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Mining gold is environmentally problematic, but no new gold needs to be mined when gold is transferred from one person to another. Bitcoin transactions require new blocks to be added to the block chain, and therefore more "mining" must take place.

There is a bigger problem, however. If a gold miner finds a more energy-efficient mining process, they will use it because it is more profitable. No technological improvements make Bitcoin mining more energy efficient (miners are incentivized to expand their operation rather than to mine at the same rate using less power), because the whole point of Bitcoin mining is to prove that electricity was utilized. That means that there is no real solution to Bitcoin's pollution problem, other than scrapping Bitcoin entirely and replacing it with something more energy-efficient (like a distributed ledger operated by a consortium of banks).
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It won't, but it's also not transferred as much because of cost, time, and transactions/second limit; I have no solid figures, but I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of actual bitcoin transactions are virtual, in databases on the exchanges. You can't do high frequency trading on the blockchain.
The difference is, that there's very advanced mathematics behind string theory and at leas that part can be checked/verified by independent researchers.
Gnome Maps is not even remotely competitive for offline use. It requires internet lookups for everything. Because OSMAnd maintains its own OSM database on your device, looking up opening hours for businesses can be done with no internet access.

OSMAnd is able to show all kinds of details about roads (such as the road surface – important for cyclists interested in asphalt/unpaved riding).

Gnome Maps also uses GraphHopper for routing. OSMAnd, on the other hand, allows you to extend its routing with plugins, so long-distance cyclists can install the Brouter routing engine that is superior for this kind of travel.
All abolishing the monarchy would do is enable people with more wealth and status than me, many of which who I can expect to not only hate people like me far more than the current monarch, but to have self and group interests that are directly contradictory to my own wellbeing, along with ideological motivations that, if carried out, would be extremely harmful to me.

At this point people who think the monarchy should be abolished get filed under "malicious actor who wishes to put themselves, or their ideological co travellers, as my master instead, or wishes to use the de facto power vacuum to enrich themselves at everyone else's expense", i.e. they put themselves into the "I would probably be better off if this person were to be dead" category.
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GM also fielded a number of turbine powered heavy vehicles from the 50's through the 60's.

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/bus-stop-cl...
The upside, when purchasing directly from the brand, and this is valid for plane fares too, is that you get more options.

- Buy shoes from the Addidas website and you can have your name printed on your shoes for free,

- Buy from Quantas or Ibis instead of a price comparator and you’ll have free cancellations or rebooking for a period.
I use TransferWise in those situations. It works great.
I laughed...

Not sure if that's intentional or not.
Currently, miners get the block reward plus transaction fees. Miners get to pick which transactions to include in the blocks they are processing, so of course they only include the ones with highest fees. Once there is no more block rewards, they would would have to survive off transaction fees alone.
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> You can't just buy a house with a suitcase full of cash these days, it's not possible

I must point out I know a couple people who did that in Hungary in the last ten years, just because it seemed absolutely insane to me (cheques don't exist here, either..).

I am reasonably sure this isn't that common though, and the government still tracks the transaction :)
I keep hearing this for years and so far it didn't pop. I can't trust this anymore.
What competes with these stores of value? As a high-risk-high-return investment, it makes a lot of sense. I'd count it in the same category as artwork as an investment.
This is my experience as well. Submitted a support request, after a week got told "we're working on it" while my users were not receiving email address confirmation emails. Moved away from SendGrid very quickly after that.
I don't disagree, but both of these (fully or partly automated updates, and attackers) are fairly recent developments to the model.

Of course, mitigation is needed. Supply chain attacks are a hot topic after SolarWinds.

But identifying a package version solely by a url doesn't seem like the right abstraction to me. IMHO, the metadata is more structured: Name (text), version (SemVer) and also maybe now fields to verify and mitigate these attacks: content hash, source feed, etc.

Even if I run an internal feed that transparently proxies and caches the public one, as well as hosting my company's internal artefacts, the rules now might need to be different between packages?

for e.g. between Newtonsoft.Json (new versions always originate on the public feed, never locally) and "SDCo.GeneralUtils" (new versions always originate on the local feed, never upstream)
Gold is a real thing that has value though. Bitcoin literally stops existing if you stop believing in it.
To me a metric of "last time an actual human being responded to an issue" is much more informative.
This may not be the most constructive way to make the point, but this is a feature of any speculative asset. If the market as a whole has a very high confidence it will continue to rise in value, few people will want to trade it for goods and services unless they have no choice or can make even more money from the goods and services than they can from holding the asset.

