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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to RejZoR in Are women the 1% of tech?   
    Every time people start bitching over men domination in certain fields I can't stop to think about all the shitty male dominated jobs and how no one ever bitches about lack of women there. You know, deep earth mining, garbage collection, construction, road works, sewer maintenance, high voltage powerlines maintenance, remote oil rigs, fishing out in freezing cold oceans, logging, all the back breaking hard and nasty shit done pretty much exclusively by men and no one EVER complains over that. Not enough women in cozy air conditioned offices? STOP THE WORLD THIS MOMENT, WE NEED TO ADDRESS THIS DISPARITY RIGHT NOW! It's straight revolting and I can't fucking shut up about it every time someone brings this idiocy up. You'll find pretty much the same reply from me on each and every one of them. And I'll continue doing this until people shut up about it or make sure that women also have equal representation in those jobs. Until they will, shut the hell up with this retarded virtue signaling. I'm all for equality and everything, but this really blows up my kettle...
     
    Women who want to work in tech fields are probably already working there. No one is stopping them and there are many that are incredible electrical engineers, astronauts, racing drivers, programmers or whatever. But they invested their time and hard work to achieve it. They didn't ask anything to be handed over to them just because they are women. They worked just as hard as any man and now they have those titles. Some probably even more because they wanted to prove themselves. Which is no different when men enter women dominated jobs and want to prove they are not only as qualified but more. It often has nothing to do with higher requirements, it has a lot to do with self motivation and determination to prove everyone around that they are better and more capable because of the given gender disparity. But if you start your career as gender studies student and then bitch about gender disparity in tech, then YOU are the problem, not the industries.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Crunchy Dragon in Planning an upgrade - need help with PCI lanes and MOBO!   
    Thanks for confirming that.
     
    @The Pikachu Mafia if you install it in the bottommost slot on your motherboard, then it should work.
    From my online findings involving this capture card and SLI configurations, your system won't like booting with all of those at once and will instead either not boot at all, or boot to a black screen.
    http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3793742/pcie-configuration-elgato-hd60-pro-wont-boot-sli.html
     
    It looks like unless the bottom slot does indeed run off of chipset lanes, you'll get one or the other.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Electronics Wizardy in Planning an upgrade - need help with PCI lanes and MOBO!   
    Depends on the slot, but with most 115x board, there are 2 pcis slots using cpu lanes, either in 16x with one used or 8x 8x, the last slot at the bottom almost always using chipset lanes.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Crunchy Dragon in Planning an upgrade - need help with PCI lanes and MOBO!   
    I'd have to double check this, so take it with what you will until I confirm it, but I believe the Elgato will run off of the CPU.
     
    My reasoning behind this is that the chipset actually manages storage, the CPU does not. This is why NVMe drives take chipset lanes. Basically everything that isn't storage should run off of the CPU lanes.
     
    I'm gonna head over to the good ol' interwebz to confirm this, but that's my guess and logic. If it does run off of the CPU, I'm not sure how that would impact your SLI config.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Crunchy Dragon in Planning an upgrade - need help with PCI lanes and MOBO!   
    NVMe will take 4 lanes away from the chipset.
    GPUs will run at x8/x8 from the CPU.
     
    I would imagine the Elgato card would run off of the CPU, but I'm not sure how that would impact the GPU bandwidth.
     
    What really confuses me is why Intel would launch the 9900K with only 16 PCIe lanes....
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Nup in Show off your latest purchases   
    The last thing I bought was a cup of coffee. But I paid for it with cash and when they gave me my change I got this little gem. Getting old coins from the cashier is like winning the lottery.  

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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from TVwazhere in Show off your latest purchases   
    The last thing I bought was a cup of coffee. But I paid for it with cash and when they gave me my change I got this little gem. Getting old coins from the cashier is like winning the lottery.  

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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Dissitesuxba11s in Show off your latest purchases   
    The last thing I bought was a cup of coffee. But I paid for it with cash and when they gave me my change I got this little gem. Getting old coins from the cashier is like winning the lottery.  

