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It sounds like the reason is that you don’t understand money, which is generally regarded as having 3 core functions. Acting as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account. Bitcoin does all of those things. Your issue seems to be that it’s not widely accepted enough as a medium of exchange to properly facilitate that function? The problem with that view is that it is widely accepted enough to drive some level of demand. With that demand being generated by (probably a relatively small number of) people who use it for retail payments, speculators, and black market participants.
Nevermind traditional banks with their towering office buildings full of air conditioning/appliances, employees commuting to work, remote branches, sophisticated vaults and online infrastructure.

I can never take the bitcoin climate change hysteria seriously. I wonder why the people who write these articles aren't calling out traditional banks? hmm.
Only if the country itself is producing electricity with coal.

But the catch here is that when the politicians get their shit together and more to more renewable and less polluting methods of electricity production, suddenly ALL EVs in use will instantly become less polluting.

ICE cars don't mysteriously grow new particle filters or catalytic converters with a free OTA update. They pollute the same amount (or more) for their whole existence.
Reminds me of commercial high end plasma speakers: http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/04/plasma-speakers/

A closeup video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeWtBAE5LY
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I think it depends how coarse and plentiful your facial hair is. Mine is thick, dense, and fast-growing. Before I grew a beard, I shaved every day, and one of those five-blade razors would last about a week before it blunted and became uncomfortable to use. That gets expensive fast, so I switched to an old-fashioned safety razor.
They have been doing this for years with "Forbes [sector] Council" and a bunch of "[city name] Business Journal" sites ran by the same company.
You are right, but I have cans of gasoline as part of my emergency kit in case of an earthquake or fire.
This reply to that thread addresses the better comparison of power usage I've seen (https://twitter.com/ipvkyte/status/1350922562935681024):

(in response to a single BTC transaction consuming 621 kwh)

A Tesla gets 4.1 miles per KWh. So one transaction costs 2,546 miles. Seattle to Boston is 3k miles.

Paying for a burger with bitcoin has the same environmental cost as driving that burger to you from the other coast.
Vegetarianism outside such regions might be more wasteful, but it is still mich less wasteful and has a much smaller environmental impact than an omnivore diet
I'm not sure it's relevant, although the book is fantastic.

The first few chapters show that historically money predates barter, not the other way around. And that money was born as "I owe you" notes issued by the government.

I know of only one comment [1] Graeber made about bitcoin, and it's too late to ask him now.

[1]: https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/990857460176089088
The main point is that emissions are produced in the power plant, not outside your house.
The original reason is that it was not possibly to implement in a type-safe manner with c++98, as it lacked variadic templates. The << stream << stuff was always a compromise.
I think it should seen as more similar to gold than to money.

We don't use gold to buy goods either, but it has a value, because people believe it has. The value of Bitcoin is disputed because not everyone believes in it yet. So it's either a gold in the making or nothing, depending on whether those who believe in it will succeed at convincing the others of its merits.
Some of the performance problems on Windows are related to always-on antivirus. Exclude your project directories from antivirus scan and you'll see the difference. JetBrains IDEs now even have an auto-suggestion and an option to do it directly from the IDE.
Do you have any sources to undermine your statement that miners predominantly use waste electricity?
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Not the case in Belgium. The test center has no cars, you take the exam in your own car or the car of the driving school.

What would be the issue? It's the same car you practiced in.
I don't know where you're getting this but it isn't really accurate.
> There were never really coins of uniform weight and until early modern times we didn't really have the technology to even mint coins with a uniform weight.

Nobody needs perfect uniformity, but they have been made practically uniform since the first coinage.

>Whilst the unit of account probably was some weight of precious metal, e.g. the weight in silver of a bushel of wheat (shekel), the issuers of these coins rarely offered convertibility to precious metals.

I don't understand what would that even mean? Gold coins are not convertable to gold? They are gold?
Great, now all I need to do is run an extension cord out the window, down the stairs, across the parking lot to my space in the carport.
The same question could be put after every election on a variety of integrity-related issues - and indeed, probably is. The exercise of asking and answering is pretty much strictly political, no matter how much fire and fury the bystanders are raining down.
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The web is awash with articles written and published that have no ads, but consist of content which has been written to promote products/services where these products/services have paid for that content to appear and rank well organically. What I presume you call ads can be viewed a transparent boosting of ranking transparently using money. So binary classifcation of ads/no ads is going to tricky.
This thread is nothing new. This exact sentiment has been repeated over and over for the last 10 years.

From the angle that bitcoin is useless, it's easy to dismiss it as waste. The reality is that you live in world where people have different understandings and values than you may have. So advocating against Bitcoin is no different than advocating against air travel. You see no issue in the huge amounts of energy consumption for "seeing the world" and "business travel" but maybe I do.

