nonbel

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by nonbel 8y ago
"War against" ("War on") seems to mean it is a never-ending boondoggle that, at best, wastes a bunch of resources. Is there any example of these "wars" being a success? The three that come to mind are: War
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by nonbel 8y ago
This is very relevant, thanks.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Basically the format of a scholarly article with summary, intro/background, evidence (+ methods), interpretation, authors conclusion. The videos under discussion here would be part of "evidence". I need to be able to skip aro
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"This is the same "Right" that has a monopoly on certain foodstocks, such as butter and flour and has been stock-piling them" I don't know the details but is "the right" being conflated with some form
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by nonbel 8y ago
I was interested in whatever his point was, and I can see why including some video from the show is helpful since thats whats being referenced. However, it just takes too long for video to convey the info. Just not the right format to keep
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"How would you approach trying to determine a good approach to healthy eating for most people then?" I wouldn't. As noted in my response to falcolas' response to you I would assume everyone can have different approac
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by nonbel 8y ago
You use general principles. Eg, someone else posted this which I think is good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_hachi_bun_me Also throughout the thread you see people saying "that's what worked for me, eve
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by nonbel 8y ago
Personally, I find a collection of anecdotal data (ideally from a wide variety of people) is worth much more to me than these studies that just report average results that apply to the average person/animal/cell in their sample. T
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by nonbel 8y ago
Obviously to make money... Towns with weird subsidizing schemes going on won't be able to take advantage unless they account for the new opportunity.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Yes, really. You're trying to deflect to another subject using extremely shoddy calculations (and don't use the "It's a back of the envelope calculation" excuse) because you have no defense for the topic a
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by nonbel 8y ago
As mentioned, the problem is that increasing that value enough to matter could increase the storage/etc costs of monitoring the blockchain to an extent that would be prohibitive for many people. If those costs come down then the "
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by nonbel 8y ago
We can check from another perspective. Apparently the whole internet is around 70 TWh/year from datacenters alone in 2016 (link to actual study is broke): https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2016&#x
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by nonbel 8y ago
Not really. I dont see why anyone would complain about bitcoin wasting energy but not crappy web design when the latter wastes more (reddit is just one example of this). Afaict, you should complain about both or prioritize the larger waste
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by nonbel 8y ago
Mining is somewhat unique in that it doesnt really matter where it is done and it is very easy to tie profitability to electricity cost (since that is the main cost). So I disagree, at least if it gets big enough to matter. I'd expect
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sorry, not sure what you are referring to here. Ie, What three orders of magnitude?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate this more honest position. You dont like energy being used on bitcoin because you dont like bitcoin. If enough people think that way then it should be considered "waste". Simple enough, but what is enough peop
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"banks could become more energy efficient. Bitcoin, however, cannot do this, by definition...there's more power being used than several entire small countries to perform something like 100 transactions a second." I don&#x
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"you can't assume that power usage scales anywhere close to linearly with data usage." As noted in the original post, its based on 5 kWh per GB of data transferred as described here: https://aceee.org/file
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by nonbel 8y ago
What value does the new reddit layout offer? How many people actually like it?
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"The fact there are existing, worse ways to use energy doesn't mean we shouldn't care about Bitcoin." Its more like you are trying to catch rainwater in a strainer full of holes but are worried about a tiny pinhole i
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yea, I did a similar analysis on the energy wasted due to the new reddit layout (I got 3 TWh per year, or ~10% of bitcoin electricity usage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619025 I'd love to see someone go mor
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Just measuring single page-loads using a browser extension is far to simplistic of a metric." All I know is the site has become almost unusable on an old tablet I have, it sits on a loading screen for tens of seconds before l
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by nonbel 8y ago
Please post your analysis, I'd love to see a more in depth one.
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by nonbel 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that somehow everyone who visits the site is paying for it.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Its amazing to see how much people waste in general. I did an analysis the other day and came up with ~ 3 TWh per year wasted just because reddit wants to use "fancy" (annoying to me) layouts: >"So about 3 TWh extra electr
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by nonbel 8y ago
Wikipedia has a bit on it: >"Amyloidosis is a group of diseases in which abnormal protein, known as amyloid fibrils, builds up in tissue. [...] The presentation of amyloidosis is broad and depends on the site of amyloid accumulation
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by nonbel 8y ago
They've defined it circularly so that the same symptoms without extensive plaques is a different disease.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Well pretty much everyone does have some amyloid plaques in their brain but I mean that there is a higher level of amyloid in your kidney now than before you had the infection.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"This is because in early cases of Alzheimer’s, patients may have the biological indicators of the disease without actually showing symptoms." This is called a "degenerating research programme". The theory always lag
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Although the results are promising, this trial was fairly small, and as Vox points out, it’s frowned upon in the research community to change your end results midway through a trial. At the moment, the FDA requires new drugs targe

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