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by ephbit 3y ago
It's almost as if you wanted to deny that 'meaningful' is something highly subjective and dependent upon the individual traits of a person.
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by ephbit 3y ago
Who writes such nonsense headlines? Seems as if they're trying to throw turds at a thing they don't like, hoping something will stick. And they're failing badly. The publisher might wish it were so but no, this does in no way
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by ephbit 3y ago
Not every speculator/investor buys Bitcoin directly or transfers their coins from exchange to wallet, true. But many do. As can be seen from all the addresses contained in the blockchain. Some are typos/mistakes or burner addresse
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by ephbit 3y ago
Except, it'll be hard to prevent the many (as opposed to the very few) from buying this deflationary currency and thus profiting from speculating or putting their savings in it. As long as the masses have something to offer to the few,
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by ephbit 3y ago
> The second reason is that, with each boom-and-bust cycle, it becomes clearer crypto is not a bubble like tulip mania in the 1630s or the craze for Beanie Babies in the 1990s. Although bitcoin is a volatile asset, its price history look
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by ephbit 3y ago
If someone manages to access the running raspberry pi though, FDE doesn't protect against that, while the Syncthing's untrusted device encryption does.
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Electric trucks are very efficient and cheaper to operate. They can do a majority of all trucking routes just fine. Agree. Yet, currently of the daily 800,000 trucks (> 7.5 t) which are transporting goods in Germany, less than 500 a
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by ephbit 3y ago
Would you agree that for quite a few countries/regions in the world, there's a large seasonal fluctuation in renewable electricity generation which cannot easily be met with seasonally fluctuating demand? As countries/regions
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by ephbit 3y ago
Hydrogen fueled vehicles may not be viable right now. But there's one thing that makes me believe they will be in the future. Long-haul trucking with BEV seems rather unlikely to me and the one renewables powered alternative that looks
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by ephbit 3y ago
This exists. I think in China. See video here: https://mastodon.green/@FabianLaasch/110083147601165341 Linked as well: https://www.theautopian.com/china-is-already-doing-ev-batter...
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Think of all the millions of guys in China and elsewhere who, due to sex selective abortion, will never have a wife. Or maybe some of these men will adopt some kind of "pragmatic poly" polyandry relationship culture to be in
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by ephbit 3y ago
> And don't they often have insane doubling times (something like 20 minutes for salmonella and e. coli)? Such values are AFAIK under ideal conditions, usually meaning on a wet surface or submerged in a watery/damp environment
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by ephbit 3y ago
Many posts here about sterilization seem to focus on the temperature. Yes, having a dishwasher program that thoroughly rinses at 90 °C for 10 minutes will kill most germs in there. I think this leaves out a very important aspect: how you us
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by ephbit 3y ago
First, my apology that I am making this off-topic remark. Remark: is it just me, or do other people too hesitate to click a youtube link with no title given? I feel like I at least want to know the title of the linked video, even if it does
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by ephbit 3y ago
> I believe that fraudsters have been pumping up bitcoin because they know that it attracts attention to the whole market. Yep, sounds plausible. > Most people trading bitcoin don't buy it with a money transfer. They go to an exc
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by ephbit 3y ago
The way you write makes it clear you spend at least a bit of time thinking about these things. And you're apparently reading quite specific info about details of currently happening events, not just headlines. Your post contains a theo
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by ephbit 3y ago
Your comment on # 23: > .. As time approaches infinity the value of the dollar approaches zero (bad), and the value of Bitcoin goes to infinity (also bad). Why do you think the latter is bad? Bitcoin going to infinity sounds more spectac
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by ephbit 3y ago
> How crazy is it to think the first big crypto version of money is the ONE that will rule all? Is it really that crazy? The network effect for such a technology is quite important, don't you think? Much more so than for social medi
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by ephbit 3y ago
> .. given it’s used primarily for crime and scams. Often claimed and yet not true. > Hamas thought it could flout Western surveillance and international sanctions by embracing the world’s leading digital asset. It thought wrong, and
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by ephbit 3y ago
> ... excess renewable energy could simply be stored for later use, ie in chemical batteries or as hydrogen. "Simply" implies "in an economically viable fashion" here. Which means that someone has to be willing to pay
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by ephbit 3y ago
Interestingly, another article [1] that was recently posted on HN contains the following paragraph .. which reads to me as if Bitcoin were indeed not that good a tool for crime. > Hamas thought it could flout Western surveillance and int
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by ephbit 3y ago
I think the motivations to produce ammonia instead of hydrocarbons are: For one, energy efficiency. For hydrocarbons you need carbon. Either you take carbon from existing renewable hydrocarbon waste streams (biomass) or you pull CO2 from th
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by ephbit 3y ago
This article misses the long-term perspective. Which is: there will likely be some hydrogen infrastructure for fuelling long-haul trucks, which will likely not be BEVs but rather FCEVs. As soon as this infrastructure is there, there will be
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by ephbit 3y ago
> ... whereas hydrogen proved a nightmare to produce, transport, and store. "Nightmare"? Really? The author clearly isn't interested in giving a sobre explanation of the situation but rather in writing a passionate plea fo
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by ephbit 3y ago
> Hydrogen is also the most abundant element on Earth, so it looked like the perfect solution for decarbonization. Wow, what an absurd take. As if people who are doing technical research to find out, in which way hydrogen might be a viab
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by ephbit 3y ago
Hm, Wikipedia defines it so: > Breakfast cereal is a breakfast food made from processed cereal grains. If your cereal mix contains only the grains/seeds and not loads of sugar it's almost impossible for it to be nutrionally bad
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by ephbit 3y ago
It would be the easiest thing to give customers a csv table of the purchased items *directly* in the QR code on the receipt (instead of just a link to some website, where you can download the table as pdf of what). Then people could load it
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by ephbit 3y ago
Are you possibly hinting at the endless stream of "new generation iWasteware camera, now with 2 gigapixel sensor" in combination with camera apps that put a (high) limit on the lowest resolution one can choose?
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by ephbit 3y ago
Long comments thread on this topic can be found here: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/06/worlds-first-ammonia-po...
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by ephbit 3y ago
8 minute fueling to 900 kWh would be the equivalent of charging a BEV truck with 900 kWh battery at a staggering rate of 6.75 MW. I know, BEV semis would be charged slower over night while the driver sleeps/rests. Still, seems to me th

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