Hence my statement: it’s a matter of imagination

There is a paradox which I can’t name now that states that every time there are advancements capable of solving scarcity problems instead of ending the issue new uses for the solution are come up with and what became plentiful gets stressed again.

That much excess heat is energy. An immense amount of it. Maybe use it to smelt scrap or process artificial diamonds.

The matter at hand is, for a change, excess when it is usually the opposite.

First coming to mind would be using to store heat in sand batteries. Heat water for swimming pools makes sense as well. Perhaps use it to dehydrate sludges from waste waters.

It’s just a matter of imagination.

Have these geniuses considered burying these massive structures and build the cooling stack on top to use that heat for some other use?

Or better yet: not even building these monstrosities?

Source on that?

Because it is much simpler to explain that story as a tale about not judging others for how they look.

It could. But I don’t use Chrome.

Give it back. It will be fine. And since we’re asking, make Stumble Upon return from the dead.

Considering the speed at which society and entertainment is changing and being produced, at some point it ceases to be “unlawful” to become legitimate preservation.

I’ve noticed an uptick on reruns of old series and films, especially late seventies, eighties and nineties. On films, I’m seeing even earlier production, going back to the sixties, and even of minor cinema like italian, spanish and french.

I have no illusions that these older productions are probably cheaper to license than current day productions, but recent production gets aired once, maybe twice, and is just gone.

Some will argue this is due solely to most not having rewatching value, others that it is predicated on the shorter attention span audiences have nowadays. Other arguments exist.

Regardless of those, not seeing current series being re-run, for me, is a sign that there is no interest keeping those works around.

It would be extremely satisfying if somewhere in the future some of those productions had to be rescued from private copies, as it has happened before with others.

That is actually interesting to know. Makes a person wonder what is the demographic watching the videos and why.

Silent Storm

Keep to the Allies Campaign and have fun.

Available on GOG.

They buy products from each other and shut themselves from society.

Which is not a bad outcome.

Good cinema relies on good stories and good acting, not on tools and stars.

You made me remember of a period around 2012 when, due to my country being under external financial supervision, most cities and town opted to disconnect street lights to save on the energy bill.

Turns out that anywhere between 35% and 60% of all street lights are superfluous, there was no increase in insecurity and close to nobody felt the need to supplement the light outside with their own.

In my own little town, nights became quieter. Foxes, owls and other night dwellers could be seen roaming.

People complained but when met with no other option adapted and adapted fast and well. Many street ligths, previously using sodium lamps, were changed to LED, allowing for many lamps to be removed.

I would personally like to have less lamps in the streets and those with lower intensity. It could be done. This isn’t London anymore.

When living in the wild, formerly domesticated pigs become feral hogs, in fact reverting back to a near non-domesticated stage: the animals tend to increase in size, grow hair and tusks and put on a lot of weight. But nonetheless remain pigs.

If all the sharing is done before all the panting, the waiting can be skipped and the parts involved can go straight to the orgasms.

May I advise doing the exact opposite?

What I understood then was that in person transactions could be done, as the local ledger of each user would authorize and record operations on and off the available balance and wait until network availability to syncronize with the global record.

Returning to the subject at hand: I can imagine very specialized “AI” being useful for scientifical research, where very knowledgeable people use it as a tool to facilitate processes but are nonetheless capable of reviewing whatever results it produces.

Not gigantic datacenters required for this but small, purpose made and perfected, locally run, even if on higher specifications hardware to do so, but machines built for a given task and purpose. The economic viability on it be damned; it’s a tool for research, it is not made to earn money.

What I understood then was that the local ledger of a given user of the coin would authorize and register the transactions done on/off the recorded balance and, when network available, would broadcast such transactions to the global ledger.

The global ledger was the total sum of transactions, not imperatively required to authorize transaction by transaction.

Wasn’t Nano predicated on those lines? I remember reading transactions could be done locally, even off-line, validated beetween the parts and only later added to the global ledger.

They seldom repeat themselves.