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by h4kor 5y ago
We are running head first into the Great Filter.
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by h4kor 5y ago
Most (software) engineers understand rather quickly that blockchains are a wasteful solutions to problems that are already solved by other methods.
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by h4kor 5y ago
What's the problem with this? I thought lightning was invented to solve these kinds of problems?
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by h4kor 5y ago
Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, France, Iceland, Denmark, Ireland, UK, ....
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by h4kor 5y ago
We have to get rid of the car as the main mode of transportation. Trains, busses and bikes must be the main ways to travel. This will not only reduce the energy cost of transportation but also make cities attractive again https:/&#x2F
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by h4kor 5y ago
https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-m...
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by h4kor 5y ago
Being able to easily defend your territory and not participating in wars probably helps to build and maintain capital
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The social ideology of the motorcar (1973)(unevenearth.org)
1 points by h4kor 5y ago|0 comments
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by h4kor 5y ago
Basically doing the same as in Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
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by h4kor 5y ago
CoinmarketCap is also down. https://coinmarketcap.com/
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by h4kor 5y ago
Let's hope this will happen. It's time this blockchain hype ends.
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by h4kor 5y ago
> Several teams of engineers are working overtime to ensure that The Merge arrives as soon as possible, and without compromising on safety. Overworking your engineers will most definitely lead to compromises. But good to see that Ethereu
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by h4kor 5y ago
Basically, yes. There are minor improvements to be made to keep the reward for miners as low as possible. In the end the energy consumption comes down to burning energy proportional to the block reward. https://blog.libove.org&#x
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by h4kor 5y ago
I can only recommend Accelerando from Charles Stross.
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The Cost of Proof of Work(blog.libove.org)
1 points by h4kor 6y ago|0 comments
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by h4kor 6y ago
It's astounding how much mind mending crypto bros have to do to justify the energy waste of their pyramid scheme
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by h4kor 6y ago
This was one of the most important lessons in my career. If you want to test your code thoroughly you needs these techniques.
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by h4kor 6y ago
Am I the only one who is tired of this kind of stories? "Former W of X raises Y Mio $ for Z Start-Up"
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by h4kor 6y ago
How long and how often have the announce the transition yet?
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by h4kor 6y ago
Did you just call me "4/5/Add/6 Unit 22"?
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by h4kor 6y ago
> In the energy market, demand drives supply > Bitcoin miners don't put their operations in the middle of nowhere and then ask someone to build hydro plants... So now the demand follows the supply?
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by h4kor 6y ago
So we built hydro plants and disrupted the local ecosystems to run bitcoin miners?
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by h4kor 6y ago
Without BTC miners using this cheap power, it could be used to replace coal and gas plants.
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Googol Counter(youtube.com)
4 points by h4kor 6y ago|1 comments
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by h4kor 6y ago
Yes we are probably not wiped out, but the current trajectory will bring us to a hot earth scenario. This will limited humanity (and most current life) to the pole regions or fully controlled closed environments as everything to close to th
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by h4kor 6y ago
Climate Change will be the great filter for humanity.
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Show HN: End of Covid-19(h4kor.github.io)
4 points by h4kor 6y ago|1 comments
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by h4kor 6y ago
Are you planning to build this as an open source project?
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by h4kor 6y ago
I'm currently scraping recipes, too. The scrapers extract the data from the html itself, however most recipe blogs/sites provide the recipe as JSON-LD.
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by h4kor 6y ago
FYI: GitHub wikis are also git repositories If the repo has is: git@github.com:bit101/wiki_example.git The wiki is: git@github.com:bit101/wiki_example.wiki.git

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