The poster above asked for a use case. I gave one.
Frankly I don't give a shit if the market penetration of said use case doesn't meet whatever arbitrary cutoff you have deemed sufficient for something to "exist" or not - the QR code on the back of every north american bag of Starbucks beans is proof enough. Whether its more or efficient than a traditional RDBMS is irrelevant
Once again, we are talking about blockchain, not Bitcoin
You realize blockchain is used by many large companies for practical purposes, not just by hobbyists swapping magical internet money, right?
Many large retailers (e.g. Walmart) and pharmaceutical companies use managed blockchain solutions (e.g. IBMs supply chain software) to track end to end process flow and see the pedigree of products at their end destination, because it means the end user doesn't need to request unfettered access to 6 different companies ERP systems to know when the hell their purchase order is getting delivered
The valuation of Bitcoin is a completely separate topic than practical use cases of blockchain.
It's a solution that allows two parties, who are so paranoid they don't trust banks, let alone one another, to send funds and maintain a record of transactions with one another.
To be fair it's power consumption is effectively zero at standby and only 4-5W at idle/light usage.
If you were worried about this amount of power usage you would be better off unplugging your microwave when not in use to avoid running the clock display
also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic
GPT is worse and it's not even close.
My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage
It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU
Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity
AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate
International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I'm not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.
Grain of salt, everything I've said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it
Glass will absorb and retain more heat for longer;steel will absorb energy and heat up more quickly, and dump it just as fast.
Which was my point - 400g of room temperature ceramic is going to absorb way more heat from 250ml of boiling water than would be lost from the glass-air (or even steel-air) interface during the 2 minutes it takes to do a pourover.
If both cones are preheated thoroughly, yes, the steel cone will shed heat faster, however I feel like this is also negligible compared to evaporative heat loss and subsequent transfer to a cup
stainless has ~10x the thermal conductivity of borosilicate glass
Glass has double the heat capacity, and I would assume greater mass due to thicker construction. So unless you are preheating fully to boiling temps first every time, there will be more heat loss to the glass over the course of ~1-3 minutes
Or if you are on a Boeing plane and a side panel/door spontaneously flies off off you don't get sucked out
/s, but not really /s
"making me look bad doesn't make you look any better"
Do you think an open Hario switch basically IS a v60?
It is. It's just a glass v60 with a seal at the bottom
Abolishing the monarchy would involve rewriting the constitution - if that was happening every province would want to slip in their own terms - Quebec would want specific French language rights and autonomy and if Quebec got their way Alberta would want something similar. We successfully altered the constitution back in 1982 - it took 2 years and the country almost blew up over it.
Basically it would be a total shit show. Considering the impact the monarchy has on our day to day life (basically zero) it's easier to just let sleeping dogs lie
Murica.
This was literally the overarching plot for the last season of curb
There is no “list of citizens”, though. Well, there are things like social security, but they aren’t tied to where you live the way that voting has to be.
There is no need to have it tied to where you live though, which is the point. Every other democracy in the world is content to verify a) citizenship and b) proof of address independently, but it's just the states where you need to register ahead of time to a 3rd list specific for voting and remain vigilant that you haven't been purged off that list come election day
it’s just that most states don’t want to do it same-day since that bogs down the lines on election day
It literally doesn't though. 95% of the people at every poll station are known ahead of time because they still live at the same address they last procured government services from - they can move through the line at the speed it takes to verify their name and cross it off the list. Each station has a separate line for day-of voters, and it takes 2-3 minutes to get set up at most (I've done it at least a half dozen times)
My point is that “registering to vote” just means proving that you can vote, and no matter where you live, you have to do that somehow
This isn't disputed, the OPs question above is why it needs to be explicitly done as a separate step in the states. It's the only place in the world where stopping 2-3 ineligible voters from casting a ballot seemingly takes a greater priority than allowing dozens of eligible american citizens from participating in democracy
Canadian here.
if you moved across your country, how would you vote in those local elections?
I would literally just show up to the polls on election day and show a piece of ID and something (utility bill, etc) with my new address and tell them I want to vote. Or I would bring a friend and they would sign a statement affirming I'm who I say I am.
You may not see it that way, cause that "registration" may be dual purposed with some other act (like getting a new drivers license)
This is the problem, the list of citizens, and list of registered voters should not be two completely separate lists. You should be able to vote no matter what if you are a citizen
It's really not that complicated. At a high level:
- $5/mo for having the service turned on
- $5/mo for every TB storage above and beyond the first 1TB
- $1 for every TB of data transfer beyond the first 1TB in a month
And then divide those numbers because it's actually billed by the hour
Because fruit flies are literally one of the most studied animals in the world, and yes
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=fruit+fly+song&btnG=
Almost all insects do, it's a mating thing
I got this last one, and I've gotten it a handful of times over the past 5-10 years. They only send it out to a small % of their userbase each time