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Also, playing computer games does not inherently contribute to significant harm to other people. [fake edit] Unless you buy from any of the developers or publishers that have more or less institutionalised harrassment, violence or marginalisation of women, ethnic minority, or LGTBQ workers, which is [checks notes]... oh. [actual edit] 9 is the number of Tory MPs who will back a motion calling on the government to make crypto currencies legal in the UK by the end of, ooh, let's say March.
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We have the technology to stop buying video games from those producers. Set up a cancelled list and begin the not-buying.
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OwlFancier posted:you have to keep adding computing power to this because the more transactions the amount of maths goes up exponentially (this is by design) It's more stupid than that. The amount of computing power actually needed to run the entire Bitcoin network is less than that of a classic SNES - what happens is different computers race to solve a maths problem, and the first one to get it "finds" the next block, gets rewarded with 25 new bitcoins and gets any transaction fees. If I add more computing power to my mining operation, I'm more likely to get the next block and the rewards. The thing is, so that the network has to share that new block with the everyone else- so it has an (approximate) time of 10 mins between blocks (for Bitcoin, other 'coins have different times) so that the new block can get round the world and everyone can agree that this is the new end of the chain. To keep the time the same, the difficulty of the maths problem scales to the amount of computers being thrown at it. All that power is being burnt to provide a (theoretical) 7 transactions per second worldwide. Renfield fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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OwlFancier posted:and you have to keep adding computing power to this because the more transactions the amount of maths goes up exponentially (this is by design) The even more terrible truth is, the number of transactions is limited by the nature of the confirmations and cannot increase no matter how many computers you throw at it, and the actual maths involved in all the crypto transactions globally could be done on a sub £50 phone with CPU to spare. The reason for computing power is because the 'rewards' for 'processing' transactions are a lottery by whoever tries the most solutions to a simple mathematical puzzle. Basically, pick the n-digit number that matches the cryptographic hash of the current transactions, where n is adjusted so it takes on average 15 minutes irrespective of the total computing power available. So you are incentivised to plug in CPUs to get more lottery tickets, while simultaneously negating the actual usefulness of the CPU power you plug in. It is the almost perfect virtual paperclip-machine, that is already consuming a noticeable portion of the worlds resources. E: Oh, and people have attempted to change the underlying code to not work this way, but that needs >50% to use the new code, and as any new way would give the current miners less rewards than they have now, they ain't changing nothing. It's almost like a Dr. Who level convoluted method of getting the world to consume itself for revenge against the Slitheen or something. OzyMandrill fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:We have the technology to stop buying video games from those producers. But how do you keep such a list up to date and ensure that it doesn't go offline if a server crashes? Clearly we need a blockchain for it.
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Thank you for reminding me how actually stupid my half-recalled version of "it gets harder the more you do it, intentionally" was.
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Sometimes I wish I could resurrect marx just to show him poo poo like bitcoins and see what it did to his brain.
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It's amazing to think how long Bitcoin has been around. There was a Skeptic's Guide to the Universe feature on it in 2013, and it wasn't brand new then. A decade online feels longer than a decade in the real world.
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Speaking of, it's been more or less exactly ten years I've been posting in these threads Thanks for helping me see how terrible this country is, comrades, I was a self-satisfied 'why can't everyone just get along' liberal in 2011 and now I'm, well, *gestures downwards* Anyway, pouring one out for the posters who posted then but don't post now
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Yea the first darknet Silk Road was around over a decade ago. The primary (and only) actual use case for cryptocurrency is crime, and all the cryptocats and NFTs and hastily cobbled-together whitepapers since then have been true believers desperately trying to conjure up another reason for it to exist. We’re over a decade in and nobody has found one. Cryptocurrency is for crime, that’s it.
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OzyMandrill posted:. It's almost like a Dr. Who level convoluted method of getting the world to consume itself for revenge against the Slitheen or something. The Techbross were a 3rd Doctor villain, iirc. To reverse the polarity, I wonder if you could replace ‘proof of stake’ with ‘proof of tax’? Every time a new block is needed, the system gives it out randomly, with odds proportionate to how much tax they paid in the corresponding 30 seconds.
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OwlFancier posted:Sometimes I wish I could resurrect marx just to show him poo poo like bitcoins and see what it did to his brain. TACD posted:We’re over a decade in and nobody has found one. Cryptocurrency is for crime, that’s it. I'd like to see Kropotkin's take too. He was all about communities having machines that would make stuff essentially post-scarcity. Bitcoin consumes enough energy to do that, but in enforcing artificial scarcity because there's no community trust.
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Barry Foster posted:I was a self-satisfied 'why can't everyone just get along' liberal in 2011 and now I'm, well, *gestures downwards* A paid up member of the My Dick party?
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I’m confused. Why is Twitter so outraged that Stewart Lee has posted a list of people he thinks are a bit poo poo on his website?
