Rent-seeking will always be preferable to competition, as long as the market participants are large enough in size and few enough in number to collude efficiently.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst /
Are full of passionate intensity."
$SDIG burns low thermal refuse coal which removes toxic waste from old coal sites. The buyer of its energy is the bitcoin network.
In burning the coal it uses limestone (CaCO3) to trap sulfur fumes which creates CaO. Then it aerates the CaCO which "captures carbon dioxide" by reforming limestone (CaCO3).
It then sells the CaCO3 "creation process" for carbon credits.
Then it can reuse the CaCO3 to burn even more refuse coal
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Trapping the SO2 and SO3 with limestone is more likely to create CaSO3 and CaSO4 than CaO. But there's a market for that as gypsum.
What a beautiful scam! Plenary indulgences live on!
Truth!
But its three weeks for the useless underclass, tops.
Three months for the equally-useless overclass to munch single-origin mouldy cheese and swan about in Gulfstreams.
This.
Most people couldn't spell Ethereum correctly even if the alternative was guest-starring in a beheading video.
Anything ending in "eum" is going to lead to google guesswork, and customers clicking on phishing sites or competitors.
I had a client once whose startup had the word "resilience" in its name. He was rather frustrated...
The implanted electrodes aren't very safe or very reliable, and may never be.
Evolution has spent a long time and optimised a lot of hardware to drive human hands and eyes, I don't see neurosurgery and nanotechnology duplicating that, especially not reliably.
For those who are able to use them, the keyboard and the screen are probably the highest-bandwidth IO we are likely to get.
1975? This book?
Learned that from Vaclav Smil, "How The World Really Works".
History of energy usage, with a good bit about food and other technologies. Might be your thing!
I won't recommend Dostoyevsky, then. Or Tolstoy. In fact, might have to give all East Slavic literature a miss :-p
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - so many imitators, none succeeded.
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien. Inspired a new entire genre.
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
#reading #bookstr #literature
#bigotry is cringe, and mostly practised by fat middle-aged Karens with an opinion on everything and knowledge about nothing.
If you have reasonable criticisms of something and can back it up with logic and evidence, you're not a bigot.
You may be #unpopular and even an #asshole, but I don't judge anyone for that.
There are cats living in drains with purer genetic lines than me :-p And I doubt its uncommon...
I find it quite interesting.
As someone with some Jewish heritage (Ashkenazim, Poland), its wild to find out around ~25% of that is from metal-as-fuck Central Asian nomadic herders, raiders and slavers.
Not all mediaeval Jews were doctors and bankers!
White on red is Assault Typography.
I need a safe space now, and eBay should pay for it.
To Finally Settle the Israel-Palestine Conflict, give it to the UN Security Council
#dc #palestine
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/palestine-conflict-security.html
It would be nice.
But, to paraphrase Ron Paul, decolonising the Occupied Territories needs to start with DC before Gaza and the WB.
INTJ myself. Welcome to the family :-p
As personality tests go, its fairly repeatable (test-retest reliability), but not particularly good at predicting future behaviour, at work or otherwise.
Fun, though!
You overestimate our individual importance to them, and underestimate their laziness and risk aversion.
Very few FOSS programs have been found to contain backdoors, because there are too many eyes andthey are scared of their tools leaking.
And mass surveillance is always automated these days. Mess with their workflow even a little and there'll be missing values all across their dataset.
Mass surveillance is hard.
Let's make it harder!
#FOSS #linux #fdroid #lineageos
Sadly I think she's the rarer, more ideological kind of political flea. They are not better
They should all join the Non Aligned Movement and then cancel their UN membership. Security Council would look pretty impotent if they were the only members left, and NAM was where decisions were made.
I know every non-nuclear power is afraid of then being attacked, but that's what making alliances are for.
