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by scott_ci 8y ago
Pumped storage analysis: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/ spoiler: not remotely possible to scale large enough for total world needs. "If we drained one meter from every upper lake
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by scott_ci 8y ago
I just went on a zip line for the first time, and climbing their tallest ladder was pretty unnerving. I don't have a great fear to begin with, but my the wow-I'm-really-hear effect has definitely gone down. Maybe if I had done tha
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by scott_ci 8y ago
As someone who develops VR on a daily basis, I'm skeptical that 3D over 2D is the key. When I first tried on a headset, and watched a video from up high, my fear of heights kicked in. Now I'm almost completely immune to that effec
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by scott_ci 8y ago
there's a company that focuses on this: http://www.forklift-simulator.com/
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by scott_ci 9y ago
I imagine a marketplace with a ledger of electrons and money, with smart switches and meters that directly interact with this marketplace. One interesting idea is having certain energy tagged as "green" energy, like wind generated
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by scott_ci 9y ago
the plan for ethereum is to switch to proof-of-stake, but that has definitely not been figured out yet. I could also see a more private blockchain supporting stuff like this. Maybe it's not open to anonymous participants, but is still
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by scott_ci 9y ago
There's a recent podcast about this and blockchain + energy sector in general: https://epicenter.tv/episode/174/ Why blockchain? It enables peer-to-peer buying and selling of electricity (no middle man), whic
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by scott_ci 10y ago
I've found that getting a wallet and sending some Bitcoin is a great first step. This course introduces Bitcoin and also surveys an array of other decentralized, blockchain projects: https://www.pluralsight.com/courses&
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Everything I learned bootstrapping a consumer electronics product(medium.com)
3 points by scott_ci 12y ago|0 comments
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by scott_ci 12y ago
I've heard public health people talk about the problem of giving away nets for free before, and that charging some amount of money seems to improve usage. It may be more than just the decision between starving and malaria, but also som
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by scott_ci 13y ago
theoretically, Bitcoin doesn't require any trust. But with the majority of mining being done be a few large pools, I think the distributed protection of the system is severely compromised. As far as the initial block chain, you can ver
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by scott_ci 13y ago
True, I still need add a note in the video about the public key. As far as I know, this doesn't impact the security of the system, just makes addresses easier to pass around. Also true about the inputs. It's extremely hard to expl
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by scott_ci 13y ago
why I made this video: A lot of the videos and explanations I read about Bitcoin were vague and mystical sounding. Or, alternately, super long and rambling. This is my effort to explain it in as concise a manner as possible. I'm relati