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> We could be celebrating that we can all work less for the same pay Overall, Americans have been increasingly working more for less pay for decades, all while productivity (and profits) have risen. Even at the SWE engineer, we should ne
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Worst I've had is friends with extensive poison ivy or ripped clothing, but your story is a valuable one. Abandoned places are inherently dangerous for multiple reasons, as much fun as exploring them can be.
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Everything is useful for scammers. I don't know if crypto has significantly increased the rate of non-rich people being scammed.
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You mean Proof of Stake. POW is the wasteful one.
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> Even if a miner has a contract with a solar farm for all of their power, that's still electricity that someone else could be using instead of electricity from fossil fuels. Not if the infrastructure wouldn't have been built w
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That's an excellent point actually. In the current day, more-or-less every watt of crypto is actually on top of the traditional financial system and totally reliant on it. That's not intrinsic to cryptocurrency, but it is part o
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Again, if you can't stamp it out globally, you're very likely just shifting it to places that may care less to regulate it. I would genuinely love to read a plan somebody has to end cryptocurrency on Earth, but I can't imagin
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I'm not sure if I was unclear or if the people debating me are too charged to read my precise meaning, or both. > "It could be less, much less, or much less," This is a filler argument. Actually my argument is, "This
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> Energy consumption by banking? We can calculate that. Great, thank you for doing so. I wish TFA had given even half this effort.
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> And it's worth pointing out that it comes up every single time without a shred evidence What evidence could I possibly provide for the claim "This article doesn't give any evidence of impact." It is very clear that
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> "I haven't read the study but maybe it's wrong and maybe the real number is way way less"? C'mon. Give me a break. Trusting that an EIA report is generally accurate is not evidence of being "emotional.&quo
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I don't even like it, I kind of wish it hadn't been invented, but rationality is vanishingly rare when it's discussed. And I am certain many will say the same of everything I post.
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I do admit that the comparison is not a strong one. It wasn't intended to be, honestly, it was just an easy example. My point was more that the data presented in the article aren't very useful on their own . Again, if you think a
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> Is it? Yes, because cryptocurrency is the thing we're measuring. The number of miners is meaningless in this conversation. It would be like talking about how many companies manufacture wind turbine blades.
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> Despite declaring yourself not one, this (and every other one of your points) comes up _every single time_ crypto proponents are trying to seed FUD in any reporting about the energy usage of crypto You have it backward, it comes up whe
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Your suspicions are wrong, but you're welcome to add to the debate if you have anything to contribute.
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I'm not an expert here but my understanding is that even if a so-called 51% attack were to happen, it would only be meaningful as long as it could be sustained. The simplest case is a single tainted block, after which other miners coul
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> Since Bitcoin is completely decentralized, there’s no way to change the protocol without everyone just stopping using it, which miners don’t want to do. That's completely wrong though. The protocol gets changed by a majority of mi
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> Ending crypto mining is the easiest no-brainer in the history of energy systems. Ending any profit-generating activity is incredibly difficult. I suspect you're not referring to ending it, but allowing it to be transferred offsh
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I'm not a crypto proponent per se, but I do feel the need to be reasonable about it, and this reads like pure emotional anti-cryptocurrency sentiment. (edit: while I still can, I'm going to jump in and repeat that I'm critici
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> [Gemini] sounds like a legendary space mission Well, it is one. I wish they'd choose a slightly more unique name but camping on well-known words is a beloved tech tradition.
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There's also, "[Sorry,] we're out of the beef burger. The chicken is very good though." This maximizes useful information. While I understand it "just works" in those cultures, simply redirecting while avoiding
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> Everyone interested in this story should read Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve ( https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/stephen-greenblatt ). It's interesting reading for a layperson, but as with any other pop-hi
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As much as I'd like to endorse study of the classics, I'm almost certain that AI will be better at interpreting the texts than humans very soon.
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> If you open in new tab by default you risk breaking user expectations, disorient them and you break users wanting to open in the same tab. This feels backward to me. I don't do user research, but is that a real pain point? Just...
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Wouldn't robust structures that discourage or prevent such abuses be a better solution than not doing anything at all and still having discrimination? If we were really that worried why are we okay with passports, state driver's l
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> We've been there, nobody died. [Citation needed]
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Others have mentioned the same - I tried several times the same combination and got no result. However, it's now clear from other replies that eventually there will be some result (even if it's just one of the inputs), so I gues
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> Why? What is the reasoning this "is naturally expected" There are many articles written on such a topic. In short, we have no way of predicting how an AGI will think, and there are more pathways to it being our enemy (inten
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Yes, but so is climate change, and we can't even get countries to agree to grow more slowly , let alone shut down everything. > i'm just emphasizing there's a nifty little framework already in place. More than one! Nuclea

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