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k8sagic

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    Comment #40903290

    So now a cryptopro tells us that bitcoin shouldn't replace the USD? Thats so fun because apparently everyone doing bitcoin does it for a different reason. Anyway do you believe tha…

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    Comment #40878762

    I thought a few years back already that owning a bigger house will be cheaper than ever due to the progress of cheap renewable energy, cheaper and cheaper heat pump technology and …

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    Comment #40878739

    I did made the point that AI/ml is helping us and the type of energy location and load is much easier to get green than lets say concrete. We need AI/ML for getting there faster an…

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    Comment #40878729

    Your bank building has to be maintained and heated. Heating which is added to your use of the local bank. My perspective is not limited. Just because people live in a city center, …

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    Comment #40878720

    Insulin is a bad example and a good one. A bad one because what happens in the USA is some super weird shit (and it only happened in the USA, thats why USA people drive to canada o…

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    Comment #40878702

    I. believe that watching mulitply movies is still a lot more co2 efficient than driving a car to a big independent room, which gets heated and than also shows a movie through a big…

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    Comment #40878682

    Datacenters always run because there is always something to do. For everything else, there are already plenty of energy saving mechanism build into the CPUs, Mainboards, Disks etc.…

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    Comment #40870133

    AI and ML will help a lot of people and already does. Alpha Fold / protein folding will help us with cancer. We will have better batterires thanks to ml material research. We will …

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    Comment #40864623

    Yes, start comparing energy spend on bitcoin mining and the missing features. You will see that bitcoin already consumes a lot more energy than our proof of stake system. What do y…

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    Comment #40864594

    Yes. But what are you implying? Entertainment + ad garbage still is a lot more co2 efficient than printing flyers and sending those out.

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    Comment #40864588

    Have you checked how much co2 a normal car drive creates vs. watching a movie online? We need to be realistic here. We know what modern entertainment looks like and its not realist…

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    Comment #40864512

    I actually listed them up directly after. For example alphafold: Protein folding. It is also now used in fusion reactor plasma control

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    Comment #40864442

    The normal miners never said that. They just say this at conferences for simple greenwashing. The normal miner doesn't go to those bitcoin conferences, they buy asics, put them in …

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    Comment #40864258

    The wealth gap is widening while in parallel poorer people have better lives than ever. We house, heat and give access to knowledge to a lot more people than ever before. Cheap med…

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    Comment #40864239

    I disagree. Datacenters save a lot more energy than they make. Alone how much co2 is saved when i can do my banking online instead of having to drive to a bank is significant. The …

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    Comment #40864224

    But we do know that the Proof of Stake system we currently have, is a lot cheaper and more advanced than what Bitcoin does. Bitcoin doesn't solve any problem yet which is fundament…

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    Comment #40864208

    AI is not just LLMs. AlphaFold for example moved a critical goal post for everyone of us. bitcoin is only negative. It consumes terrawatts of energy for nothing.

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    Comment #40864194

    AI solves gigantic issues and helps us with cancer, protein folding, potentially math and other studies, material science etc. Bitcoin consumes as much energy as a country and has …

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    Comment #40820069

    I'm from germany. In germany you have the concept of specialization and you can choose different areas.

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    Comment #40820034

    Funny that you go the 'anti scientific' route while proposing a person who also doesn't have proof of his ideas/theory "While the emergence of consciousness from brain dynamics is …

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    Comment #40819606

    I have ADHD and i still believe that we as a society fail in teaching. I learned complex math concepts before the university like math i needed for 3d graphics without issues. If w…

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    Comment #40810611

    Great! I failed in university at math. Why? Because the tutors had not the time to help me. My level of math was not the same as the other students as i was not in the math part of…

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    Comment #40810580

    Consiousness is a emerging feature of our brains complexity. The way this dude throws around quantum and co is just esotherical.

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    Comment #40810550

    How is it compared to lsd or ketamine? Is it like suddenly an lsd trip and than suddenly out again?

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    Comment #40810496

    ketamine you get in germany for $50 which is enough for 4-8 hours. 'not that exclusive' for someone who is an addict and wants to do it regularly for sure. For someone to just try …