IngvarLynn
We're in the process of transitioning from "online friends are not real friends" to "clanker friends are not real friends".
This comes from a person that thought that the movie "Her" was based on the dumbest idea ever.
So direct environment impact is still huge for EVs and calling them ZEV is literally a scam.
If your site is static, a VPS would carry it a long way. I once hosted a tiny video site - 500 daily visitors, 100GB, 10$/month. Worked better than youtube, 0 issues.
I took 5k iu oil softgels and got a unique and indescribable BAD feeling. It crept up very gradually over the course of a month and a half and I had a hard time realizing what was happening. It took me over a month to recover after I stopped.
Another time I've taken 2k iu dry D3 and had zero side-effects.
A couple of years after that D3 mishap, I tried some omega-3 and after a two weeks I realized that that unique bad feeling was making a comeback.
Again, another time I tried a different brand of omega-3 I had no side-effects.
I have a bunch of food sensitivities. So I believe that was a reaction to some contaminants in the oil.
You should be aware that most software engineers in the world live outside of US. Most of them make less than that. But that's just nitpicking.
The problem with your logic is that you suggest to feed the beast that will devour you whole. Youtube is involved in multiple planetary-scale propaganda campaigns.
So the choice is between different shops, not about homelesness.
First, you're striping agency from those workers blaming abstract society instead. There is no such thing as "collective guilt". Those particular workers are free to leave such an unsafe industry at any moment, probably even more free than, say, smokers who choose death from respiratory complications. I have exactly zero empathy for either. True that sometimes workers are not exactly free to leave the job and coerced into insane working conditions, e.g. the curse of russian monotowns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwzP-zr0S0c . That is definitely not the case for california though.
Second, your interpretation of the book is not right. Works of Pelevin, just as many other great writers, are not exactly fiction, but a compilation of a real life contemporary trends distorted by weird observation angle and grotesque style. The core theme of Omon Ra is very basic: government brainwashes people to be literal disposable cogs. AFAIR the book does not reference "society" in any way. I've read the book over 20 years ago though. One great thing about Pelevin is that he definitely had access to people of highest power at some point (early 00's at least) and translated their completely crazy worldviews into his books.
To develop the idea further, most grocery shopping should move online, so I could trivially filter out products with shrinkflated packaging, containing palm oil, nestle brands, etc.
Well, yes, I should've said 30 years, not 10.
You can start educating yourself on cryptocurrencies with the monero case: monero payments were used instead of captcha on an internet forum about 10 years ago.
Imagine instead the following trivial scheme: instead of burning resources the client would pay to be served in reverse order of payment value. Let's say client is willing to pay 1 cent to be served in the next 10 seconds. The attacker would have to pay more as he have to occupy the whole head of this queue all the time to be successful. Let's say server can process 100 rps - now he's making over a dollar per second, which he can use to scale his serving capacity.
Not modelling after but integrating of an existing one. Because this saves massive amount of engineering effort.
>rising prices may prevent legitimate clients from being able to connect to onion services due to the challenge being too expensive
Obviously, the price for legitimate clients would be much cheaper, as their requests shall be placed in the middle of priority queue (clients can wait a few seconds) while the attacker have to occupy the very top of this queue all the time. Also note that the bigger the DDoS in this scheme - the bigger profits server could make, which he could spend on expanding capacity.
>each visitor contribute to a partial solution that can then be combined to derive funds
This scheme predates monero, which was about 10 years ago.
>the next generation learns from our senseless technology-burnings.
Not if they would reinvent the wheel each time instead of adapting of existing tech to current needs.
They chose memory-hungry algorithm because that would prevent use of specific hardware (ASICs).
The problem is, such integration would require the chosen coin to be anonymous, which is essentially forbidden: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843161/tornado-cash-ind...
except much more effective.
Humanity barely managed to get over (if so) previous mind-viruses like bible and communism. Partially because of massive discussion around these topics. With current LLMs (not future superhuman AGI) it's possible to spoon-fed a personally tailored mind-virus to each internet user. And there would be no discussion just because every instance is so original. (In practice it's often enough to just rename all the keywords, as proven by numerous psycho/business-cource gurus.)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366308
I am yet to see any former kremlin official which public activity could not be classified as whitewashing.
Bullying 101: maximize damage (emotional or physical) while remaining technically not liable. To increase damage further ramp up the frequency of such incidents. If other side retaliates - make them liable.
Perhaps it is impossible to distinguish stupid boldness from real vision without complex communication.