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by taolegal 4y ago
funny how they just ceded true decentralization to Bitcoin & the usual detractors will miss out due to deep-seated prejudices you may as well just use a central bank or traditional database, POW is unlike the rest and for good reason
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by taolegal 4y ago
> Of course, the owners of the Bitcoin factory would never try to exert their influence and try to keep their cheap source of hydro power, or keep the methane flowing. /s You see how you just substantiated my argument that Bitcoin n
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by taolegal 4y ago
In order to argue that wicked corporations are wasting massive amounts energy for profit, yes this requires the idea of finding very cheap power, i.e. something like off-peak or excess.
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by taolegal 4y ago
It's not negative or unexpected. Bitcoin naturally uses the cheapest energy it can find (arbitrage), which usually ends up being stranded energy. Something like a third of all electricity generated is wasted. So the idea that Bitcoin i
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by taolegal 4y ago
I have a hard time with left leaning economics if only because they revile "consumerism" but their policy prescriptions, in practice, make it impossible to do anything but consume. The demonization of "hoarding" is basic
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by taolegal 4y ago
If you're going to unveil a new vaccine it should be proven to be effective. Anything else at this point (when practically everyone has developed an immune response through infection or previous vaccination) is unethical. The mouse mod
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by taolegal 4y ago
Sure let people get them voluntarily. My point is that all this irrational exuberance is very clearly precipitously eroding trust in public health authority & science generally.
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by taolegal 4y ago
Anti-vax? You have no clue what my beliefs are on this, I'm not anti-vaccine. I remember just last year the Biden administration forced through the booster shots (after a propaganda campaign predicated one & done, that then extende
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by taolegal 4y ago
> Even granting the genuinely unlikely possibility that this mouse model is reflective of the immune response in humans, whatever other microorganisms people were encountering were demonstrably less dangerous than SARS-CoV-2. The mouse m
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by taolegal 4y ago
There's something about the direct democracy upvote/downvote system that hyper-polarizes the whole forum. Marginal (read: interesting and crucially under-appreciated) voices are silenced & made to disappear, only reinforcing t