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Not to be overly pedantic but the "shell" and "GNU toolchain" are literally not Linux.

75% of the hashrate was just advertrolling. Which had the side effect of keeping the difficulty high. They should have forked Bitcoin and used a different PoW... Oh wait that's Litecoin.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-trading-center-in-hk-where-they...

IIRC $5k per node, per year.

Wow I didn't know that. Very interesting to hear. Hopefully Docker support is considered as well.

I highly doubt Red Hat will ever touch ZFS. Oracle and Red Hat have a very tenuous relationship.

I hope Red Hat will support bcachefs though. I think it's the most promising alternative FS.

The best explanation I've heard is that words for colors come to exist after the invention of artificially produced pigments and dyes.

Most mining is hydro powered.

Came to ask the same. This would be interesting as an alternative to Google Hangouts if an html frontend could be used.

$3 billion in subsidies for 3,000 jobs.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/scott-walker-h...

On most recent firmware, there is an exponential backoff on WPS connection attempts.

Docker for Mac uses Xhyve, a hypervisor ported from FreeBSD. It could be more performant than Virtualbox but I have not tested them side by side.

I see a roughly 66% performance hit on docker for Mac in most metrics.

Not a deal breaker but I prefer to do development on Linux as well for that reason.

Why not S3 and Cloudfront or equivalent?

Coinbase could probably do it. If there was an investigation into the theft, that would probably be a terrible idea.

For anyone wondering, 45k ETH is about 7.65M USD.

Unless there is a self hosted requirement.

This hardware looks to be a pretty good value. I was looking to get an X1 Carbon but this has piqued my interest.

Most places I've worked at had policies against contributing to open source projects.

This is truly an old meme. Replace the word automation with: horseless carriage, assembly line, ice makers, airplanes, digital computers, etc...

I'm sure it's entirely different this time though.

Extremely cheap hydro power at around 0.01-0.02 USD/KWh. China has more hydro power than customers in a lot of areas.

Labor and regulatory costs are a huge factor as well.

That's up for debate. Facebook and Google use DC in their datacenters to save costs. Azure has a requirement for optional DC power from their vendors and might be using it actively. I think AWS has looked into using DC power as well but isn't using it afaik.

Unless it's an issue with the trading platform itself and they think this is cheaper than a class action lawsuit.

IIRC EBS is based on GNBD.

>but ethereum/bitcoin aren't fiat currencies?

Fiat currencies are created by fiat (legal declaration). No government created either, so no, they are not fiat currencies.

If it is, use a different exchange there are lots of them.

Not an automatic update but it is in the standard repo as linux-image-aws. But new AMIs come with the AWS kernel by default.

FWIW, Azure disables hyperthreading on their servers. 1 core = 1 real core.