Posts by iwazaru
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1996301)
Posted 1 Jun 2019 by  iwazaru
Post: Pelosi is right, don't impeach, let Rump do it to himself, he is doing a wonderful job of it now. If he keeps it up, he is going to look worse than Nixon plus Hillary. He's going to look like a Gambino! This is why I have such a fascination with psychopaths. Normal people can't help themselves but treat psychopaths (what most people incorrectly call a**holes when push comes to shove)... as OTHER normal people. I've told you this before, a lie detector works only on you & me (and everybody else in these forums). But Trump? Like water on a duck. IOW people like you & me already knew Trump was a Gambino, likely before he ever announced he was RUNNING for President. Mr. grab-'em-by-the-pu**y had a million chances to implode before the women of the United States decided they'd rather vote for a d*** than a c***. Go figure. (IOW there's NO-ONE that can touch the Trump except... Trump himself. The only way a "Trump" implodes is if he does it to himself.) |
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1996290)
Posted 1 Jun 2019 by iwazaru
Post: And here we will differ, at least a little :) It's not that you're wrong but... you're wrong :) Trump is not the cause. He is the effect. If an Obama presidency can deliver a Trump presidency ... what would a Hillary presidency deliver? (@ Gary However I am glad to hear Pasadena is not really a Hillary fan) |
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The A O-C (aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) thread
(Message 1996159)
Posted 31 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: I keep telling you that even batsh*t crazy people (like Ted Cruz) can be right about one or two things! :) (didn't read it though 'cause it's blocked, but I'll find it somehow) |
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OH MY GOoDness. YOU HAVE GOT to Listen to Andrew Yang (D) Presidential Candidate 2020. This GUY is INCREDIBLE!!! No Foolin' Broheims. This DUDE BLOWs Me Away.
(Message 1996157)
Posted 31 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Also, does the GPUUG still take PayPal donations for SETI? I don't care about the green star showing up btw as I remember that had to be done manually or something.... So I sent another 5 bucks to each of the Fab Four: -Bernie -Tulsi -Andrew -Elizabeth Then tried twice to send $5 to the GPUUG and $20 to SETI but my card was declined (without any further info). So either my bank threw a hissy-fit on a 5th donation in less than 10 minutes or my card is somehow suddenly incompatible with the donation system. I'll give it another shot in a few days. |
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The A O-C (aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) thread
(Message 1996155)
Posted 31 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Heineken, Tecate and Dos Equis all drop the Fresno Grizzlies over the A O-C video. They're all the same company... and likely own & sell 90% of beer all the way over here in Greece. Almost every one of their beers over here either tastes like crap, water, or like farts one day and the next batch comes out descent. Just another lovely multi-national that's paid 100s of millions in fines for price fixing. i.e. peanuts :) A O-C FTW though! (BTW I did see that video yesterday and it was really, really bad.) |
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BREXIT
(Message 1995931)
Posted 30 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: AaaaaaaaaaHaha!! OK so it's an interview not a monologue but whatever.... Here's what the WinterKnights of the world don't understand..... Sure you can hate Tucker and sure you can hate Nigel. No problem. Fair enough. The problem however arises when these people are right. And right they both are here unfortunately. So what now? It's Nigel's, Boris's, whoever's fault! :) Sorry that's not how it works. I'll be honest however and say that I am a bit shocked that the land of Churchill & Thatcher doesn't have a single politician to say: Right! We've ripped off the band-aid, yeah it's gonna hurt... now let's make the best of this! Yet the idiots you guys have in power just want to prolong the suffering :( If it's any consolation, most countries on most days would be chasing their tails equally dumbfounded :) Because politicians. |
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BREXIT
(Message 1995928)
Posted 30 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: While I consider Roger Ailes & Fox one of (if not THE) worst things to happen to the US in the past 30 years.... I've already seen quite a few clips of Tucker in moments of unexplainable, unexpected, and downright creepy monologues where he gets things shockingly right. Joke on the interwebs now is that "even a stopped clock...". I haven't watched the video yet, but since it's Sirius that's posting it... I bet my SETI credits this is exactly one of those Tucker monologues! :) (come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I've posted an example of him completely agreeing with AOC!) |
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Number crunching :
GPU Wars 2019: 7nm (Navi reviews)
(Message 1995677)
Posted 28 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Here's the whole keynote from AMD's official YouTube channel... link below should take you straight to GPU info :) https://youtu.be/_96stDCb-mk?t=1103 |
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Number crunching :
GPU Wars 2019: 7nm (Navi reviews)
(Message 1995460)
Posted 27 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: AMD Teases First Navi GPU Products: RX 5700 Series Launches in July, 25% Improved Perf-Per-Clock AnandTech crew are guesstimating a "275mm2, give or take a few percent" die size, so I guess we'll have to compare it to the 1660Ti to see what improvements 7nm brings in relation to 12nm. So I guess price could be as low as $300 (dare I say $250 even?) if AMD want to disrupt the market instead of just tier themselves into it (which is what nVidia usually does). To put the nanometres into perspective a 2080Ti is 754nm, so AMD are obviously not trying to compete with nVidia's high end. Not with Navi anyway. |
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Number crunching :
GPU Wars 2019: 7nm (Navi reviews)
(Message 1995413)
Posted 27 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Should start in about an hour and a half from now... https://www.anandtech.com/show/14408/dr-lisa-su-at-computex-2019-amd-keynote-live-blog-10am-tpe-10pm-et |
