EvanWinget

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by EvanWinget 3y ago
There’s an SF-based startup working on an electric truck for urban audiences, called Telo. Might be interesting to those who find kei trucks appealing but want a proper fully street legal alternative. https://www.motortrend.com&#
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by EvanWinget 5y ago
Please spend a few minutes reading more on this topic, as you may change your view after learning where Bitcoin’s electricity usage fits into the broader picture. Some good starting points may be: https://www.newsweek.com/bi
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How much energy does Bitcoin actually consume?(hbr.org)
5 points by EvanWinget 5y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWinget 5y ago
Chia is on mainnet but transactions will not go live until May 3rd. Currently farmers are earning XCH without a means of sending it to one another or other wallets, and there is no price or market for XCH at this time.
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Mozilla's VPN launches out of beta in 6 countries(vpn.mozilla.org)
8 points by EvanWinget 6y ago|1 comments
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by EvanWinget 6y ago
I wish that Apple had better support for PWAs and allowed alternative rendering engines. The issue is that they are the only major player in mobile that cares about user privacy, and this allows them to maintain their monopoly for many user
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Brave/BAT’s R&D Team Creates Distributed VPN(arxiv.org)
6 points by EvanWinget 7y ago|0 comments
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HBR: Experience Doesn’t Predict a New Hire’s Success(hbr.org)
1 points by EvanWinget 7y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWinget 7y ago
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (have lived/worked in US, Europe, and Asia) Technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML/CSS/JS, TypeScript, Node, Angular, Ionic, Git Résumé/CV: https:/&#x2
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by EvanWinget 7y ago
HVDC (high voltage direct current) networks can actually move electricity on an order of hundreds of miles with single digit % losses. There are further losses though during the switch from solar DC to AC, where voltage is then stepped up,
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Chia Network’s Green Paper [pdf](chia.net)
3 points by EvanWinget 7y ago|0 comments
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Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index(cbeci.org)
5 points by EvanWinget 7y ago|0 comments
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by EvanWinget 7y ago
Apple will keep developing Safari, luckily, so there's still a 3-way race in many ways. Safari is only ~4% of desktop/laptop browsing but over 20% of mobile and with mainstream users slowly moving to tablets over laptops this pres
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by EvanWinget 7y ago
There's definitely a big problem with short termism and focus on quarterly performance over long-term value. Luckily there are a variety of solutions to this. One is to have dual class share structures where minority owners have majori
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by EvanWinget 7y ago
This is definitely true for a lot of the major consumer facing software companies. "Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to unite us, but to distract us.