Telemoto's comments

I retained a few good friends from one particular small nerdy and young company.

But I joined that company because of it.

It was also very unique in itself.

If Homeoffice would become the norm I could imagine actually enjoying the people who life around me.

Due to covid I have seen much more of the people I actually life cloth. Neighbors etc.

It would also be much cooler if friends would life closer to be able to meet up etc.

But I still think it's

The normal game developer is quite happy with DirectX if they do not use an engine.

Engine is a totally different topic as they do have experts to just support both in parallel.

And when you look how DirectX is the default for tons of games on windows you wouldn't say what you said.

The DirectX sdk and documentation is also really good.

Probably true but I do mean the real progress part.

Up and running android, big money, fast development.

Yeah I'm not disputing that ar will be used by a project managerin on a big construction side were a digital twin exists.

But I don't think we will see them 'normal' in our daily life's.

For what?

I got lasik to get rid of my glasses.

There is nothing I'm currently missing. I'm contrary I'm actually trying to do less with my phone.

I don't think people wanna sit in public transport wearing a gadget. I don't think anyone really wanna sit in a coffee place while wearing ar glasses.

What do you think people would like to do with ar?

You clearly favour cheap money over any responsibility or accountability.

Yes because of you we will need to lobby and start pushing more for Bitcoin ban.

And yes of course we need cheap and lots of renewable energy but if you would actually spend your time and energy to actually read up on things like climate change you would also see that FIRST we need to compensate so much current normal energy consumption before we can start playing again with Bitcoin etc.

I really really would like to understand how smart people (assuming people on hn have a certain amount of it, I might just be wrong here) totally ignore critical and relevant topic climate change but spend so much time defending Bitcoin.

Have you not seen any drought this year? Have you not seen the pictures around the globe like from floods?

Did you not ready anything fr the IPCC?

Do you just look at money money money?

People on hn also have family and might create new humans.

What do you think will help your kids or kids from your siblings more? Bitcoin or a stable planet a?

BD took ages to be were they are right now.

I actually think Tesla showed more than I expected.

At least we now start the rat race for robots.

I own a HTC vive pro. I showed it to my family and friends.

No one was ever motivated enough to come back and play with it more.

AR will also not become 'big' it will be a niche thing for certain jobs.

ML I remember the school sport indoor area with a whale flying around.

Yeah let's see how the future will look like. I don't think this will ever be the big thint

The current market cap only shows how irrational an unregulated market can be.

It doesn't say it's successful just because.

gwyneth paltrow is successful enough with her garbage. Plenty of MLM still exist.

I bought drugs with BTC. How much market cap are illegal drugs alone?

Unfortunately tech like stable coins, nft, BTC scratch something in man but I'm not sure if it's just too complicated for some to really understand it.

El Salvador shows us how useless it actually is if you try to use it in the real world.

He has a good internet connection and the latency in a Google Datacenters was probably really good.

If he just played around with stadia and just kept playing, I think it's easy to accept this as normal.

I was very close to start playing cyberpunk on stadia due to GPU issues. I wouldn't have switched in the middle just to save a few bucks per month

It really doesn't matter how many bitcoi s are minded every ten minutes.

Bitcoin still changes it's value up and down.

My argument was not based in the amount of bitcoins itself. It's still valid. It's a rat race and this doesn't mean Bitcoin is 100% energy efficient.

It's as efficient as the market makes it.

The methan discussion: either it produces enough energy that you can do things with it or it doesn't matter at all

We could force them to have edge mini Datacenters there to render things or do research workload. We could also charge batteries or enforce an energy line. Tons of options and no motivation to do it because profit and easy but useless solution of Bitcoin.

And yes it's less efficient to run Bitcoin instead of just burning it. Bitcoin then still steals critical ASIC/chip production capacity.

The guilty pleasure thing is just a strawman argument. It doesn't make Bitcoin better or worse just because of others. And yes I do totally disagree on GPUs etc not having a value.

I don't mind clarifying how much better gaming is, but it is. The discussion general is valid but at least the energy consumed gives a direct value.

Bitcoin hash finding still doesn't do anything and it also still doesn't solve the trust issue: Bitcoin is not decentralized, tons of miners are under control of few people. El Salvador shows how far away normal people are of even understanding it.

The excuse of 'people without bank account ' you really believe Bitcoin solves such issues? It doesn't. People still need infra to get crypto. We see how it works in Africa with simple phones. Bitcoin is not solving a problem here.

The same dump argument of people in north Korea or Iran: you still need someone exchange your currency and dollar and euro actually do the job. Go to Iran and pay with euro. You will be able to pay with it with zero energy consumption... (I have been to Iran)

We can stop it and it will not be allowed. Why? Because no country has any incentive to allow a parallel existing financial market circumventing anonymous payment system.

You will see how it will fail when a normal user can't loose there money by just buying it on normal platforms. No one cares about Bitcoin. Go out and ask any random people it's already wasting tons of resources while having zero impact.

You are repeating the same flawed arguments.

Bitcoin miner are not best buddies. It's a market.

Miner a has a high incentive to mine as much as possible with the cheapest energy. This is of course capped somewhere but you will creat a lot of waste in the process.

And about those other things like Natural gas: just to be very very clear: a society which wastes non renewable energy by just burning it of (with or without Bitcoin actually doesn't matter) instead of incentivising to capture and use it, is broken and needs the right incentive to do so as those things DO NOT regenerate.

Yes we would need to forbid companies to get 99% of the gas with great profits and burn the rest just because it would reduce their profits a little bit.

This is just green washing.

And anti competitive is also wrong. We already do that in our markets. We already are in regulated markets and it did not stifle innovation. It redirected it.

Bitcoin can't do that.

Bitcoin will consume as much cheap energy as it can get. This leads to more consumption of energy through Bitcoin and not less.

There is a slo nothing worse for Bitcoin to not keeping it running. So the incentive is also to be were you can run it reliable.

And as usual the pure capitalistical economy is shit in regulating itself therefore laws are required (we already have tons of laws to protect people because stuff like asbestos is great as long as you don't pay for the hospital bill).

Bitcoin takes energy and increases demand for solar etc while consuming it and making it unavailable. It even eats solar panels as Bitcoin is a global market while energy is more often than not local.

It's quite depressing to see such kind of nonsense when we clearly in a position were climate change costs us more and more every year and we still talk about bullshit arguments from Bitcoin instead of talking how to cleanup our current mess.

IF Bitcoin/crypto can be an interesting side hustle AFTER we solved climate change, I don't know. But Bitcoin will not stop the droughts etc.