JWBananas @ JWBananas @startrek.website Posts 7Comments 498Joined 2 yr. ago
"What? You don't want to share this to someone you haven't spoken to in a year?"
The sanctions aren't supposed to cripple China indefinitely. They're just supposed to give the US enough time to build fabs for military chips before China invades Taiwan.
And yes, I am aware that may not happen within our lifetimes. I did not write the sanctions.
Bitcoin is deflationary. There is a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins that will ever exist. Every so often, the reward for mining a block is halved. Eventually there will be effectively zero reward for mining at all.
That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.
Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don't see how that methodology is flawed.
Human beings who want to speak with other human beings.
I know. It can seem like a strange concept to some people. It's strange to me that they find it strange.
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$2.73 would buy lunch tomorrow
Marsha Marsha Marsha?
My nose?
Plenty of humans make those judgements about their own creations. And plenty of them get a shock when they release their creations to the masses and don't get the praise that they expected.
Tool time!
At least Bob Barker had the decency to get as close to 100 as possible without going over.
I asked DALLE-2 for a "wide shot of a delivery driver in a Louisiana bayou with bagged food" and it gave me this:
That's certainly a fascinating way to interpret "bagged food."
Sorry, wrong number!