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by frongpik 6y ago
Higher fees means fewer transactions. Nobody's going to buy a $3 coffee with $300 fees just because it's bitcoin.
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by frongpik 6y ago
If we go into theology, then the nature is just a playground and the human body is just a complicated mechanism that a soul attaches to temporarily.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The iOS app may collect data, so ads would be displayed in Chrome on another device. The actual scheme is probably much more complicated.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The wording implies FB is running an A/B experiment where randomly selected 0.01% of their users get shown 10% less political content and a committee of highly paid statisticians will write a 50 pages summary of how this experiment wou
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by frongpik 6y ago
I'd assume those 308 kWh come from a hydro station nearby and drop the loosy calculations about teslas and gallons.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Cool. Now show us the Adtech Electricity Consumption Index and see if bitcoin would add up to even 1% of ads.
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by frongpik 6y ago
It's the same people who allow coca cola to poison the planet with plastic so it could make money by poisoning people with sugar. It's the same people who let adtech eat energy budgets of large countries. Same people that encourag
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by frongpik 6y ago
That seems like a natural rate limiter that would prevent wasting any meaningful amount of energy on bitcoin.
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by frongpik 6y ago
An important nuance: such a bitcoin transaction is worth about a billion dollars. It's not a grocery store kind of transaction.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Someone needs to pay businessinsider to make an article against ads. And such an article could be sponsored by... nobody.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The elephant in the room is Adtech. It wastes obscene amounts of energy, mostly coal mines, and it's only going to waste more with the growth of the economy and the increasing competition between advertisers.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Someone's really serious about pushing the "bitcoin is bad" narrative. Too many articles like that recently. Nevertheless, upvoting because HN should see this.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What happens if a few millions people send 5 bucks worth of bitcoin? A global power outage?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Sounds like a single bitcoin transaction is like transferring a few billion dollars at a time.
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by frongpik 6y ago
How did bitcoin network transacted $90 billions just yesterday? By spending more energy than the entire world has ever produced?
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by frongpik 6y ago
Only? I guess that if 40% of the worldwide energy production came from clean sources, all news outlets would count that as a massive success.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Are you saying that if I send you $100 worth of bitcoins, the network would spend 700 kWh? I find that hard to believe.
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by frongpik 6y ago
The answer is to give a 5 star review, the first paragraph with usual blah blah, the next paragraph with the actual feedback. Even better if you use the coded ways to provide negative feedback. The goal is to make it expensive to distinguis
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by frongpik 6y ago
Nothing is going to change until this software convicts a 10M net worth dude for something he didn't do.
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by frongpik 6y ago
IMHO, the today's historians and archeologists have become just another type of beancounters. If I were to research this topic, I'd look into the RapaNui island, the strange statues on that island and the sudden cutoff of history
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by frongpik 6y ago
The most appealing explanation of talent I found in buddhism, that all talent is just many hours of pursued interest, millions of hours sometimes, so when someone is born unusually smart, it's because of prior efforts.
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by frongpik 6y ago
He just knows that doubling his output won't nearly double his pay. I doubt he would be slacking if he could make $10M by completing a big project in a year.
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by frongpik 6y ago
I guess such pseudogoverments would quickly reduce to scientology-like cults.
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by frongpik 6y ago
What happens with house payments in such cases? I suppose the house goes to the mother, but she can't pay mortgage alone and the father can't pay the mortgage plus rent plus child support plus everything else.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Those middle class folks are wasting their lives, then: just like an office job is an illusion of meaningful work, their marriage is an illusion of love.
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by frongpik 6y ago
For middle class folks, marriage isn't much different than a typical employment contract with a large firm. Marriage usually revolves around house and assets, so your 200k down payment is the 100k sign on bonus for your spouse. Paying
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by frongpik 6y ago
MRI machines do something like this. Probably not at the atom scale accuracy. UV light can be ignored because the crystal would sit in a opaque case. A trivial error correction is writing a bit to many places, the idea similar to bloom filt
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by frongpik 6y ago
I suppose a random photon won't have the right energy to switch the state. But even when this happens, we have error recovery algorithms: cells in regular hard disks die all the time.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Well, before coding begins, you figure that A calls B, B is related to C and C uses A, but under condition D. My idea is to test this skill of keeping such knowledge graphs in mind.
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by frongpik 6y ago
Decomposing an alive pig into gummy bears is like making gold bars out of laptops.

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