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So-called cryptocurrencies should really be named potlatch currencies.
Quote: A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader's wealth and power.
Isn't this exactly what cryptocurrency "mining" does?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Quote: A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader's wealth and power.
Isn't this exactly what cryptocurrency "mining" does?
If only they were so benign.
With their Proof of Pollution mining algorithms scamcoin filth have utterly destroyed the market for GPUs of any sort; making it nearly impossible to buy a card for its intended purpose.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: With their Proof of Pollution mining algorithms scamcoin filth have utterly destroyed the market for GPUs of any sort; making it nearly impossible to buy a card for its intended purpose. Yeah, it sucks. I will now have a monster of PC with a 6 or 7 year old 2GB NVida Graphic card because no way I am going to pay 2x or more the normal price for a new one (and that supposed I find a day where they are not out of stock)
M.D.V.
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Google has run into trouble with regulators again, this time on the other side of the world. "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
A reference that ... three? of us might get?
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Who's the other?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I was figuring maybe Bill Woodruff
TTFN - Kent
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Shazam! I think you're right!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Quote: In theory, just 1 gram of DNA is capable of holding 455 exabytes, which is the equivalent of one billion gigabytes, and more than enough space to store all of Google, Facebook and pretty much everyone else's data." [^].
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Yeah, but you need really, really good glasses to read it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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One problem with this is that you need fairly advanced technology to be able to sequence DNA, and therefore this method can only be used to communicate with advanced civilizations. It could not be used, for example, to restart civilization after a collapse to barbarism.
One way around this would be to encode the instructions for building the DNA sequencer on something non-perishable and easily read with low technology (e.g. large monoliths), with a pointer to the DNA cache. How to make the plans comprehensible to the intelligent barbarian is left as an exercise for the alert reader.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells. "Ape must never kill ape"
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... and have them enter politics.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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We already have animals in politics, apes included
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Oh, this is a really good idea. Not.
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If a co-worker was to spontaneously combust (à la Garth Marenghi's Darkplace) in your office, what you might expect to one day slough off the ceiling and slap atop your computer screen would be this anthropomorphic webcam No, I don't think it would. Nope. Uh-uh. No how.
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I don't know why, but I would have expected this being posted by OG in his "IoT Crap" series in the lounge...
yeah, I know, that doesn't necessarily fall into IoT... but still connected to the internet and crappy (and creepy) enough
M.D.V.
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Ewwww.
Kent- two "ewwww" posts! This one and the human-monkey embryo one!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Kent- two "ewwww" posts! This one and the human-monkey embryo one! Humanity has reached the end of this line. Time for a moral species to take over...
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And with three ewes, I'd have a flock
TTFN - Kent
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You aren't the only one feeling like you're giving more than you're getting from your employer – a chunk of Microsofties are of the same opnion. "Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call?"
But -- free soft drinks and coffee? Isn't that a great deal?
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Quote: You aren't the only one feeling like you're giving more than you're getting from your employer – a chunk of Microsofties are of the same opnion. The question is... do they think it about their employyer? Or about Microsoft?
In this case that could be a not so small difference...
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Any company that provides a treehouse[^] for meetings and work is OK by me.
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