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Beeple Mania 5 years ago

I always see people point to 'just round the corner' future Proof of Stake systems when the energy waste topic comes up, but it seems like there are still a lot of big unsolved challenges with that, as well as new problems introduced by it.

As long as there's no actual widespread fully working currency using only PoS, it's a bit like justifying the emissions from flying by pointing to experimental solar powered aircraft, and saying all flights will be solar powered any day now.

I keep seeing discussions of this include something like 'but it will all be moving to proof of stake soon', which seems to me a bit like arguing for how green air travel is by saying we'll have solar powered airplanes soon. A lot of faith seems to be being placed in an unproven advance, which if it is really possible at all (and that's a much bigger if than many acknowledge), would introduce all sorts of new problems.

At first I was assuming this was using streetview. I realise not everywhere is included on streetview, but when it is, it would be nice to have the option of using that instead of having to shoot your own video.

I wonder why the Voxon display uses a vertically oscillating membrane instead of a spinning one. I would have guessed that spinning would be the easier option.

One problem with this reasoning is that it assumes one can assign a fitness function to each single employee in isolation, independent of their different roles and how they relate to each other.

I find the non-official Android Libre reader app 'Glimp' useful. Even though I have the official one, I keep both installed, because Glimp does less smoothing/extrapolation of the readings.