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by effie 6y ago
> Do you feel the same way about causes of death? Yes? Polluting power plants kill many more people than the whole bitcoin mining operation. > Also, other consumers like cement, fossil fuel production, and plastics HAVE been focused o
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by effie 6y ago
The whole paper shows implicit interest in taxing/regulating cryptocurrency mining instead of unbiased dispassionate scientific analysis. You can see this explicitly in the last section, starting with > However, the ability to locat
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by effie 6y ago
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately this seems very exclusionary. Do I have to have an iPhone to listen?
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by effie 6y ago
Thank you for a valuable contribution to this discussion. Could you explain what is "CH"? Can you link to it?
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by effie 6y ago
GP shows more understanding than you do. Inflation means savings in cash decrease in time, that's why you don't keep big savings in cash or standard bank account but you invest. Besides stocks, maybe gold, maybe cryptocurrencies.
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by effie 6y ago
The difference in capabilities is also massive. With VISA you need also a good standing with the Uncle. With bitcoin nobody can stop the transaction.
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by effie 6y ago
You were misinformed. BTC isn't darknet. It isn't anonymous and isn't a safe haven for illegal activities. It is used as store of value and for speculations, like stocks or metals.
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by effie 6y ago
What is wrong with search for some comparisons and perspective? Everything has externalities, let's compare them to see how big of an elephant this really is.
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by effie 6y ago
> fwiw, I realize this comment doesn't help much either. I like your comment, it cracked me up!
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by effie 6y ago
We don't need the US military even now.
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by effie 6y ago
And what was the effect of those many years on global yearly CO2 production? Did it decrease? If we are to waste time talking about polluting classes, let's focus on the big ones first. Naval transport, coal power plants. These should
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by effie 6y ago
The question is valid - it would be interesting to see the comparison. To get some perspective as to how big of a problem cryptocurrency consumption really is.
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by effie 6y ago
This. This bad argument about value of cryptocurrencies being mining, lack of perspective and policy proposals in the paper are the most obvious signs of bias.
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by effie 6y ago
> If crypto uses green energy, it displaces other users to use more dirty energy. "I bought a solar panel and AC converter to consume less from the grid. Oops, because of that now I am displacing my neighbours to use more dirty ener
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by effie 6y ago
Why is such as a man-made change necessarily net negative impact on the planet? It may have both negative and positive impacts. Maybe the new dam allows other species to migrate in and increase diversity. It is complicated, depends on circu
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by effie 6y ago
By endlessly arguing about regulating minor consumer/production classes the attention span and opportunities for effective change diminish. The regulation should happen for the big polluters first, i.e. coal plants, transport ships. Wh
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by effie 6y ago
You are misunderstanding the point. Of course, cryptocurrencies have externalities and it is good to quantify them. In that respect, the paper could be useful. The objection is, this paper makes no attempt to analyze and show cryptocurrenci
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by effie 6y ago
Bad arguments. Estimating social benefit of cryptocurrencies by the dollar cost of mining operations is obviously incorrect. No perspective on the big picture. Pollution they talk about is happening at power plants, not mining rigs. Net ele
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by effie 6y ago
The paper has no perspective on electric energy consumption of other activities, there are many more with similar or bigger consumption (ad industry, MIC, etc.) and still advocates regulating specifically cryptocurrencies. The window of opp
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by effie 6y ago
The question of benefits and costs of cryptocurrencies is interesting, so I read the paper. Unfortunately, poor readability, strange assumptions such as the dollar value of social benefits of cryptocurrencies (confusing with dollar value of
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by effie 6y ago
That part is clear. What is not clear is how does he determine who is intolerant enough to fall in that category. And also, what that proposal of righteous intolerance means. Does he stop listening to them? Does he de-platform them? Does he
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by effie 6y ago
Unfortunately, this argument and its result is not a good guide, because it is vague of what is "intolerant" and easily gets interpreted as fighting fascism with fascism. In order to win, we must become the enemy, because we are b
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by effie 6y ago
In some venues, up to a point, some types of intolerance, of course. Beyond that, some laws and harsh consequences have to exist for the dangerous cases too. The venues and the red lines should be natural result of society's history an
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by effie 6y ago
Does LDAP have some advantage as opposed to generic cms system like ansible?
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by effie 6y ago
This. You want control? You do the work. On a phone, the only easy part is being a user/consumer.
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by effie 6y ago
Why do you want to run MS SQL on Linux? What will you do when the db gets locked or crashes? You call Microsoft and wait?
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by effie 6y ago
Indeed, and the reason for that, I think, is that if you are at a level of capabilities where you are able to provide services, you have specific needs and ideas about how your business works. You can't outsource your business logic an
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by effie 6y ago
There is probably a niche for unreasonable customers who require 99.9+% uptime but do not want to pay for clustering and redundant servers. The best way to achieve that is to have a physical server that never gets rebooted. HW failures happ
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by effie 6y ago
It seems to me you are making it needlessly complicated (LDAP...). There are many tools for authenticated access to server with minimal cost in terms of administration. TLS+Letsencrypt+Basic HTTP auth, SSH, OpenVPN, Wireguard, etc.
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by effie 6y ago
Being onpage 24/7 is a sure way to end up in a mental facility. You get a partner (or employees) and set up shifts, or make the services redundant enough that outage isn't a big deal.

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