foxrob92
My parents are building outside of Adelaide and they've decided to go off grid (solar + battery + backup generator). Their expected payback period is (iirc) 8 years, with a 10 year warranty on the batteries and a 25 year warranty on the panels. They're expecting to have to run the generator once a year or so.
>i don't place a utility judgement on the use of energy.
Attitudes like this are why staying under 2C of global warming is going to be a long shot at best.
>If somebody is willing to pay for their use of electricity, they deserve to use it.
A nice idea, but energy use affects us all. More fossil fuel burnt = more extreme climate change. For where I live, it means cyclones will hit land further away from the equator (and closer to larger population centres), overall rainfall will drop and bushfires will be more severe and frequent.
I feel justified in denigrating BTC because its colossal waste of power is a significant contribution to climate change. This has tangible harms to everyone on this planet.
It takes ~1.2 MWh to confirm a single transaction right now. My fridge at home consumes approx 300 kWh/year. Are you saying that a single BTC transaction verification provides anywhere near the utility as refrigerating food for four years?
Even comparing it to gaming, my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transaction. There's orders of magnitude more energy being used by BTC, but I don't think there's orders of magnitude more benefits.
>but why can't they equivalently claim that mining bitcoins would derive enjoyment?
Got any evidence for that?
Every time I see this take, I am reminded of this comic: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
Got a source for the "fires are down 90%" statistic?
I think it's pretty clear that GP was referring to climate change, which wastes of energy like NFTs and BTC exacerbate. A side note - climate change means that bushfires are more common and their severity is worse than in the past. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that the world burns for it.
It's also somewhat important to differentiate between "doing advertising" and surveillance capitalism. The scope/scale is completely different.
Circular buffers?
Labour theory of value contends that the value of an object depends on the "congealed human labour" in that object (e.g. a chair is worth more than its constituent timber because the chair requires you exert additional labour on that timber).
Intrinsic theory of value says that some objects have some objective value, inherent in the object (or as a property of that object, like mass).
Subjective theory of value basically says "value is in the eye of the beholder".
There is also exchange theory of value, which is similar to subjective value. An object has a value decided by what it can be exchanged with (e.g. 2 square metres of linen might be worth the same as 1 coat, even though the coat only has 1 square metre of linen in it)
- Edited by other people - Printed by other people - (Films were) directed by other people - Characters in the films were played by other people - Distributed by other people
If there was no J.K. Rowling, we (admittedly) wouldn't have the stories. But the same is true of all of the other moving parts in the media business.
No-one is self-made.
OSIsoft was bought earlier this year by AVEVA for $5 billion[1]. OSIsoft's offering is centered around storing industrial control system data (the buzzword-version is IIoT, though that is a bit more broad). They're also not the only player in this space. Many of the industrial automation vendors also have their own offerings.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-25/aveva-to-...
I'd heard that it was initially developed for a major industrial operator (sounded like it was in the resources industry though I never found out who it was for), so the lack of support for late arriving data is a big surprise. That being said, there aren't any of those companies on the customers page - maybe it was just an incorrect rumour.
Industrial facilities don't always expect their outages.
> Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you notice a network outage, you can scale up the retention policy for the duration and then reduce it back down again after.
Better, though still a hassle to manage.
Backfilling/inserting old data is common. Control network connectivity is not always great. Sometimes you need to do fill in old data.
Forecasts are also a common use case (e.g. forecasting grid demand/capacity), so not being able to handle future data is another limitation.
I can't find it now, but I thought there was an article recently that looked at page rendering times and how they have changed over the years (as bandwidth has also increased). In general, page rendering time hasn't decreased as much over the last few decades as you would expect, and a part of that is the amount of js (often for tracking - not to serve the user) that is pervasive nowadays.
* Hydropower: 1.0/24/2200
* Concentrated solar: 8.8/27/63
* Rooftop Solar PV: 26/41/60
* Utility Solar PV: 18/48/180
* Wind Onshore: 7.0/11/56
* Wind Offshore: 8.0/12/35
* Nuclear: 3.7/12/110
I've gotta say, Nuclear/Utility Solar/Hydro all have massive ranges in their lifecycle emissions. If you're basing "which tech has the lowest lifecycle emissions" from the median alone, you're not getting the full story. Rooftop solar is a lot more consistent than Nuclear, for example.
They went with Robert (en/fr)/Roberto (es), and Ines (fr)/Inez (es)/Agnes (en). Ines doesn't really use her "English" name.
This was pretty frustrating, as my undergraduate thesis had some publishable work in it. When I reformatted the thesis up so that it would fit the standards of a journal, I still ended up getting a pretty high match...to my own work (the thesis). I ended up rewording as much of the paper as I could, but I couldn't get the %match below whatever the threshold was. Eventually my adviser said "ok, that's good enough" because he could see that I was being accused of plagiarism against myself.
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the "smart device" (from the manufacturer's point of view)? The business model often seems to be locking you in to a subscription (rent seeking) or selling your personal information (surveillance capitalism).
But you are going to die. This[1] is a very thorough walkthrough. Wanting to live longer than your parents is one thing, but "forever" is a long time. I'd go as far as to say that if you think you can live forever, you don't understand forever.
>no justice in the universe.
Justice is an idea created by humans.
Wanting to improve yourself and the world around you is a central human trait imo, but there are some things we will never completely fix. One of them is death.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1dn43v/i_rema...
>is some sort of socialism, where the government introduces new laws and systems to redirect money to attempt to balance the system manually
"The government doing things" is not socialism. Socialism is when the means of production are socially owned (usually by the people who operate the means of production). What the author is talking about here is "welfare statism" [1], and IMO UBI is just welfare statism taken to an extreme.
That being said, I'd definitely agree that UBI (under a capitalist state) is a way to keep capitalism ticking along.