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Using thought to control machines(economist.com)
63 points by pmuk 9y ago|17 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
There's a growing grass roots DIY Powerwall movement, where people are recycling lithium batteries from laptops etc and turning them into huge battery packs for their homes: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/
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Proofs of Useful Work [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
99 points by pmuk 9y ago|38 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
Although I guess that's what the guys at CockroachDB are trying to do (for PostgreSQL at least!)
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by pmuk 9y ago
It amazes me that in 2017 HA for RDBs is still so brittle and complicated. I had hoped this problem would have been solved by now!
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Green aircraft: Small hybrid-electric airliners ready for take off(economist.com)
2 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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Cheesonomics: curd your enthusiasm(economist.com)
2 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
And there are huge energy costs in performing a transaction... 197 KWh @ $0.10 per KWh = nearly $20 of electricity for 1 transaction.
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by pmuk 9y ago
It's not very useful as a medium of exchange right now since it requires 197 KWh of energy to confirm a single transaction! https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
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What if large tech firms were regulated like sewage companies?(economist.com)
1 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
THe UK military has also been flying drones for about 10 years with Xbox controllers... https://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/11/04/army-fly-uav-spy-...
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by pmuk 9y ago
With smarter grids that support dynamic realtime pricing of electricy to end users, I think electric cars, home batteries and even appliances like fridges, refrigerators and washing machines can help balance supply and demand in the grids,
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UK offshore wind costs halve to £57.50 per megawatt hour(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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Facial recognition is not just another technology, it will change society(economist.com)
1 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
If you own an electric car in the UK you can choose an electricy supplier which provides 100% renewable electricity, e.g. https://bulb.co.uk
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by pmuk 9y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong but does this mean it takes around 3-4 households worth of daily energy use to confirm a bitcoin single transaction? https://blockchain.info/charts
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Britain and the European Union: The Six Flavours of Brexit(economist.com)
3 points by pmuk 9y ago|0 comments
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3D printers start to build factories of the future(economist.com)
46 points by pmuk 9y ago|1 comments
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by pmuk 9y ago
I agree. I helped my younger sister buy a car on a PCP recently, and I think they are actually a reasonable deal. It is my understanding that finance company guarantees the future value (GMFV) and that the final payment is optional, e.g. yo
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by pmuk 9y ago
I just unticked "Enable anonymous cookie targeting for your site's visitors." and that seems to have reduced the number of requests by 38!
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by pmuk 10y ago
This plant is for the TX5, an electric taxi.
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by pmuk 10y ago
They're actually really open with their numbers... https://ghost.org/about/ Active customers: 4,257 ARPU: $14.40 Monthly Run Rate: $62,796 Requests / month: 80M Registered users: 601,492 Github Stars: 24,921
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by pmuk 10y ago
Just pre-ordered on Amazon UK for £279.99. Interestingly Tesco, a large retailer, are running an Adwords campaign advertising it at £499.99
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by pmuk 10y ago
How can something have a fraction of a quantum of energy? I thought energy levels had to be discreet integer multiples of Planck's constant? The more I read about Quantum Mechanics, the less I understand!
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by pmuk 10y ago
I love that in 2017, we can just buy stuff like this on Amazon!
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by pmuk 10y ago
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by pmuk 10y ago
Have you seen their Dash / chffr phone apps? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-train-self-driving-cars... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.comma.chffr
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by pmuk 10y ago
This is very similar to what happened in the UK with Brexit; the remain campaign focused their arguments on the negatives / fear of leaving rather than the positives of being part of the EU.
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by pmuk 10y ago
Narrow majority would be more accurate.
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by pmuk 10y ago
Switching to Google's public DNS seems to have fixed it!

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