throwaway271818

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   by throwaway271818 4mo ago

   I think a lot of technical people interpret interview questions literally. Like yes of course the prompt starts with a negative - but you don't actually have to answer the question fully and literally, this isn't a college exam. Y
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   by throwaway271818 5y ago

   Ah, but they’re calculating e-waste in the form of specialized mining hardware (ASIC) that, at present, goes obsolete every few years. The e-waste generated this way is not an intrinsic cost of handling a transaction, since the hardware cou
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   by throwaway271818 5y ago

   Where did you get the 100g of e-waste figure from btw? Is that, roughly speaking, the e-waste mass of storage/txn * total number of nodes?
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   by throwaway271818 6y ago

   Another throwaway because I don't want friends to know, but another thing about being poor that people who are not don't really understand is how much family can keep you down. If you are the only person in your family to go to co