Use resources the way you wish and so will others. Free markets will decide where scarce resources work best.
Actually pointed out in the document:

The next question, if you're not napping, is to ask yourself is whether there's an alternative to shutting down this API. Everything you turn off will break somebody's code and take their time to fix it. It's good for the health of your client ecosystem and the web as a whole if APIs keep working.

There are valid reasons to shut down an API (outside of "the company will shut down"). Some API shutdowns are security-wise, for example the API relies on an outdated authentication scheme that can easily be cloned or bruteforced. Assuming that you are in 2012 when credential sharing were acceptable, it's impossible to develop a backwards-compatible API because simply the method to authenticate is now vastly different (tokens versus classic username-password credentials). Some will argue "oh, just generate app passwords!" but unless your audience is that savvy enough, having the API left on will shift the burden from a one-time change to a continual cycle of explaining users to use an app password (which will hit you very badly).

At other times, you need to shut down an API due to an external change. For example, separating APIs by region (note that "oh, just geodetect it" haven't really been sent up letters from a government agency in charge of data and privacy).
They say it takes one to know one. The question is if that refers to language inventors or murderers. I got 8/10 right, so I guess I had better come up with a programming language pretty soon. ;-)
I think you fell for a trickster.

"A small Fiat 126p, going 45 km per hour, was driven into a concrete wall. The bumper was not damaged. The driver wore no seatbelts. The inertial reaction, which should have thrown him onto the hood, did not ocur. The stopping distance was only 16 centimetres. Impossible? Yet hundreds of people in, and the stadium, and millions more on television. The use in all vehicles of the absorber of the energy, "Ecollision", can radically improve automobile safety."

Regardless of the mechanism of energy absorption, if a vehicle is decelerated from 45 kph to 0 within 16 centimeters, there needs to be a way to remove the kinetic energy from the driver inside as well (seatbelts). If not, they will simply continue flying along at 45 kph, through the windshield. If the driver in this case was not wearing seatbelts, it's quite likely that the vehicle was not going that quickly.

``Lagiewka says, "The technical idea behind my buffer can be used in very many practical solutions. Another invention which I showed experimentally, is the brake. Connected to the axis on a Mercedes, the car stopped in one-quarter of the distance usually required".''

When braking, the limiting factor is usually not the brake mechanism itself (e.g. the disc brakes), but the interface between tires and the road. That's why cars have anti-lock systems.
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I think the people who are critical of the wastefulness of Bitcoin fail to factor in the usefulness of a store of value.

Whether you like it or not, human beings find a need to store value. In countries without a proper store of value -- due to e.g. government intervention -- they start hoarding commodities (e.g. wheat, cotton) or productive assets like cars.

So the question becomes whether having something like Bitcoin as a replacement for hoarding useful assets is actually environmentally preferable. Hoarding millions of cars as a store of value -- as they do in e.g. Argentina -- also impacts the environment, as we need to produce more cars to account for it. So if hoarding bitcoins replaces this practice, perhaps it will become a net benefit for the environment.

Of course, this point of view assumes the inevitability of hoarding. As far as I can see, it's a survival instinct, which cannot be suppressed -- we can only control which goods are hoarded. Ban money and people will start hoarding less saleable goods.
You don't seem to understand the OP's point: Bitcoin makes minting tokens incredibly expensive due to the electricity usage.

A good currency is not consuming a huge chunk of the resources it is tracking. Electricity spent "mining" bitcoin is not somehow recoverable from the tokens. Which makes it worse then gold, which actually is.
"ICE engines are carefully regulated worldwide"

...Volkswagen would like to have a word :D
I don’t know how anyone is so casual about this. If a charger is only available half the time, I have to plan as if it weren’t there, and then what good is it?

I can run my gas tank down below 1/4 because the Bay Area is littered with 24 hour gas stations; I never have to wait a day to get gas. I’m considering a PHEV, but I can’t buy a BEV until a large majority of apartments (or maybe employers, after WFH ends) have that kind of reliable charging whenever I might need it.
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Alpine has directives like x-if and x-for. For a lightweight templating library I would recommend https://pure-js.com. It's been around for ages. The PureJS directives take some time to get used to, but are quite powerful once you do.
I second your suspender recommendation (They're called braces in the UK). I find them much more comfortable than belts, and they work better than belts if you have developed a bit of middle-age spread.
I'm sure you're right. I'm well on the way to being outdated myself.
UK is a net exported of lamb (or was prior to Brexit) - https://ahdb.org.uk/news/uk-lamb-self-sufficiency-and-impact...