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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from BuckGup in Very Important Question Regarding Employed LTT Members   
    I image at that point ABET accreditation doesn't matter because those schools are prestigious enough in and of themselves. By virtue of graduating from MIT - as opposed to generic university [x] - you'd be put in a class of your own and have already differentiated yourself from your peers.
     
    Of course, again, I could be absolutely wrong here since CS isn't really my industry. Personally I agree that work experience beats out a piece of paper saying "I graduated from SnobbyMcSnobs university with high honors," but employers do care about that kind of stuff when weeding out potential candidates.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from TacoSenpai in Very Important Question Regarding Employed LTT Members   
    I image at that point ABET accreditation doesn't matter because those schools are prestigious enough in and of themselves. By virtue of graduating from MIT - as opposed to generic university [x] - you'd be put in a class of your own and have already differentiated yourself from your peers.
     
    Of course, again, I could be absolutely wrong here since CS isn't really my industry. Personally I agree that work experience beats out a piece of paper saying "I graduated from SnobbyMcSnobs university with high honors," but employers do care about that kind of stuff when weeding out potential candidates.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to TLCH723 in Need a New Laptop for School   
    Aero 15x with LM drops 10 to 15C depending on the condition. People on the notebook review forum said that the heatsink/pipe is the limiting factor so Grizzly Kryonaut is good enough.
     
    @GeneXiS_X How about the Origin Evo15-S?
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to genexis_x in Need a New Laptop for School   
    This is probably the best choice. Yes you'll still have warranty on the laptop
    Short circuit, most obviously. However if the application method is correct, it shouldn't have any problem for a few years (I would say 3 years) and it will not leak even with everyday transport.
    Just treat it like normal paste and change once in a few years
    Users. @TLCH723 has Aero 15X with LM
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to genexis_x in Need a New Laptop for School   
    These are the only options unfortunately. Out of these 4, Aero 15/15X is the best choice IMO. However you need to apply LM and undervolt CPU+GPU (needed for all of them)
     
    GS65: OKish build quality, difficult upgradability, mediocre cooling
     
    Aero 15/15X: Possible QC issues, mediocre cooling. Best battery life though
     
    Razer Blade 15: It's a Razer so quality and customer support suck, otherwise it's quite good
     
    Clevo P950/P955: Mediocre cooling, 1070MQ performance issue
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    It is all the same money, but It's not like I'm trying to avoid taxes. I would love to see the use tax abolished after this debacle since it just seems so ridiculous, but as long as It's a law I'm not going to actively try and break it. Amazon offer consumers a much more convienent system. Meanwhile Newegg, while not being entirely guilty, still chose that an increase in the cost of business wasn't worth the integrity of their consumers. Their lack of a covienent system coupled with their disregard and willful forfeiting of private data is why I will not be shopping there in the future, which is a completely valid choice on my part as a consumer. I'll vote with my wallet.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    That changes the name of the game significantly in my eyes, somewhat lessening Newegg's culpability and placing it back on the State. I think they're talking about this law that was passed in July (linked below) which is super sketchy. It basically says that CT can fine any out of state company that refuses their data requests. It's not really a request if you threaten every company that says no with heavy fines.
     
    https://taxnews.ey.com/news/2017-1203-connecticut-drs-mails-notices-to-out-of-state-online-retailers-demanding-sales-records-legislature-subsequently-enacts-penalty-provisions-for-failure-to-comply
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    I just got off the phone with a Connecticut representative, and as it turns out, they actually DID pass that as a new law unfortunately. ><
    The girl I spoke with said that it caught a lot of people off-guard, including her as well. They're hoping this will eventually cause Newegg and other online vendors to start charging use tax to customers now.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    I've spoken to Newegg representatives twice now over this, both times they claimed that Connecticut passed a new law. When I told them that there was no such law and asked them to cite the specific provision which required them to hand over private sales data, the only useful information they gave me was that someone in upper management told them to say it was a new law.
     
