henearkr

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by henearkr 5y ago
I think they were referring to the fact that the state has the monopoly of violence: it is the only moral agent, in the country, with the right to kill without making it a crime. So it's a murder "technically physically" but
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by henearkr 5y ago
The usage by Cubans is completely dwarfed by the one by Nigerians. The population size can probably explain it partly, but I don't think it's sufficient. But most people depend on platforms to use BTC, so it's the same proble
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by henearkr 5y ago
Internet was already useful very early to transfer physics experiment data between labs (at the CERN).
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by henearkr 5y ago
Actually I do. I edited my comment though to reflect that, yes they are oppressive as they do shadowy things with the police and kill people. There is probably a mix of maybe-unregrettable (killing dangerous religious extremists political o
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by henearkr 5y ago
Nothing hints at a usage "as a currency" from Nigerian users. Most likely, those are scammers of other illegal activities and they hoard as much as possible of BTC without really caring how much exactly it amounts to. Also Nigeria
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by henearkr 5y ago
Well, a finer policy would probably be better, I agree. But, in this case, even if the loss of a beautiful peace of engineering is always a pity (but it is not even lost, because the source code itself has no reason to be forbidden!), I don
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by henearkr 5y ago
(Bitcoin is no currency...) I put it bluntly sorry, but to be more explicit: because of its volatility, BTC is very difficult to adopt for real transactions. Also, with a simple VPN, you access PayPal and you're good to go. I'd ar
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by henearkr 5y ago
Well, you're right, my comment actually lacks of the spelling out of the negative part of this technology!! As the usefulness is very doubtful but the energy consumption is utterly real, that is a net negative for the environment. The
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by henearkr 5y ago
It's not that I don't understand the use case. It's that the current use cases can be either replaced by preexisting less compute-intensive tech, or that the usage is just meaningless (gambling-like speculation, failed attemp
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by henearkr 5y ago
Well, a huge lot of people make usage of bitcoin like it is gambling (i.e. as a speculative asset). Cannot make generalities of course, but still.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Also PoS. Those are the grey area where I don't have as much strong opinions anymore. As they are less compute-intensive, the benefit is more likely.
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by henearkr 5y ago
As I said, I hoped I could think of some use for these hash machines. Same for the blockchain tech itself, i.e. some usage that would not be completely replaceable by some less compute-intensive tech. I honestly hope those usages exist. I r
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by henearkr 5y ago
I usually side with the EFF, but here going at total war against cryptocurrencies seems right to me. I don't see any scientific or technological application that could benefit humanity and would be developed from blockchain technology.
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by henearkr 5y ago
This is marvelous!! I sincerely wish you a great success!
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by henearkr 5y ago
Nah, lol :) I just said it won't disappear, exactly for the reasons you quoted! (I know the subject, I come from a cheese-loving country) But I'm still correct that it is less and less supported. On the CO2e side, don't under
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by henearkr 5y ago
Once you discovered interesting peptides, please consider mass-producing them with a bioreactor e.g. of modified yeasts. Milk will be phased out because its carbon footprint is too heavy, so even if it will probably not disappear short-term
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by henearkr 5y ago
But with lead you have both neurological/etc damages and DNA damages! These lead derivatives are classified as probably carcinogenous! So, you see? The comparison ends up easy!
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by henearkr 5y ago
Alright, but it's still not elemental lead. I'll look up PbO, but I'm expecting to be horrified at its harmfulness, rather than be reassured. And neither PbO is "naturally occuring", it's anthropogenous. Natura
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by henearkr 5y ago
Well, NO, lead tetraethyl is not naturally present. It's a human-made metallo-organic molecule.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Lead tetraethyl is not elemental lead. I think you are mixed up. Lead tetraethyl (the component found in lewded gas) is easily absorbed, it even diffuses through skin to the blood!
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by henearkr 5y ago
Lead accumulates in the body poisons you for far longer than the other chemicals you mention. Even with relative to the particular effects on health, you really can't compare lead and those others. Lead was really the worse.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Sorry, I did not really see the point you try to make. The fact that fruits need to be eaten to perpetuate the species is not linked to the existence of humans. Birds, mammals, many species disseminate seeds.
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by henearkr 5y ago
The tomato needs to be eaten to disseminate its seeds in feces. (Maybe not by insects though.)
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by henearkr 5y ago
This competition is good. Will push prices down a little bit.
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by henearkr 5y ago
The fact that the same reasoning can be done for other things does not remove the justification of this reasoning. This is why there is advocacy for a lot of eco-friendly behaviors, including those you mention. But the problem of cryptomini
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by henearkr 5y ago
When I read "patent company" I can't help but understand it as "patent troll". A company specialized in making money from patents can't be any good...
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by henearkr 5y ago
Could be very useful for effortless diagnostics.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Thanks a lot!!
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by henearkr 5y ago
Only if you suppose a fully decentralized system. Else, you would just send a transaction updating the sender's and receiver's accounts, and there would be no double spent either. You can build robust currency systems that are onl
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by henearkr 5y ago
Which Babel plugins you would recommend?

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