Sorry, no, that's the equivalent of coin MINING. We are talking about the TRANSACTION costs right now.
USA Today fluff piece indicates that a Visa payment processing center uses 50,000 house-days of power every day, but they use that to process 400 million transactions per day. That works out to.000125 house-days per transaction. The numbers I have access to indicate that each BTC transaction uses 8.5 house-days per transaction.
Ummm no, each mined coin might take a large amount of energy, but the transaction costs are pretty much fixed and are nowhere near as onerous.
The mining takes a tremendous amount of energy (.296 Watts per GH/s), and the transaction costs are the opposite of fixed: they grow higher with every transaction, by definition.
If you actually do the comparison, you see that bitcoin transaction costs (per $1,000 equivalent) is CHEAPER than dollar. It wouldn't work any other way.
Citation, please? I can hand someone $1000 without electricity. What numbers are you talking about?
Google tried to tell our marketing group "our site is slow". Strangely, Google's "solutions" did not involve reducing the tagging on the site. We produced documentation showing that the site content loads in ~ 800ms and is responsive, and the remainder of the "slowness" is the barnacles and leeches.
It's definitely a work of art, but the plot, such as it is, missed for me.
When you make the Blade Runner a Replicant, you change the entire world around: why does he have an apartment? Money? Free time? Aren't these things slaves?
It seems like there are just as many Replicants living in poverty as regular people; or worse, we can't actually TELL which people were Skin Jobs. To me, this dilutes the dichotomy of the available moral choices in the story. If the point was that Replicants are people, that's really basic Sci-Fi. We can imagine a race of people in slavery without reproductive rights quite easily, but what ELSE are you bringing to the debate?
Not directly related, but if the child labor in the old furnace were Replicants, why do they need two sizes? The whole point of implanting memories is for them to have a childhood to look back on to have a personality. Do these models 'grow up?' Does the movie make more sense with roomsful of child Replicants, or with them as real poor children? I didn't think for a second they were Replicants until the plot developed later to show that.
Yeah, this article fleshes out my feelings pretty well; I've commented previously almost this exact sentiment:
Google AMP is only good for one party: Google.
And if you require a little more context,
What it is, is a way for Google to obfuscate your website, usurp your content and remove any lingering notions of personal credibility from the web. Google AMP is a Google project designed such that you must restrict your layout options, forgo sending visitors to your website and accept whatever analytics data Google is willing to share. (Emphasis added)
I'd like to say there's a reckoning coming, but that's wishful thinking with the direction the 'net has gone.
I switched nearly 2 years ago and I can tell you its really good
Quantify "really good" for compsci nerds.
How many security updates have Pale Moon Devs done since "2 years ago"? The internet seems to unfortunately be a moving target. You'd think they'd run out of bugs eventually =-)
I ask these questions as someone who has frozen at an earlier FF (51?) on my personal desktop, and doesn't bother with it at all for work development, and is saddened by it.
I just don't think the Pale Moon team has the manpower to keep up.
(Sorry for the delay; I don't let/. send me notifications of replies.)
The internet created a false expectation...the whole "information will set you free" bullshit
People create the false expectation. Especially people with something to sell, such as access to the Internet.
The internet lets people be dumb as shit about ever more stuff
People self-narrowing their sets of facts happens with or without the Internet.
The internet has given unprecedented power to manipulate large numbers of people for fun and profit to too many bad actors
Sure but the only difference in such broadcasted opinion/propaganda is the scope and pace. It's the exact same public opinion manipulation we've always had, but you're blaming the technology for some reason.
Why not completely block countries that sell counterfeit goods, that are the home of catfishers and email scams, or allow bulletproof hosting of kiddie porn and money laundering?
This is a different debate question than "internet is a net-bad for society". I haven't really thought too much about that question, but off the top of my head, do you support cutting off an Iranian med student's access to internet documentation on the basis of the country they were born in being a 'bad actor'?
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Sorry, no, that's the equivalent of coin MINING. We are talking about the TRANSACTION costs right now.
.000125 house-days per transaction. The numbers I have access to indicate that each BTC transaction uses 8.5 house-days per transaction.
USA Today fluff piece indicates that a Visa payment processing center uses 50,000 house-days of power every day, but they use that to process 400 million transactions per day. That works out to
Ummm no, each mined coin might take a large amount of energy, but the transaction costs are pretty much fixed and are nowhere near as onerous.
The mining takes a tremendous amount of energy (.296 Watts per GH/s), and the transaction costs are the opposite of fixed: they grow higher with every transaction, by definition.
https://digiconomist.net/bitco...
The above link is mind-blowing.
If you actually do the comparison, you see that bitcoin transaction costs (per $1,000 equivalent) is CHEAPER than dollar. It wouldn't work any other way.
