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by Glench 5y ago
To be precise, the process of "plotting" (using disk space for Chia) causes a lot of writes to disks, but those writes are a one-time process. Once a plot is written it can be moved anywhere and farmed forever. The actual proof of
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by Glench 5y ago
Both enterprises and consumer drives have over-provisioned storage, yes. Enterprises obviously have a lot more and it will take a while for them to trust that Chia is a good way of using their unused storage until a more valuable use of the
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by Glench 5y ago
I think another difference that I've heard the Chia folks talk about is the fact that even with a shift to manufacturing (which is real and a potential ecological problem, but one that already exists to some extent in the 1+ zettabyte
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by Glench 5y ago
As you can see in the graph, the mainnet network space for the Chia blockchain is growing exponentially fast. Lots of people starting to mine ("farm") Chia using low-electricity proofs of space. The full node count over the traili
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by Glench 6y ago
My Glerups slippers are the absolute best item I own. Extremely warm and comfortable, good-looking, and the wool never smells despite using it every day with bare feet.
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by Glench 6y ago
> So on this Earth day, to summarize where we are at succinctly, we cannot build any more machines that use fossil fuels, and we need to purchase non CO2 producing machinery at every purchasing decision from now into the future. [...] Yo
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An Earth Day Climate Assessment(saulgriffith.medium.com)
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by Glench 6y ago
Relevant: http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/ One piece of my work in this area: https://glench.github.io/fuzzyset.js/ui/
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by Glench 6y ago
Ooh cool! Check out my project for taking payments for browser extensions! https://extensionpay.com
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Haha no, just a fun coincidence.
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yeah! And possibly more importantly, after looking at Solidity contracts and seeing how much they were hacked, they severely limited the stateful side effects of ChiaLISP transactions. Apparently their thinking was so that these programs co
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by Glench 6y ago
Chia (by bittorrent inventor Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time and is specifically billed as a scalable, energy-efficient alternative with the same Nakamoto guarantees as Bitcoin. Their mainnet has been out for a month and the netwo
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by Glench 6y ago
I don't know anything about proof-of-stake but Chia by the inventor of bittorrent (Bram Cohen) uses Proof of Space/Time by using extra commodity hard drive space instead of special-purpose CPU cycles: https://www.chia.n
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by Glench 6y ago
What I gather from the comments in this thread: you built a tool to make it easier for developers to make custom data visualizations (for other people in their company to look at probably). The fundamental idea of building tools that radica
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by Glench 6y ago
Haha yeah, I wish the Chia guys would put something in the FAQ about this because it's a common criticism. I've heard them make a convincing case that, unlike CPU cycles, there's actually a lot of over-provisioned space on ex
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by Glench 6y ago
Folks may want to check out Chia, an energy-efficient blockchain by the creator of Bittorrent based on storage space not processing power: https://www.chia.net/ People are mining Chia with petabytes of storage off a single
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My Heart Feeds a Series of Tubes (2015)(medium.com)
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by Glench 6y ago
Ooh awesome thanks for the references!
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I've been wondering about this! I keep hearing that air-source heat pumps aren't great in pretty cold areas. Do you have any links or references on this? I live in the Northeast US and wanted to see what the options were and what
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by Glench 6y ago
Yeah exactly. That is the level of commitment needed to stay below 2 degrees of warming. The authors of that report worked backward from the goal of staying below 2 degrees and said, "what needs to happen in what timeframe to make that
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by Glench 6y ago
A few people in this thread are talking about electric heating being awful. And yeah, I think traditional electric resistance heating is expensive and not very high quality, but modern electric heat pumps are one of the most efficient forms
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by Glench 6y ago
Yeah, great point. I like this report showing that rapidly decarbonizing will create 25 million jobs, save the average American household $2000 per year, and improve the quality of life of everyone: "How to create 25 million jobs by de
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by Glench 6y ago
Shout out to https://bazqux.com , a modern Google Reader replacement and the only SaaS I pay for. I'm not affiliated, just really love it. It's been solid and awesome for me for over 7 years now.
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by Glench 6y ago
Great concrete comparisons in this article. I no longer use React in my projects and only use Svelte and it feels great. I'm very happy with it.
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Modern electric appliances are often more efficient than burning fossil fuels. For example, the electric motors in cars are just inherently a lot more efficient than gas motors, not to mention less mechanically complicated, quieter, etc. (O
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by Glench 6y ago
Are you paid by oil companies? lol
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by Glench 6y ago
Not if you already have extra space on your hard drive! For example I had a couple terabytes lying around from old computers I wasn't using. It's really easy to farm on Chia — people have petabytes running off a raspberry pi.
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by Glench 6y ago
A related article about the long-term effects of any viral infection, including COVID: [Long Covid isn’t as unique as we thought]( https://www.vox.com/22298751/long-term-side-effects-covid-19... )
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by Glench 6y ago
For anyone wanting to read more about the need for and benefits of electrifying everything (the ones in the home being cars, clothes dryers, stove/oven, heating/cooling, water heaters, etc) check out https://rewiringame
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by Glench 6y ago
I just heard the creators on the launch livestream say that hey, even if you win one XCH a year that might be enough to pay for a new computer depending on how the market ends up pricing chia so that's not so bad!

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