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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Tell that to IBM.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I doubt that it's enough to care about. The hardware is specialized and the needs are different from normal servers. Bitcoin miners care almost exclusively about cheap electricity, not uptime or latency or bandwidth or interconnect. So
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Bitcoin uses about 1/3 the energy of all datacenters in the world put together. Datacenters use about 205 TWh/year. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow... Bitcoin uses about 75 T
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I find it curious that they would quote an executive on this. I doubt any of them have gotten their hands dirty on real code in years. Microsoft alone employs thousands of people more qualified to speak on the subject.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Yeah, Tesla is real productive. Only Elon Musk would have the brilliant idea of building a $100% automated factory, failing to do that, setting the goal of building 5,000 cars a week on normal lines, failing to do that, moving his employe
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>Or did he look at an Asian woman and immediately start attacking China? I don't think that's entirely fair. I suspect his answer would be pretty much the same no matter who asked it. He was pre >Marshalling private militias
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I suppose the guy calling Covid-19 "Kung Flu" was in no way trying to deflect blame to China? Was his treatment of that reporter in particular bad? No, not really. I don't believe he brought up China because she was Chinese
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
That is a cryptocurrency. The work coming from the people at Hyperledger, who are also using blockchains, is an ordinary database complete with access controls. It uses the same data structure but without any of the political goals and with
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>Even if you might be wrong about the wine or the Strad, you know for absolute certain whether it is making you happy! I also know for absolute certain that I can't afford expensive wine and that there are people who look down at me
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Then we, as engineers, have failed in explaining things. A blockchain is a linked list where each element of the list contains the hash of the previous element. It's basically a degenerate Merkle tree. That is all that it is. It isn&
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
He isn't in the same category as an average programmer. He's way lower, since he doesn't work in the field any more. He is something of an expert on business, I suppose, if you take having lots of money as evidence of smarts
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Bitcoin is fantastically slow. It can handle about 120 million transactions per year. That is absolutely 100% unusable for anything at scale. If 30 million people used Bitcoin, they could each do about one transaction every three months a
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
He is "ordinary folk writing clickbaity titles". People here just pay too much attention.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Bitcoin, at least, absolutely does not solve this problem. Let's leave aside its volatility for now and assume it magically stays at exactly the same price. You are then left using a currency where each transaction costs several dollar
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
crypto is just company scrip
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Yes, the cryptocurrency markets are famously rational.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Which plan was that? The one Musk was fired for pushing, i.e. getting them to switch all their infrastructure to Microsoft Windows ? Elon Musk is best ignored.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
This strikes me as a terrible argument. Yes, Visa is a small part of the whole system. It's also the only part that Bitcoin does anything to replace. Moving numbers from one column to another is trivial. If that were all the banking sy
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
A big green 'Accept Windows Defaults' button on the first boot that bricks the computer would be a pretty big incentive for vendors to sort out their drivers.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>Another reason why the macOS model is better for users. OS companies should make their own hardware. That is a pretty strange conclusion to draw. I would say this is a reason computers should ship with no software installed whatsoever.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
A transaction. A block can hold a limited number of transactions, so the throughput is limited. It works out to about four transactions per second on average. The cost to "mine" a whole block is even more ludicrous.
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Oh, come on. All of those things, except for travel, draw roughly zero watts compared to Bitcoin. One Bitcoin transaction is about 750 kWh. That's enough to power a typical home for a month. It's enough to drive about 500 miles in
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Doesn't matter, really. Bitcoin is secured by waste. Maybe the money is burned in coal-fired power plants, maybe it's burned buying "mining" equipment, maybe it's burned building wind turbines. All of those things a
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
I have often seen people saying things like "Bitcoin is orders of magnitude less efficient than Visa". While true, it's kind of like saying "the Atlantic Ocean is orders of magnitude bigger than my swimming pool". B
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Both 0.1 lines an hour and 1000 lines per hour would be equally wrong. That isn't how people would review that sort of code. They would test it and then thoroughly examine any areas of concern that crop up. I've run into 300-line
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
If you take a simplistic view of genetics where you draw Punnet squares and check if the offspring has GG alleles, maybe. Even if there are social benefits to there being some gay people around, that would still make those alleles pretty un
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
Did anyone ever actually think there was a gay gene-- more accurately, allele? Homosexuality clearly has a genetic component, and we've known that for decades. But we've also known for decades that most traits are not controlled b
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>The world is growing fatter by the year so it does not seem as though people are too stressed about those conceptions of the body being thrown around. You are assuming that seeing an impressive physique would inspire people to attain it
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
>If it works, that will be a massively important result. 1. No, it won't be a massively important result. It might have been important a year ago, but now it will be completely and utterly useless. Testing a vaccine takes a long tim
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by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
The scientific method isn't "make up something plausible-sounding and then assume it will work". That is, at best, the first step.

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