…ipsos custodes?
When the very people who purport to observe and report on the actions of others, yet either a) do not, or b) actively lie… what should be done?
Moreover; it is failing by accident, or by design?
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Crypto-currency mining
I’m curious, because I’m a tech enthusiast. But I don’t have free power so it’s not a feasible proposition.
But this current craze is annoying me for another pair of reasons: lack of supply of GPUs and hiked prices.
I’m currently looking at building a small, powerful-but-portable system based around a Ryzen CPU. Because AMD cards don’t do CUDA, I’m stuck buying nVidia. That doesn’t bother me that much… but the 50% price hike I’ve seen the GTX 1070 undergo in the last fortnight is… vexing. In fact, I was so annoyed I was thinking about buying a 1060 instead… oh, wait, they’re all out of stock! So in desperation, I looked at 1080s… which is far more than I wanted to spend… they’re OoS as well.
1050’s aren’t, but they’re not even as powerful as my laptop. I have no pressing desire for a “downgrade”-upgrade.
Sigh.
Can’t be right all the time…
Well, it seems my two week prediction wasn’t accurate, although from the way the media spins it a coup could still be in the offing. Of course, that depends on how much you believe the media.
Apocryphal or Not…
…we certainly appear to live in “interesting times”.
More’s the pity.
I can’t really say “I woke up to”, since I’m 8-hours ahead and watched the numbers roll in on the BBC (which while a little slower compared to some of the news sites – and on several occasions updated, only to revert a couple of minutes later, remains one of the best places for UK Election updates) but I don’t think this was the plan.
If I was a betting man – I’m not – I’d be thinking about putting some money down on exact when a leadership challenge is mounted. For now, I’ll say within the next two weeks.