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Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine

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Re: Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

If anyone wants to know why the human race is doomed it’s because of precisely what this article describes:

Individual property owners having no desire to be part of a unified community in order to address an externality caused by a corporation exporting pollution.

That’s it. You can’t fix that which means independent human organizations can’t form that aren’t focused around direct financial benefit to the individual.

Re: Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine

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Post by TimorousBestie »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #2

If anyone wants to know why the human race is doomed it’s because of precisely what this article describes: Individual property owners having no desire to be part of a unified community in order to address an externality caused by a corporation exporting pollution. That’s it. You can’t fix that which means independent human organizations can’t form that aren’t focused around direct financial benefit to the individual…

Not to be unnecessarily mean to Texans, but I think this is more of a Texas problem than a humanity problem.

Re: Texas community votes no on incorporating to fight Bitcoin mine

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

TimorousBestie wrote: post #4
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #2

If anyone wants to know why the human race is doomed it’s because of precisely what this article describes: Individual property owners having no desire to be part of a unified community in order to address an externality caused by a corporation exporting pollution. That’s it. You can’t fix that which means independent human organizations can’t form that aren’t focused around direct financial benefit to the individual…

Not to be unnecessarily mean to Texans, but I think this is more of a Texas problem than a humanity problem.

A glib comment but the reality is that Texas is not that far off of the global mean

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Post by duskwuff »

DoctorOetker wrote: post #3

I don't get it, he could provide free water heating to the neighborhood and get rid of active ventilation noise. Every joule accepted to heat cold water is a joule less to get rid off with fans.

Do you really think the Bitcoin mining firm would pay to retrofit all of their equipment for water cooling, and to install a massive hot water network, out of the goodness of their own hearts? I find that really unlikely.

(Plus: does the town even need the hot water? It's Texas, after all. During most of the year, residents need air conditioning much more than hot water...)

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

TimorousBestie wrote: post #4
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #2

If anyone wants to know why the human race is doomed it’s because of precisely what this article describes: Individual property owners having no desire to be part of a unified community in order to address an externality caused by a corporation exporting pollution. That’s it. You can’t fix that which means independent human organizations can’t form that aren’t focused around direct financial benefit to the individual…

Not to be unnecessarily mean to Texans, but I think this is more of a Texas problem than a humanity problem.

    "Texas counties lack authority to enforce noise limits"
This seems to be the core of the issue.

Perhaps Texas idealism means The Profits of the One outweigh Welfare of the Many.

Another possible interpretation is that: Profit alone makes the unethical, ethical.

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