Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
by tudorw on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:13AM
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Energy usage is a recognised issue and while it offers challenges they are understood and developers are keen to address this. If you want to start deconstruction of the industrial military complex that would be just fine and might really start to change things, until then I argue there are more worthy targets for your ire than the energy use of an emerging technology.
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Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
by jonfw on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:39AM
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This is like saying that pollution is a recognized issue with fossil fuels and while it offers challenges they are understood and engineers are keen to address this.
There aren't always easy solutions and you can't hand wave aside a massive problem because 'our best people are on it'
Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
by tudorw on Thursday March 18, 2021 @12:16PM
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If fossil fuels producers had had the same level of awareness of environmental issues when that industry began we might not have the issues we have now, I think it's a poor comparison, my comment was acknowledging the issue and positing that an iteration of the technology could mitigate the problem.
Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
by lupire on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:32AM
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Are you also opposed to EVs which also have the problem of high initial costs for early iterations of the tech?
Re:WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
by jonfw on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:30AM
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Costs (of EVs) are passed onto the consumer and thus self-regulate, whereas many of the costs of crypto's wasteful energy usage are distributed among society.