Yes, but any currency also needs credibility. After the Bitcoin debacle, ordinary people (those who don't know the difference between PoW and PoS, and don't care to know) will never trust any other cryptocurrency.
Not to mention fundamental storage limitations of blockchain implementations, should a cryptocurrency be used at large scale...
The best part (for the environment) is that the overall energy consumption of the Bitcoin network is dropping significantly. According to this estimation the power consumed by the aggregated network has dropped from 73.12 TWh per year (around 8.3 GW on average) one month ago, to 45.54 TWh per year (around 5.2 GW on average) today.
Note that solar panel market installed 98.9 GW last year. With an optimistic efficiency of 50% (nigths, clouds), this means that one month ago we were dedicating one in each 6 new panels installed last year, worldwide, to power Bitcoin. Today, it is "only" one in 9.5.
And yes, those panels are the "clean energy" we are installing to save the world. Bitcoin saves nothing, please save (pun intended) the "but this is the cost for lack of trust/decentralized/...". This is good, and should keep dropping, considering the environmental impact.
I remember a flight in which the airline split us up, three different seats in three different rows. I didn't care that much: as soon as we entered the plane, the man sitting next to our almost-crying 4-yro girl offered to change the seat.
I would never want to fly next to a lone child, nobody does. This problem solves by itself, at least with respect to children.
There are studies showing that bitcoin's power consumption is (theoretically) proportional to its value. This will significantly reduce its (huge) carbon footprint, higher than many countries.
Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
That's funny. I was going to correct you with the meaning of those acronyms we all know, and when looking for sources I found that you're actually right. Thanks for the info.
DVD was initially supposed to be "Didital Video Disc", and later renamed "Digital Versatile Disc", and eventually nobody agreed on it and it was officially renamed to simply "DVD" (three letters), with many other unofficial meanings.
KFC were the initials of Kentucky Fried Chicken until 1991. From the previous link: Dieting trends had made “fried” a dirty cuss, and the plan was to banish it from view. Voila: KFC.
BP used to be The British Petroleum Company plc, but after many acquisitions it simply became BP plc in 2001.
Actually, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since Moore's "Law" provided a reference point for the evolution of transistor density, all designers knew where they needed to get, or otherwise their competitors would surpass them.
Remember that thermal energy in a chip always comes from electrical energy and the Joule effect. If the modem overheats, it probably consumes too much power, impacting battery life.
What you describe is formally denoted as level 4 autonomous driving. By the way, level 4 is orders of magnitude safer than level 3 (Uber killing a woman).
User names identify who you are. You are always the same person; that can never be changed.
Passwords validate your credentials. Passwords may be changed when they are discovered by a third party; usernames (or brain waves, as discussed in the summary) cannot be changed.
Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time". Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times." Me: ??
The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.
The original company stops making updates available. Before that, a hacker could impersonate the update server (probably using a MITM attack) so the device received a hacked firmware, not the legit one. But if no hacking occurs, the device receives a legit update. After the change, if a hacker impersonates the (unavailable) update server, the device can only find the hacked firmware, never the legit one. How is this exactly improving security?
Since AV1 has been standardized six months ago and there are no HW decoders available yet, it will not support the flagship new royalty-free video codec from Google. Somewhat odd they have not delayed the launch some few months; 15% faster is an incremental improvement.
Bitcoin is using 1M times the power per transaction compared to other systems (e.g. VISA) and this will get much worse, but it provides multi-user trust. Is the lack of trust on a central organization (bank, card payment system), even protected by heavy economic & financial laws, sufficient to justify the huge energy cost of Bitcoin?
Note that regulation forbids unefficient implementation of devices (e.g. vacuum cleaners). PoW-based blockchains should be forbidden too. Devise another implementation which does not rely on PoW.
Public blockchains that rely on Proof-of-Work (PoW) should be outlawed. They encourage mining, which is basically wasting energy in HUGE amounts (in the case of cryptocurrencies, to generate virtual coins out of thin air). They are such an inefficient way of implementing the technology, in terms of energy consumption, that they should never be considered as a viable option. If you are considering blockchain-based technology, please think of the planet for a moment when architecting your solution.
Remember the Energy Star program? Well, that program should be extended to forbid certain technlogies. Such as Bitcoin.
For more info, see the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index. Bitcoin is wasting more energy than many countries in the world. At least, now we have GPUs back to normal prices.
So... Why wouldn't you buy an RFID+GPS steering wheel that allows you to see where your car is and track your trips? Or maybe an RFID+GPS door handle, for the same reason? Or even an RFID+GPS whatever? Also: what is the advantage for you of displaying ads in your plate?
If you want to track your trip, buy a GPS device (or even better: use your phone, which already has a GPS). If you want to see where your car is, buy a location device (for much less than $700). This is nonsense.
So we have this special "game mode" in TVs to reduce processing delay to a minimum, but at the same time we expect to stream the game video from the cloud, at 10's to 100's ms RTT plus additional video encoding and decoding delay?
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Yes, but any currency also needs credibility. After the Bitcoin debacle, ordinary people (those who don't know the difference between PoW and PoS, and don't care to know) will never trust any other cryptocurrency.
Not to mention fundamental storage limitations of blockchain implementations, should a cryptocurrency be used at large scale...
The best part (for the environment) is that the overall energy consumption of the Bitcoin network is dropping significantly. According to this estimation the power consumed by the aggregated network has dropped from 73.12 TWh per year (around 8.3 GW on average) one month ago, to 45.54 TWh per year (around 5.2 GW on average) today.
