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kiran-rao··on Jam 80 Cores, 768GB of RAM into E-ATX Case with This Tiny Board
The site claims:

> The Ampere Altra Q80-28 SoC with 80 cores runs at 2.80 GHz and consumes around 175 Watts.

175w is nothing to scoff at, but also isn't completely ridiculous. GPUs will end up consuming more than that in a typical ATX gaming machine.

kiran-rao··on Ask HN: Is there a payment processor for 5ct payments?
Venmo?
kiran-rao··on De-Googling My Life
Have you found any inconveniences in day to day life? Google provides so much information in everyday life (weather, restaurant reviews, calendar, who was the president in 1936, etc) that I would be significantly slower living my life.
kiran-rao··on Too Many People Want to Travel
How is proper management a temporary solution? If the Louvre decided to control the number of people seeing the Mona Lisa through ticket prices, they can simply continues to increase prices as more people want to see it. This will simply generate more revenue.
kiran-rao··on Police Post Racist and Violent Messages on Facebook, a Review Shows
This would be both extremely interesting and very difficult to study.
kiran-rao··on The YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week
RIP Inbox. You won't be forgotten.
kiran-rao··on Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything
Issue a pull request?
kiran-rao··on Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds
The limiting factor is leverage. If a hedge fund (or equivalent) had enough data and confidence in a company, they would borrow money to increase their position size. This would make it possibly to affect price for non passive investors.
kiran-rao··on Chinese developers fear the tech war will cost them access to GitHub
I believe a large part is identity politics. A symptome is that a voter will agree with the policy of their preferred candidates, rather than choosing a candidate based on their preferred policy.

I'm implying this for both sides of the aisle.

kiran-rao··on Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles
I really wish I could get overcast on Android, but I'm not hopeful.
kiran-rao··on Quants Think Like Amateurs in China’s Wild Stock Market
I can't say that's too different from Trump tweets acting directly on the US markets. Though to a lesser extent.
kiran-rao··on Any affordable Bloomberg Alternatives out there?
Not quite the same, but thinkorswim is decent. It's also free with an Ameritrade/TD Direct Investing account.
kiran-rao··on Cost of serving billions of images per month
If you're able to, could you share what service you run?
kiran-rao··on US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO
Is there any way to enforce this act?
kiran-rao··on Can Uber ever make money?
Do Uber drivers make enough to cover complete vehicle costs? I remember reading that after total costs of ownership (depreciation, insurance, gas, maintenance, etc) Uber drivers really aren't making much.
kiran-rao··on Theranos Granted 5 New Patents in 2019
If the company was liquidated, who owns the patents?
kiran-rao··on Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe electricity
I know there's a lot of research into using phages as an antibiotic.
kiran-rao··on FCC approves new text message rules, giving carriers more power
Does anyone know if this law will prevent California from taxing text messages as communications services?
kiran-rao··on On Switching from an iPad Pro and MacBook to a Pixelbook
It currently does not
kiran-rao··on As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
Is there a solution to the last mile problem? It's every difficult to get to the final destination in sprawled suburban cities even if there's a direct center-center high speed rail line.
kiran-rao··on As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
Most people would rather take a 4.5hr flight
kiran-rao··on As the U.S. fantasizes, the rest of the world builds new transport system (2017)
Currently, Toronto-Montreal isn't even bring considered for high speed rail. If anything, the Toronto-London corridor is what's being evaluated.
kiran-rao··on Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit
So... a bike lane?