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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
You cant really make money doing this unless you have a farm of gpus to do this stuff with. 2 ati/NVidia somethings aren't going to do squat by the time this is regulated to worthlessness.
Especially if you live somewhere where power is more than 8c/kwh.A lot of it depends on the crypto curency you are after. I've made $4 over roughly 2 week. in Litecoin just using the web browser. No, I won't get rich with it, but that puts a few bucks in my Paypal account for when Steam Sales roll around.
Is that net or gross? How much does it cost to run those machines?
I'm only into my first month of it. But these are machines that run all the time anyhow, so I don't expect my power bill to go up any.
Prepare for a shock then. Back when mining Bitcoin on a CPU+GPU still made sense I hooked my gaming desktop into a pool and mined for around 3 months. I ended up with 3 bitcoin, but also had a massive power bill each month. The gaming desktop was running flat out 100% all the time instead of sleeping. We're talking pulling a continuous 450 watts instead of 20 watts, you're power bill will feel it. Even if we're only talking about higher CPU usage, it takes more power.
I hope you kept those Bitcoins... I'm relatively certain that $18k is more than your power bill went up.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
You cant really make money doing this unless you have a farm of gpus to do this stuff with. 2 ati/NVidia somethings aren't going to do squat by the time this is regulated to worthlessness.
Especially if you live somewhere where power is more than 8c/kwh.A lot of it depends on the crypto curency you are after. I've made $4 over roughly 2 week. in Litecoin just using the web browser. No, I won't get rich with it, but that puts a few bucks in my Paypal account for when Steam Sales roll around.
Is that net or gross? How much does it cost to run those machines?
I'm only into my first month of it. But these are machines that run all the time anyhow, so I don't expect my power bill to go up any.
Prepare for a shock then. Back when mining Bitcoin on a CPU+GPU still made sense I hooked my gaming desktop into a pool and mined for around 3 months. I ended up with 3 bitcoin, but also had a massive power bill each month. The gaming desktop was running flat out 100% all the time instead of sleeping. We're talking pulling a continuous 450 watts instead of 20 watts, you're power bill will feel it. Even if we're only talking about higher CPU usage, it takes more power.
I hope you kept those Bitcoins... I'm relatively certain that $18k is more than your power bill went up.
I ended up building a new gaming rig when they went up to around $4k. Yeah, I wish I would've saved them now as well.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
You cant really make money doing this unless you have a farm of gpus to do this stuff with. 2 ati/NVidia somethings aren't going to do squat by the time this is regulated to worthlessness.
Especially if you live somewhere where power is more than 8c/kwh.A lot of it depends on the crypto curency you are after. I've made $4 over roughly 2 week. in Litecoin just using the web browser. No, I won't get rich with it, but that puts a few bucks in my Paypal account for when Steam Sales roll around.
Is that net or gross? How much does it cost to run those machines?
I'm only into my first month of it. But these are machines that run all the time anyhow, so I don't expect my power bill to go up any.
Prepare for a shock then. Back when mining Bitcoin on a CPU+GPU still made sense I hooked my gaming desktop into a pool and mined for around 3 months. I ended up with 3 bitcoin, but also had a massive power bill each month. The gaming desktop was running flat out 100% all the time instead of sleeping. We're talking pulling a continuous 450 watts instead of 20 watts, you're power bill will feel it. Even if we're only talking about higher CPU usage, it takes more power.
I hope you kept those Bitcoins... I'm relatively certain that $18k is more than your power bill went up.
I ended up building a new gaming rig when they went up to around $4k. Yeah, I wish I would've saved them now as well.
Well... If you still have the gaming rig...
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
You cant really make money doing this unless you have a farm of gpus to do this stuff with. 2 ati/NVidia somethings aren't going to do squat by the time this is regulated to worthlessness.
Especially if you live somewhere where power is more than 8c/kwh.A lot of it depends on the crypto curency you are after. I've made $4 over roughly 2 week. in Litecoin just using the web browser. No, I won't get rich with it, but that puts a few bucks in my Paypal account for when Steam Sales roll around.
Is that net or gross? How much does it cost to run those machines?
I'm only into my first month of it. But these are machines that run all the time anyhow, so I don't expect my power bill to go up any.
Prepare for a shock then. Back when mining Bitcoin on a CPU+GPU still made sense I hooked my gaming desktop into a pool and mined for around 3 months. I ended up with 3 bitcoin, but also had a massive power bill each month. The gaming desktop was running flat out 100% all the time instead of sleeping. We're talking pulling a continuous 450 watts instead of 20 watts, you're power bill will feel it. Even if we're only talking about higher CPU usage, it takes more power.
I hope you kept those Bitcoins... I'm relatively certain that $18k is more than your power bill went up.
I ended up building a new gaming rig when they went up to around $4k. Yeah, I wish I would've saved them now as well.
Well... If you still have the gaming rig...
Excellent point.
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Australian minister blames hackers over Twitter porn 'like'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-42005961
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But given that the placebo effect is hard science, doesn't that make them believe?
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/15/16657010/amazon-prime-whole-foods-price-cuts-member-discounts
So now the prices at whole foods will only be 10x what they should be? YAY!!!!! Go Amazon, GO!!!!!
(Hopefully my sarcasm and general "fuck whole foods in their snooty ass" attitude was clear from that statement...)
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@black3dynamite Saw this on the new FF Quantum tab page that opens.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite Saw this on the new FF Quantum tab page that opens.
That's right. But I did try reading the review.
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Things falling apart in Japan.
Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Things falling apart in Japan.
Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42009839Holy shit. That's like the Apocalypse over there.
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Jeremey irons is in that? Man he must be hurting for roles.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Things falling apart in Japan.
Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42009839Holy shit. That's like the Apocalypse over there.
The bane of train commuters in Japan is a suicide on the line.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Things falling apart in Japan.
Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42009839How does a company come back from a mistake like that?
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Wow this is cool and kind of terrifying at the same time.
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