Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Absolutely fascinating BBC News article about the ultra-energy-efficient, ultra-tiny future of supercomputers (Thanks, Twitter friend @whatgreeninvest). I found some bits especially startling: According to the IBM researcher leading the team, “The cost of a transistor works out to 1/100th of the price of printing a single letter on a page.” “In the future, computers will [...]

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Friday, I got a press release from the American Booksellers Association, crowing that a lawsuit against New York State’s “sales tax fairness” law–which states that any company using affiliates based in New York has a “nexus” in the state, and thus is subject to sales tax–had been dismissed on most counts. The question of sales [...]

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Friday, I got a press release from the American Booksellers Association, crowing that a lawsuit against New York State’s “sales tax fairness” law–which states that any company using affiliates based in New York has a “nexus” in the state, and thus is subject to sales tax–had been dismissed on most counts. The question of sales [...]

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Heretic that I am, I’m going to take an unpopular position: that the Democrats lost not because they were too bold, but because they weren’t bold enough. As all the “pundits” tell the Democrats (as they always do) to move ever-more-rightward, I’ll say, yet again, that moving rightward and wimp-ward is why they keep losing! [...]

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Heretic that I am, I’m going to take an unpopular position: that the Democrats lost not because they were too bold, but because they weren’t bold enough. As all the “pundits” tell the Democrats (as they always do) to move ever-more-rightward, I’ll say, yet again, that moving rightward and wimp-ward is why they keep losing! [...]

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