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by jbaczuk 4y ago
That's what I was thinking too, except that they have a point. You might end up using more bytes to store indexes as variables (if the index is 256 for example), than you would with zero indexing.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Yeah, but then couldn't the compiler just swap the 1 with a 0 and 256 with 255?
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
We are not limited by land space. What do you mean "fell on past-earth"? And it's not wasteful if those government controls are harmful.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
> Even with a pure renewables grid where you have huge excess of energy at certain times of day and year you will have bottlenecks due to inflexible demands when supply is at the lowest Not with good energy storage solutions.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I understand. My point is there is no reason to reduce energy usage. There is reason to reduce "dirty" energy usage. There is an abundant supply of "clean" energy.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
> Even wind/solar/nuclear has a carbon cost to it. Yeah, so does life.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Perhaps, but they are not banning gas stations or driving gasoline cars. So, the infrastructure does not all have to be in place for all drivers by then. Question is, will EVs actually be affordable by then. The vehicle repair market for ga
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
If your answer to clean energy to just use less energy, that seems inane. Also the increase in energy costs because of the war in Ukraine is directly related to dependence on foreign fuel which is not clean. So the problem isn't energy
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Wow this is unlike Apple. Is this a result of some legal action or legislation?
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I disagree, you can fit 3 carseats in the back of a car (it isn't pretty, but it works, and is legal).
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Nice! What is the long term goal with numpad?
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
paradise for people who don't like regulation. Criminals, and people with a criminal government/monopolies.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Company? Lightning is a distributed network and anyone can participate.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
It also helps to understand their motivations and speak in terms that they actually care about. Things like revenue, customers, markets, resources. Hint: They almost never care about the engineering details.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I agree, it would be nice if the way you design things in Figma more closely resembled how it is implemented in CSS.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
You're right, currently the volatility and deflationary aspect does incentivize its use more as an investment than a currency, but there are some unique aspects which make it more desirable as a currency. For example, No foreign exchan
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Ah I see. True it's not very good currency over the short term. You picked the high from 6 months ago. Try more than 6 months ago, say >=2 years.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
You must be lucky to live in a good country at the moment, but it's not all about you and not all about the current moment.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Have you heard of the sun? It's sending quite a bit of free energy. In fact too much, many would argue, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Me too. It's another financial incentives to make clean power generation more accessible.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I'm not condoning all the illegal stuff that happens with Bitcoin, to be clear, but just because a government says something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be. For example we're happy in the U.S. (well most of us I think)
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
What's your math on that? Current block reward is 6.25 BTC which occurs on average every 10 minutes. That's 52594 BTC per year. The max outstanding BTC is 21M (there are currently just over 19M) so that would be less than 0.25% an
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Ah, that's a good point. Well, good thing is you don't need an exchange to use it, and there are decentralized exchanges.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
People will just keep using it. But you might be right that it is a net negative since it's mostly used for speculation... But, it's not completely useless (tell that to the criminals who use it regularly). Or people who own it be
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I agree, and exchanges already are heavily regulated. But taxing energy consumption? How can you tax energy waste? What if someone sets up their own power generation? Is it wasting energy to let sunlight hit a parking lot?
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Energy is not generated, it's captured/converted, and energy is not a scarce resource. In this case, it's converted to financial security to prevent double spends and allow this currency to exist.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
You can try to regulate Bitcoin but you can't stop it. It will become like the drug war or prohibition.
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
I was gonna say, I would never use it as a DAW, but it is darn cool!
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by jbaczuk 4y ago
Deno Deploy, how is this different than lambda functions, or elastic beanstalk?

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