Sheep farming is mainly done on uplands and requires massive subsidies to give farmers a ‘liveable’ income

To my mind it's far better to stop farming sheep and pay the farmers to rewild the hills

Alternatively we could just stop subsidising sheep farmers let them go bust and the hills will rewild themselves
What is your line of work?
I could imagine it very helpful in design, invention, machining, art, music ... if you could imagine something before doing it. I do not have it but I think it is super-power if used correctly.
And that is the key fact :). And btw: Thanks David and friends for .NET Core
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If Gandi folks read this: I am curious to read your post-mortem analysis on this.

I was seriously thinking about bringing some domains back to LiveDNS. I am thinking that after this, you may even be a little better at your job. Transparency is key here for me, even if you messed up.
Lots of things can be used as stores of value that don't require the electrical output of a medium sized country.
> We need a decentralized web. For us, one option would be IPFS, which is starting to catch on. For the binaries themselves there’s already the option of downloading through torrents.

I agree with the OP Bitcoin should run over a network protocol like PJON https://github.com/gioblu/PJON and a private network infrastructure made by people.

The point is, if you switch just the protocol, and keep the same infrastructure nothing will change.
1) Please don’t quote an hourly rate. Quote by week or at least by day at set expectations (“I’m available between 9-17”).

2) Unless they’re hiring you as an employee, they’ll expect to deal with you via a company. Get in touch with an accountant ASAP and look into liability insurances.
I haven’t used it since yesterday. We still have lync/Skype for business at work and it plugs into that.

Audio never seems to work, fortunatly in the rare occasion someone calls it also rings my phone. Most of my chat for work is on slack or WhatsApp, just some real old school people that use the Skype protocol.
> They are known for buying back your 60$ blockbuster game after a month for $3, and reselling for $55.

Why would anyone sell it for $3?
Qt can trivially offer a C ABI if they want. Glib can't be type safe no matter how hard they try. People don't seem to have any trouble making Qt bindings for languages like Go, Python, Java, all of which you could say strongly prefer interop with C. Part of the reason is that Qt is written in a way that avoids use of more exotic features and templates for most things. MOC could be replaced by template magic nowadays, but I don't see any value in doing so - you will just make compilation slower and bindings with other languages harder.
I would add that their dreadful customer service extends to domains as well.

In my experience having to engage after a technical issue on their side, they were rude, argumentative, and totally unhelpful.

If you value your domains I would register them literally anywhere else.
See Wirth' Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law : "Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

In work environments, it can be even worse. It takes me (at work) 5 minutes to log in; 2 minutes to open a MS office app or email; 5-10s to save a document; 20s to insert a row in Excel. Please send help.

The answer to your question depends: For office settings like I described, it may be due to forced network requests, and surveillance/compliance software. More broadly, it's unoptimized software, and various pieces of software competing for resources and scheduling. A mirror that may be easier to GROK is the web: Web apps can be small and responsive by using targeted DOM-manipulation. Most web apps use layers of frameworks, cookies, trackers etc that make them take up much more space, and make them less responsive.

In order to fix this, we may need a new generation of operating systems and software, built from scratch, with a focus on performance (ie responsiveness).

This is one of the reasons I've gotten so excited about embedded and low-level programming: You can ditch the OS, and make programs that respond in a way that feels instantaneous.
It's limited to 1 per order at the moment, like the Pi Zero.

This makes it much less attractive, indeed...
We used them for years too but their admin panels and tooling had too many issues. We lost access to stuff more than once and we moved to name.com at some point. Haven’t had any issues on name.com so I would not really recommeng Gandi.
Are there any statistics of how much of the total CO2 that's produced by year is caused by computer equipment?

Are there any estimates, what percentage of that is caused by mining bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies? What about things like machine learning or rendering video footage?

I'm afraid that i couldn't find anything comprehensive, but something like that would be very interesting to explore!
Bitcoin mining on a block secures not just this block's transactions, but the transactions in all previous blocks as well. For each block that is added to the blockchain more transactions are secured by the following blocks. Consequently, these "power usage per transaction"-figures are misleading.
I thought about how it would be good for voting in the past - again though, not as a public transaction log (how you vote being public could get you killed in some places).
You can generate electricity on-site with quite limited resources.

What you can't do is drill, refine and distribute liquid fuel. First you drill crude oil in one location, ship it to a second location to be refined, ship it to your country and then someone has to drive tanker to every single gas station to fill them up.

With electricity you put up solar panels or wind turbines and add a battery. Now you've got electricity for years to come.
Maybe it has nothing to do with what this user did? It seems that thousands of users have been locked out of their Facebook accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25880738
I don’t think I really understand money, no.

