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> Iceland estimates the industry will consume more than 100 megawatts by the end of the year.

All this energy wasted mining a virtual currency that no one uses.

We have to ask ourselves: is Bitcoin mining really the best use of our resources? Is it worth adding to our already engorged carbon footprints?

A combination of Toggl, Spreadsheets, and good old paper and pen. I keep a calendar that I mark every day as either green or red depending on whether I've met my threshold for a productive day (>6 hours of actual productive time - tracked using Toggl)

I tried to delude myself for years, telling myself that I'm not a "morning person". It was just an excuse to stay up late and watch garbage on the TV or scroll endlessly through Reddit.

Since I've forced myself to go to sleep no later than 11, I've realized that hey, I actually am a morning person.

I've taken to waking up at 6 to get a couple of hours of solid "brain work" before I start the day

I track my productivity very assiduously. For some tasks, such as writing, it is next to impossible to be productive for more than 5-6 hours/day. Your brain gives up after a while.

r/worldnews is the best example of Reddit's degradation. Thousands upon thousands of comments with no real insight but the same memes and pop culture quotes.

For some reason, I can't log into my Reddit account on the new design. I have to go back to old.reddit.com to log in.

Not that I'm complaining. The new design is just...weird?

It's abundant in the sense that there is no competition for it. I'd reckon it would be an evolutionary advantage to have complete monopoly over a resource.

I don't think grades are important at all. But the effort and discipline that leads to good grades, especially if they're in a setting that requires self-motivation (such as college - you have mom and dad breathing down your neck in school).

I'm extremely naive and ill-informed about biology and evolution, but I'm going to throw this question out there: isn't it an evolutionary advantage to evolve mechanisms to digest one of the most abundant materials - plastic - on the planet? Surely, some organism can find a way to extract some nutritional value from plastics?

The problem with this approach is of course language limitations.

Can we bypass this with a combination of numbers and universal symbols?

In my experience, ramping to $1k/month is the toughest part.

Getting from $1k to $10k/month is much easier. You have momentum, traffic, and some authority.

Slightly off-topic, but if you're in the building phase, I HIGHLY recommend setting up a placeholder website and putting up some content and getting some backlinks.

If you have 12+ months of content and backlinks, you will have a much better foundation for getting organic traffic once you do launch.

As I mentioned in another thread, the biggest winners from this entire GDPR saga are Google and Facebook.

Email is control. You get someone's email once, you get to control how often you contact them. You can send them hundreds of messages for next to no cost - as long as they don't hit 'unsubscribe'

But if you can't rely on email, what do you turn to? Ads, of course!

I get that there are some nasty actors that abuse your privacy. But as a consumer, I've never felt that spam was that big an issue to begin with, at least not big enough to warrant small businesses ceding control and having to rely on Google and Facebook to reach their audiences.

Windows keeps breaking with every update. My touchpad randomly stops working. Startup is excruciatingly slow even on an i7 laptop with 16GB of RAM. Starting up from sleep takes nearly as long, and for some reason, it takes at least 5 minutes for the machine to work at normal processing power again.

The search function is still as broken as ever. There is a useless "People" tab near the clock that hogs my memory. Then there is that other useless thing - Cortana. There are random noises for whatever error or notification that keeps playing in the background. Permission control is still completely broken. The Control Panel is a confused mess.

If I could go back to Windows 7, I might still be interested in keeping a Windows laptop. But 10 just keeps getting in my way. I just want to launch Chrome and use Google Docs, but Windows wants to distract me with a million little nuisances.

The Surface Book also runs something I never want to deal with again: Windows 10.

I can't deal with a software that constantly gets in the way of my work. I gave Windows a lot of tries, but the latest edition was the last straw for me. Never going back.

I see people here complaining about the author asking for email addresses, and I can't help but think: what a coup GDPR has been for large tech companies.

The author has spent hours creating a useful guide that he is giving away for free in exchange for an email address. He likely hopes to tap into this audience later for a paid product.

Reaching this audience via email is cheap and easy. He can email them as many times as he wants, even if he doesn't want to sell them anything.

But because of GDPR, he can't depend on email so much. He has to rely on other tactics to reach his audience again.

And what are those tactics?

Paid advertising, of course.

No one stands to benefit more from GDPR than Google and Facebook. Everyone here cheering for GDPR needs to think how it placed all the advertising power away from mediums you can control (email) and over to ad companies.

As a consumer, you can unsubscribe and block emails easily. As a creator, you can set up a mail server easily.

You can't do that with ads, at least without relying on outside tech

> Zilliqa, a public blockchain network, hit its billion-dollar market cap in May this year, a little under a year since its founding

This should bother anyone. 0 to $1B in market cap in 12 months is about as 'bubble' as you can get

Exactly. The only games - that I've played - that have the same arcade "pick up and play" level of fun are the GTA series (especially San Andreas) and racing games.

The Switch is the first console that has me excited about gaming in nearly a decade. A relative brought it over during a vacation and we had tons of fun playing Mario Kart.

The last time I was excited for a game was Age of Mythology back in 2002.

Nintendo solves the biggest complaint I have with modern games: they just take themselves way too seriously. So many are just trying to become wish fulfillment vehicles instead of actually being fun.

I don't care about story or sitting through 10 minute cut scenes. I don't have that kind of time or patience. If I wanted story, I'd watch HBO and get far better stuff.

I just want to launch and have fun for 30 minutes.

Nintendo gets that.

Hundreds of millions of vegetarians in India thrive without eating meat just fine

There is an entire cottage industry of Twitter pundits now who just focus on talking about Trump.

I remember following Scott Adams, whose work I enjoyed. Before he started talking about Trump, he had some 40k followers.

Since Trump, his follower count has ballooned to 250k and he almost exclusively talks about Trump now

I like to use Twitter from a distance. Like a street brawl. It's fascinating to watch, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to get involved. Too messy.

I'm always surprised that Twitter has managed to stay in business so long. Anaemic growth, massive spam and bot accounts, an advertising platform that's hostile to most small advertisers, a user-base that makes YouTube's comments look downright gentle, constant hostility to third party developers...and yet it continues to chug along.

I didn't know the definition of "puritan" had expanded to include "not willing to get orgasms from strangers in public"

You do know that there is a pretty healthy distance from being "sex-phobic" to this, right?

> It’s best known for classes on “orgasmic meditation,” a trademarked procedure that typically involves a man using a gloved, lubricated fingertip to stroke a woman’s clitoris for 15 minutes

Who would have thought that a company that offers this could have a dark side?

One of my investment principles is to "always bet on laziness"

VR goggles are the opposite of laziness for me.

Too much effort required to set everything up. Why do that much work for little reward if I can just sit back in my couch with a remote and play a game?

Aka the "Nerd Rockstar Bias"

Half the time I'm worried that I'm mumbling something stupid during my naps. My wife did catch me talking about kicking a football when I was taking my afternoon nap at work!

This is my exact problem. I haven't been able to use any of these cryptocurrencies to do actual work so far.

Everything has existed on the plane of theory and whitepapers so far.

Nearly a decade after BTC's release and nearly half a decade after's ETH, shouldn't there be a few mainstream applications using them?