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by datadata 4y ago
In addition to location mattering as others have pointed out, time also matters a lot. Charge up during the day, you might be using solar. At night, that isn't likely anymore.
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by datadata 4y ago
Newton's law of cooling just says that your loss is going to be proportional to the temperature difference. But 1) the capacity of the battery is also proportional to the temperature difference, so the loss as a percentage of total ene
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by datadata 4y ago
I don't want Wayland to be exactly compatible with Xorg. Progress requires abandoning cruft and committing to a hopefully better design. I moved to Wayland 100% earlier this year and not looking back.
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by datadata 4y ago
In 1999, what web1 companies had cash flows or even a business model that could become profitable? In hindsight it is obvious because we know that things worked out, but at the time it was just speculation, and the crash was the market call
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by datadata 4y ago
Flowers were not a commodity before there was a market for them. Internet did not have commercial value before the speculative wave, in fact very little profits were made even by the end of the dot com boom. Agree there is rife speculation
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by datadata 4y ago
The physical inputs to bitcoin are decentralized and robust against disruption. You don't need to be a miner yourself to store or transact. > You need fiat to buy energy. This is a circular argument and not true. You can buy energy
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by datadata 4y ago
Excellent point. This also lends to it being easier for US tax subjects to use the dollar as a unit of account and ignore its (small, but not insignificant and always trending downward) value changes. I think a crypto wallet app that optimi
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by datadata 4y ago
> The notion of property rights is only relevant with a central authority who is able to enforce it. The innovation of bitcoin is precisely making this statement no longer true. The "property" might only be digital data, rather
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by datadata 4y ago
Whenever this comparison is drawn, it must also be pointed out that after the speculative bubble, the Netherlands has remained for centuries the center of a profitable and stable flower industry that was born in that time. The collapse was
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by datadata 4y ago
For daily transactions at the current gold price, it would be extremely hard to do this sort of measurement that way with any precision without very specialized equipment. A gram of gold (around $60) is a reasonable daily transaction size a
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by datadata 4y ago
Modern art reproducers can make copies of the Mona Lisa that experts can't easily distinguish from the original. This kind of replica fraud happens often in the art world. I find it interesting to try to justify the value of the origin
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by datadata 4y ago
> For crypto to have value, someone else needs to pay Dollar/Euro/whatever at an exchange. That's the value of crypto - the exchange rate. This is true for every economic good, including paintings. Whether the value is &qu
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by datadata 4y ago
> The only atmosphere being cleaned is that which passes through the machine. This is like saying that the only gasoline that is consumed is that which is burned up in a car. 1) A car can still be useful without consuming all gasoline in
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by datadata 4y ago
I challenge you to actually do the napkin math here, rather than continue to state your claim that it achieves "nearly no results" without anything quantifying what that means. You might actually be right, but I don't really
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by datadata 4y ago
By waste heat I meant that geothermal energy would eventually be released into the environment regardless of if humans extract useful work from it on the way. My assumption was that the article was talking about the waste of energy in this
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by datadata 4y ago
> It would quite literally be better to not even build it in the first place it seems You have to quantify these things in some way, otherwise you are making purely subjective claims. I don't think this project does a good job of us
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by datadata 4y ago
Shouldn't the comparison be carbon removed by this per unit energy used vs carbon produced by hydrocarbon powered power plant per unit energy created? E.g doing the math with some looked up data, this removes 1 ton of carbon per 2.5MWH
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by datadata 4y ago
> Not so quick. Does a layman have any reference point to what is considered "a lot" of carbon? I don't think a comparison to another producer of carbon would actually help a layman. Whether that is a lot or not would depe
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by datadata 4y ago
> Car emissions are really good on average. As technology progresses, it might be fathomable that 7,900 cars, or eventually 79,000 cars produce the same amount of emissions as today. This "metric" sounds impressive, but it&#x27
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by datadata 4y ago
> DAC’s energy usage, particularly when it’s considered in conjunction with the (relatively minuscule) amount of CO2 it’s capturing, is its biggest drawback. Sourcing the energy from renewable sources helps, but it’s still not unlimited
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by datadata 4y ago
Not sure about that. The additional messages can be automated, especially by those who send tons of emails (salespeople and recruiters, for example)
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by datadata 4y ago
Interesting, I had always thought the term came from the actual example of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Common , and the depletion of resources in Rapa Nui is another prime example of a failure case. In
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by datadata 4y ago
This feels like a tragedy of the commons. The person being emailed has a finite amount of attention. Sending additional emails will only prioritize your topic for their attention until everyone does this trick, at which point the advantage
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by datadata 4y ago
Curious to what degree and how you think web of trust idea could help here? Assume you could use it to prove whether an article was signed or not by a real person. I think this would solve the problem of articles being published with a fals
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by datadata 4y ago
Proposing opening an LLC is a pretty involved workaround that again requires more supervision and gatekeeping (e.g, for many people and many countries this is not even possible). Cash like settlement with any person on the planet without an
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by datadata 4y ago
The notion of a fee amount of a new car is wildly implausible. The current block subsidy is 6.25 BTC, about 200k at recent prices where mining was clearly functional. A block can fit around 2000 transactions. Your scenario of a run where bl
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by datadata 4y ago
If governments are successful in manipulating money to avoid volatility, why are these still scores of hyperinflation failed currencies, financial crises due to too much debt, and so on? Why is these not a clear law of economics that can le
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by datadata 4y ago
Do you think a bearer asset like cash has zero use cases? Bitcoin allows settlement much like this with a party that doesn't need to be identified and already trusted by a central clearing house. Of course this can be dangerous and mig
179.
by datadata 4y ago
No one said that USD is going anywhere. As you pointed out for bitcoin, the people who work on or invest in bitcoin are not part of the asset. This is the same for USD also. Visa equity is the most different amongst the three.
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by datadata 4y ago
I'm not sure why you are talking about stock trading. Settlement is a general, non stock specific thing. I'm talking about settlement in regular transactions, e.g. paying rent or buying groceries.

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