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"2/Mining needs to be more efficient. Driving towards clean and efficient energy use is great for Bitcoin’s economics, impact, and scalability."

This seems like Dorsey doesn't understand how Bitcoin works, which is surprising

Making a more efficient miner will not reduce energy consumption, no more than designing lightweight bricks would allow you to build cheaper bank vaults

It's the opposite of that. Miners will try to grab higher fee transactions first, as soon as they see them broadcasted

So, just don't do business with those obvious fly-by-night companies who have no established reputation or brand?

From a company's point of view almost every individual consumer looks like a potential fly-by-nighter, so companies are forced to accept that risk, and we all share the costs of that. It could be useful to offer an alternative to this paradigm.

Ethyl alcohol is easy to define: C2H6O

There's no such clear definition of 'games'. So there is potential for interpretation and overreach.

What is it with Internet commenters who are cocksure despite not knowing what they're talking about?

Lots of good advice here about how to handle your feelings.

I'll add one more idea: it might help you to consider your friend's feelings. How is this affecting him?

Becoming wealthy rapidly is obviously a great problem to have, but it can also be an extremely disorienting problem. Friendships change (as you know), relationships break down. Some people are ruined by success - they fall out with friends, marriages collapse, drink and drugs etc

It's like gravity was switched off for you only, but you still have to walk on the ground.

I'm saying this not to help your friend but because it might help you handle this, if you can understand his challenge.

Though, if you do understand, then maybe you can be a good friend.

The missing punchline: "And, if those lousy, infuriating Microsoft cars cost only $25, most of us would buy them"

It's one reason that a conductor sends visual cues to the whole orchestra at the speed of light. That's the base clock source

Non-paywall : https://archive.is/z6Jrv

It seemed it was a surprisingly poor and unfocused analysis. The Economist is normally better than this

IMO, you're probably right, but what you've written is even worse than the comment you're replying to. At least the OP tries to argue a point and offer some vague evidence. So please don't do this type of lazy driveby sniping here. Flagged.

But the (video documented by multiple sources) sequence of events on the day fits the scenario of an accidental detonation very well: repair work involving hot welding the door, a slowly growing fire, then successively larger explosions capped by an enormous blast after an hour. It all took so long that the fire department had arrived

If one has access and just wants to destroy the evidence in a big boom, there's no need for so much complication and the uncertain results of it. Just pour gas on the pile, light a long fuse and run, fast.

It's very hard to believe that you're able to make such a complex and erudite argument as this, and yet you're utterly unable to parse something as simple as "lion is to feline as close is to distant, true/false". Both tasks require the same basic skills.

If this was remotely possible for us then we could also talk about towing the Earth a little further from the Sun to fix climate change

(It's not possible in any reasonable time)

I think he genuinely believes these issues are much broader than a single company. So he wants to encourage discussion about the general issue, instead of sparking even more unproductive, repetitive argument about a single company which would overshadow the broader and more interesting issue he sees.

(As we can see here, where a quarter of the comments are debating the business model of Mighty.)

If you were asking me about details of NFTs, I have no idea, sorry. I was just disagreeing with the key point in your original argument

But Bitcoin Cash has much lower unit value than Bitcoin, indicating people see them as different things. That seems to weigh heavily against your argument, rather than supporting it.

Your insight suggests an even better solution: the spacewalking astronaut could open the internal hatch to the docked Lunar Module so its cabin air can instantly partially repressurize the Command Module

I guess they're not shadows. They're the tips of the helicopter's legs

Edit: in case it isn't clear, this a photo of the helicopter's shadow on the surface, taken by a down-facing camera in the underside of the helicopter. It has a sort of fisheye lens, so there's some distortion at edges

Only 'SSL and logins'?!

>Besides, banks have less and less walls, guards, and vaults, because they keep less and less cash on premise.

What then guarantees the security of the financial system and of our money?

Have you ever considered why banks have walls, guards, and vaults?

Yes, let's start with banning off-topic comment threads about someone's personal bugbear (these are obvious energy wasters), and ultimately we should put a stop to any non-productive discussions

That's a great start, but don't stop there, because there are many more non-essential, energy wasting activities that we can also curtail: video games, leisure travel, fashion, and so on

>Giants can clone the entire product with a small team

Giants are more likely to buy the entire project with a small amount of shares

Neither option is likely to turn out well, but at least the founders could be rewarded

It is unlikely, but unlikely events happen. It does not have to be a conspiracy.

Think about this: If he hadn't died, he probably would have received much less attention.

There were a few other eloquent Chinese whistle-blowers from the early days, Jan-Feb 2020, who have been silenced by government threats or by being detained, who do not have the public recognition of Dr Li - probably because they didn't die.

It's a very interesting story.

Not just a mere failure, but a total wipeout.

Extremely simple games have succeeded before, eg Flappy Bird, as the author mentioned, so what went wrong here?

Maybe gameplay wasn't satisfying enough, due to a few annoying glitches and obstacles mentioned in the article, and probably the marketing was too weak?

Depiction of a steam dregdger working on the Suez Canal

https://www.alamy.com/suez-dredgers-canal-build-dig-excavate...

>I always thought it requires a CRT screen,

Probably you were right, in the past, because it has become much easier to do this with LCD screens as their resolution has increased into a range which demands fine control of higher-frequency digital data -- high enough (a function of the Nyquist frequency, I guess) to reproduce an analog radio signal with sufficient control to carry a recognizable audio signal

>The size of a car's gas tank has no effect on performance

It has a dramatic effect on performance when you run out of gas -- a little bit like the brick wall you hit if you run out of memory. The GP'S analogy isn't very accurate, but it's not totally wrong

That's usually only a real problem when the ship is suspended in the air, between wavetops. This one is still in the water, though maybe it has a little less support in the center than normal