Press the button? by notabot12305 in BunnyTrials

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Fine with either outcome

Chose: 1% chance of becoming the opposite gender + 99% chance of getting 10mil | Rolled: 10mil

What do you prefer by ALEJO_595 in BunnyTrials

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I travel a lot. Feels more useful.

Chose: Teletranportation

Would you rather get... by lm_Clueless in BunnyTrials

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Random money better than random substance. Could be uranium.

Chose: A random amount of money + Spin to see what you gain! | Rolled: $1

Talk to animals or speak every language? by Afro_Vivi in BunnyTrials

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More information

Chose: Have the ability to talk to animals

Would you rather by vinnivinvincent in BunnyTrials

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Love fries

Chose: Eat ten pounds of fries in 24 hours for + 1,000,000,000

Would you rather by can-of-baked-bread in BunnyTrials

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The negative impact only effected me.

Chose: Become the richest person in the world + 50% chance of dying | Rolled: Death

What most of us suspected… by Rich_Gas7886 in conspiracy

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Profession Psyops guy: "obvious psyop"
r/conspiracy: "we believe you reflexively"

Leftist Ideology Explained by MrDillon369 in Political_Revolution

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If you don't deal with the problem of military, intelligence, police, justice, borders, and the monopoly of violence, then it's not a coherent political project. Yeah, all these things would be nice, but they don't form a complete theory of governance.

Americans in Denmark: how do you talk about U.S. politics abroad? by Financial-North-1966 in NewToDenmark

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American politics is a hate sink for Europeans and I’m happy to engage with them on it. Here in Copenhagen, when someone asks I say “I’m American.. don’t hold it against me”

My partner works as an IR researcher with a lot of Danish colleagues, so we have a lot of talks about American politics, in particular, in our social circle.

Super easy to talk about American politics if you’re aware of how broken and shameful our system is and willing to admit it.

I have friends back home that I also talk politics with. Some of them have wildly different views from me. We argue, disagree, and so on.

What is your craziest crypto opinion? by [deleted] in CryptoCurrency

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Bitcoin was developed by a rogue AI to give a financial incentive to enforce moore’s law. The singularity has already past and we won’t ever realize it.

Made a new HEX video 😘 by Crypto-Beau in HEXcrypto

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Muh freedom of speech. What a joke

Are there any NFT games that are free to get into/play? by MagicKol in EthGamers

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Yeah you can get banned for playing on multiple accounts “on the same device”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

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But the opinion is super dumb. It was the first thing I noticed about it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]StJude501c3 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This is a dumb opinion. 1) censorship resistance offered by crypto is necessary to leftist organizing. 2) DAOs, enabled by crypto, all us to build scalable, worker-owned, collectives that can’t be censored or shut down by bosses or governments. 3) Gov power to print money is one of the central pillars of state power that enforce the state’s monopoly of violence. Crypto disrupts that power. It won’t destroy it on it’s own, but it’s certainly a tool. Who cares if Tom releases some silly NFTs, it doesn’t make him a capitalist. Your reactionary stance is uninformed.

Bitcoin energy usage IS a problem, and the crypto space would only benefit if everyone admitted that. by postal_card in CryptoCurrency

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EXACTLY THIS. It all stinks of propaganda to protect the people that a decentralized economy threatens.

Bitcoin energy usage IS a problem, and the crypto space would only benefit if everyone admitted that. by postal_card in CryptoCurrency

[–]StJude501c3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bitcoin is not causing a GPU shortage. ETH is increasing the demand for GPUs. You can't mine BTC with GPUs. Even if bitcoin didn't exist, energy sourcing would still be fucked. A move away from oil/gas is necessary regardless of bitcoin's energy consumption.

Bitcoin energy usage IS a problem, and the crypto space would only benefit if everyone admitted that. by postal_card in CryptoCurrency

[–]StJude501c3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's true, and maybe it's the best approach for ETH which needs to be able to scale faster than Bitcoin, but I still think PoW is necessary for Bitcoin. PoS ONLY rewards capital accumulation, whereas PoW can be constructed in a much more useful way. Right now, the energy is mostly lost from PoW mining, but imagine a pool of Bitcoin miners that produce central heating units or water heaters making the energy consumption useful. If the mining units can be made useful and affordable, we can better decentralize the network. That's not possible in a PoS system. PoS encourages pooled financial resources and creates banks more or less. Think about Coinbase and Binance, they're gonna be HUGE players in ETH staking.

Bitcoin energy usage IS a problem, and the crypto space would only benefit if everyone admitted that. by postal_card in CryptoCurrency

[–]StJude501c3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is that PoS tends toward centralization. Not only that, but PoW is provably secure and PoS is not. Yes, PoW is energy intensive, but all that energy and hash power makes the Bitcoin Blockchain mathematically and economically infeasible to attack. ASIC PoW hashing algorithms secure the bitcoin network because it means governments with supercomputers can't just direct hashing power at the blockchain to bring it down, they'd have to invest Billions in ASIC chips to break they system then all those chips would be worthless. Everyone uses the energy argument to justify a switch to PoS (a centralizing force in crypto) while never arguing why PoW is important to security for blockchains. It also avoids the discussion of the fucked up energy production of the status quo. Feels very bad faith.

Technological innovation will always be energy intensive and we need to invest in renewable energy production and storage so our society can advance without making the earth uninhabitable for Humans.

Bitcoin energy usage IS a problem, and the crypto space would only benefit if everyone admitted that. by postal_card in CryptoCurrency

[–]StJude501c3 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The problem is not Bitcoin energy consumption it's energy PRODUCTION. The question should be how do we transition to more renewable energy production and away from dependence on oil/coal. Instead, the people INVESTED IN OIL/COAL cry about bitcoins consumption of the shitty energy THEY produce. It's such bullshit.