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But Racket is built on top of Chez Scheme so you can also use that directly if you just want a Scheme.

However, one of my credit cards didn't work for that with no clear reason given, but a different one worked almost every time.

What this article doesn’t say:

* Many, many cities have something similar already, but only for riders with disabilities. (“paratransit”) You need to schedule your ride the day before, but they will take you from door to door.

* The cost per ride is quite high: more than $20 per ride, often. This cost is borne by the city, while riders pay little to nothing. In very few cases does it make financial sense - most places aren’t replacing their buses with microtransit.

* The best utilization I’ve seen is on campuses, where there are a fixed set of stops in a small region, and a large population of people who can’t or don’t want to drive (maybe due to limited parking).

Somebody put in an ugly hack to deal with scaling rather than rearchitect? Well, I'd like to fix it but it'll mean downtime that'll interrupt player 2's OKR of getting the rocket control units made.

Plus, we didn't allocate enough space, so I need to talk to player 3 who owns the adjacent area (and whose functionality I don't understand). Player 3 doesn't like the idea of moving or redesigning that area, so I'm going to try asking Player 2 or Player 4 to help me rebuild it in an undeveloped area.

Building the new section while the old section is still running has overdrawn on our electricity capacity, which has been oversubscribed for a while but we just kept accumulating tech debt on electrical with ugly hacks. Which brings me back to step 1.

I think I would need to redo the browser-based editor, because even if I solved e.g. cross-block selection across blocks of the same type, it's unclear how it should work across, say, a text block and a video-embed block.

For miners, they just want whatever does more hashes per second. There's no loyalty there and the hardware is competing solely on hash/power/cost. For gaming, you have proprietary software and APIs like "RTX"-branded stuff, game-specific driver optimizations, etc. where you can better defend yourself against AMD.

So for Nvidia, if they're going to sell X GPUs either way, they'd rather sell to gamers than miners to help preserve their gaming market share which plausibly has more long-term value. Just my guess, at least.

A lot of the debate seems to be around whether or not it's as secure or viable, or whether the existing Ethereum miners will try to stage a coup or something.

Disclaimer: I don't hold cryptocurrency and I think proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are a tragic waste.

Proof of STAKE is where you dedicate your cryptocurrency and are rewarded based on that. Since owning cryptocurrency doesn't take any physical resource, the only expenditure is keeping your staking node (a computer) online so that it can participate in validation.