Otherwise, it’s like getting options in a startup and spending them on pizza.
I'm a huge Nano fanboy since the RaiBlocks days. It definitely deserves more attention, since it's a pretty solid technology and was distributed pretty fairly.

But even in this crypto bull market, everybody seems to ignore it, except for the fanboys on Reddit.
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I think it's useful outside of an academic thought experiment.
It hasn't encouraged me to get a bigger tv, quite the opposite. My takeaway isn't that I need a bigger tv, it's that I can get by with a smaller screen and lower resolution.
True, but there's a bajillion checks and balances to stabilize the value of it, no such thing for bitcoin. I mean mtgox bought virtual btc to drive up the price. Tether is a money printer created to push real money into btc. And it's quite telling that nobody's talked about BTC on its own since 2012, it's always been in relation to the USD.
Indeed, it doesn't even need to be global trouble, e.g. if you were a bitcoin enthusiast living in Puerto Rico during 2017, you learned first-hand exactly how useless bitcoin becomes when a major disaster strikes. Cash and gold didn't suffer the same fate.
The key bits of information you don't have by default are

1) The field of view that's recommended - 30 degrees (SMPTE) or 40 degrees (THX)

2) The angular resolution of a 20/20 eyeball (1/60th of a degree)

The rest of it you can calculate yourself from basic trig.
If more powerful actors are owners they will not need to sell upon volatility hence providing more stability.
I wish I could buy a FullHD HDR TV...
hey, i dont know much about turtology/tortology, nor do i know much about the eye other than i need glasses because my eyes are a weird shape. could somebody ELI5 please. for us plebs.
This doesn't surprise me. Horrify.. yes.

I've noticed more dev teams succumbing to the temptation of easiness that many modern package managers provide (NPM, Cargo, Ivy, etc.) - especially as someone who has to work with offline systems on a regular basis.

Because of that ease there are fewer tools and tutorials out there to support offline package management. There are more for using caches, though these are often along the lines of either 'the package manager will do this for you and it just works (but in case it doesn't, delete node_modules or cargo clean and re-try)', or stand up a dependency server on your own machine with these proxy settings (which has it's own security issues and is frequently disallowed by IT cybersecurity policies).

As an example, many blog articles I found a while back suggest using yumdownloader from the yum-utils package. This is unfortunately not reliable, as there are some packages that get skipped.

I have found I need to script reading a list of dependencies from a file; then for each dependency: create a directory for it, use repotrack to download its RPM and it's transitive dependency RPMs in the dependency's directory; then the script aggregates all the RPMs into one directory, removes the OS installed RPMs, uses createrepo to turn that directory into a RPM repository, and then makes an USF ISO image out of the directory for transfer onto offline system and installation.
Do Arizona banks and post offices and stuff really change their hours in different seasons?
I think it's more like I can create a currency, say that one myCoin is worth $5B, do 2 transactions of 1 myCoin and I can claim that I handle $10B/day.
generally people doing these sorts of tasks arent full time employees, rather contractors
Isn't this only a meaningful statistic when compared to the energy generated by current currency production and maintenance? Considering what the U.S. does to support the dollar, it's probably not even remotely a comparison.
You do not need to write unsafe code yourself in order to parallelize Rust code.
In other words if you're a goldbug, you now have an even worse option.

> Does that mean gold also isn't a good store of value?

You answered your own question. There's a good reason to prefer FDIC insurance. If your fashion choices require you to avoid fiat currency, that's on you.
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Interesting.

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I tried it for "American Gods" and it says Season 3: planned for undefined, but Season 3 has already started.
I'm framing this comment.
Technically DST _is_ accepting that it's going to be dark at different times, and therefore the completely man-made thing that is a clock can be changed a bit to reflect that.

A perfectly human solution really: work around the shift in daylight hours across the year by fiddling with the clocks. The whole thing with schedules and timetables is a self inflicted problem in a post-industrial society, sure, but workarounds are never really meant to be more than a bandaid.
It's not deregulation it's regulatory capture. The regulations are put in place to keep new entrants out. Just look how fiercely even small rural ISPs are attacking Starlink. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/isps-step-up-fig...
If the economics of verifying transactions is no longer sustainable, the code will be updated to allow more mining. That's something no one wants to admit, but the SegWit soft fork confirmed the influence concentrated miners have on development. The idea that somehow Bitcoin just works outside of any social influence is a complete fallacy.
used where it's useful ;)
Right. It's all mass psychology. Gold, the stock market, bitcoin, whatever.

It only has value as long as people believe it has value.

The caveat of course is that all of the things I listed have SOME more inherent value, but that is NOT the major contributor to their actual trading prices. Gold is not THAT useful. Neither is owning a billionth of a company.
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>That is true for gold as well.