Note that solar panel market installed 98.9 GW last year. With an optimistic efficiency of 50% (nigths, clouds), this means that one month ago we were dedicating one in each 6 new panels installed last year, worldwide, to power Bitcoin. Today, it is "only" one in 9.5.
And yes, those panels are the "clean energy" we are installing to save the world. Bitcoin saves nothing, please save (pun intended) the "but this is the cost for lack of trust/decentralized/...". This is good, and should keep dropping, considering the environmental impact.
The title mentions novel AI techniques by Uber involving a new type of memory. Cool!!
The summary does not mention Uber nor this new memory. What are exactly the news?
I remember a flight in which the airline split us up, three different seats in three different rows. I didn't care that much: as soon as we entered the plane, the man sitting next to our almost-crying 4-yro girl offered to change the seat.
I would never want to fly next to a lone child, nobody does. This problem solves by itself, at least with respect to children.
There are studies showing that bitcoin's power consumption is (theoretically) proportional to its value. This will significantly reduce its (huge) carbon footprint, higher than many countries.
I didn't know this distinction either (we do not even have the equivalent word for "initialism" in my mother tongue), thanks!
Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
That's funny. I was going to correct you with the meaning of those acronyms we all know, and when looking for sources I found that you're actually right. Thanks for the info.
that they exist?
Who needs congestion control? The network will be just fine when this is deployed large-scale...
You are correct. It was never a law.
Actually, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since Moore's "Law" provided a reference point for the evolution of transistor density, all designers knew where they needed to get, or otherwise their competitors would surpass them.
Remember that thermal energy in a chip always comes from electrical energy and the Joule effect. If the modem overheats, it probably consumes too much power, impacting battery life.
What you describe is formally denoted as level 4 autonomous driving. By the way, level 4 is orders of magnitude safer than level 3 (Uber killing a woman).
Biometrics replace usernames, not passwords.
User names identify who you are. You are always the same person; that can never be changed.
Passwords validate your credentials. Passwords may be changed when they are discovered by a third party; usernames (or brain waves, as discussed in the summary) cannot be changed.
They might call the law Ponyatiya
Headline: "SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time".
Body: "We've launched Falcon 9 over 60 times."
Me: ??
The headline may be misunderstood as the third Falcon 9 flight ever. The news here is that a specific Falcon 9 booster is going to be reused for the second time, so it will be its third flight. Not to be confused with Falcon Heavy (Simultaneous boosters landing), which has been launched only once in a test flight.
The original company stops making updates available.
Before that, a hacker could impersonate the update server (probably using a MITM attack) so the device received a hacked firmware, not the legit one. But if no hacking occurs, the device receives a legit update.
After the change, if a hacker impersonates the (unavailable) update server, the device can only find the hacked firmware, never the legit one.
How is this exactly improving security?
Since AV1 has been standardized six months ago and there are no HW decoders available yet, it will not support the flagship new royalty-free video codec from Google. Somewhat odd they have not delayed the launch some few months; 15% faster is an incremental improvement.
Actually, the proof is 15-lines long and relies on a proof-by-contradiction (similar to the proof that the number of prime numbers is infinite).
You can find the video of the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's why!
Such quotas can be enforced in two ways: increasing the amount of local contents (as desired by the EU) or reducing the amount of foreign content.
I predict massive reductions in the catalogue of Netflix in most European countries.
It will "work", so next step will be to apply Netflix ads to all users.
Next, it will be included before (not between) any video.
Next, it will be unskippable.
Next, it will include other recommendations outside Netflix relevant to their users, such as Coca-Cola, Apple or Nike.
Exactly.
Bitcoin is using 1M times the power per transaction compared to other systems (e.g. VISA) and this will get much worse, but it provides multi-user trust. Is the lack of trust on a central organization (bank, card payment system), even protected by heavy economic & financial laws, sufficient to justify the huge energy cost of Bitcoin?
Note that regulation forbids unefficient implementation of devices (e.g. vacuum cleaners). PoW-based blockchains should be forbidden too. Devise another implementation which does not rely on PoW.
Public blockchains that rely on Proof-of-Work (PoW) should be outlawed. They encourage mining, which is basically wasting energy in HUGE amounts (in the case of cryptocurrencies, to generate virtual coins out of thin air). They are such an inefficient way of implementing the technology, in terms of energy consumption, that they should never be considered as a viable option. If you are considering blockchain-based technology, please think of the planet for a moment when architecting your solution.
Remember the Energy Star program? Well, that program should be extended to forbid certain technlogies. Such as Bitcoin.
For more info, see the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index. Bitcoin is wasting more energy than many countries in the world. At least, now we have GPUs back to normal prices.
So... Why wouldn't you buy an RFID+GPS steering wheel that allows you to see where your car is and track your trips? Or maybe an RFID+GPS door handle, for the same reason? Or even an RFID+GPS whatever? Also: what is the advantage for you of displaying ads in your plate?
If you want to track your trip, buy a GPS device (or even better: use your phone, which already has a GPS). If you want to see where your car is, buy a location device (for much less than $700). This is nonsense.
So we have this special "game mode" in TVs to reduce processing delay to a minimum, but at the same time we expect to stream the game video from the cloud, at 10's to 100's ms RTT plus additional video encoding and decoding delay?
Makes perfect sense to me...