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BREXIT
(Message 1995338)
Posted 26 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Never thought I'd actually ENJOY a trip to the voting booth, I thought it would always be a chore... To no-one's surprise - I'm sure - I voted for DiEM25 (Varoufakis) :) |
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1995130)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: And Bernie could've turned a lot of it blue. And Obama could have too.... If he actually did anything in those years he had the senate on his side. But he sat on his hands. People voted for change. He didn't deliver. And why were smart people in the cities tripping over themselves to vote for Hillary? What was Hillary ever going to do for middle-class-city folk? It's a big club and we ain't in it. The day Amazon has to pay even a LITTLE bit of taxes, is the day any of us here has the right to say, "Yeah, I like my president." Until then we're just bickering over my-grifter-is-better-than-yours. |
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1995121)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Your not thinking this through. What a "Trump" can do to make rural America red, another "Trump" can do to make the cities red. In fact, it would probably be a lot easier. |
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1995115)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: I think that having two senators per state gives small population states too much power... Well it's both set in stone AND a good idea. States are equal. Let me make this point in a roundabout way. Countries in the EU are equal in their sovereignty. If the EU had a US senate system, BREXIT would never have happened. As it is, the Germans are calling the shots. Pick your poison :) |
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Profits 1st, Safety 2nd?
(Message 1995109)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: Hehe, apologies Sirius. It was unfortunate my post was right underneath yours. I can see how it almost looks like a direct reply. But worry not, I know your not in the group I'm referring to. And I know that because you said: The Root Cause was "Profits 1st". :) |
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Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1995104)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: I don't know where you're going with this but I thought (and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong) that under Obama they did at some point. And did jack with it? If this is something you guys have been discussing I totally missed it. Edit: Are you trying to say that 2 senators per State is a bad idea? |
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Don't know where it should go? Stick it here 2
(Message 1995094)
Posted 25 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: (And I'm no nationalist either but just make them in the USA and STFU. That's the shoes, not the iPhones) LOL. I'm sure there's a lot of truth in that but the UK appears to make plenty of New Balance shoes @home and I wouldn't call the prices extortionate. - - - - - - - - - - Well this whole HUAWEI thing went to 11 real fast! First Android now ARM? (BBC source link is at the end of the article) Report: Arm Suspends Business with Huawei - Future Chip Development In Jeopardy https://www.anandtech.com/show/14373/report-arm-suspends-business-with-huawei |
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Politics :
Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1995071)
Posted 24 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: It's a result of population density, and that cities are frequently populated with centrist Democrats. Apologies, but I have to move this discussion over here. I can't believe we're still doing this "Clinton won the popular vote" thing. I don't know what kind of science-fiction books you guys are reading, but the ones I've read are full of warnings about ideas like these... Nick, by arguing for a popular vote you instantly made all the RED counties above COLONIES of the cities. Is that what you want? - - - - - - @SARGE You're right about WI but AFAICT Nick doesn't want to talk about WI specifically I think. I think he wants to steer this discussion towards popular voting and Brexit. Which is fine :) It's all part of the same debate. |
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Politics :
Profits 1st, Safety 2nd?
(Message 1995066)
Posted 24 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: I still think you guys can't see the forest for the trees. While the whole MCAS, sensor, and pilot training debate is quite interesting I've yet to see an explanation of WHY all that crap was necessary in the first place. I very much doubt an Adrian Newey (fictional example) would have ever signed off on a design like this. Is it so hard to understand that you kinda have to design the whole plane around the NEW engines? This is blatant franken-engineering and I sure as hell ain't putting my daughter on one of those things. Ever. - - - - - - - - - " So we made the chassis longer this year because of new regulations but had to move the new bigger, heavier, more fuel-efficient engine towards the back of the car. Now that DOES make the car wanna do a Mark-Webber-in-Valencia style lift off... but we've got an app and a couple of sensors that'll fix it. Mostly. " |
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Politics :
Big City Life. Unsustainable?
(Message 1994749)
Posted 22 May 2019 by iwazaru
Post: This is a "new" problem. A lot of forces at play making it hard to realize there's a problem, let alone pinpoint a few of the major causes. We're a bit like frogs getting slowly boiled. And it's making us go backward instead of forward on a few issues. One prime example was during the Trump/Brexit peak when otherwise smart people started asking, "Should everybody have the right to vote?". I don't think a lot people see what's going on. I'll just use Tokyo as one example. Sky-high rents in Tokyo these past few decades were "classic" supply and demand. This is easy for most of us to understand. But something else is going on now. Something completely different. Canadian big cities for example did not suddenly become Tokyo. Well technically they have, but for different reasons. What are those reasons? What's so new and disruptive? |
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