My furnace burns comparatively easy natural gas and would still kill me if it didn't have a flue.
Cremation takes a few hours at high temperature with plenty of oxygen. The gases in your furnace pass through the active heating zone in less than a second.
According to wikipedia: Cremated remains are mostly dry calcium phosphates with some minor minerals, such as salts of sodium and potassium. Sulfur and most carbon are driven off as oxidized gases during the process, although a relatively small amount of carbon may remain as carbonate.
Bring the temperature to just over 5,000 degrees fahrenheit, and allow all of the elements except the carbon to oxidize.
That sounds impossible. How does one prevent carbon to oxidize in a crucible with oxygen present at 5,000 degrees heat ?
And "several ounces" of ashes sounds like a very large amount. A 1-carat diamond only has 0.2 grams of carbon in it, and much smaller trace amounts of ashes.
Might as well start with refined graphite, add 1 milligram of ashes, and turn that into a diamond.
If you're only interested in causative correlations, then this algorithm is the wrong tool, because it is designed to find any correlation, and it has not been given any input that would allow it to find causative links.
It makes no sense to single out 'race' as a problem, when there are hundreds of other non-causative correlations that are equally problematic.
If 99 out of 100 people who currently mine bitcoin turned off their miners tomorrow, Bitcoin would work PERFECTLY without them. It would use 1/100th of the current global power requirement and do EXACTLY THE SAME JOB.
Except that the security of the network would only be 1/100th of what it was before, and therefore much easier to attack.
The problem with mining is that it's designed to become less efficient the more computing power is put into the system. That's a terrible design
How else would you do it ? The design is such that the number of new coins generated per day is limited, even if more computing power is added. The only way to achieve that is by requiring more computations for the same coins.
It's not designed to have ever increasing difficulty. It's designed for the difficulty to match miner capacity. If the miner capacity decreases, the difficulty decreases as well.
Also, the reward for mining is halved every 4 years.
Depends. If your algorithm determines credit score based on status as slave, that's perfectly reasonable. The problem is when it decides credit score on skin color.
Not really. Methane is a smaller contributor to greenhouse gas than CO2, and most of that methane is not from cows but from natural sources and industrial leaks.
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My furnace burns comparatively easy natural gas and would still kill me if it didn't have a flue.
Cremation takes a few hours at high temperature with plenty of oxygen. The gases in your furnace pass through the active heating zone in less than a second.
According to wikipedia: Cremated remains are mostly dry calcium phosphates with some minor minerals, such as salts of sodium and potassium. Sulfur and most carbon are driven off as oxidized gases during the process, although a relatively small amount of carbon may remain as carbonate.
It's wrong to force the mutilation on a young child. Let them decide for themselves when they are old enough.
You forgot Candy Crush
Or pick some wild flowers yourself.
Bring the temperature to just over 5,000 degrees fahrenheit, and allow all of the elements except the carbon to oxidize.
That sounds impossible. How does one prevent carbon to oxidize in a crucible with oxygen present at 5,000 degrees heat ?
And "several ounces" of ashes sounds like a very large amount. A 1-carat diamond only has 0.2 grams of carbon in it, and much smaller trace amounts of ashes.
Might as well start with refined graphite, add 1 milligram of ashes, and turn that into a diamond.
I think the point is that you can just choose not to buy them without any loss of quality of life.
I wonder how, because the ashes shouldn't have any carbon in them. Maybe they just throw them away and give you a random diamond.
I couldn't see the value in this little stone but believe me it creates tangible value to her.
If you look a bit harder, you could find something that has value for you both.
Lab grown are not special, they're not real, they're not unique. You can make exactly the same one again and again
He means that the ones they dig out of the ground are flawed in different ways, but the manufactured diamonds are perfect.
Now they've donated the value of the coins to every other bitcoin hodler.
Hold parents responsible for the behaviour of their children
So when I see a kid throw plastic crap in the park, I should call 911 so they can find his parents and write a ticket ?
I already recycle my plastic.
People just need to start being more responsible
And how would we achieve that ?
Sounds like they stumbled upon a beneficial side effect of pollution for a change.
Maybe. If the oceans take up less CO2, the concentration in the atmosphere will accelerate. Less acidification, but more warming.
1 computer and/or 1 tv. Not 1.000 computers en/or 1.000 tvs.
But we have thousands of people running 1 computer or 1 TV, and only a few people running a bitcoin mine.
As far as wasting resources, it's all the same.
If you want to understand how big the issue is, then "they only get half the water the need" is a good description.
1.1 billion gallons, or 4.2 million cubic meter are equally useless for proper visualization.
If you're only interested in causative correlations, then this algorithm is the wrong tool, because it is designed to find any correlation, and it has not been given any input that would allow it to find causative links.
It makes no sense to single out 'race' as a problem, when there are hundreds of other non-causative correlations that are equally problematic.
It's not in any way fair to bake existing structural racism into the algorithm because that's the way things currently are.
If there's structural racism, that needs to be fixed, and then the algorithm will follow automatically.
If 99 out of 100 people who currently mine bitcoin turned off their miners tomorrow, Bitcoin would work PERFECTLY without them. It would use 1/100th of the current global power requirement and do EXACTLY THE SAME JOB.
Except that the security of the network would only be 1/100th of what it was before, and therefore much easier to attack.
The problem with mining is that it's designed to become less efficient the more computing power is put into the system. That's a terrible design
How else would you do it ? The design is such that the number of new coins generated per day is limited, even if more computing power is added. The only way to achieve that is by requiring more computations for the same coins.
How is this different than using electricity to play computer games or watch baseball on TV ?
It's not designed to have ever increasing difficulty. It's designed for the difficulty to match miner capacity. If the miner capacity decreases, the difficulty decreases as well.
Also, the reward for mining is halved every 4 years.
Depends. If your algorithm determines credit score based on status as slave, that's perfectly reasonable. The problem is when it decides credit score on skin color.
I'd want a justice system that doesn't consider the race or skin color in the verdict. That doesn't mean there won't be any correlations though.
Not really. Methane is a smaller contributor to greenhouse gas than CO2, and most of that methane is not from cows but from natural sources and industrial leaks.