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by gregwebs 4y ago
Lightning is an environment where all the nodes have to compete on cost (or speed) and everything is digital. The costs of transactions are currently near zero now, is there a reason you think it will increase? There are a lot of people tha
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by gregwebs 4y ago
It's still a WIP. The new taro protocol that leverages Bitcoin taproot and Lightning can help address some scaling issues.
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Geography plus water plus land usage concerns make it rare. The western US has plenty of sites identified but little water to spare. There is one pumped hydro storage project in process in the entire USA and it is being challenged on enviro
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No need to get into climate change. The externality of pollution alone is much greater than any subsidy. Natural gas wouldn’t go bankrupt and it’s necessary to have natural gas peaker plants when you have renewables. In this report they st
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There is a difference for the business though – although the data may be exposed, the business may still be able to maintain continuity. I believe it is the lack of business continuity that has made ransomware so powerful – when a business
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by gregwebs 4y ago
One thing missing from this great introduction is how to enforce object lock for new objects. This can be done by setting a default retention mode and period on the bucket and having a bucket policy for s3:PutObject(Retention). It looks lik
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by gregwebs 4y ago
I would encourage everyone to take a look at the glyphosphate toxicity report done by experts on toxicology: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp214.pdf Most other summaries of glyphosphate toxicity are not by toxi
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Thank you for this! It would be helpful to show your research in more detail to give confidence in the accuracy of the information in the table. The page states that Amazon or iHerb referrals are used depending on which price is the lowest.
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She does write about this topic as well, it is worth reading the full article. Bitcoin can never be used directly for all the world's financial transactions since it is not capable of that throughput. But those transactions can use thi
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Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage (0.1%) and if wildly successful would still be < 1% of energy usage. https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ If Bitcoin moved to PoS it wou
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by gregwebs 4y ago
I can't figure out the architecture of this. Does it run InnoDB or is that an optional setup?
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There is an assumption in this article and many of the critiques in the comments that steelmanning is primarily useful for debating someone else. But debating is usually a trap where neither side achieves much. steelmanning is useful for ha
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Do you have plans to support Cloudformation (and cdk)?
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Thank you for the correction! That point is made very clear here: https://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/th... It is listed as both a pro (initially free vaccination for anyone that it gets tran
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by gregwebs 4y ago
If you understand the limitations of the two types of vaccines, this story is just something that should be expected to happen. Someone traveled from a country where the weakened live version is given to the UK. This live version mutated in
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Amazon thinks long-term. They have a glut of warehouse space at the moment, and it is costing them dearly, but they probably hope to grow back into it when the upcoming recession is over. If Amazon successfully launches their program to buy
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by gregwebs 4y ago
kapp looks good! I wish that had been available (or I had known about it) back when I was using cue. But kapp is k8s only whereas Pulumi has cloud provider backends as well as k8s. > it's an interesting feature but seems like it sho
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by gregwebs 4y ago
IMHO cue is generally better for complicated configurations, including Kubernetes. Dhall has some nice features though. In particular the ability to import other files as semantic hashes seems like a great feature. To manage configuration y
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Are you putting in a fresh air ventilation system (ERV) in your new house?
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Bitcoin uptime is incredible (whereas fedwire just recently had downtime). Fees for Lightning are close to zero whereas traditional international payment fees for example are much greater. New systems will get to leave behind legacy baggage
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Bitcoin is not a payment system. It’s a store of value (like gold) useable to underpin payment systems such as Lightning (like fed wire underpins bank to bank transactions today but more like the gold standard of the past). If Bitcoin were
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Did you read the article I linked to? It’s literally a rounding error because we can’t accurately measure global energy usage down to the 0.1% level.
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Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage (0.1%) and if wildly successful would still be < 1% of energy usage. https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ However, when miners concentra
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Haskell has always been the best. Go's did the same as Haskell. In either case IO is automatically async. If you want concurrency you create very light weight threads. This approach works very well for most use cases, but when you want
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by gregwebs 4y ago
I bought Phillips Wix bulbs during Black Friday for much less than Hue bulbs. The Wix orange/yellow is underpowered but it works fine for us since we are using that at night anyways.
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Here is a similar experience via a youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS7qQVOzK7g The author improved her clay soil dramatically over a 3 year period. My notes: * Add a layer of organic matter. 3-6 inches an
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Garden myths is a great site. Here is another similar article on how to determine when gypsum will work: https://www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/brown_book/07_Gypsu...
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It's not the battery cell production that is the real issue. Battery cell production is a big issue, but production can be increased in a few years to keep pace with demand if the raw materials are available. The new aspect is the pric
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The price of the raw materials for batteries is going up dramatically and the supply is not increasing accordingly. That's with today's demands- not a future where we need 10x the battery capacity. There's been a lot of atten
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by gregwebs 4y ago
Nuclear is producing 100% output during peak power needs. Solar varies greatly but in the winter may be producing little output during peak power needs. So yes, a 100% all the time output requires peaking, but a variable power source that i

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