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Virtually all electricity has externalized environmental cost. Even electricity used to power a hospital. I agree this externality is immoral, not the hospita

Virtually all electricity has externalized environmental cost. Even electricity used to power a hospital. I agree this externality is immoral, not the hospital or PoW itself.

vorpalhex 5y ago
You don't see any ethical difference between powering a hospital versus thousands of video cards to solve a useless puzzle? None? Not even a little tiny bit? What about the fact that those video cards use HUNDREDS of times more power than even a relatively busy hospital?
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- notch656a 5y ago
  I see the ethical issue as being externalities from the electricity, not the hospital or puzzle.
  - timeon 5y ago
    But resources are not limitless.
    - notch656a 5y ago
timeon 5y ago
Are you comparing utility of hospital with proof of waste?
- notch656a 5y ago