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by iSnow 5y ago
Good luck relying on Europe to pull this off, Wakefield scammed from here and vaccine denial is high in many EU countries as well.
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by iSnow 5y ago
Well, of course I forgot the ETC HF, that one was indeed contested. But yeah, generic for a HF out of differences that cannot be reconciled and which leads to a viable new project like BCash, BSV, ETC.
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by iSnow 5y ago
Chia seems completely brain-dead. Buying up HDs and SSDs to fill them with junk data and getting coins for that. In what universe does that make sense? I'd rather support Bitcoin miners as they only cause an ASIC shortage, a SSD shorta
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by iSnow 5y ago
The logic of Bitcoin maximalists who already revel in dreams that one day, they will relocate to remote islands or citadels while watching the world burn down. Any human with a moral compass would shudder at the thought of a collapse of Wes
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>why would the core project care how many times it's forked? Some changes (eg. to the block reward schedule) are only possible on a hard fork as it makes the main chain incompatible with the pre-fork chain. That's the philosoph
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by iSnow 5y ago
Well, maybe it is time to think about whether currency is really the killer usecase for crypto. I used to but not anymore. ETH is much more useful as a global, standardized back-end technology for finance, so I'm kinda sad the "ul
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by iSnow 5y ago
Honestly, that's where the article becomes totally bizarre. ETH is now worth in fiat 3000x more than in 2015, and miner's expenditures are in fiat. So instead of cutting mining rewards by say 95%, it got cut by 25% and that's
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by iSnow 5y ago
But hasn't dPOS shown that people don't care that much about governance and will just hand their coins to someone, anyone who promises to reward them? The current crop of dPOS coins leaves a very stale taste in my mouth as they al
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Come on. I wish ADA well, but Charles is one self-centered person and the community has erected a cult around him and is super toxic against other projects. After BTC maxis, ADA has the most religious maximalists I would say.
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Germany is one example where a long-term infrastructure investment strategy makes a lot of sense as the infrastructure is crumbling: https://www.dw.com/en/german-infrastructure-begging-for-over... . Not all could be spe
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>Now try to guess what is happening when everyone starts to do what Germany is doing for close to 20 years now ? I am not a huge fan of Germany's energy policy myself, I see it as misguided giving up nuclear first and coal second. B
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IDK, this chart looks like a lot of German regions are pretty innovative: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/policy/innovation/regio... Also, Germany pushing for a worldwide carbon tax? That's nea
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by iSnow 5y ago
400K in Germany is upper management level, not C-suites, but most certainly not engineering either.
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Wait, got any source to back up the claim that those environmental organizations are corrupt fronts for business interests?
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I think a dead man's switch is mentioned: "The Alerter system is connected directly to the air brake system which functions to provide an automatic full service penalty application of the air brake system, and a power knock out (P
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Not really, imagine a troubled plane bombing a city with huge and explosive battery packs.
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Track gauge is the same all over western and central Europe. And Europe is slowly but surely moving towards ERTMS/ETCS( ) for train control. Different voltages and frequencies are a problem but less than in the past thanks to modern el
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Cyprus wasn't the central bank and especially not the ECB, though.
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by iSnow 5y ago
>IMHO the Roman Empire was build on the back of its civil engineers, and not its legions. At least in the long run. Interesting thought but why would the Empire have fallen then? Most likely, civil engineering remained top notch througho
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by iSnow 5y ago
That's not exactly great, tbh. A car can easily run for 10y (mine is due for a replacement at 19yo), so 7y seems ecologically unnecessarily wasteful. I get that it doesn't make sense to offer parts for 20yo cars, but if we want to
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> It's only a matter of time before some mutant shows up that's resistant to a certain vaccine and we start from scratch. That's not a given. There's an evolutionary space for mutations the virus that isn't endle
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I don't know a ton about a modern airliner but my guess would be that the door between the server compartment and the cargo bay can't simply be opened from the cargo bay, as it would be way too easy for anyone to enter the cockpit
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How would you plug your Macbook into the plane's network?
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I know that, good for them. One just got classified a radionuclear threat, EDF is complaining about the hush-up the Chinese authorities are conducting and running to Washington so they are allowed to fix it. In Europe, three are unfinished,
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by iSnow 5y ago
That doesn't make nuclear any more feasible. Hinkley Point C is estimated to cost $32.5 bn and is expected to take 18y from go-ahead till operation. You'd need 15 NPPs of the same class to satisfy the UK's electricity demand
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by iSnow 5y ago
I think some kind of IOUs would work really well here! While we are at it, we also could do this for USD on the blockchain. We could say "tether" them while embezzling the real USD.
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by iSnow 5y ago
While this is true, early Bitcoin adopters started to conflate the two. Broadly speaking, Bitcoin has seen three or four phases: 1) Cypherpunks with a strong counter-cultural note till 2013 2) BTC as a currency + payment system ("Cheap
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by iSnow 5y ago
How it started: "Be your own bank" How it is going: "US’ First Crypto Bank Reveals Date of Commencement" IDK, while I really like the tech of the various DLT implementations, I am not so sure the world needs cryptoCURREN
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by iSnow 5y ago
Yeah, no. You can't sell energy that you are not producing and the EPR in France and the UK is still not running. Just check the price in EUR/kWh and start to weep. I'm not in principle against nuclear, but it's just not
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>so they need to be subsidized by governments Easy money if you know how to harvest it.

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