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by ephbit 4y ago
Yeah sure, in the practical sense different terms are established for the different applications, but that doesn't change the fact that what you call a "heat pump" works by the same principle as what you call an "air con
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by ephbit 4y ago
Not heat pumps? No idea what you're talking about. Evaporative cooling, passive cooling, cooling by ventilation, plants. You mean these? Well at least these AC units in cars and the humming things mounted in millions to outside walls o
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by ephbit 4y ago
Abstract > Money has been a polarising and unresolved socio-economic issue for more than 300 years. In this article, we explore how the state became increasingly involved in money and, through the words of prominent monetary theorists, i
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by ephbit 4y ago
You're writing past what I wrote. > Every transformation has efficiency loss. I didn't deny that. > If you pipe the same amount of energy through a less efficient process, less useful work gets done for that amount of energy
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by ephbit 4y ago
> AC heats up the planet though .. It doesn't. The name heat pump explains it pretty well. It "pumps" heat from one place to another. In case of your AC from inside the building to outside. Yes, it generates additional hea
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by ephbit 4y ago
At some point in time the whole of society needs to be presented with the true cost of individual lifestyles. And there needs to be a discourse about which lifestyles and life choices should at all and to what degree they should be subsidis
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by ephbit 4y ago
Could you kindly point me/others to some info about this oath concept? I mostly get pointed to Oauth stuff when searching for "oath sha256 nonce".
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by ephbit 4y ago
Not gonna happen. Why? Because AFAIK all life on earth uses water as a solvent. Unless your plastic is constantly/regularly exposed to water, bacteria will have almost no chance of catabolizing it.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Probably not what you would deem decent specs .. but small. SHIFT5me - 141,5 mm x 71 mm x 9 mm https://shop.shiftphones.com/shift5me.html
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by ephbit 4y ago
> ... none of this is “waste”. It’s already being stored or used. Turned off wind turbines at times of surplus. They tell us that nope, it is not (yet) being used or stored. > Finding new demand for it simply makes it more expensive f
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by ephbit 4y ago
Good. Now try turning an aluminium smelter on and off when there's surplus/shortage of supply on the grid. Right, you don't. Here's one key difference between many if not most large scale industrial processes and Bitcoin
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by ephbit 4y ago
The world is facing a climate crisis. Which is mostly caused by humanity using fossil energy to boost the output of the economy. An economy that expends the energy on so many more things than just enabling people to be fed and live modestly
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by ephbit 4y ago
You're welcome to provide a better approach. Pointing out the limits of the currently implemented mechanism (in Bitcoin) does not equate to Bitcoin being inferior to the trust system of conventional currencies.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Yea .. no. I have a hard time believing that you're actually trying to understand, which kind of trust the people who created Bitcoin meant and why they thought it's important. Just claiming banks are in that sense trustworthy eit
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by ephbit 4y ago
> WEAVER: Yes. So let’s take the cost of a transaction. The cost of a transaction in cryptocurrency systemically is the amount being used to protect it. I could build a system that would have the same throughput as Bitcoin, three to seve
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by ephbit 4y ago
Let's see for how long the FED will be able to keep interest raised before having to lower it again. I say they'll lower it again by 2024.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Awesome .. I'll totally click on that link now.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Totally off topic ... I am to a certain degree curious what video hides behind this link. Maybe I'd even want to watch it. But at the same time I am too turned off by the fact that I'd actually need to visit the link just to learn
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by ephbit 4y ago
> What happens is these system collapses and Bukele is just the symptom of it. You mean the corrupt criminal network in El Salvador somehow collapsed because of inexplicable reasons? The collapse is not even to some degree the effect of
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by ephbit 4y ago
> The second reason is that it is hard to envisage the government watching the economy slide into recession without doing something to alleviate the pain. What a flowery way of saying: the government will just pile on even more debt to p
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by ephbit 4y ago
I agree. There's another thing that comes to my mind, when people suggest the adoption of a plant-based diet. Protein quality [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_quality#Protein_source... ] Why? In our modern so
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by ephbit 4y ago
Some quotes from the article: > “People have tried to solve flaring for a long time,” Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller tells me. “But the standard chemical engineering approaches like compression or liquefaction don’t make sense economically.
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by ephbit 4y ago
Not sure, whether there's a technically proven ammonia fuel cell yet. For some applications it could enable the use ammonia to generate electricity _without_ NOx emissions.
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by ephbit 4y ago
> They generally go from depots 10-20 miles outside of the city to into the city and deliver to a bunch of stores and business, and then back to the depot, where they can charge while waiting for the next load. That sort of work is perfe
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by ephbit 4y ago
So ... you ridicule hydrogen. Let's see those long haul battery powered trucks then, hm. What do you think, when will we see like 20 % of market share of battery powered electric trucks (long haul)? I say, we'll never see that, ev
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by ephbit 5y ago
> The theory seems to rest on the idea that because AGI has a perfectly observable mechanical substrate, it will be possible to analyze and understand the fundamental causes of intelligence and thus improve upon it - a relatively simple
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by ephbit 5y ago
> So in terms of actually handling transactions, Bitcoin seems ridiculously inefficient. Actually using the blockchain would result in a bidding war, and the implications of that are very messy - driving up the price would incentivize mo
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by ephbit 5y ago
> How can one deal with the debt mountain? Some ways are definitely better than others. A “solution” sometimes put forward is to reduce the debt through higher inflation. The world has already been there, and it was not a pretty sight. I
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by ephbit 5y ago
Another quote about the development following the global financial crisis GFC. > Once the financial boom turned to bust, they naturally pulled out all the stops to support the economy, just as public finances came under serious strain. C
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by ephbit 5y ago
Good to see experts from well-respected institutions call out the current problems with monetary policies in the last two decades, while many others seem to be ignoring them. Thinking about modern monetary theory proponents MMT here. One of

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