Citation, please? I can hand someone $1000 without electricity. What numbers are you talking about?
"Why is this Company Tracking Where You Are on Thanksgiving?"
Shitty privacy laws from shitty paid-for public "servants". Anything else is a distraction from that issue.
...that's not what "progressives" want.
Simple question, for you and for anyone who can answer it:
What is the currency value of the BTC you have cashed out?
I see tons of talk about holding or buying , but if you're not able to get it out, you're just financing speculators, not yourself.
Am I the only one that believes the whole Bin Laden assassination was faked?
Not just the assassination.
Automation will put truckers out of business.
Well, it will change the job to maintaining/assisting the robot drivers in a convoy.
Google tried to tell our marketing group "our site is slow". Strangely, Google's "solutions" did not involve reducing the tagging on the site. We produced documentation showing that the site content loads in ~ 800ms and is responsive, and the remainder of the "slowness" is the barnacles and leeches.
It's definitely a work of art, but the plot, such as it is, missed for me.
When you make the Blade Runner a Replicant, you change the entire world around: why does he have an apartment? Money? Free time? Aren't these things slaves?
It seems like there are just as many Replicants living in poverty as regular people; or worse, we can't actually TELL which people were Skin Jobs. To me, this dilutes the dichotomy of the available moral choices in the story. If the point was that Replicants are people, that's really basic Sci-Fi. We can imagine a race of people in slavery without reproductive rights quite easily, but what ELSE are you bringing to the debate?
Not directly related, but if the child labor in the old furnace were Replicants, why do they need two sizes? The whole point of implanting memories is for them to have a childhood to look back on to have a personality. Do these models 'grow up?' Does the movie make more sense with roomsful of child Replicants, or with them as real poor children? I didn't think for a second they were Replicants until the plot developed later to show that.
Her name was Minnie Bothans.
trucking industry
Didn't you hear that everyone's old buddies, the Teamsters have that covered?
Maybe we should care about one another, because the alternative is that we shoot one another in the face
You should rewrite the Bible.
It is what it is.
Please stop using this phrase. I find it objectionably, redundantly useless. Also, "...at the end of the day..." please.
Sure: I put up with the rest of it because I get to program.
If you don't think programming is fun, then you're really ---
--- not a programmer?
Yeah, this article fleshes out my feelings pretty well; I've commented previously almost this exact sentiment:
Google AMP is only good for one party: Google.
And if you require a little more context,
What it is, is a way for Google to obfuscate your website, usurp your content and remove any lingering notions of personal credibility from the web. Google AMP is a Google project designed such that you must restrict your layout options, forgo sending visitors to your website and accept whatever analytics data Google is willing to share. (Emphasis added)
I'd like to say there's a reckoning coming, but that's wishful thinking with the direction the 'net has gone.
The very best immigrant coders...
...get sponsored for citizenship.
No back when it was sold it was very much matured and had a lot of pirated content.
Maybe it did, but until Google started paying the bandwidth bills, you couldn't get it OUT.
Out-of-the-box, Alexa devices don't seem to *require* the PIN until you enable it.
You can set a voice PIN required for all purchases.
They're toys. But toys are often fun to play with!
-Locked in
-Full of bugs
-Stopped after a while.
Sounds like my players!
I switched nearly 2 years ago and I can tell you its really good
Quantify "really good" for compsci nerds.
How many security updates have Pale Moon Devs done since "2 years ago"? The internet seems to unfortunately be a moving target. You'd think they'd run out of bugs eventually =-)
I ask these questions as someone who has frozen at an earlier FF (51?) on my personal desktop, and doesn't bother with it at all for work development, and is saddened by it.
I just don't think the Pale Moon team has the manpower to keep up.
(Sorry for the delay; I don't let /. send me notifications of replies.)
The internet created a false expectation...the whole "information will set you free" bullshit
People create the false expectation. Especially people with something to sell, such as access to the Internet.
The internet lets people be dumb as shit about ever more stuff
People self-narrowing their sets of facts happens with or without the Internet.
The internet has given unprecedented power to manipulate large numbers of people for fun and profit to too many bad actors
Sure but the only difference in such broadcasted opinion/propaganda is the scope and pace. It's the exact same public opinion manipulation we've always had, but you're blaming the technology for some reason.
Why not completely block countries that sell counterfeit goods, that are the home of catfishers and email scams, or allow bulletproof hosting of kiddie porn and money laundering?
This is a different debate question than "internet is a net-bad for society". I haven't really thought too much about that question, but off the top of my head, do you support cutting off an Iranian med student's access to internet documentation on the basis of the country they were born in being a 'bad actor'?