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How many TWh crypto consumed? Would one be able to build Egyptian pyramids with this amount of energy?
Looks like Fortran programmers have been doing data-oriented design since forever.
The result is that world becomes more and more boring. No interesting discussion can take place. Environment becomes more toxic and it's mainly due to radicals who perceive everything as offensive and everybody who disagrees as "nazi" or "racist" or "-phobic".
Re:Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:33PM (#26388636)
He's right. Longest thriving tulip market in history. I wonder how much energy in total BTC has already consumed?
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:16PM (#25752867)
All people, regardless of their worldview, left- and right-wing, should be aware that they are in the same boat on this.
Re:I/Q Data for Dummies on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:49AM (#25135321)
I believe used notation (complex exponential) is confusing for most people. In physical implementation physical waveform will be computed I+Q (writing I+jQ seems to exclude this). I found this very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7d-m1ehoY
Well, lettuce has not been inflated by FED (yet), why would stocks have been?
FED buys MBSes and bonds. FED does not buy neither lettuce nor stocks.
No, FED does not print money - bank reserves are not legal tender. If they had printed money, inflation would have skyrocket.

My only question is why banks agree to this deal: exchanging U.S. treasuries for bank reserves (which they only can use as a collateral for lending) ?

Aren't these results consistent with Netherland's findings (3% of blood donors had COVID-19 antibodies) ?
I do not understand the reason for butchering wild life animals (e.g. bats). Is it belief system (e.g. traditional Chinese medicine) or they are just hungry?
Re:Object-oriented Haskell surprisingly appealing on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:57AM (#22546836)
... and at most one person.
Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified on Sunday May 05, 2019 @04:48PM (#19834963)
Thanks!
Re:Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:46PM (#19834605)
Best wishes to dr R.Davis and his team - great job! My uncle suffers from Guillaine-Barre Syndrom (GBS) (or rather A-CIDP, but that still needs to be determined). I'm trying to educate myself on GBS and research newest treatment methods, but most resources/articles are paywalled. That does not help.
Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:02AM (#19026300)
Used to work with Rational Rhapsody. Big project with a lot of fancy state charts - that was nightmare. Visual programming does suck (unless it's Simulink).
Re:Sqlite: Code Of Conduct on Monday October 22, 2018 @07:40AM (#18273814)
Best CoC I have ever seen! I do not think that it is joke. From sqlite's source code:

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give.