When can I have a diamond GPU?
Have we forgotten already that diamond replacing silicon was a big idea for dealing with heat dissipation in high density chips?
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
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And yet we’re not really there yet. The book wasn't just a tablet computer; it was programmed to continually analyze everything happening around it and relate those events back to the education of the owner. It shocked a bully who was playing keep–away with it. It noticed that the owner was eating junk food, and taught her a better diet. It taught her to read, as well as manners and exercises and elocution. Later a c…
About 70% of those are covered by the Internet especially if you include ChatGPT.
I think you are overestimating ChatGPT, but perhaps one day. And the book was capable of doing all of this while off line. Again, perhaps one day :)
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#453Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet we’re not really there yet. The book wasn't just a tablet computer; it was programmed to continually analyze everything happening around it and relate those events back to the education of the owner. It shocked a bully who was playing keep–away with it. It noticed that the owner was eating junk food, and taught her a better diet. It taught her to read, as well as manners and exercises and elocution. Later a c…
When I first read Diamond Age is was 90% science fiction, now it's seemingly far less than that. Environmental sensing is a little weak in our own devices, but in theory your cell phone could listen to everything you do and (externally) analyze it for things like a bad diet. You'd have to point the camera intentionally at things you're doing for it to capture that information. Now, no one is going to make a product t…
Yea, I agree that it’s a little less science fiction than it used to be.
But remember the subtlety of it; the constable didn’t have his face recognized, or log in, he literally made a promise to the book while pretending to talk to the owner. It’s still mostly science fiction :)
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Because synthetic diamonds are indistinguishable to the naked eye (IIRC a trained eye with a magnifying glass can spot faint nitrogen impurities which are characteristic of natural diamonds) the thing you're really paying for is the piece of paper, the certificate. You're not really paying for carbon allotrope. So it's less like gold which is fungible and a more natural form of money. Diamonds feel more like an NFT..…
In fact, De Beers have been agressively hiring for their osn blockchain-for-diamonds project.
god the blockchain hype cancer never ends
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#455When my fiancee and I got engaged last year, we bought our rings from a place that (in addition to having a robust process that allowed us to avoid having to go anywhere in person) uses lab-grown gemstones. Not only is the quality quite high and the color impressive (she picked a pink sapphire), the prices were much lower than we expected. I'm not really sure why anyone would want a "real" diamond at this point; you…
Many see a value in "natural" objects that is absent in those engineered by man. There is a raw energy and story behind it. Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?
I've seen some beautiful waterfalls.
But none of them filled me with awe the way that the Hoover Dam did.
What story is there behind a rock in the ground outside of a middle-school tier earth science lecture?
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This should not be possible with any type of modern phone screen. Do you perhaps have a plastic screen cover that is scratched? Or key metal could be deposited on the screen and just need to be scraped off
No cover, just straight up gorilla glass victus. And it's not just key metal deposited on the screen, there are deep grooves cut into it.
I believe you, but there is some other explanation here- it warrants further investigation. You can scrape a regular glass window (about MOHS 6.5) clean with a razor blade (about MOHS 6.0) and it is impossible to scratch it, just from that tiny difference in hardness. I do this all the time, e.g. recently to get paint that my kid painted on the house windows off.
Your brass keys should only be about 3.0, and gorilla glass a 9.0- you should be able to rub keys into brass dust all day long and not mark the screen.
I store my keys right in my pocket with my glass iPhone SE, and it doesn't have a mark on it.
I suppose it is possible you have keys with some weird material or coating, or as another poster suggested- maybe something like an abrasive dust got stuck on your key.
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#458Natural diamonds have value in terms of luxury. Synthetics do not, hence why they are cheap. If you want to buy a diamond because you think they're pretty, buy a synthetic one. If you want to buy a diamond as a luxury gift, buy a natural one. Rolex doesn't put synthetic diamonds on watches. Cartier doesn't put synthetic diamonds on bracelets. Tiffany's won't put synthetic diamonds on rings. If you think that natural…
Why though. Like, genuinely, why bother with the mined ones? "This diamond caused untold human suffering and exploitation to acquire, and that makes it rare and valuable." It's just a weird flex at this point. It marks you out as someone who doesn't care about the wellbeing of others. But every time someone gets excited about natural diamonds they try to justify that synthetic ones just aren't the same. I think that…
> Why though. Like, genuinely, why bother with the mined ones?
as someone else said, "Veblen goods"
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The price of gold is through the roof. Gold is ~$2500 per oz, while platinum is $950 per oz. However, most gold is 14kt (58%) or 18kt (75%) while Platinum is 90%+. That, and platinum is a heavier (technically denser is more correct?) metal, so there is more platinum in an equivalent ring, and it weighs more. The actual price on finished jewelry isn't as big as you would think. However, "retail" jewelry stores often p…
Jewelry stores will also come up with endless nonsense to justify high prices such as Platinum is so much harder to work with, etc.
Is it true though?
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#460But why pay a lot of money for something that hasn't been mined with illegal or child labor?