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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +3 / -1

OP analysis is wrong, bitcoin will take the amount of power equivalent to the value of the trade - NOT the value traded. Any comparison should be to the transaction cost for the industry, but most of that is 'bank tax' and not actual value.

Each block mined today yields about $300k worth of bitcoin and THAT is what is driving the energy use. It pays for a lot of electricity and mining cards. But bitcoins per block drop off over time and in 10 or at most 20 years nobody will be mining to get the new bitcoin, they'll mine only as much as people will pay for transactions.

When you successfully "mine" a block you include transactions in it and people will pay you for that - but not much. Are you going to pay $5 to transfer your $10 of bitcoin to somebody else? Nope.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +6 / -3

And clearly not from an English-speaking country. He's talking about the turn of phrase not the concept.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's a reference to liberals being told that anybody not getting a shot is doing so because Bill Gates is using it to put a microchip in you.

Technically that would make you a cyborg not a robot, but these aren't your sharpest of tools.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's fine and I agree with you, there should be this level of scrutiny for every vaccine. Also there's apparently a massive backlog of VAERS reports not in the system yet.

You just can't compare before and after report volume is all. Have to look at what specific events were and details of each report.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't believe these experimental vaccines are particularly safe, but VAERS report volume is not a good indicator.

Every vaccine has a mandatory 7 day period (for most adverse events) healthcare companies have to report to it. For Covid vaccines the mandatory reporting isn't specified and includes basically every event, even ones "not causally linked" to the vaccine. Healthcare companies are reporting spam to cover their ass in case there are more problems found later.

You get the vaccine, die in a car crash, it has to be reported to VAERS because maybe you had a blood clot while driving or something like that. With a normal vaccine that isn't reported at all because it's assumed to be unrelated.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Bitchute also changed their algorithm so it's not web-torrent anymore, so if they take down a video it's gone.

Could be to prevent competitors from using them as seeds for competitors' better UI, could be to protect user privacy, but certainly less freedom and distributed than Lbry/Odyssey.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +6 / -3

Teslas had red/gray 2-color cameras that cost $20 each for driving down the road no hands.

But to answer your question, analog television is much easier to transmit than anything today. You wire the signal from the camera to an amp and a dish antenna. That's it.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

So... your actual objection is that my comment was correct that many events aren't reported to the VEARS?

"You're wrong because I agree with what you said!"

Ok... less crypto, more markov chain apparently.

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fauxgnaws 4 points ago +4 / -0

Not the same rules. Events are not reported to VAERS adverse effect database unless the cause isn't apparent.

Gunshot wound to the head - not reported to VAERS.
Gunshot wound to the head with COVID - counted as a COVID death.

edit: fixed typo from copy and pasting the acronym so cum_crypto_guy isn't triggered.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wouldn't surprise me if there was a secret group for faking the moon landing in case anything went wrong they could psych out Russia and protect the national psyche.

Then when it actually happened they bury it and nobody knows it was even on the table.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

a 5% farther orbit and there's no total solar eclipse

5% further orbit and there's still an eclipse. ... Jupiter has 5 different (known) moons in position to create eclipses. ... Saturn has 7 known moons that eclipse .. Uranus has 12 moons that cause eclipses. ... eclipses are EXCEPTIONALLY common

Now write out your whole explanation again and explain how there are always total solar eclipses.

But you can't, because if you stuck to the argument you'd lose because of "basic physics" as you put it.

An object has to be large enough and close enough in order to create a shadow that totally blacks out the sun. The moon is very near that point that separates eclipses (which as you point out are common) from total eclipses.

Everything you say is easily provably false.

Actually it's only everything you falsely believe I said is provably false. Garbage in, garbage out.

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fauxgnaws 3 points ago +4 / -1

It literally wouldn't matter how big or small the moon was, or where it was located.

Hold up a penny in front of a light bulb. Hold it right by the bulb and it doesn't block all the light, hold it near your eye and you can blot out the entire light.

The moon is pretty close to the farthest point where the 'penny' can totally block out the 'light bulb' - a 5% farther orbit and there's no total solar eclipse anywhere on Earth, ever. Moon is about 400 times smaller and the sun is about 400 times farther away.

