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by ephbit 4y ago
This Climate Game by FT .. it feels a bit like promotion for carbon capture tech.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Most people might have heard about Bitcoin by now. But how many people have actually bought Bitcoin? Maybe several million .. 50-100 worldwide? IMO it all depends upon how inflation of the major currencies develops. If we see sustained high
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> Why would they be ubiquitous at the household level, not centralized as a "electric grid backup battery", like Australia's "big battery"? Let's assume the existing electrical grid to be a somewhat fixed sy
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The mentioned NY Times article: https://archive.ph/wTH92
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Ah, here it's already announced, the bloat: > Account setup using Thunderbird account auto-configuration. Perfectly unnecessary. > Syncing between desktop and mobile Thunderbird. Duh, what exactly does IMAP do? *shakes head*
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K-9 has served me pretty well over the last 8ish years. It has remained beautifully lightweight (quite an exception for apps nowadays) and the biggest (yet perfectly tolerable) annoyance has been long lines not wrapping automatically. I&#x2
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Do you happen to have any source for these numbers?
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> You seem confused about a couple of points. Well, I think I misunderstood what you meant by "underground", confused, I wouldn't say I am. > Monetary policy is not a tool to finance government spending. Ok, it is not o
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> Bitcoin undermines governments. Bitcoin undermines certain possibilities of governments, yes. As most western governments have been successfully hijacked by big corporations so that politics are skewed heavily in favor of the corporati
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> Why do you think the government needs an immutable ledger powered by inneficient computations to keep track of transactions when current DBs work just fine? They mentioned CBDCs, not blockchain.
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I'd go even further: inflation is setting the incentive for full throttle in the economy. When you're seeing one extreme weather event after the other and a climate catastrophe is imminent, is it a reasonable choice to run the wor
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> The answer to dysfunctional governments is not get rid of the government. As you're probably aware, central banks are usually intended to operate somewhat indepentently from governments. (One could argue to which degree it'
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> The anti-fuel drive of the last decade hasn't helped any either. So either you're denying the claims that CO2 is causing climate change/catastrophe or you simply don't care about the future of civilisation/natu
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> Cheap energy is how we've created our society. Agree. > The (huge) problem we're facing is that our economy is based on the (incorrect) assessment that we will have an ever-increasing supply of energy. I'd add to that
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> ... and a 1 TB mechanical HDD for media storage ... Agree. The problem - at least for laptops - appears to be that it's getting harder to find models that come with slots/interfaces for HDDs.
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I've been hearing about high inflation in Turkey since at least two years on public radio. Not that often, but nonetheless.
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> ... crypto scams in Africa taking advantage of people's natural instincts. Let's sit through another 5 years of inflation in the west ((1/1.07)^5 = 0.71...) and then we'll see what "western" people's
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by ephbit 4y ago
Of course there are downsides to Bitcoin not being anonymous. Wealthy people don't tend to like everybody else knowing just how and in which form they're wealthy. That said, I'm tempted to think that Bitcoin not being anonymo
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> Making it paid creates an inconvenience even if the price extremely low, ... Buying ... isn't it always "inconvenient"? Shopping for groceries, what an inconvenience. I get your point: not having to do something to get
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by ephbit 4y ago
I should have made more clear that I'm absolutely pro paying for the service. So much so that it makes me suspicious that Telegram has been free so long. I don't use gmail, I paid for my IM app, ... and I sure try to avoid servi
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by ephbit 4y ago
This.
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Only just the word "Premium" in the title confirms my (totally unfounded because I didn't read much about nor try it) scepticism towards Telegram. I have an automatic aversion against the principle of two class services where
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> ... never heard of oil or gas being burned to drive a generator which in turn heats the home using a heat pump. I don't think the losses during conversion are the problem. Costs are. I'd guess until now energy prices simply h
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by ephbit 4y ago
Article subtitle: > Is it time for the U.S. government to impose price controls? History shows that past attempts to rein in rampant inflation with such measures have sometimes worked—when there’s a national will to see them succeed.
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I did not claim that using fossil energy does not matter itself. My claim is that if you do use it, then it does not matter (much, in the context of heating up the earth) what you use it for . I also wrote: > No, heat pumps don&#x27
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The best way for repairability to chew its way into the big corps might be crowd-funded projects producing repairable devices that become popular, pressuring the Apples and sorts to match.
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I don't get the message of your first three paragraphs. Aside from that .. > ... system of individual ownership of fixed resources (land, crypto, etc.) then the few there first owns everything, and hence, feudalism. I doubt your cla
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> The problem with crypto is all the tech-utopians making it, never read any economics (or political theory) ... Now that's some claim. You probably disagree with me when I say that austrian economics [1] is indeed an economic schoo
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> Yes, and when the Fed reverses course after everything breaks from this tightening, ... This. I'd really like someone to explain to me, how the central banks and the states are supposedly going to get out of the increasing-debt-sp
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When people are talking about "inflation" my inclination is to think about at least 2-3 years as a time frame. > We're literally seeing that now. The money is flowing out of BTC even faster than all the other investments l

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