lai-yin

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by lai-yin 6y ago
I'm not seeing many bitcoin defenders here. Maybe it's because they're celebrating 61k.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Wow! Never mind!
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Couldn't we just strategically position some gargantuan mirrors in outer space so that the entire planet is always sunlit?
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Link to source: https://danhedl.medium.com/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3
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Energy Expenditure of Banking vs Bitcoin(twitter.com)
3 points by lai-yin 6y ago|1 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Great now do the U.S. dollar
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The Infamous Always Pan Is Not Worth the Hype(nytimes.com)
2 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
The Slate article suggests that Radiolab sensationalized the Orson Welles version. Quite the opposite. Jad & Co told the shocking truth - that the whole event was not that eventful. Then they got into the tragic story of the Ecuadorian
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MIT Establishes New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort(dci.mit.edu)
3 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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FBI Confirms Report of UFO over New Mexico(popularmechanics.com)
23 points by lai-yin 6y ago|9 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
I know this is an easy downvote and foolish statement, but I find very few pre-90s blockbuster movies to be watchable. Spielberg's movies hold up well though. There are a few others, like When Harry Met Sally, that I also still love.
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The perils of attempting to “electrify everything”(forbes.com)
3 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
And TX wind power projections are dropping to 500MW out of 24,000 MW wind system. http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/CURRENT_DAYCOP_HSL.htm...
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Nearly half of Texas wind turbines are frozen(statesman.com)
13 points by lai-yin 6y ago|6 comments
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130 tons of steel for one wind turbine foundation(twitter.com)
2 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
That's an absurd argument. And as long as we're using solar and wind, we'll need backup from coal, gas and nuclear for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. If you think increasing battery capacity
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Interesting stats in that citation. Hydropower dominates in the renewables category and North America has the highest regional share of renewables powered mining.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Caro's anecdote about how he persuaded Lyndon's brother to open up, in the re-creation of their childhood home, has stuck with me for years and almost feels like a parable.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Worth the six minutes. Life begins at the first cell.
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Wind turbine blades in many parts of the world are regularly coated in insect biomass.
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Verizon 5G data boxes appear without notice on Houston front lawns(houstonchronicle.com)
2 points by lai-yin 6y ago|0 comments
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Assembling California (1992)(newyorker.com)
2 points by lai-yin 6y ago|1 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
The carbon maths referenced by other hn users were very interesting, but they didn't debunk anything in the article. What specifically about the article did you find misleading? I thought it was an interesting and comprehensive introdu
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The Supply Chain for Lithium (2020)(clearpath.org)
81 points by lai-yin 6y ago|54 comments
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by lai-yin 6y ago
Anyone know the source of Jacob's chart in part 5 of his thread?
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by lai-yin 6y ago
wtf is dang
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by lai-yin 6y ago
It's a meme among bitcoin advocates to troll suckers like you. We see plenty of value in bitcoin. Enough to save the world from fiat.