Of course that's just the way it is. It's not some space alien egg that's going to hatch into a portal to the hell dimension.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

The y-axis label on the left is cases, y-axis on the right is deaths. Hopkins arcgis table shows the same 50k.

He's reading the graph right but missing the plot. It is around 50,000 cases, but it's fallen off a cliff from the previous high just two months ago.

So yeah, 0.015% of the population is currently getting sick/day but that's tiny. Million of people getting vaccinated, millions already had it without being tested, it's very unlikely to pick up again and you're extremely unlikely to get exposed if you aren't caring for sick family or something like that.

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fauxgnaws 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's complicated.

Bitcoin miners create transaction blocks. The difficulty adjusts to the amount of miners competing to make a block. Each block creates a certain number of new bitcoin, halving every 4 years.

Today you mine a new block and you get about $300,000 in value. This pays for a lot of mining equipment and electricity, but in 20 years all other things being equal you'd only get $10,000 per block (1/32). In other words, in the past there was a gold rush of electricity and hardware put into making new blocks because the coins from block itself was so valuable, but in the future the value comes from people paying you to make transactions.

Basically, if the value of a transaction (not value traded) is 1 cent ultimately it'll cost 1 cent worth of electricity to make that trade.

You could say we're already in the period where bitcoin mining is paid for by transactions. Bitcoin protocol can't fit enough transactions into blocks to handle the volume, so transaction cost skyrockets, so they've created a new means to batch up lots of transaction off books and use bitcoin to finalize them all in one block.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

70 million people canceled their Prime membership?

Resign before the news leaks and the stockholders force you out?

Am I Q'ing it right?

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not really. Obama set the bar record high on scumbaggery.

Spying on opposition party and reporters, gun running, overthrowing Lybia and causing a refugee crisis, funding terrorists, race baiting - doesn't even scratch the surface.

I remember when I found out Justice under O let companies donate to charities instead of paying fines - hey that could be okay - but of course all of the approved charities were liberal causes. The guy was scum and as time goes by even you will learn more about the things the media covered up for him and lied about Trump.

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fauxgnaws 5 points ago +6 / -1

So basically nothing much in the grand scheme of things.

"Stupid", "childish", "mean". Your username should be WrestlingWithFeelings.

The 9th circuit established early on that courts were also struggling with their feelings so I guess you are in 'good' company among those whose brain has been broken by 'bad' man.

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fauxgnaws 5 points ago +5 / -0

It's the same situation, friendo: people who felt aggrieved for really their own community's faults blatantly ignore the facts and the law to get 'justice'.

You could rerun it a hundred times, and each time the jurors' feelings would triumph over facts and rule of law - because that's what matters to them, their feelings. This is really the only criticism anyone has ever had of Trump, that their feelings were hurt.

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fauxgnaws 12 points ago +13 / -1

Courts let OJ go scot free. I guess you're still looking for the "real killer" since the courts said there was a lack of evidence.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Mods: Let each .win try out it's own voting rules.

An uparrow counting more than a downarrow should allow dissenting, minority opinions to have a place and be viewed while still keeping the total garbage at the bottom where only dedicated people need read through it.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

And it needn't be filled with conservative politics because there are other .win sites and conservatives aren't forced here just to have any place to comment.

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fauxgnaws 1 point ago +1 / -0

Another way is a scoring system designed to favor even the slight majority view and exclude the minority.

On reddit, a 1000-vote controversial comment can get 49% supporting it and 51% against. The score is -20 and it is collapsed and hidden from view - at least on .win these aren't collapsed and hidden. Vice versa 51% comments get +20, but after a while suppressed people leave and those comments become +510 and it looks like overwhelming support.

Communities that don't want to be echo chambers could do better. For example, if upvotes count as +1 and downvotes count as -1/4 then the strongly-held views of the minority still get a fair viewing. Back to the 1000-vote controversial, instead of -20 it gets +383 -- not at the top, but still part of the conversation.

The only comments to be truly suppressed are ones that nearly everybody agrees are just terrible. I'm not saying 1/4 is the right weighting because the less a downvote counts the harder it is to hide spam and trolls, but something besides 1:1 will lead to a healthier community.

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