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smellmycheese posted:Why is Twitter so outraged
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If you say that sex is determined entirely by the size and motility of your gametes, these days... https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1477996525754146817
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Very impressed by Stewart Lee's extensive and detailed list of things/people that he likes/dislikes. Especially the angry discourse that it has triggered from tories and terfs. He did bizarrely put Lisa Nandy and Stella Creasy in his 'good guys' section however.
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Well he is a liberal.
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I'm too dumb to find his list to see if i agree with it or not. edit lol i guess i found it. Ask Sarkar NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm too dumb to find his list to see if i agree with it or not. Its on a Web 1.0 site.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm too dumb to find his list to see if i agree with it or not. Did you check the blockchain
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Day ten of my isolation and 11 since the symptoms started. My nose feels the clearest it has so but nice i hope I finally get a clear test this afternoon.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Day ten of my isolation and 11 since the symptoms started. My nose feels the clearest it has so but nice i hope I finally get a clear test this afternoon. We're still in a bizarre inverse situation where we're day 8-9+ into symptoms and have yet to get a positive. A cold at this exact moment just seems too stupid to be true.
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Szmitten posted:too stupid to be true. please check your timeline
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Lincolnshire: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1477711272384909314?s=20
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Pablo Bluth posted:Day ten of my isolation and 11 since the symptoms started. My nose feels the clearest it has so but nice i hope I finally get a clear test this afternoon. Day 9 here, symptoms totally gone, but still pretty positive on test. The missus has no sense of taste left tho which is a bit 
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Failed Imagineer posted:The missus has no sense of taste well she married you! 
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Paperhouse posted:I wonder if it's just confirmation bias on my part, or if this sentiment is becoming much more common and visible? I feel like in the last few months I've seen more and more people saying this and denouncing crypto. Until fairly recently I had assumed that it must have some actual value/purpose beyond speculation that I was just too dumb to understand Cryptocoins seem good to libertarian weirdos who are opposed to ever trusting another human on principle, and hate "fiat" currencies. Bitcoin was meant to be a virtual gold standard where the generation of new coins slows and eventually stops, so that there will only ever be at most a fixed amount of currency in circulation. And there would be no bank whose ledger you'd have to trust, but rather a shared ledger's integrity would be enforced by everyone getting into an arms race for more computational power so they could allocate the dribble of new coins to themselves. I guess the fundamental ideological stupidity of cryptos has nowadays gotten buried under all the layers of scams.
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Here’s Stu’s list for anyone interested: https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/2022/01/from-the-metro-lib-elite-desk-of-stewart-lee-january-2022/ E: https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1477992228375121922
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On The Pedestal The Christmas Lorry Jam Dover Sikhs Michael Rosen, Long Covid Chronicler Kunt & The Gang Asian Dub Foundation Kent Rufugee Action Network The Kent Lorry Park Sinkhole Mark Kermode Fire records Owen Jones Marcus Rashford Miriam Margoyles Barbara Nice Bob Geldof Philip Edgar-Jones Adam Buxton Ginherbeardmark Ken Loach Sadiq Khan Alexei Sayle Alice Roberts Janina Ramirez Miri Rubin Nesrine Malik Ask Sarkar Jana Prikryl David Olusoga Nish Kumar Count Binface Rob Auton Johnny & The Baptists Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site Gigbuddies Sam Coates Val Doonican Gareth Southgate England team Nate Mercerau Dawn Foster RNLI Jolyon Maugham & Good Law Project Andrew, Eden & Leila Kotting Lisa Nandy GP’s Hannah Gadsby National Trust Members Ben Wilson, chewing gum painter Angela Rayner Greta Thunberg Malala Yousafzai Simon Kofe, Tuvalu speaker at COP26 Stella Creasy MP Voters of North Shropshire Kunt & The Gang again In The Pedal Bin Alan Yentob Donald Trump Toby Young Andrew Neil Robert Jenrick MP Gavin Williamson MP Gillian Keegan MP Allegra Stratton James Forsyth Roger Daltrey Bruce Dickinson Lawrence Fox Priti Patel MP Tom Tugendhat MP Desmond Swayne MP Jacob Rees-Mogg MP Usrula von der Leyen Laura Kuenssberg The Daily Telegraph The Daily Mail The Daily Express Boris Johnson PM Piers Corbyn Michael Gove/Sarah Vine MP/WAG All my yellow Fred Perry shirts Dominic Raab MP Ricky Gervais Mumford & Sons and all their wives and dads Piers Morgan Stig Abell Graham Linehan The Daily Telegraph again The Museum of Brexit Clapham Common Police Julie Burchill Nimco Ali Carrie Symonds The Aspinall Foundation Samuel Kasamu Ben Elliot Dr Tony Sewell CBE Keith Fraser, Chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales Lord Ajay Kakkar, Professor of Surgery at University College London Dr Dambisa Moyo, internationally renowned economist and author Martyn Oliver, Chief Executive Officer of Outwood Grange Academies Trust Naureen Khalid, experienced