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New comment by codecamper in "Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]"

codecamper — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:25:42 +0000

This is awesome. I just wish more governments would wake up to the fact that crypto does nothing beyond suck resources and warm the planet. If you want to bet on things that go up & down, there is the stock market where things go up and down 20%+ every single day.

New comment by codecamper in "Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]"

codecamper — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:15:22 +0000

Well then if we must choose between planet, and greaseballs, we'll choose the planet any day.

New comment by codecamper in "Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]"

codecamper — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:12:06 +0000

You cannot move "underground" when you are sucking that much power.

The government did what they should have done, and what all governments should have done a long time ago and shut this nonsense down. It's sucking up resources and only adding to wealth inequality.

Bitcoin rewarded a small group of very smart people very very very well. It then rewarded morons... hordes and hordes of morons very very well too. We will be living with the consequence of this for decades to come.

New comment by codecamper in "I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year"

codecamper — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:18:59 +0000

yup. I just keep a terminal open set to that path. Had just 10Mbit wifi before but that is now 500Mbit. Will have to revisit this solution. Something like a rsync would be nice.

New comment by codecamper in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

codecamper — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:14:10 +0000

awww the apple fanbois don't like me

New comment by codecamper in "100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say"

codecamper — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:13:44 +0000

In the little podunk Hungarian village.. middle of nowhere. Farmers and hunters. 300Mbps $15 / month

New comment by codecamper in "If you miss an Apple Card payment, Apple disables all your Apple accounts"

codecamper — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:47:01 +0000

You would too if Mohammed bin Salman was your investor!

New comment by codecamper in "Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (2019)"

codecamper — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:11:30 +0000

Here is an idea:

  Don't take the Saudi money.   Don't take any money.  

  Just build it, and ship it.  Work a regular job and work on your startup at night.  

  Create a product and charge very little for it.  Wipe out the competition with a better / cheaper product.  

  Once you think you are having an effect, short your competitor.  Continue to ship your as good or better product for 1/3 the cost.  

  Take down the world powers.

  Just an idea.

New comment by codecamper in "The road to electric is filled with tiny cars"

codecamper — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:48:40 +0000

But but but... making EVs is VERY VERY complicated.

You need to understand the S-curve.

Exponential change!

lmao.

New comment by codecamper in "Show HN: Summarizing product reviews into simple bullet-point lists with GPT-3"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:52:25 +0000

This is awesome. Great work.

New comment by codecamper in "Roaring Kitty to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:01:15 +0000

Not really my point that selling options is the problem.

imo, allowing < 25k account holders to buy short dated options should not be allowed due to their outsized effect on stock price. And the tendency for that price rise to snap back like an overstretch rubber band. It's just creating more volatility.

New comment by codecamper in "Roaring Kitty to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:59:20 +0000

Not really.

It's about removing leverage from the system.

New comment by codecamper in "Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:57:58 +0000

Are there examples of this happening?

New comment by codecamper in "Launch HN: Noya (YC W21) – Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:56:37 +0000

His idea seems like a rough sketch. I don't know how deep he has thought about it. But he mentioned it in at least a few talks.

Would be awesome if you all just looked him up & went to talk with him.

He represents the "what bio can do" part of the equation. And bio does quite a lot already.

New comment by codecamper in "‘Roaring Kitty’ Sued for Securities Fraud over GameStop Rise"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:54:52 +0000

Oh nobody liked this post either.

Cuz you all just don't get it. lol

New comment by codecamper in "I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:54:16 +0000

that sounds good. I need to set up some scripts to do this & also sync into my phone.

New comment by codecamper in "Activists who embrace nuclear power"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:52:35 +0000

We'll get there. As soon as we stop listening to the morons that want to do step Z before they finish step C.

New comment by codecamper in "Activists who embrace nuclear power"

codecamper — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:51:50 +0000

oh... I see the "we're going to Mars" wet dreamers did not like my post.

techies... lol.

New comment by codecamper in "Activists who embrace nuclear power"

codecamper — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:15:40 +0000

Luckily we already have a working fusion reactor. It's 92M miles away, but it's a big one. All that is required are some solar panels and wind turbines to harness its power.

New comment by codecamper in "Activists who embrace nuclear power"

codecamper — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:53:36 +0000

So Bill Gates doesn't think we can do this with a majority solar, wind, and storage. He invented the backslash and has a lot of money, so he is getting a lot of attention.

But has a good computer simulation been made? Just collect annual sunlight data from a million points across the US, along with wind, throw in 200M electric vehicles (can use satellite data and image recognition data to guess how often they are parked for V2G), and see how far we can get towards a 100% green grid.

I haven't seen a computer simulation and yet here is Bill saying it's impossible. Is it? Or is this just another "computers will never need more than 640k" moment?