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by cbzbc 5y ago
Pretty sure the USD is more stable than bitcoin over the last two years.
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by cbzbc 5y ago
> Crypto is vast, complex, and inherently not suitable for binary thinking. I've studied the space for months and have come to the conclusion that crypto is two-sided in almost every aspect Is this a bit?
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by cbzbc 5y ago
How does someone who is poor convert their local - non dollar denominated - currency to bitcoins? The reality is that it's just another means for the wealthy (and criminals) to evade currency controls.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Largely in tone only.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
IME the first thing to go out of the window in any company of any reasonable size are retrospectives. Especially when they start to suggest change. At best you get the chance of feedback with nothing implemented out of it.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Even if this were true, hydro also has an environmental cost, doubly so if the demand from crypto is causing hydro to be constructed in places where it cannot be used for other purposes (which is often a linked claim).
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by cbzbc 6y ago
The wider discussion (and this particular thread) was on the environmental cost caused by bitcoin.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Sure, but to truly avoid all naive readings would be to analyse the total impact of constructing the hydro plant in such an out of the way place for the purpose of mining. There's an emissions cost to producing the equipment required t
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by cbzbc 6y ago
As does the statement that because hydro dams are being used mining is not doing environmental damage.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
> If sun is shining, and you don't generate solar electricity, if you heat it, and that's it, there's no damage taking solar electricity. Don't use solar panels where the electricity from them can't be fully util
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by cbzbc 6y ago
If you are generating electricity where it cannot be used, then you are causing needless environmental damage and you should almost certainly stop doing that.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
I'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor? In general it's a bad principle to try and justify environmental impact caused by one thing by pointing at environment
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by cbzbc 6y ago
I'm finding your attempt to avoid dealing with the impact of bitcoin amusing. What are you, a bitcoin investor?
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Now do the environmental impact of an Argentina's worth of electricity generation.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
If you are generating electricity in places where it cannot be used then you are causing needless damage to the environment and you should certainly stop doing that. The idea that the majority of the energy used for bitcoin is generated in
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Hundreds of service worker wages are good for the economy. You could argue that they would be better employed elsewhere and I wouldn't disagree, but bitcoin doesn't even meet that standard.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
> In many places Bitcoin is mined electricity is co2 free. And that electricity could otherwise be used to displace the use of electricity that generates co2.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Casinos generate significantly more useful economic activity.
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Personium – personal data store server(personium.io)
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Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal(opendemocracy.net)
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Outbrain is the other big source of chumbox adverts.
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Belgian minister tweets EU's Covid vaccine price list to anger of manufacturers(theguardian.com)
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Elsevier investigates after student calls out journal for Star Trek articles(retractionwatch.com)
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Yes, in August after a long period of lockdown, when schools were due to go back and when Whitty had warned that the UK was at the limits of lockdown easing: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2020/jul&#
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by cbzbc 6y ago
I assume the poster was referring to this kind of messaging: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53942542 https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-back-to-work-cam... Which arguably doesn’t constitute
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The fascinating story behind the longest known prehistoric journey(theconversation.com)
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by cbzbc 6y ago
It's possible this is for legislative reasons rather than anything else.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
> a systemic failure to integrate Given chronology, that's not entirely or even largely on them.
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by cbzbc 6y ago
> But why is it so common in the BLM movement to rally behind violent criminals on the receiving end of justifiable responses? Unless there is a uniform penalty for these behaviours of death without trial, these are not in fact 'ju
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by cbzbc 6y ago
Free use of a DAW (what used to be Sonar), and a social media platform for sharing music. I imagine it's competing with bandcamp/soundcloud/splice simultaneously.

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