What makes much more sense to me is agreeing on a central authority (or a distributed one, if we have the math to be able to do that securely) to track the exchange of things with actual value.

Bitcoin-the-tech feels like it’s partly that, but also it’s partly some side-wheeze for the initial Bitcoin folks to print their own money.

Bitcoin would make sense if the inflation (deflation?) component was removed because at least you then actually had to do something to gain Bitcoin wealth — namely buy computers and burn electricity. If you want $15,000 of Bitcoin then you buy an ASIC and pay your power bills in time.

That seems extremely wasteful. Wouldn’t a global tally of IOUs satisfy the same requirements, without having to have this centralised coin stuff?

Of the two things it represents — a global ledger, and a money printing machine — all I hear about are people focused on the latter.
Ok, so it’s a 4.5cm long crack.

If an aluminum bycicle frame cracks like that, it is useful to drill holes at the end of the cracks, to stop the cracks from progressing.
All Dems murdered would be catastrophic circumstances and would require the 72 hour window with the failure to reach quorum report. That’s plenty of time for states to re-appoint all of the senators and prevent the take over of the upper house.
"Antifa" is more of a self applied label; you can certainly see antifa logos at demos.

The SWP are Trotskyist, in the sense of "March through the institutions". If you're doing anything left wing they will turn up and try to make it about them, take over organization positions, etc. The SWP are mostly your boring old lefty uncle, with a side of institutional rape apologia: https://www.gender-agenda.org.uk/not-my-comrades-on-dealing-... (this is not only their problem, it can happen in any organization that doesn't take active steps to avoid it)

I suppose the canary for partisan moderation should be Sinn Fein; they were banned from television in the 90s.
I hope Perl 7 helps Perl make a comeback. Given Larry Wall's Christian background, it would be appropriate for his language to be crucified and then be resurrected later.
Yeah, which is why I mentioned the thing about destructors. The first GC will schedule an object to be disposed/destroyed, but still keep it around for abit.

It’s true that in that case it makes sense to «delete» an object. But in that case you can either use a using block or manually call Dispose, right?
> It's wild to me that no other car manufacturers have taken Tesla up on their offer for supercharger access.

It's a prestige thing. Legacy manufacturers would lose face if they'd have their cars charging at the young upstart's superchargers.

This is why most european manufacturers have partnered with 3rd party companies and provide some amount of free charging at certain branded locations for new vehicles.
This is not how it works at all. A bitcoin block can have 0 transactions and still need the same energy to produce.

a) Sending payments is not the only purpose of the network, it's issuance, it's security, it's to make the ledger immutable.

b) No one's buying a burger with bitcoin. Bitcoin's production is a monetary base. Using the same block space you can have an infinite number of economic transactions happen with the same power consumption (block) on multiple layers, each with a degrading level of security. Of course you don't need the full force of the bitcoin network for a coffee or burger.
It somehow reinforced a sense of urgency for me.
I disagree. The only asset that falls into this category is credit. And credit is not a good -- it's a promise that someone will deliver a good to you when you demand it. And this type of promise tends to be broken just when you need it the most.
People use Bitcoin to protect their wealth from inflation/debasement. It’s easier to own and protect than gold and real estate, easier to transact, etc.

Whether it’s widely used as a currency is irrelevant to whether it can be.
Gas stations seem to be able to handle it. Why can't we expect the same for charging stations? Build for peak capacity. The chargers don't draw much when they aren't plugged in to cars. If we expect to succeed with charging infrastructure we need to make it convenient, even during holidays.
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I'm not an expert, but it seems as if you could make this process both anonymous and verifiable. I.e. the number and authenticity of votes is verifiable through cryptography, but the identity of the voter is not accessible.
How does that compare to your household €/kWh? I appreciate there's a value-add, just seems a lot compared to mine (£0.12something).

I suppose if expect to pay roughly a day's standing charge, plus the kWh used. I'd rather pay for it like that than roll it together and have my overnight charge subsidise someone else's 30min top-up.
In my opinion you need to have a dedicated Tools engineer in teams above 10 people. Most developers are poorly prepared to debug build/perf issues. A lot of author issues could be reduced by using right tooling.

- eslint for style
- Webpack Externals/Module federation for build times
- Dependabot/renovate for automatic dependacies
- codemon for automated refactors
- WSL2 or vagrant VM + docker-compose for local dev

You need someone that like tinkering with this stuff instead of doing Jira points game. Give that person autonomy and your team would move faster.
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Nice comment, you really added to the conversation!
True. Go, for instance, does not use a generational garbage collector. I also believe that Java’s Zgc is not generational, yet.

But I find it most helpful to instead focus on the current context, otherwise I’d be spending all typing.
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He’s talking about the software layer, not the protocol layer.