Not even close. Gold is a tangible psychical asset, a finite resource on Earth that can not only make valuables you can wear or leave as heirloom but is also a really good heat-reflector and electricity conductor needed in anything from semiconductors and precision electronics to supercars and satellites. Without it, the global electronics industry would suffer terribly.
> It doesn't actually matter what that number is. ... There may be some floor which is always supplied by fossil fuels, but that floor isn't relevant to the goal of drastically reducing carbon dioxide output.

The number matters to the extent that there are other goals in addition to lowering carbon output.

I get that it's existentially important to lower CO2, but if you can't reliably deliver power that society has come to expect, you're going to have a hard time keeping society's eye on the ball. CO2 reductions are easier to sell to a society that has reliable light, heat, etc.

To put this in concrete terms, you mention fossil fuels as a potential for base load service - another important part of the portfolio is nuclear. Unfortunately, a number of these plants are shutting down, at least in the US, as rule-based incentives shift toward renewables. The incentives are meant to do what you advocate - reduce CO2 emissions. But it is really a win to replace nuclear generation capacity with a combination of renewables that can't replace base load and, I guess, additional fossil fuel generation at the base level to make up for the lost nuclear?

I don't claim to know the answers here, but there's more to it than just a focus on CO2, which is why I asked the question I asked at the head of my initial comment.
Some things are like that but there is a decent amount of package managers now a days that at least pin package hashes so they'll fail if the package has been tampered with. I'm not aware of many places that audit dependencies to a greater extent than "the license is compatible and it has reasonable maintenance".

Pulling packages from the internet is fine and that's how all Linux distros work but the more important thing is signature verification, imo
Bitcoin has nearly $20 transaction fees (https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...) and it takes at least 10 minutes for a transfer to be confirmed (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/median-confirmation-time).
We can only hope so. There are new proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies that don't have this massive environmental downside. The only people who should oppose replacing BTC with some other technologically and ecologically superior coin are bitcoin bagholders trying to protect their "investment" in this Ponzi scheme.
Denying the high heritability of IQ and its effect on racial income gaps is another example of non-experts denying science for political reasons.

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I have no position in Bitcoin, but isn’t it possible for “BTC scrip” to be the money used day to day. With actual blockchain transactions just being used to aggregate at the institutional level?

This is pretty much the way money worked in the 19th century, just with gold instead of BTC. Nobody physically carried or transferred gold to buy a beer. They just used bank notes that were backed by a trusted intermediary holding the physical asset. It might make sense for a bank, or even a very wealthy person, to pay the cost of physically transferring the hard asset. But most just used IOUs that were backed by the underlying hard asset.
Exactly my thought. They could have picked a more environment friendly cryptocurrency (e.g. Nano).

It would also had a relative bigger impact on the price, and so Tesla could have made a lot more money with such a move.
> No, the comment that I reference on HN is not mine, it's by someone else. BTW, I quite agree with it.

I've seen this claim made a few times now: that most Bitcoin is mined using renewables, at source. Where's the actual evidence for it?
Out of curiosity, why do you still use IE? Why not Edge at least?
>1) Peak power usage is when people are awake - this is when you want transactions to happen.

Mining is global, so this isn't an issue. It might be peak period in europe right now (2PM UTC) but not in asia or western US.

>This wouldn't reduce the need of peak plants, since you aren't generating power when mining for bitcoin. How would increasing overall energy consumption require less energy generation?

This is a big unknown, because the economics depends entirely on the cost of electricity vs the cost of equipment. If electricity cost dominates, then it'd make sense to shut down mining operations during periods of peak usage (because electricity prices are higher), but if equipment costs dominate then it'd make sense to mine 24/7.
Oh it’s true I have seen the occasional pour over served when I am ordering a drip coffee. But most of the cafés at least in the Netherlands or Belgium are just using espresso machines. And I very much love good espresso and cappuccino, but after reading this article, I’m thinking I should try something different at home.
I'd rather invest into something that is highly volatile but almost certainly appreciates over time rather than something that depreciates at a predictable yet increasing rate.

We could discuss the fact that BTC might be overpriced or underpriced, nobody really knows. But that it's going to go up in value (in terms of purchasing power) in the long term is, black swan events aside, almost a certainty because of its engineered stock to flow.

Scarcity is real whether it's physical or digital (as we've seen with art, collectibles or more recently NFTs). Gold is a good store of value because of historically predictable scarcity but it's not predictable with certainty. Bitcoin is. We'll know exactly how many bitcoins are in circulation 10 minutes, 10 days, 10 or even 100 years from now. If anything many will be lost, which will contribute to its scarcity.

