His reasoning in the video is:
1. The cheapest electricity is the one created by renewable energy that’s produced in excess of demand (because you can’t turn it off). If you can use that to mine Bitcoin, you end up supporting green energy.
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I’ve heard Andreas present these arguments many times. I’ve also heard many others claim the exact opposite (the latter way more often, tbh). So far, I’ve still been unable to make up my mind.
I've talked a LOT about energy consumption and #bitcoin over the years. Here's a video from 2017 where I explain why the "bitcoin energy consumption will ruin our planet" argument is a red herring: youtube.com/2T0OUIW89II
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Fascinating to see how much in Martha Lane Fox’s 2010 letter that kicked of what would become gov.uk could still be applicable 1:1 to many organizations and countries (e.g. Germany): gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Wir speziell tun das nicht, aber viele andere Unternehmen natürlich schon. Aus meiner Sicht führt das Vergaberecht allerdings nicht unbedingt zu guten Lösungen (wieder ein anderes Thema)
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Ola is high on my very short list of people whose advice on this issue I would trust without any doubts
I posted about the Signal messaging application versus Telegram a while ago, and I received a lot of answers about different applications as alternatives. So I'd like to write a thread giving an overview about my perspective on the security of different applications. 1/53
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My colleague @__jpr has integrated Hotwire into a Spring Boot environment: github.com/innoq/hotwire-dem… /cc @dhh
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Why, what are the benefits? And did you set the lists up from scratch, or did you find a way to migrate the accounts you follow(ed)?
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Billie Holiday remains my all-time favorite jazz singer (try listening to the “Body and Soul” album if you need an intro). For no particular reason, I stumbled across her Wikipedia page. Fascinating and very, very sad en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill…
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The web addresses vast differences in screen size, orientation, dynamic resizing, resolution, orientation, graphics performance and acceleration, user preferences, client/server interaction, backwards and forwards compatibility, collaboration, security, unknown devices, … 1/87
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I was there and this is 100% true!
Just kidding, it’s really not. I learned to program using this thing, and while I loved it and still do, they’re not comparable at all. They’re addressing completely different requirements and technical constraints.
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While personally, I don’t have a problem with it for privacy reasons, I agree it’s extremely annoying and quite unnecessary. At the very least, they could make it opt-in on both the sending and receiving side
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I find it about as discriminating as pointing out mansplaining, i.e. not at all. I don’t think anybody is OK, boomered just because of their age
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Around the time Trump was banned, there was a Twitter thread collecting tons of links to studies about the effect of banning extremist opinions. I can’t seem to find it anymore. Anybody?
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Telegram aside, it’s debatable whether e2e encrypted group chat with lots of growth hack support is a good thing in general. This will obviously be viewed very differently depending on the kind of country people live in
I just donated to Signal. If you can, please do so as well! signal.org/donate/
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I suspect very few people remain who care, but I’ve added a full-text Atom feed to the blog: tilkov.com/post/2021/01/15/f…
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My problem with Telegram is not its (somewhat mediocre) end-to-end encryption support (see heise.de/hintergrund/Telegra…), rather the way it enables one-to-many broadcast and doesn’t give a flying fuck about the kind of content it’s used for
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