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At a minimum, at least this is ideologically consistent with wanting to ban bitcoin, since both consume approximately the same order of magnitude of energy.
Yes but gaming PC's are far more useful
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27954946 The top comment explains why this is probably a good thing.
I fail to see how a progressive residential energy tax wouldn’t have been the better option but I’m super jacked to see progress being made, even if it is a tad misguided.
"I am super jacked to see progress being made in controlling the moral failings of certain humans, even if it has to be through banning the sale of alcohol nationwide."
In this specific instance the consumer is being done a favor by being prevented from buying terrible prebuilts, but the law is absurd.
To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions. > They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%.…
What about air conditioning, heaters, houses without insulation…. All banned?
To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions. > They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%.…
To reduce emissions, they've started targeting the gaming industry? The meat industry emits orders of magnitude more pollution (even relative to the number of users of each)! Obviously, politicians would lose favor for targeting the meat industry, and thus have avoided fixing measures which would actually reduce emissions. > They list consoles with taking a bulk of the emissions at 66%, and desktop computers at 31%.…
My guess is the exemption is to tend to corporate interests? Absurd. Its a law about how much energy PCs can use. Consoles aren't exempt; they're just not PCs. They'd probably be allowed anyway because the law is about how much energy is used when the machine is idle, and consoles are pretty efficient when they're not doing much.
I don't understand what distinction you're making -- the Earth is getting polluted all the same. It's still an exemption.
Consoles would likely still be allowed -- but that's more fair and future-proof.