deadmetheny

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by deadmetheny 9y ago
>This is very different to electricity, because physical resources are consumed that the consumer did not ask for or need This entire article is glossing over the fact that the vast majority of electricity produced is from converting a p
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Energy used to run the mint is incidental, so lower energy usage can be an attainable target if it's prioritized. The energy wasted from Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a feature and cannot be reduced without reducing Bitcoin's cor
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Anyone who's going to take a 4chan post as gospel falls beyond the point of what could be considered a 'market failure'. That goes double for a post on /pol/.
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
This is good for Bitcoin.
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Oh, absolutely they are. This is not to be construed as any sort of ringing endorsement of the banking system - I just don't think that rebuilding digital Beanie Babies from first principles and wasted electricity is a good solution to
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Shh, half the fun of cryptocurrency threads is watching its proponents re-learn every single harsh lesson banking and financial industries have learned over the past couple hundred years! It turns out a lot of regulations and whatnot involv
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Lots of Americans don't understand it, either. Any national ID system get shot down because of some variation on 'left-wing government overreach', so we get the current crappy system where each individual state has its own id
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
A company that's been caught multiple times installing spyware on laptops[1]? My bet would be on 'absolutely' [1] http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
Be sure to upload a backup copy every day.
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Mysterious Apocalyptic Message Interrupts TV Broadcasts in California(gizmodo.com)
1 points by deadmetheny 9y ago|0 comments
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
It seems like half his point was that modern philosophy more or less is nothing but a dick measuring contest.
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
There are dozens of research bases in Antarctica. Establishing a research base on Earth isn't comparable to an off-world research base anyway, if you're looking to study said remote world or establish a lifeline for humanity in ca
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
The hubris in this thread is spectacular. Multiple people are demonstrating that your grasp of the math here is wrong, yet you keep arguing that no, the mathematicians must be wrong because you haven't grasped the idea. You could argue
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Micro Center is charging $10,000 for multiple GPU orders to thwart miners(pcgamer.com)
2 points by deadmetheny 9y ago|0 comments
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by deadmetheny 9y ago
>Preferably with their jobs That's not nearly enough, considering the reach and impact this could potentially have. These people need to be getting life prison sentences before security is finally taken seriously enough by executive