, we’ve seen refreshed X399 boards at Computex with improved power delivery capabilities (19-phase VRM) designed with Threadripper 2 and its many cores in mind. In addition to Threadripper 2, AMD said a Radeon RX Vega 56 “nano” graphics card designed for Mini-ITX systems is now shipping. It also announced a new generation of Vega GPUs for workstations and datacenters based on the 7nm process and featuring four stacks of high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) totalling 32GB. It added that people should “stay tuned” for the 7nm consumer GPUs. |
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Maybe some of these FE believers are AI bots like "Google Duplex" gone rogue, like "Tay" did: "Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day"https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist"It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in "conversational understanding." The more you chat with Tay, said Microsoft, the smarter it gets, learning to engage people through "casual and playful conversation."" Seems like it doesn't take much to push them over the edge (pardon the pun)... |
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Someone is turning this into a comic book, oh the irony...   |
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Flat-Earthers are back: 'It’s almost like the beginning of a new religion' https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/20/flat-earth-believers-youtube-videos-conspiracy-theoristsA New York magazine piece on flat-Earthdom is skeptical of some who claim the mantle: “The line between actually believing the theory and enthusiastically entertaining is unclear. Being a Flat Earther exists in the same online space as chemtrails and the notion that 9/11 was an inside job: there are some who believe it sincerely, and magnitudes more who entertain the notion ironically.”  |
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Shaq thinks the world is flat...hmmm it seems everyone is getting on board with this...
Harbinger: “What’s going on with the flat Earth thing? Are you just messing with everybody with that?”
O’Neal: “No, the Earth is flat. Would you like to hear my theory?”
Harbinger: “Yeah, tell me about it.”
O’Neal: “The first part of the theory is, I’m joking, you idiots. That’s the first part of the theory. The second part is, I said jokingly that when I’m in my bus and I drive from Florida to California, which I do every summer, it seems to be flat. When I’m in my plane, and we’re getting ready to land, and I open up the window, and I’m looking at all the land that we’re flying over, it seems to be flat.”
[Shaq was apparently trolling everyone when he made his flat-Earth comments]
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So what do you think about the spaceX launch, notbatman? All are the angles of the footage fake? Or do you believe in rockets?
He's going to say it's fake and it's really footage from the 1981 movie (Heavy Metal)...   |
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