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It doesn't matter how overprovisioned your solar field is at night. Hydro is an excellent pseudobattery but it's not available everywhere.

Care to elaborate? What did those studies show? As far as I know, properly handled humanure is quite effective. And it's better than letting excess nitrogen seep into the waterways…

Japan is a bit of a special case. They had extraordinarily high private-sector credit growth before their bubble burst. Now their private-sector debt has been dramatically shrinkin…

GPT-2 is the most recent available from OpenAI. Otherwise you'd need to look at EleutherAI's GPT-Neo which comes in various sizes.

>enforces any app author's will against the user's I'm not sure what you mean by this. All apps run in a sandbox and you can deny permissions if you like. >Root is not offered Root…

Did you actually find any examples of GrapheneOS phoning home? GrapheneOS doesn't rely on any third-parties I'm aware of. The only service provided is over-the-air security updates…

>Of course this makes it so there is no incentive to close these vents completely. Are you sure that follows from HB 189? To avoid tax the gas just needs to be certified that it wo…

Should have included this from the get go :) https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1422117365957922818

Note that the GrapheneOS developer has indicated they are working on getting the Google Play Services apps to run sandboxed like normal apps, without extensive system permissions. …

You're right, a set of trusted entities don't need a blockchain! It's a terrible datastructure which only makes sense in a very narrow circumstance. Followed through to its ultimat…

I don't trade, I accumulate. Through a handful of different exchanges, and then withdraw. If I had to, I could plug an ASIC into the wall and 'trade' energy value for bitcoin direc…

Note that the way this fork was pulled off was very ad-hoc. Ethereum devs were unable to create a legitimate transaction reverting the DAO funds because they do not have access to …

It's not about distributed governance; it's about abusing a dominant role in consensus. PoS is easier to capture, allowing the dominant party to censor and manipulate the settlemen…

Manufacturing ASICs from scratch requires a lot of capital, but it is fundamentally possible. There is no way to acquire a permanent, unassailable monopoly over ASIC hardware in ge…

>Computing power is just a proxy for capital/resources. Why not be more efficient and use the capital directly and save power in the meanwhile. Anyone can create new capital indepe…

The key distinction is that PoW is permissionless, whereas PoS is permissioned. Bitcoin is secured by hashpower, which is produced by physical capital outside the network. Nobody n…