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Turning on shuttered gas and coal plants solely to mine cryptocurrencies is about as close as you can get to pointlessly cooking the planet. The benefits have been relatively modest so far.
Sounds like you have a problem with fossil fuels.
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A violation of what , precisely?
Well, you login, no big warning signs, you become a paying customer, years later the owner decides that you are not welcome. Why was it Ok before? Don't know. Same could happen to anyone anywhere and that is not ok. And a violation of basic human decency, I guess. Not that I think this one would connect.
A lot of the comments so far have been negative, so I’ll add a positive one: I think this was the right move, and I’m content (as an actual paying member) with it. Kudos particularly for the well-laid-out position statement. Drew and I have extensive differences in opinion when it comes to software, but his sincerity and willingness to put his money where his mouth is are apparent in cases like this.
You can cheer for your ideology, but what if your business was the one being purged because the owners profess to be the moral guardians of humanity?
Am I affected? sr.ht/~ilmu/tala.saman ... I would appreciate knowing so I have time to move and since you (drew) are in this thread this is the expedient way to find out...
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Cryptocurrency is primarily designed to waste energy. Tor is not primarily designed for anything bad.
Not the case with proof of stake.
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There are billions of political issues on Earth. Do you think if someone isn't protesting against water spoilage in some random village on the opposite side of the planst, then they support it?
To clarify, I would narrow my statement, perhaps, to something like this: "inaction [regarding a subject with which you are familiar and are in a position to act on] is a political position".
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> Just like you don't own anything digital True. But blockchain tech changes absolutely nothing about that in the realm of games and media, having a flag in a decentralized database does not protect me from a (game) server owner banning me, a drm system choosing to ignore said flag, or shutting down the whole game and refusing distribution. In these situation only piracy would help, and we don't need snakeoil for tha…
It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones. You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop respecting the license, it becomes worthless, no one can argue otherwise and no one is trying to. A world where digital content is administrated by anyone (including by the user themselves) and int…
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We do not kick people out for political differences.
The announcement says: > These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments which take advantage of people who are suffering from economic hardship and growing global wealth inequality. Few to no legitimate use-cases for this technology have been found... While presumably you're not kicking people out because they disagree with you on this political question, your motivation fo…
So what if it's political? You think crypto is good, Drew thinks it's bad.