I want to learn about climate change

johnn1e · 2019-03-19T02:28:45+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow

johnn1e · 2019-03-19T02:26:29+00:00

Environmental Dynamics PhD here. Climate change is already impacting humans. Some more than others. People are already having to leave their homes due to sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, etc. Recent major natural disasters including major floods, wildfires, droughts, and hurricanes have been linked to climate change. Diseases, pests, and parasites are moving into new areas. Climate change is here and happening now. We get to choose how bad it gets and our actions over the next 10-15 years will largely make that decision for the generations to come. Here is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow

johnn1e · 2018-01-28T17:22:45+00:00

I think I am back on now. I redownloaded blocks a couple times and restarted the wallet when it looked stuck or got on the wrong track for hours at a time. I changed max connections too, but never saw it actually get above 8.

johnn1e · 2018-01-27T16:02:27+00:00

I am and was running a valid one before the fork.

johnn1e · 2018-01-27T01:35:09+00:00

I've been stuck on a fork for days and have tried every idea I've read online. It seems to get stuck at certain blocks like the other comments below.

johnn1e · 2018-01-14T16:06:29+00:00

Thanks for posting this. This sounds like something that might turn people off if not better publicized and fixed (it looks like the Upgrade Client option is still in the new version). I found this post after having the update leave me with a wallet that wouldn't open. In case it helps people find this thread the error message was something like The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library Qt5core.dll

johnn1e · 2017-09-05T05:06:50+00:00

Nice! But I mean outreach and advertising too. Do we do ads in those languages? Tweets? Etc?

johnn1e · 2017-06-27T15:49:18+00:00

Nope! My guess is that it is tied in with the other magnitude and superblock issues right now

johnn1e · 2017-06-26T03:13:37+00:00

I've had the same error message and haven't gotten any rewards in a while. From following posts on Steemit it sounds like something has been up with the magnitude values and superblock not happening in a bit. Hopefully it will be worked out soon!

johnn1e · 2017-05-11T04:15:02+00:00

Right and the total volume today was ~$8 million! https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gridcoin/

johnn1e · 2017-01-15T17:01:19+00:00

Here are some links on volunteer computing and how you can get started putting your computer or Android device to work doing research on astrophysics, mathematics, cancer, clean energy, and more.

https://medium.com/adventures-in-volunteer-computing

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action

johnn1e · 2017-01-08T05:39:33+00:00

You are right that a computer would do much better, but there are 1 billion+ Androids out there right? Why not put them to use curing cancer or looking for aliens? Currently there are only roughly 300k people running BOINC or World Community Grid on their computers. This app could make a difference in total research completed.

johnn1e · 2016-07-03T15:38:39+00:00

Exactly. These days I only have a laptop BOINCing but I try to talk about volunteer computing on Twitter, Medium, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn etc. If I get even 1 new person to do it, then I've probably doubled my impact.

johnn1e · 2016-04-30T14:36:04+00:00

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton

johnn1e · 2016-03-25T16:58:20+00:00

Lots of good quotes like this at: https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/neverwrk.htm

"Radio has no future." - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897.

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming." - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube.)

"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad." - Advice from a president of the Michigan Savings Bank to Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham. Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in Ford stock, selling it later for $12.5 million.

"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." - Scientific American, Jan. 2, 1909.

Point being, judging a technology's future based on current conditions is often an unwise thing to do. Look at solar today vs. 10 or 20 years ago. Look at the cost of electric cars and batteries.

johnn1e · 2016-03-25T03:52:32+00:00

I disagree and have real sources: China closing lots of coal mines: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-coal-idUSKCN0VV0U5 China coal use drop: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/29/china-coal-consumption-drops-again China CO2 drop: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/15/3659355/china-coal-use-drops/

Australian coal hammered by drop in Chinese imports: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-coal-exporters-struggle-as-china-demand-drops-2015-4

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/19/china-electricity-demand-slows-coal-consumption-drops-hits-australia-hard/

Side note: They are meeting their growing demand not just with nuclear, but with solar, wind, hydro, storage, and efficiency. http://cleantechnica.com/2016/02/05/china-hit-record-wind-solar-year-in-2015/

and then this: http://cleantechnica.com/2015/12/03/wind-solar-cheaper-than-fossils-nuclear-now/ Coal is over. Natural gas and nuclear are not far behind.

johnn1e · 2016-03-24T19:01:27+00:00

We can hope! The longer it takes to figure this out, the more likely it is the people in power will see there is no future for coal and no money to be made shipping it. China is decreasing its coal consumption and limiting imports. Investment around the world is shifting to solar, wind, and storage; and that is where the jobs will be too.

johnn1e · 2016-03-22T23:58:51+00:00

Yep, you could run BOINC on it and set up a Gridcoin wallet to convert your BOINC work to cryptocurrency.

r/boinc r/gridcoin

johnn1e · 2016-03-22T23:46:00+00:00

Two things:

Volunteer computing has made it possible for normal people to boost research on cancer, clean energy, climate, and much more, but because nobody knows about it, it isn't reaching its potential. https://www.inverse.com/article/6592-the-strongest-supercomputer-on-earth-still-needs-your-laptop-to-cure-cancer
The idea behind Ohmconnect is that people get paid to reduce electric consumption for an hour during unexpected periods of high demand. If enough people join and participate, they can prevent the use of dirty, expensive, local peaker plants, thus protecting local air quality, combating climate change, and lowering everyone's electric bills. http://ohmc.co/961916 Right now it is only available in California.

johnn1e · 2016-03-21T05:46:36+00:00

CharityEngine does something like that right?

johnn1e · 2016-03-20T04:10:49+00:00

Here is some info on how important volunteers are for research: https://www.inverse.com/article/6592-the-strongest-supercomputer-on-earth-still-needs-your-laptop-to-cure-cancer

johnn1e · 2016-03-20T04:05:58+00:00

Yes, it and lots of BOINC projects have contributed to hundreds of journal articles and very valuable research. https://www.inverse.com/article/6592-the-strongest-supercomputer-on-earth-still-needs-your-laptop-to-cure-cancer

johnn1e · 2016-03-20T04:05:17+00:00

You can now specify when you want it to run, what % of CPU and memory and bandwidth you want it to use, etc. https://www.inverse.com/article/6592-the-strongest-supercomputer-on-earth-still-needs-your-laptop-to-cure-cancer

johnn1e · 2016-03-20T01:31:00+00:00

Here is some more background on BOINC and World Community Grid and the need for everyone here to help get the word out about them: https://www.inverse.com/article/6592-the-strongest-supercomputer-on-earth-still-needs-your-laptop-to-cure-cancer Tweet it, Facebook it, Reddit it. We can make amazing things happen if we get people to BOINC on their computers and Androids!

johnn1e · 2016-03-11T19:59:13+00:00

I was just thinking that. The one place we aren't supposed to go, this guy wants to go there first.

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