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by Glench 5y ago
Hey this is really cool! If you ever think about charging for anything in your extension please check out my project ExtPay which makes it easy to accept payments in extensions: https://extensionpay.com
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by Glench 5y ago
I hear you that you want to keep your project free, but I'd also like to point out that it doesn't matter if your project is open-source or not to use ExtensionPay! For example, the extension NotionBoost is open source and also us
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by Glench 5y ago
Have you thought about adding paid features or anything like that? I made a service that makes it really easy — https://extensionpay.com It's open source and works across all browsers.
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by Glench 5y ago
Working on https://extensionpay.com — a service to let browser extension developers accept payments for their extensions. It's open source, free to sign up and start using, and works cross-browser.
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by Glench 5y ago
Switching all fossil-fuel powered appliances (including electric cars) to electric will reduce our total energy needs by half due to the inherent efficiencies in electric machinery. Source: https://www.rewiringamerica.org/ha
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by Glench 5y ago
I've been privileged enough to take several extended times off between things and they've always been very important and meaningful for me. I wrote about one period like this when I switched from a technology to a psychotherapy ca
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by Glench 5y ago
Ooh which mini-split heat pumps did you end up getting?
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Here's the official Chia answer to this: https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1393988621921701889
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by Glench 5y ago
I got some Glerup slippers and they are what I've been wanting all my life. Extremely warm and comfortable, wool means they never stink, and very stylish. I wore them every day throughout the winter. My girlfriend also just got an infl
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by Glench 5y ago
This is something people don't seem to understand about Chia. Mining ("farming") Chia is a very low-resource activity that can be done easily on Raspberry Pis — it's mostly just doing a few disk seeks every 30 seconds.
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by Glench 5y ago
Maybe! One of the bets the Chia team is making is that there's a lot of over-provisioned storage already out in the market that organizations and individuals will start to turn toward farming. This is obviously a lot more profitable th
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by Glench 5y ago
I don't think that specialized hardware is a security feature of Bitcoin, and definitely not one that was addressed or foreseen in the Bitcoin whitepaper (one IP one vote or one CPU one vote). In fact, it's quite easy to argue the
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by Glench 5y ago
SSDs are not required for farming Chia or even really advantageous at this point. Using them to write the plot data is faster than HDDs certainly, but that only happens once per plot and will happen a lot less as the network growth slows do
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by Glench 5y ago
Chia has the nice property that it leverages the existing 1.2 zettabyte per year storage market, though. Meaning that no specialized hardware for mining is needed — existing storage in the world can be used to mine, lessening the environmen
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by Glench 5y ago
> From the @WhiteHouse event today: "Rewiring America and Coalition for Green Capital report released Monday found that by switching to heat pumps for space or water heating, 65 million U.S. households could save a total of as much
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by Glench 5y ago
Well if that's what it feels like to you no wonder you sound hopeless! :) I also have never owned a car, ride my bike, eat mostly vegetarian, and eschew travel by planes! Solidarity! And definitely feel your frustration with people. I
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Definitely true that we're going to and already feeling the effects of climate change. I also hear a kind of despair and giving up in your comment (maybe you feel it's just "the truth"?) but I know that attitude can be d
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> I run a small, family-operated pig farm in Upstate New York. Article has the same feel as a fossil fuel company defending natural gas or something. Obviously this is a smaller farming operation than most fossil fuel companies which pro
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by Glench 5y ago
Reports like this always make me worry but I feel better knowing there are actually realistic (if ambitious) plans to limit warming helps a lot. The plan I like the most is by the people at https://www.rewiringamerica.org/
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by Glench 5y ago
"Based on an extensive industrial and engineering analysis, our new report demonstrates that an aggressive national commitment to electrify all aspects of our economy would create up to 25 million good-paying American jobs over the nex
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by Glench 5y ago
SSDs aren't required for Chia, they're just faster for plotting which is a one-time process anyway. Once plots are made they can be "farmed" (mined) indefinitely for the energy cost of idling drives. So the environmental
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by Glench 5y ago
https://chiapower.org/
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Folks here might be interested in Chia's smart contract language: https://chialisp.com/ Basically the designers saw how easily many Ethereum/Solidity contracts were hacked and saw that stateful side effects were t
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by Glench 5y ago
I think that would be unfortunate. That kind of special-purpose hardware would go against the "anyone can farm" spirit of Chia and likely worsen the environmental impact since those drives wouldn't be useful for other applica
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by Glench 5y ago
You might check out https://chiaforum.com/ or there are some Youtube tutorials if you search. You can also use any old extra disk space you have on your current computers.
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Right now the focus is on network growth and farming, but I think long-term the smart contracts capability of Chia will be most interesting: https://chialisp.com Basically the authors saw how much Ethereum/Solidity contract
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by Glench 5y ago
That wouldn't make for a very useful global ledger :) Once a farmer wins a block it's theirs, the same way it works with bitcoin. The reward is tied to a public key, not the original storage. Just like in bitcoin once a miner wins
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by Glench 5y ago
It all depends on the economics. It's pretty likely that at some point reinvesting in Chia by buying more drives just doesn't make sense. You can also read more about the power consumption of Chia here: https://chiapowe
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Or if Chia becomes popular then they're the most likely to hop onboard and use their overprovisioned space to farm Chia until they need it for something else.
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by Glench 5y ago
No, it's just useful to use SSDs for plotting since they're faster. For farming any storage (HDDs, for example) are fine.

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