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5 years ago
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on: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
Well it's like any other business that runs on electricity. AWS converts electricity directly into profit. They provide a service for paying customers, just like a miner does. I'm sure many datacenters are located in places where electricity is cheap, hell I bet some datacenters get it even cheaper with lobbying.
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5 years ago
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on: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
Gaming is also consuming more energy than the daily lives of a whole country __Combined__. Entertainment is a good thing, but watching a movie consumes a lot less resources than playing games so why are games acceptable? What about VR? VR uses a lot of GPU computations for something a small fraction of people use. Surely people playing VR could use some other form of entertainment that is less resource consuming.
Or then we let people use their own resources the way they see fit.
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5 years ago
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on: Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit
The part where someone would claim this is racist.
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5 years ago
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on: Amazon Game Studios struggles to find a hit
> Executives under Frazzini initially rejected charges that New World, an Amazon game that would ask players to colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans, was racist. They relented after Amazon hired a tribal consultant who found that the portrayal was indeed offensive
What a ridicilous world we live in.
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5 years ago
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on: Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworks
Sounds like a good usecase for some framework without vdom like Svelte.
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5 years ago
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on: State of JavaScript 2020
Do you have any info on that AAA game? I would be curious to read up on how/why they used svelte.
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5 years ago
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on: McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu
The appeal is the same as a Vegan burger. If you mimic cheese well enough then why would it not be a pizza?
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5 years ago
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on: Chess’s Cheating Crisis
I would imagine it's not a joke. His comment is factual if you interpret "women" and "men" as a population and in context of chess performance(not in general).
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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5 years ago
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on: GitHub Won’t Help You with Hiring
I did find a bug in svelte but not sure if it was worth a PR. I cloned their repo, tracked down the issue, learned how their codebase worked, fixed it, wrote some tests for it, wrote an elaborate issue and pull request explaining the issue and nuances. It took around 4-5 hours over a couple of days even though the fix was a one line diff. The PR was ignored for 6 months. I was considering bumping it but then I read in another PR that it's bad manners and just decided to remove it instead.
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5 years ago
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on: Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)
His arguments for investing in it in 2011 made sense but in 2020 they no longer do.
- Past performance has plateaued for years.
- Use cases are niche instead of regular transactions.
- Since the use cases are niche there is few uptake drivers.
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5 years ago
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on: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013)
> We'd hate to be treated ourselves as we treat our kids
Sounds like people should treat their kids better
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5 years ago
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on: George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
Half seems insignificant since in America the shootings are more commonly two sided, which warrants more deadly use of force. You wouldn't stop with the first bullet if your target had a gun in their hand(as opposed to a knife).
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5 years ago
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on: George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter
I think you are comparing apples to oranges. Your comparison would be more accurate if all humans were law abiding citizens. I don't think you could put blame on pilots if airplanes could sabotage flights at will.
Of course if all humans are law abiding citizens there would be no issue to begin with. I think every society with lower crime has significantly smaller police brutality issue with some rare exceptions like Hong Kong.
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6 years ago
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on: The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
Isn't it unlikely that a naturally emerged virus would have both high virality and mortality rate? I have read that viruses usually have one or the other, which would indicate that both is more rare. Combining the rare odd with the odds that the host happens to infect a human would make it even less likely to happen. I'm not very familiar with the topic so I could be mistaken.
I don't think it's very interesting if it was a naturally or artificially selected virus. The more interesting question is was the infected specimen a research subject or not.
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6 years ago
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on: Tesla Ventilator
It's because their masks keep dropping when speaking. It's surprisingly hard to fit the mask in a way that you do not feel the urge to adjust it every now and then.
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6 years ago
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on: The Svelte Compiler Handbook
This is very useful. I have just started contributing to svelte and it was a bit overwhelming even though the bugs were very well isolated in the codebase.
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)
I was under the impression their clients want more of a fulltime worker than not but I'll ask them what they think.
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2020)
SEEKING WORK
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Remote: Yes
Email: [email protected]
Rate: €60/hr
Available: 10-20 hours/week
I'm a versatile fullstack developer with 5 years of experience. Email for more information.
Technologies: TypeScript, Svelte, Vue, React, GraphQL, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Rust, Static site generators
