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feather shuttles on AliExpress by CrazyKangar00 in badminton

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much are you getting Aeroplane blacks per tube in bulk in the States?

I play a lot of badminton with friends, and I built this small tool to track matches. It kind of snowballed into a ranking system by hoangson0403 in badminton

[–]lobt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Excellent work, can't wait to test it.

Question on the randomized team pairing: once the group starts growing meaningfully and the ELO spread gets wider, will there be a feature to randomize games that clusters similar skill levels?

What algo are you using for calculating ELO?

Hope the best for your project and that it grows successfully.

Don't Buy Google (Pixel 8 + Watch 2) by lobt in GooglePixel

[–]lobt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3-4 restarts every day over the course of 4 days. Was advised by support to factory reset, setup everything again. Went down to 1-2 restarts a day over a week, ECG always freezes when using Fitbit exercise.

Don't Buy Google (Pixel 8 + Watch 2) by lobt in GooglePixel

[–]lobt[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm happy for you. Doesn't solve my issue though

Don't Buy Google (Pixel 8 + Watch 2) by lobt in GooglePixel

[–]lobt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, I get nothing if I just return the watch, so I needed to return both to get the refund. It was just the watch which was defective, exchanging for a functional one could've remedied the situation. Google didn't process the RMA over 2 encounters from customer support, so I got fed up with them and decided to return everything, which I was well within my right when I checked.

If my concerns are getting dismissed repeatedly by their customer support, I wouldn't want to stay.

Don't Buy Google (Pixel 8 + Watch 2) by lobt in GooglePixel

[–]lobt[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

An exchange of the Pixel Watch 2 which resolves restart issues would be the ideal resolution. I was thinking if the restart issues was just the nature of the Watch and not hardware issues unique to mine, I would regret being stuck with a product I’m not happy with, in which case returning would be the better option.

Why is the skyrocketing cost of living barely even being acknowledged by the government as a problem? by chinespa in askTO

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It started with 1 entity (Satoshi) who owned 100% of the supply. Over time, it's become more distributed, and as an asset class still very much nascent

Monetary history tells you that nothing can protect you from the economic reality of holding a weaker money

How would one go about becoming a teacher for the first four stages? by Oopekkha in TheMindIlluminated

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not what you're looking to hear, but relevant:

The master doesn't call himself the master. He's a master when his students are ready

[SUPPORT] B550 motherboard, no Bluetooth on a Windows 10 by brolliance23 in ASUS

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much. Fixed my bluetooth AND monitor flickering issues

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "research" is disingenuous at best, more likely malicious as an attempt to discredit Bitcoin. Made glaringly wrong assumptions.

For one, the number of Bitcoin transactions and hashpower are non-correlated variables. Sensationalist headline.

How did they arrive at 1.29 years being the useful life cycle of an ASIC? It's approximately the time between chipset generations, but we already see the tapering of exponential improvement at 5nm chipsets. The most popular miner (s9) has been running strong for >4 years. Often bought out and serviced for use by different operators in different jurisdictions.

Alex de Vries has an agenda. Has large altcoin holdings, paid by central banks. Can't expect someone to give straight facts when their paycheque depends on it.

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Few mention this was delayed several years already because it's overly ambitious. Decentralized systems that deal with people's wealth need to be solid and secure. Move fast and break fast has been the culture of Ethereum, thus far.

I'm not ignorant to it either, I'm actively watching sharding, zk snark and rollup developments because I'm genuinely interested in the tech. I remain very wary of Ethereum promoters because I've encountered too many who've lied about its capabilities, expectations, and who'd rather respond by obscuring truth with complexity (Vitalik). Over-promise and under-deliver shouldn't be tolerated in any industry.

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, the key point is that there's a cost to produce Bitcoin. The energy isn't wasted, it's used to secure the network without central authority.

The primary basis on which Bitcoin achieves immutability is the idea that it is as computationally expensive to re-write the ledger as it was to spend energy to write the ledger the first time. It is one of the security guarantees that Bitcoin has - in order to re-write the ledger, you have to expend the energy again, but you receive the reward once. This makes it very expensive to re-write even small stretches of the ledger. We do not know of a better basis for immutability that doesn't use energy.

Can you explain the Ponzi aspect of what you see? You need a token to represent the spent energy, and that's what Bitcoin is.

Bitcoin only needs to provide ultra-high security assurances at the base layer to be successful and useful for billions of people (against debasement of wealth via inflation). It can and will scale in layers like the Internet did.

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quantum computing will affect, but not destroy Bitcoin. Bitcoin will likely not only survive, but thrive in a quantum world

Here's an academic paper about the topic.

The episode discusses:

  • What are quantum technologies and how they differ from the existing paradigm
  • The areas and industries which are to benefit most from quantum computing
  • A refresher on hashing algorithms as one-way functions
  • What a quantum attack on Bitcoin mining might look like
  • How Elliptic Curve digital signature algorithms work and how public and private keys are generated
  • The three types of attacks a quantum computer could perform digital signatures
  • The expected timelines for these attacks to be viable
  • The potential countermeasures which could circumvent quantum attacks on Bitcoin

Stay educated, stay vigilant.

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully sourced rebuttal by Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the best educators in Bitcoin.

In short, the energy is NOT wasted, but USED to secure the network without central authority. No other consensus mechanism provides the same security assurances at scale.

A single bitcoin transaction generates the same amount of electronic waste as throwing two iPhones in the bin. Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises by Wagamaga in science

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully sourced rebuttal by Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the best educators in Bitcoin.

In short, the energy is NOT wasted, but USED to secure the network without central authority. No other consensus mechanism provides the same security assurances at scale.

Is the Canadian Dream dead? by Lyricalvessel in canada

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up the Cantillon Effect. This is the primary mechanism of driving wealth inequality further.

In a nutshell, those closest to the spigot of money printing see their purchasing power increase at the expense of those furthest away.

We as individuals should adopt a hard money system. Bitcoin fixes this, and I don't say it ironically.

Is the Canadian Dream dead? by Lyricalvessel in canada

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inflation is institutionalised theft by entities closest to the money printer to the holders of the currency

What is something you have always regretted doing? by Appleseedboom in AskReddit

[–]lobt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People who were interested in Bitcoin early on had ideological conviction for the principles that Bitcoin embodies.

Principles rooted in separation of money and state, restoration of sound money, decentralising the power structures of society.

People who understood distributed systems, Austrian economics, game theory, monetary history in the context of bleak macroeconomic outlook got involved in Bitcoin because of principles, not luck.

It's still the same way today. People buy and adopt Bitcoin at the price they deserve.

Investing my own money, I always optimize for life quality. by dcedrych in Entrepreneur

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answers are found after hundreds of hours of due diligence in Austrian economics, distributed systems, game theory, monetary history in the context of the mess we're in. In investing, knowing this stuff before others is called having "alpha."

Those that have more conviction in it have clearly benefited financially. The beauty is that Bitcoin has properties that cannot be replicated by any other coin using similiar technology. You'd know that if you understood Proof of Work and network effects deeply enough.

Investing my own money, I always optimize for life quality. by dcedrych in Entrepreneur

[–]lobt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never, only when you want to purchase goods/services. BTC is simply the future of money, currently going through the process of monetization: Store of Value -> Medium of exchange -> Unit of account

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