Will Bitcoin be replaced by something else in the future? Almost certainly. But let's not forget that unbacked cash has been around for just half a century. Even if Bitcoin is replaced by something 50, 100 years from now that's plenty of time for a couple of generations to use it as a store of value (and payment system).
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For what is worth, I am using MPD instead of any of the GUI-based music apps. It doesn’t matter: the battery quickly drains anyway, and the audio even stutters. How is it possible for this phone to have worse performance at playing music than my iPod Video from almost 15 years ago?

Note that Maemo is a decade-old codebase that has bitrotted, so running it on the PinePhone isn't a reasonable solution.
> DO roll your own crypto [1] for learning, m

Do explicitly and loudly label such work as such.

I've encountered important professionally produced pieces of software using 'crypto' code that was just whatever google turned up on github and was actually a student work from a student that didn't have it sufficiently right.

Unfortunately there is also plenty of bad stuff that explicitly claims that it is good, but at least we can make people's lives a little easier by labelling learning experiments as such. :)

Sadly, writing something is only so informative. Everyone can write a cryptosystem that they themselves can't break. :)

Creating something that you think is secure and have other people break it is much more informative, but review is so costly that most people that get these lessons get them too late. Similarly, breaking someone elses system is extremely informative, but it has an extremely steep learning curve!
My bitcoin bought my airplanes, wine cellar, and whiskey collection. It's comparatively very difficult to hold as it's price increases.
Verified instars.com users are paid 100% of all survey budgets instantly by smart contracts for consensual data exchange. Targeted online surveys can be matched with participants in 166 countries for as little as 2 cents vs traditional market research recruitment services rates of $1-$5+.

Blockchain transaction ID’s on every provider’s (survey panelists) submissions (data exchange) creates an environment of transparency never before delivered across the market research industry.

Legacy online survey software might reward panelists in Bitcoin but that's about it. Most blockchains are too slow and expensive to perform at major scale.

Insights Network users manage/host their encrypted profile value data on their local devices rather than a central server. Smart contracts govern the matches and consensual data exchanges that occur between end users. The system is fully automated. Data requesters survey results are fully encrypted with one time pad encryption.

Instars Survey Software is free to use for anyone who stakes 1,000 tokens (about $20 worth) vs paying $468+ a year recurring payments to legacy online survey providers!
You shall not pass too many requests or else...
Except they are probably wrong...

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It's not way more complicated. Get rid of the guns, and you will get rid of a lot of problems. It is really that simple.

But I would not know how to get rid of guns in the US now, because there are just too many guns around, and "non-law-abiding" citizens will still carry them.

A citizen should not carry a gun. Doesn't matter if they are "law-abiding" or not.
Cinema means you want 30-40 degrees, but once you've fixed your screen size and your distance, you can then work out if 4k is worthwhile over 2k (or 8k over 4k)

Of course this all falls down because it them comes down to availability, other features (number of hdmi ports, "smart" options, power use), and "4k" tends to also mean things like HDR, which is worthwhile (with the right source) no matter the screen.
> Whether you have DST or not, you still have the same amount of time with sunlight in a day

Yes, but you can better align the available light with things like commutes and school hours - so that people commute in light instead of the dark, for example.
I wish people would just stop using Amazon. Online stores are everywhere now and Amazon is worse than Walmart now when compared to just shopping directly from the product website or smaller online boutiques. Even the shipping times are nothing special anymore.
It's entirely a myth that unsafe is needed to get speed boosts in Rust. Usually, the standard library, as well as other crates, offer optimal performance without resorting to unsafe code.

(If we go pedantic, Vec and other primitives do rely on unsafe, but the point is as an application developer you don't have to write unsafe code yourself.)
In other words, Tesla just went carbon positive.
> bitcoin will create additional demand for cheap renewable and accelerate the green transition

Bitcoin does not create demand for renewable energy. Bitcoin only creates demand for energy. If bitcoin had significant demand for "cheap renewable energy", then we should have seen bitcoin mining operations concentrating in locations where renewable energy is abundant and land is pretty much useless for anything else. This has not happened in reality.

Furthermore, even if we assume that bitcoin does put demand on renewable energy, since bitcoin mining does not replace other consumers, it is an additional overall energy demand. As long as bitcoin energy consumption grows faster than new renewable installations it effectively runs on carbon.
What about Mega?
For that use case definitely, though a law change is a bit of an edge case.

For stamping times like in a log though UTC should always be used server side.