Not FUD. I'm farming Chia myself but it looks pretty hopeless so just giving my honest review that no-one should expect to win any reward anytime soon without betting big on hardware.
Regarding the calculation and estimation: "Actual results may take 3 to 4 times longer than this estimate."
So 10 months to 3 years to win one single block which will give you 2 XCH. Considering the total network space rising at the rate we're seeing I think we should review this calculation again in a week.
Oh so that's what happened to the Instagram account I created for one of my apps. It was completely gone without trace while I was on vacation, didn't even use it actively.
It has lower memory requirements, great developer tools and once Servo is integrated in Firefox, I think it has potential to really beat Chrome performance-wise.
Of course, until that happens Mozilla needs enough funding from search engines to keep the lights running so it's my main browser.
We haven't started to benchmark Rails yet. We're hopeful that we will do well on Rails because actually our most powerful and novel optimisations are for Rails-style code, such as metaprogramming and lots of intermediate arrays and hashes.
https://chiacalculator.com/