This is awesome. I just wish more governments would wake up to the fact that crypto does nothing beyond suck resources and warm the planet. If you want to bet on things that go up & down, there is the stock market where things go up and down 20%+ every single day.
Readit Newscodecamper commented on Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Rrgo-... · Posted by u/f311a
Bitcoin without PoW has no value. It's the entire reason it works. Without expending a finite resource to produce another, you can't constrain a money supply nor prevent it from attacks.
Governments would be unwise to ban a voluntary system for the same reason they don't ban any other uses of energy that people question the value of (there are plenty). In any case, it will not stop, only move. If not to another massive farm in a favorable jurisdiction (that could be captured) then to smaller sections where it is unidentifiable.
Well then if we must choose between planet, and greaseballs, we'll choose the planet any day.
This seems like the wrong approach. I don't see how closing large-scale mining facilities will suddenly solve the problem.
As long as the energy remains cheap, mining will just move underground. I could see miners offering ordinary villagers kickbacks to "host" a few miners on their premises as to conceal the energy consumption behind what appears to be legitimate usage.
You cannot move "underground" when you are sucking that much power.
The government did what they should have done, and what all governments should have done a long time ago and shut this nonsense down. It's sucking up resources and only adding to wealth inequality.
Bitcoin rewarded a small group of very smart people very very very well. It then rewarded morons... hordes and hordes of morons very very well too. We will be living with the consequence of this for decades to come.
codecamper commented on I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year 9to5mac.com/2021/02/09/du... · Posted by u/decrypt
Yeah. BTW, on macOS, it would be trivial to hack together an Automator workflow that gives you a Service (ie, a menu item in Safari->Services) that says "Download Video", or "Add Youtube Song to Music", and does what it says.
Basically you'd use the "Get Current Webpage from Safari" block, then in the Terminal
PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
cd Music/YTDownloads
# or wherever you want it
youtube-dl -q -f 140 "${@%%&*}"
# format 140 is 128k .m4a
yup. I just keep a terminal open set to that path. Had just 10Mbit wifi before but that is now 500Mbit. Will have to revisit this solution. Something like a rsync would be nice.
You would too if Mohammed bin Salman was your investor!
awww the apple fanbois don't like me
In the little podunk Hungarian village.. middle of nowhere. Farmers and hunters. 300Mbps $15 / month
You would too if Mohammed bin Salman was your investor!
codecamper commented on Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019) vicki.substack.com/p/sili... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Here is an idea:
Don't take the Saudi money. Don't take any money.
Just build it, and ship it. Work a regular job and work on your startup at night.
Create a product and charge very little for it. Wipe out the competition with a better / cheaper product.
Once you think you are having an effect, short your competitor. Continue to ship your as good or better product for 1/3 the cost.
Take down the world powers.
Just an idea.codecamper commented on The road to electric is filled with tiny cars restofworld.org/2021/tesl... · Posted by u/jimmy2020
But but but... making EVs is VERY VERY complicated.
You need to understand the S-curve.
Exponential change!
lmao.
This is awesome. Great work.