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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by rspeele on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:00PM (#26093295)
Is that you, Gary Johnson?
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by flopunctro on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:07PM (#26093368)
No idea who's Gary Johnson. I'm just a guy from Eastern Europe, watching too much Isaac Arthur.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by rspeele on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:13PM (#26093415)
Just a playful joke. He's a US politician who ran for president in 2016 as a third-party (i.e. no chance of victory) candidate.

At one point he was asked about his long term view on global warming, and he said "In billions of years, the sun is going to actually grow and encompass the Earth, right? So global warming is in our future."

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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index by flopunctro on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:22PM (#26093505)
Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining :)

Gary's response was obviously tongue-in-cheek, even somewhat flippant. My comment wasn't trying to be ironic, though I now see that it could be interpreted so.

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