    (Also not to side track, but yeah CT is in the dumpster, I plan on moving out after graduation myself. :P)
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    Actually, from my research I found that there was a 1992 Supreme Court case (Quill Corp vs. North Dakota) in which the court ruled to "effectively prevented states from collecting any sales tax from retail purchases made over the Internet or other e-Commerce route unless the seller had a physical presence in the state."
     
    In other words, the State of Connecticut could not force Newegg to either collect sales taxes or to hand over user data, and any new law forcing them to do so would have been a violation of the court ruling. Newegg was under no legal obligation to collect taxes, and in the words of Stephan Kranz regarding possible responses that Newegg could have had to the State's request:
     
    That's why Newegg's actions are so egregious, they had every option and every obligation to protect their consumer's data but chose not to, and in doing so violated their own privacy policies. What's even worse is that Newegg lied to their customers about it after the fact in an email. Of course, that's not to say that it wasn't a dick move on the State's part to even request the data, but there could not be anything legally binding about what the State did or requested. If there was anything legally binding about what the state did, then they would be equally to blame.
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    That's interesting-- that's exactly what the Newegg rep told me during our conversation just now. It sounds to me like one of two things is occurring here:
     
    A) Newegg is under the impression that they're not required to charge Connecticut residents use tax, but Connecticut actually wants them to, and at the same time, didn't adequately communicate that requirement to the company until now.
     
    B) Newegg really ISN'T required to charge us use tax, and Connecticut is misinterpreting what should be going on in regards to online purchases.
     
    In either case, it sounds like both the state and the company of Newegg are confused. Honestly though I think Connecticut is the source of what happened. Our state is really unreasonable and illogical on more than a few issues (this being one of them), and it's part of the reason why I plan on moving outta here. This is something Connecticut should've tackled back in 2014/2015 before more unpaid use tax amounts got placed on customers' shoulders.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    1) Willingness and intent are synonymous, I was being redundant for emphasis. 
     
    2) Can you provide proof of this "in the small print" statement? I've been combing through their terms & agreements and privacy policies. To my knowledge no such disclaimer exists, so no I don't believe that Newegg has notified me of anything at the time of purchase.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from TheSilverNiko in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    That's definitely stretching it, you have to prove intent and willingness for it to constitute tax fraud. For an honor system such as Use Tax, intention can almost never be proven, so you can't say it's tax fraud.
     
    Evading taxes, even if intentional, is also not theft in any way shape or form. What and from whom are you stealing, your own money from the government? I've often heard the phrase "taxation is theft" but I've yet to hear in any capacity "avoiding taxation is theft."
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to ItsMitch in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    Where? There's no kind of small print in the email confirmation Newegg sends you nor their ToS. 
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    That's definitely stretching it, you have to prove intent and willingness for it to constitute tax fraud. For an honor system such as Use Tax, intention can almost never be proven, so you can't say it's tax fraud.
     
    Evading taxes, even if intentional, is also not theft in any way shape or form. What and from whom are you stealing, your own money from the government? I've often heard the phrase "taxation is theft" but I've yet to hear in any capacity "avoiding taxation is theft."
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    The Pikachu Mafia reacted to Blademaster91 in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    As they should be pissed,Newegg violated their own privacy policy instead of choosing to tax customers in the future while disregarding the 3 years of past taxes. Use tax based on a trust system isn't fraud though, I doubt most people were going to newegg to purposely avoid taxes.
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    The Pikachu Mafia got a reaction from Lodmot in Newegg customers are receiving tax bills from the DRS because Newegg didn't charge them sales tax   
    I want to add that the reason they need to have a disclaimer when voluntarily sharing data is because an action otherwise is in violation of their own privacy policy. The section that deals with government reads:
     
    Except their rights were never at risk, it was not required by law, there was no legal process, and there was no judicial proceeding. Newegg lied to their consumers saying that there was a law requiring them to share data so they could be in line with their privacy policy. 
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