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Using bytes as the unit of currency is awful. That's like releasing a car whose dashboard displays speed in liters.

by schmichael 10y ago

Y_Y 10y ago
Incidentally, the SI unit of fuel efficiency is 1/m^2, the "per-square-metre", not this miles per gallon crap.
- K0SM0S 10y ago
  Miles is a unit of measure, ultimately meters in the SI. A gallon is a volume, liters in the SI, or more fundamentally a fraction of cube-meters (m^3). m / m^3 = 1/m^2 Which is the unit for fuel efficiency. It's expressed in imperial units but it's physically sound, not 'crap'. ;) In other parts of the world you'll see this expressed as "liters per 100km" usually.
  - Y_Y 10y ago
    Maybe my tongue-in-cheekness wasn't clear, sorry. MPG is more pervasive than you might think. Even in metric, European Ireland it's the typical unit, despite speeds being in km/h and fuel being sold by the litre. Since you seem to be interested, let me also add that litres are only accepted by, not part of, the SI. Also the SI spellings are "metre" and "litre".
    - K0SM0S 10y ago
      Ha sorry I indeed failed to catch your irony... My bad too, then. I'm actually quite interested in the fact that any equation can be "sanity checked" by solving it for units only (without values). It's always handy to make sure I didn't forget some exponent here or there. And knowing extended units as a composition of fundamentals (some variation of mksa) is kind of entertaining intellectually.(e.g. Newton = m.kg/s^2, which really makes sense when you think about it). Going down to Planck units and their significance in this universe (discrete spacetime manifold? Is reality ultimately non-continuous?), and here I am wishing our conventional units (of time, distance, all) were integer multiples (e.g. Decimal exponents) of Planck units. But I'm digressing, aren't I. As far as fuel and efficiency goes, I'm not much of a car person. I didn't know that mpg was used outside the US, that's an interesting historical artefact.
antocv 10y ago
It is like calling British currency pound sterling because it was once based on the wight of sterling silver. What you pay in transaction fees is the amount of bytes used to represent your data. Byteball can then also store immutable data of various lengths, if you are willing to pay for it in the price of bytes for the storage of bytes you like to store. Makes sense.

Using bytes as the unit of currency is awful. That's like releasing a car whose dashboard displays speed in liters.

Y_Y 10y ago

Incidentally, the SI unit of fuel efficiency is 1/m^2, the "per-square-metre", not this miles per gallon crap.

K0SM0S 10y ago
Miles is a unit of measure, ultimately meters in the SI. A gallon is a volume, liters in the SI, or more fundamentally a fraction of cube-meters (m^3). m / m^3 = 1/m^2 Which is the unit for fuel efficiency. It's expressed in imperial units but it's physically sound, not 'crap'. ;) In other parts of the world you'll see this expressed as "liters per 100km" usually.
- Y_Y 10y ago
  Maybe my tongue-in-cheekness wasn't clear, sorry. MPG is more pervasive than you might think. Even in metric, European Ireland it's the typical unit, despite speeds being in km/h and fuel being sold by the litre. Since you seem to be interested, let me also add that litres are only accepted by, not part of, the SI. Also the SI spellings are "metre" and "litre".
  - K0SM0S 10y ago
    Ha sorry I indeed failed to catch your irony... My bad too, then. I'm actually quite interested in the fact that any equation can be "sanity checked" by solving it for units only (without values). It's always handy to make sure I didn't forget some exponent here or there. And knowing extended units as a composition of fundamentals (some variation of mksa) is kind of entertaining intellectually.(e.g. Newton = m.kg/s^2, which really makes sense when you think about it). Going down to Planck units and their significance in this universe (discrete spacetime manifold? Is reality ultimately non-continuous?), and here I am wishing our conventional units (of time, distance, all) were integer multiples (e.g. Decimal exponents) of Planck units. But I'm digressing, aren't I. As far as fuel and efficiency goes, I'm not much of a car person. I didn't know that mpg was used outside the US, that's an interesting historical artefact.

antocv 10y ago

It is like calling British currency pound sterling because it was once based on the wight of sterling silver. What you pay in transaction fees is the amount of bytes used to represent your data. Byteball can then also store immutable data of various lengths, if you are willing to pay for it in the price of bytes for the storage of bytes you like to store. Makes sense.