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by beaner 6y ago
I don't see why not. One consequence is investment in renewable efficiency, which applies to the energy industry generally outside of crypto mining specifically. Another consequence is needing something to do with excess energy, which
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by beaner 6y ago
So, trying in good faith to understand, isn't the problem that the output in this case is physical, while Bitcoin's energy-to-money output is digital?
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Then we shouldn't have an issue, since I explained how such a system would continue to provide in that case.
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't think there's anything particularly arrogant about it. My ego doesn't depend on Bitcoin's success. You could say that expecting it to still be around then is naïvité, maybe. But of course, I still disagree. Bitco
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by beaner 6y ago
Necessarily renewable because it is the cheapest possible energy long-term; you only need to pay for upkeep, not for resources to convert. Maybe this depends on whether you think renewables will become cheaper than coal/gas, and maybe
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by beaner 6y ago
I don't know why this seems so dystopian to some. To me, it seems like a financial incentive for a decentralized, robust, renewable future.
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by beaner 6y ago
Yes, that's how most businesses work. You start with a capital investment, often times through a loan, and through smart management, make a profit on the margin , that you can choose to reinvest to stay competitive. Proof-of-stake is
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by beaner 6y ago
You're choosing to consider the case when the price is very high, but not when it's very low. The flip-side of that coin would be that energy not worth being put into mining, which would be sold at a loss to the grid, would instea
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by beaner 6y ago
Why?
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by beaner 6y ago
Haven't heard these points before but I'm not sure that they apply to proof-of-work specifically.
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by beaner 6y ago
I guess you could. But the presence of Bitcoin and proof-of-work actually speeds up the competition in the renewable energy space by making it more profitable than it otherwise would be. That's a good thing, it gets us to the world we
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by beaner 6y ago
I'm not saying that proof-of-stake is bad, but it does change the way the network functions, because it locks capital and therefore affects the velocity of money in the network. It also changes the distribution of mined coin. Whereas c
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by beaner 6y ago
Just to riff on this idea, despite inevitable pushback: Bitcoin's proof-of-work is basically a conversion of energy directly into money. This pushes competition towards cheaper and cheaper sources of energy. First it's finding jur
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I think this might be more accurate. Sometimes it only takes one, not a whole lot.
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Sometimes when I eat tomatoes, the front part of the roof of my mouth burns a little. I've never heard of this happening to anyone else before.
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The biggest comorbidity by far is old age, which definitely will imminently kill those it affects on its own.
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by beaner 6y ago
What's the status with hospitals? That was the question. Are they closing? How many have already closed? Are they at full capacity? Are they projected to get to full capacity? Are people with nonessential surgeries still being pushed o
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by beaner 6y ago
> Okay, but what's unique about COVID where we're supposed to discount that? Surely we care about a murderer who kills an elderly person. I'm not sure what you're saying here. If a murder kills someone, the murder was
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by beaner 6y ago
The point is that until it's well-defined, we don't actually know, so people will wiggle in doubt if they want to. Poor definitions enable people to present the data differently depending on their biases and agendas. We should wan
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by beaner 6y ago
Wasn't there a period where there were actually a lot of hospitals closing , because they were too empty, because we had kicked everyone out anticipating a huge covid hospitalization wave that never came? What's the status on tha
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by beaner 6y ago
Car accidents in specific are probably small, but they're representative of similar catastrophic events that will lead to death anyway, that would still be marked as covid. The most common of which is simply old age. Certainly covid ca
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by beaner 6y ago
My argument is not disingenuous at all. Rather, I think you're being assumptive. I'm not talking about the case where a person's prospects are that they'll live for quite some time. I'm talking about the case where
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by beaner 6y ago
We really do need to address what constitutes a proper Covid death. So long as there are people who die from unrelated causes, while happening to have Covid, being marked as a Covid death, there will be a lot of people skeptical of the stat
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by beaner 6y ago
Do they overperform for laptop use cases or for iPad use cases?
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by beaner 6y ago
Yeah, I can see there being difficulty. It's the type of thing that sounds good to a lot of people before they find themselves in a situation where it actually makes a difference. When it suddenly kicks in and people say, "wait, w
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by beaner 6y ago
Okay. I guess I'm saying that's irrelevant. For local & federal law to be intertwined doesn't require there to be a lack of exceptions.
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by beaner 6y ago
I am not lumping them together at all. The statistic is more specifically interesting about white men than about other demographics. That the other groups moved in unison speaks to a deeper, more fundamental and more universally-applicable
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by beaner 6y ago
> I think it's less notable than the media is making it out to be. Really? From my perspective, the media has not noted it at all. I had to notice it in a Twitter stream before it disappeared down my feed forever, to know these stat
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by beaner 6y ago
> For instance if black men who support Republicans very grudgingly (enough not to vote say) are swept up in a broader wash of getting all black men to vote more, you’d see that pattern Why? There is no reason for this assertion. There a
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by beaner 6y ago
You can start with these two: - First Step Act [0] - Platinum Plan for Black America [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act [1] https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets&

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