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by ahnick 5y ago
The amount of XCH (Chia's currency) generated is a constant 64 Chia every 10 minutes. You can find this under the Chia Business Whitepaper ( https://www.chia.net/assets/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2021-02... ) in the
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by ahnick 5y ago
Yeah plotting on a laptop with a 100GB free is not worth it (especially since they typically have consumer ssds in them), but there is a lot of spare storage space on servers/external drives owned by individuals or companies globally
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by ahnick 5y ago
> That's why Chia is only more efficient than PoW when it isn't in demand. Actually that's incorrect. Chia is always more efficient than PoW, b/c in PoW everyone is constantly racing to solve every block. (i.e. find
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by ahnick 5y ago
This is only really true when plotting to consumer grade SSDs, which are limited in the number of writes that they can support. NAS systems usually contain mechanical HDDs and can handle the write load of Chia without issue.
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by ahnick 5y ago
What people who read this article may not realize is that this is the Chia incentive model actually working properly. It is not cost effective to buy new hard drive equipment to farm(mine) Chia. (This was well discussed by Chia Network an
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by ahnick 5y ago
The midway point in the sea level tool you linked is actually 1.41m by 2100. That's 4.6 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century and this is based on our current models where we are continuously discovering more and more positi
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It's not the only solution I can think of, but it's the only practical one. Sure you could build giant sea walls around the area or bring in land and start literally raising all the buildings above sea level (similar to what Chic
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by ahnick 5y ago
300+ years? And the biggest risk to the city is environmental activists and the EPA? You must be joking. The biggest risk is the fact that according to our best estimates by 2050 sea level rise will be another 1.5 feet in that area. ( ht
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by ahnick 5y ago
As the article rightly points out, levees will do nothing for a slow moving hurricane like Harvey that dumps tons of rain or for a large cat5 hurricane with storm level surges that are much higher than Ida. The place is sinking while sea le
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by ahnick 5y ago
What do you use for maps/navigation?
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by ahnick 5y ago
Are there any thought pieces on how cities can adapt roads to accommodate SAE level 4 cars to facilitate rolling out a wider deployment more quickly? I'm thinking of something like cities could designate specific routes and lanes for
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by ahnick 5y ago
I'll see your cogongrass and raise you trumpet vine. I kid you not, every 3 weeks during the summer I am out cutting back the vine on top of my pergola that is a good 6 feet from my house and it still feels like I'm losing the wa
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by ahnick 5y ago
First, this can already be done using MakerDAO CDP loans. Convert crypto to DAI using a CDP loan and then convert DAI to USD to purchase a property. Second, there are many people that own cryptocurrency that are not money launderers and t
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by ahnick 5y ago
Is documentation for the provenance of funds, typically required in all cash real estate transactions?
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by ahnick 5y ago
If you are going to go down the vim as an IDE path, wouldn't you just use Onivim? ( https://v2.onivim.io/ ) Or is the licensing the issue?
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by ahnick 5y ago
> Not "the opposite". Exactly as I said: a lot of people would end up paying more, for no health benefit. No, what happens is this money eventually flows back in terms of lower healthcare costs overall. > That is merely your
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by ahnick 5y ago
So would it be possible to make a mini hydrogen power plant from a rain water cistern and scrap aluminum?
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by ahnick 5y ago
> Seems you really want to do something against obesity and you are ready to accept quite a lot of collateral damage by punishing people with extra tax who don't need to be protected/helped at all. Actually, quite the opposite.
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> Well, then I disagree. There's people getting no diabetes even though eating a lot of sugar and I bet there's also a lot of people getting or having diabetes without eating any sugar. The only people getting diabetes without
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by ahnick 5y ago
> There is no debate that there is a correlation, but that's not a causation. No, I'm saying that it is the cause. People consume food that contains sugar. Because the food contains all that added sugar the number of calories
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by ahnick 5y ago
I didn't really think sugar causing obesity (and in turn causing diabetes) was open to debate? People gain weight because they consume too many calories and then eventually overweight people develop diabetes. The big calorie contribu
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by ahnick 5y ago
It will teach people to eat things with less sugar. It's behavior modification via people's pocketbook. If you appropriated all funds derived from a sugar tax back into health care funding for people below a certain AGI, then it
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by ahnick 5y ago
The short answer is lift weights (resistance training) to increase muscle mass and consume caffeine. Both of those will increase your resting rate metabolism.
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who in turn reports to the government?
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They are acting on behalf of the government.
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by ahnick 5y ago
A EULA cannot force you to give up your constitutional rights.
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by ahnick 5y ago
How is Apple's CSAM implementation not a violation of the fourth amendment?
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What's the process for resolving conflicts?
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by ahnick 5y ago
Anyone who needs storage space for pictures cares about backup, they just may not be aware that they care about it or they may just conflate the two needs.

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