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Residents sue company for burning tires to mine Bitcoin(wfmz.com)
2 points by grow2grow 2y ago|1 comments
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by grow2grow 2y ago
NESQUEHONING, Pa. - The company that owns a Carbon County power plant is being sued by a group of nearly 100 residents who live near the plant. They claim the plant is burning rubber tires to mine bitcoin. In the suit filed Tuesday, opponen
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by grow2grow 3y ago
smh
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Seems like a borderline conspiracy to fry the internal SSD over time, adding a wear-point to the product family, and making sure consumers keep consuming. I'm talking about system paging: virtual memory on the disk. Even worse, if one
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by grow2grow 3y ago
They thought they were going to mine cryptocurrency here during off-peak hours, if anybody is wondering why an energy company casually owns a huge datacenter. edit: guilty of 1) not reading article first, and 2) being overly pessimistic abo
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by grow2grow 3y ago
They do it so that the consumer can't price match nor return swap from one retailer to another. The model number ultimately becomes a type of trace to reveal which retailer sold the device.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
One could argue that the iPad is the reinvention we don't need. Here's my loadout: iPad Air 5 (big box sale), Pencil 2 (post xmas open-box sale, you bet), Zagg Rugged Book (eBay). M2 MBP (refurbished), 2020 MacBook Air Intel (big
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Asking the real questions, thanks.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Yeah, it's called a party. Their office probably blows through $30k of party supplies in a week.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
I'm probably in the university library most weekends scanning books into my fine-tuned LLM. Y'all can enjoy the trash, I've had enough.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Unfortunately, there is not enough demand for knowledgable humans, to keep up with the overwhelming supply. Typical universe. I've run out of sympathy for those who can't distinguish their survivorship bias from actual success. (p
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by grow2grow 3y ago
If you think about it... * they had halls of human computers 100 years ago * they had halls of humans using computers a few years ago so what is next?
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by grow2grow 3y ago
I mean, AI's (robots) weld on assembly lines. It's all about the context. They do have indoor assembly line welding robots. But, they don't have welding robots for outdoor, ground-breaking construction job sites yet. I mean,
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Thank you for this excellent example, which I'll be using when defending my unpopular opinion that Occam's razor is nonsense.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
This advice checks out: at home, I have the WiFi 5 Google-pods "mesh network" with five pods (this is a larger house). Economy of scale does take a generation or two to get behind in general. Wifi, EV's, heck even apple refur
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Guns. Guns happened.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Thanks for reminding us about this. Also another reminder, for everybody throwing a lasso around everything and hating on it, you're actually upset with the bureaucracy (which contains law enforcement). Remember folks, the U.S. gov&#x2
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by grow2grow 3y ago
> (For some extra “entropy”, by the way, snapdiff also takes the file size into consideration when comparing files.) I get what you mean by "entropy", but wouldn't it be more direct to just say matching hashes will have th
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by grow2grow 3y ago
This is why I read the comments before the article, and this is one of the rare exceptions where I've posted prior to reading an article.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Yes, no surprise that a standard won the battle, over several competing choices. That seems to happen a lot.
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by grow2grow 3y ago
Right, it seems the U.S. economy is trying to say, "making elementary machine tools is beneath us." The important bit is at the end: the U.S. is still a top buyer of machine tools (made elsewhere). Is the same thing to happen with