school governor Aftab Chughtai MBE, Businessman Mercy Muroki, Senior Policy Researcher, Commentator, and Columnist Charlotte Nichols MP Martha Gill Vladimir Putin David Cameron Rishi Sunak MP Scrabble Nadim Zahawi MP Oliver Dowden MP Richard Tice Chris Mason, BBC Michelle Donelan, MP Keenan Malik Matthew Offord MP All GBNEWS presenters, guests, backers, advertisers and viewers Andrew Lloyd Webber Grant Shapps MP Winston Marshall of Mumford and Sons specifically Winston Marshall’s Brexit dad specifically Matt Handcock MP Roy Wood Andrew Bridgen MP Dougie Smith Darrell Maclaine Giles Coren Steve Baker MP Lord Bethell from The Ministry of Sound Alok Sharma MP Desmond Swayne MP Joe Biden The Taliban John Cleese Jimmy Fallon Nadine Dorries MP Nica Burns Spitting Image Dave Chapelle Netflix Ted Sarandos Restore Trust The Common Sense Group Stephen Green Simon Jenkin Baron Frost Fishermen Poland Owen Paterson Kwasi Kwarteng Jeff Bezos Christian with megaphone & siren, Camden James Goldsmith 250 Tory MPs that voted to save Owen Paterson Geoffrey Cox MP Van Morrison Eric Clapton Jaz Coleman Private Box owners at Royal Albert Hall Shaun Bailey Simon Case Maureen Lipman
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I'm beyond two weeks of a cold that I can't shake. Every Covid test I've done is negative. There's so much congestion in my chest and nose that I have to rest after climbing the stairs and time eating/drinking with the need to breathe through my mouth. The only thing that can rouse me from the 10 hours sleep I need each night is periodically waking up boiling hot and sweating buckets. Back at work tomorrow, coming to a customer service desk near you!
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Failed Imagineer posted:Day 9 here, symptoms totally gone, but still pretty positive on test. The missus has no sense of taste left tho which is a bit Mine took an extra week to come back after all the other symptoms were gone, so hopefully it'll be short for your partner as well instead of super long covid
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Ornedan posted:Cryptocoins seem good to libertarian weirdos who are opposed to ever trusting another human on principle, and hate "fiat" currencies. Bitcoin was meant to be a virtual gold standard where the generation of new coins slows and eventually stops, so that there will only ever be at most a fixed amount of currency in circulation. And there would be no bank whose ledger you'd have to trust, but rather a shared ledger's integrity would be enforced by everyone getting into an arms race for more computational power so they could allocate the dribble of new coins to themselves. The best lies are 95% true. Scams are lies made professional
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Lady Demelza posted:I'm beyond two weeks of a cold that I can't shake. Every Covid test I've done is negative. There's so much congestion in my chest and nose that I have to rest after climbing the stairs and time eating/drinking with the need to breathe through my mouth. The only thing that can rouse me from the 10 hours sleep I need each night is periodically waking up boiling hot and sweating buckets. Have you done a PCR test?
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Whatever the power consumption of videogames is, can we talk about it using intellectually consistent units? The kilowatt-hour is the unwanted bastard spawn of a polluted union between the two great houses of measurement. Either use the joule (with appropriate prefixes such as kilo, mega, giga and tera) or the horse-second (with appropriate prefixes such as pair, unicorn, apocalypse, pickaxe).
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Failed Imagineer posted:Day 9 here, symptoms totally gone, but still pretty positive on test. The missus has no sense of taste left tho which is a bit
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The name of that anonymous person? Albert Bullshit https://twitter.com/DesmondSwayne/status/1477964695759949824
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Endjinneer posted:Either use the joule (with appropriate prefixes such as kilo, mega, giga and tera) or the horse-second (with appropriate prefixes such as pair, unicorn, apocalypse, pickaxe). BTU  But renamed to Brexit Thermal Unit 
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Paperhouse posted:I wonder if it's just confirmation bias on my part, or if this sentiment is becoming much more common and visible? I feel like in the last few months I've seen more and more people saying this and denouncing crypto. Until fairly recently I had assumed that it must have some actual value/purpose beyond speculation that I was just too dumb to understand So I had a think about Cryptos and in particular NFT's and then I saw this tweet on fellow Goon, Slowbeefs twitter timeline which crystallised something I had been thinking. https://twitter.com/slowbeef/status/1477812303726850048?t=7fI4G_TqgIHf4UC6j_W0kw&s=19 (Background for those who care, Slowbeef was arguing with some techbro about NFTs. Said techbro cited his CV in a multibillion dollar company that only failed because they got to the market before Cryptos were established. Slowbeef points out the company was Theranos.) But it made me think back to reading Bad Blood (an excellent book on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.) And the maddest part about it was Holmes clearly believed her product would work. She knew it didn't, but her end goal switched from "make it actually do something" to "Get us established as a name for long enough that no one will ever question if we work or not. Then maybe make it actually work." And that is what Crypto has done and what NFT wants to do. Move the discussion away from "Wait, why do I use this, it's awful?" To "look we almost have the energy problem cracked."
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