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tl;dr Allegedly, Bitmain sold you a miner with a hardware feature (that it has control over) that enables 20-30% 'faster' mining for them, but not for YOU (as it is switched OFF in publicly available hardware).
That's kinda like condemning city streets (with a traffic light every block) for not having the same speed limit as the Autobahn.
While I have many issues with BM software, the truth is that it's not that BM turned it off on other pools, asicboost isn't written into most pools.
No idea how your street light random comment compares at all but:
Got any details on how a pool can do it? No? Missing documentation?
I'm pretty sure streets tell you the speed limit ...
Meanwhile, the Bitmain S9v1 is continuing to crap along badly and CDF been getting worse ...
CDF[Erl]: 0.995135
Expected: 126.6
Found: 99