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Ask HN: Can blockchain allow full privacy Covid-19 tracing?
2 points by skitout 7y ago|15 comments
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by skitout 7y ago
You can get different types of "bail out" for different types of companies... It can be "much more expensive" for private equity firm than "normal" SME... You save as many jobs and you save a lot of taxpayers m
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by skitout 7y ago
It is possible to save as many jobs with "more expensive money" when in comes to Private Equity firms - and that would be a better investment for the taxpayers
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You don't necessary need to download a multi gigabyte UTXO anymore :) Blockchain tech is young and a lot of thing are going on - and 2010 was prehistory for blockchain
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" Blockchains don't actually solve any business problems" We have seen a lot of bullshit projects (and keep seeing many), but your affirmation shows a clear lack of knowledge about what is going on with blockchain !
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a16z podcasts are cool to understand the applications of blockchain
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There are some problems in France too.. With legal problems for journalist releasing information about French arms in Yemen for example, police officer specifically targeting journalist during protests (attacks against them or their materia
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by skitout 7y ago
Massive investment in energy efficiency, plus big investment in renewable energies and and demand-response, plus a little bit of investment in thermal and electric energy storage would more than do the job, for cheaper, with more resilience
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You are talking about reactors I am talking about power plant ; one nuclear power plant has generally multiple reactors A lot of active nuclear power plant are old and based on old design. This article was written before Fukushima ! Many ne
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1) That is why you should rely on different (renewable) complementary energy : solar, onshore wind, offshore wind, biomass, hydro 2) You don't really NEED Season long storage, but Season long thermal storage would do the job
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Energy can be stored as electricity... or thermally (most of our electricity is used to create heat or cold, that we can cheaply store for days and even months) Reversible damns are for small amount of energy and short term... but most clas
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Wind + Solar + hydro + demand response + some thermal and electric storage has a reliable, predictable output and works after dusk And for new capacities, that is cheaper than coal or nuclear
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by skitout 7y ago
Well, hydro is still a big source of energy... A diversified renewable energy mix, including offshore wind is much less intermittent than what u imagine Massive investment in both energy efficiency and demand-response would reduce the need
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Yes, including cost for balancing the grid : - electrical storage (increasingly cheap, and providing ancillary services to the grid), but also thermal and mechanical storage - demand-response (Huge one ! especially if you do investment at t
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by skitout 7y ago
1) The article does not mention consuming less energy/stuff - whether by being mush more efficient for the same result (huge potential there !) or with more sobriety 2) "there is no chance that the renewables, wind, tide and water
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There is a serious problem in how France (my country) manage protests... While countries like Germany adopted desescalation technics that proved to be effective... France moved to more violents tactics, seriously injuring a lot of people (m
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This is enough to do some double spending (= you won't get much here!)... if no one is noticing (if hey notice they can increase the cost / decrease the reward). I guess some people still think DeepOnion have potential in the futu
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by skitout 7y ago
The answer of hn_throwaway_99 is interesting I would add that if an attack on bitcoin is detected, there would be some answer to it, and the actual cost of the attack would really rise There is also some complexities to get your hand on eno
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by skitout 7y ago
The market cap does not fit into the equation on how an attack works ; it just gives you idea on how big/small is this blockchain Blockchain don't have a centralized entity to "validate" and secure each transaction, so h
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As far as the block chain is concerned they cannot... when they are not under attack. The attack can rewrite part of the history to double spend some crypto
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Or they can double spend some crypto, that is generally the main goal here
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1) If a big crypto-community notices an attack, the cost of a 51% attack would rise 2) There are mechanisms to offer smaller cryptocurrencies Bitcoin level security, like Komodo's Delayed Proof of Work ( https://komodoplatfor
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by skitout 7y ago
1)You forget the energy efficiency / less energy consumption part 2)You forget the demand-response and energy storage part 3)" it will be extremely expensive to cover all these power requirements in renewables only" ; a lot o
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For years the share of coal in the German energy mix had been in decline, and this trend continued after the start of the nuclear phase out. So "nuclear power was mostly replaced with power from coal" could be misleading... (Plus
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About roguelike game (not in Rust), Komodo developped a decentralized blockchain based one, and give developers lots of tool to develop their own decentralized game - roguelike or not https://docs.komodoplatform.com/basic-do
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Wealth accumulation and inequality poses problems right now, for example IMF says inequality Seriously Damages Growth... Wealth accumulation also means other people does not have this money, with all the problems associated - including a lo
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Car and land cost money for the state, you get a "direct service" from your tax. And wealthy people have lower rate (compared to their revenue and wealth) than the average Joe Here we talk about a tax without a "direct servic
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by skitout 7y ago
Sure, but how do we used to share the increase in productivity ? How do we share it now ? How should we share it ? ; My feeling is workers had been the "loser" those last 30 years in how are shared the productivity gain. Ethical
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Top 1% of the population is for example your dentist... Where the situation really changed is more about the top 0.1%
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My feeling is rich are "stealing" from others, and feel that we are in an oligopoly... :)

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