shobith

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by shobith 8y ago
Any network-effect driven product is a cult.
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by shobith 9y ago
Really?
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by shobith 9y ago
geez, it was a(n interstellar) joke guys! the aliens might be using neutrinos or something!
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by shobith 9y ago
That's pointless, EM is an outdated technology, nobody listens to it anymore.
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by shobith 9y ago
They could have easily added a few more people speaking while they were at it: https://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/New-battery-techno...
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by shobith 9y ago
> Visa and mastercard together employ ~20k people and handle much, much, much more transactions than all the cryptocurrencies combined. 20K people (debatable) and a bunch of computers and networks which need to be managed by more people,
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by shobith 9y ago
I ran out of HN time yesterday, so here's my delayed response. > Most modern banks also don't manage transactions with employees anymore, they use computers to transact. so, there's some of that carbon expenditure going in
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by shobith 9y ago
Thank you for the numbers! Assuming those estimates are correct (I haven't verified it), I think it's hard for me to believe that there are fewer than 191K people working to manage an equivalent number of financial transactions in
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by shobith 9y ago
I agree, we should stop generating electricity using fossil fuels. That said, I don't think it's right to just short the connection between "coal" and "bitcoin", we aren't mining coal to get bitcoins, it j
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by shobith 9y ago
> We literally are mining coal to burn it in powerplants to energize servers and GPUS to waste clock cycles to find "coins". I'm curious to know what the carbon footprint of a human is, that way we can compare it to the GP
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by shobith 9y ago
> Money is literally the decentralized, asynchronous, dynamic, and continuous computation that has evolved to process the combinatorial coordination of signals/information on resources between 7+ billion unfathomably complex and ind
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by shobith 9y ago
I understand your sentiment. However, I think about it slightly differently -- crypto currencies (and their likes) are just an attempt to replace man-power with computer-power. We need someone to enforce the rules without human intervention
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by shobith 9y ago
I may not agree with Wolfram and his theories (or his ego), but I don't think we can equate him to Kurzweil, Woflram definitely has produced a body of work to substantiate his "rabbit holing" and he's created a business
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by shobith 9y ago
How's Wolfram similar? what thoughts of his are "overblown"? I'm curious because I don't see the parallels between the two, while you seem to imply some obviousness.
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by shobith 9y ago
This is a creepy thing to be in possession of a profit driven public company.