pirocks
Joined 10 years ago
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The original thread was about how statistics education will not cause people of gambling. Of course people almost always lose money gambling, except for very rare exceptions, but that doesn't really have anything to do with my point that people spending meaningful amounts of money on gambling are addicted. Addicts aren't going to just tell you that they gamble, because they are addicted(maybe some will but not in general).
> Personally, I've gambled a few times. Lost money. I don't like losing money, it is not entertaining to me in the slightest.
Some people could probably say the same thing about video games, but nobody disputes that some people enjoy video games.
At the risk of stating the obvious, and not adding to the conversation, I think we all know that people putting their life savings into slot machines aren't doing so because they don't understand expected value. They may or may not understand that they are going to lose all their money, but they are gambling because they are addicted/have some kind of mental health problem. Knowledge of statistics doesn't really affect things for problem gambling.
As for those putting modest amounts of money into gambling, most of them will tell you that card games/etc. are fun, and are therefore worth it.
This seems very high to me, since most high capacity server sticks have no heatsink. Have you got a source?
In addition to my sibling comments I would like to point out that multithreading quite often can save power. Typically the power consumption of an all core load is within 2x the power consumption of a single core load, while being many times faster assuming your task parallelizes well. This makes sense b/c a fully loaded cpu core still needs all the L3 cache mechanisms, all the DRAM controller mechanisms, etc to run at full speed. A fully idle system on the other hand can consume very little power if it idles well(which admittedly many cpus do not idle on low power).
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I would also add that if your system is running a single threaded database, and a single threaded web server, that still leaves over a hundred of underutilized cores on many modern server class cpus.