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>People buy the X because it's a status symbol and they want to be seen with it.

I find this aspect of the tech industry so gross that I'm considering changing careers. Building a new tool that makes people's lives better is great, but much of the time it just becomes a status symbol. No one should feel bad for owning a machine that's a few years old but does everything they need. I'm not convinced that consumer gadgets fill a real need any more rather than just being new and shiny for the sake of being new and shiny.

Unless we as a society can get over showing off by buying things we don't need, I think we're in trouble.

The Martian is still pretty unrealistic. It's not possible to get enough light using the setup described in the book.

So about the same speed the TGV reaches on a regular basis and 120 MPH slower than its top speed.

A Bitcoin fortune on paper. It remains to be see if anyone will come out of this with real money.

I'm sure they'll still be rich. But $1.65 billion rich? Probably not.

I don't think that's true at all. You won't see their values or their character unless you know them well, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

Does everyone at your work see you as the complex and good person you probably see yourself as? Do you think they understand you? I doubt it. So why do you think you understand them?

I disagree. This is all workstation hardware. Even when people spend $6,000 on a gaming PC, they don't put ECC RAM, Xeons, and workstation GPUs in it. And if you read the page, it's clearly being marketed as a workstation rather than as a high-end computer.

Maybe clueless people will buy this as a consumer machine, but it's designed and marketed as a workstation.

$2400 for an extra 96 GiB of RAM is even worse.

Agreed wholeheartedly. This is (allegedly) a workstation. I'm a big AMD and OpenCL fanboy, but at the moment CUDA the only game in town.