Also at least some (if not all) of the coins mined were based on proof of work. Anything using proof of stake doesn't cost anywhere near as much. Since the person stealing the resources doesn't care what they actually cost, they have no concern if they're horribly inefficient. You may as well calculate the cost to mine by looking at crappy JavaScript programs that try to mine BitCoin on a CPU while people are on whatever crappy page is infested with those scripts.

The NSA is already spying on American citizens.

Net neutrality only works if the network becomes a utility. There's a good argument that it should effectively be that way, and even if wouldn't result in ideal outcomes, the existing providers have already effectively captured the system that's supposed to regulate them and are just using it to extract more money from the taxpayers.

Past discussion has stated that basically every large PRC Chinese company operates under a charter that allows the government to basically influence or take over the company at will.

Stop thinking of China as a Communist state. Start thinking of it as one giant company where the Politburo is the board of directors and the Inner Party are shareholders, and all of the people in China vary somewhere between employee and liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service

Never too late to punish your enemies, if you can.

>problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together

It used to. But today, games have the same attitude to male heterosexuality that people you hate with such passion have for homosexuality. So the entire structure inverted, and while serving heterosexuals means getting around 99% of the market, making a point not serving them does the opposite.

P.S.

>lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie

That's your projection. Their argument is that it's against commandments of the God. Same as Islam. And no, in spite of the meme of your side being "homosexuality is inherent, heterosexuality is learnt and needs to be unlearned" (notably also found in peer reviewed academic papers in woke social sciences), turns out that instead of becoming gay because you all women have been uglified and masculinized in Western games, instead of going gay heterosexual men just buy them a lot less. Leading to the current crisis in video games industry, where massive projects crash and burn once woke come in and hit every attractive women, including those scanned from attractive models with an uglification demand. We don't even have male and female body/face models any more in fact. It's all "body type A" and "body type B" because of woke, because stating that there are males and females is offensive to them. And and the current ongoing trend is to forcibly fuse male features into female models, because just like you projected above, woke do believe that if you do that, you may give heterosexuals "un-Godlike stiffie" and they become their clients and join alphabet people.

Just because you unplugged the bible from your religious circuit doesn't mean that that circuit doesn't get filled by something else. Something much, much worse. One who hunts monsters beware, for when you gaze into the abyss, abyss gazes back into you. And among destructive religions, top position in genocide, slavery and torture is held by by various Marxist denominations.

Fire risk.

Exceedingly important in last mile of deployment, where consumption can be somewhat unpredictable and you can't rely on the fusing to work properly on each line.

I'm sure it is in your magical world. In real world on the other hand, it's the point from the downvolting to 230V, not to even talk about 110V systems where using anything else would necessitate active cooling of cables in most places with any meaningful demand. Try hooking up a small apartment building with residential voltages and watch the your cute hollow core cable melt and burn under load.

>I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

This is why I can tell that you do not understanding anything about grids. Your understanding is that of a person for whom electricity comes from a socket, and you pay for it. So your association is that "you pay grid for electricity, because that's what they base the bill on". It's that of a dumb consumer. This is why the accurate stereotype of a typical green is a person who thinks food comes from a supermarket, electricity from a socket and water from a tap. Because you are just that abstracted from what it actually happening.

In reality, grids are logistical companies that sell logistical services. They're fairly similar to rail companies in how they function, as they're also typically natural monopolies. The fact that their billing mechanism typically exists as a function of amount of goods they transfer doesn't make them people who make money selling goods. They don't sell you electricity. They sell you transit services. People who sell you electricity are electricity producers. In many sane nations, including mine they attempt to cure this idiotic misconception you have about grids being ones who sell you electricity by legally mandating separation of bills. Where transmission companies and producers don't just charge you differently, but you can choose who you buy your electricity from based on pricing. And then you pay a fee per unit of kWh transferred to grid company on top of that. Because you're not paying latter for electricity. You pay it for transit services.

It's pretty easy to offer consumers a great deal when you're willing to dump wheelbarrows of cash into a furnace to do so.

This isn't about coal emissions or clean anything. It's about killing the coal industry before the cryptocurrency industry can buy in to make their own electricity. As and our government does NOT want cryptocurrency. Unless it's theirs.

Oh, and our government does NOT like us citizens. None of us. Some more than others, yes, but our government is against us. You want to be in the good side of the government? Read history. Only the leadership escapes this.

That's not necessarily the case. If iPhone users are keeping their devices longer, the percentage of new activations would be lower even if the ratio of Apple to Android users remains unchanged. Without additional information, it's not possible to make the kind of conclusions that are being drawn from the data.

There's stuff popping up in my lawn that no one has ever seen before.

Ford made the Ford Ranger EV 1998 to 2002, then the Ford Focus Electric from 2011 to 2018 before switching to the Mach-E. They are not "new at it". They're just bad at it.

To be fair, I have a lot more hope for Ford than GM, as Farley seems to actually understand the critical importance of turning things around and the limited timeframes to do so, unlike GM, which still seems to only care about press.

Some is. And some is spot on. Quite a few Indian professionals came here (or Britain) because they couldn't put up with the racist caste system back home. Perhaps they were not Brahmins and therefore destined for a career of mediocraty. Or they didn't want to spent their lives pushing past the Paperwork Wallahs that are the remains of an ex-Socialist system.

Others came because they _were_ the big shots in Indian society. And they looked over here and saw that many Americans were squandering excellent opportunities. They figured that we are the Dalits, in need of leadership. I see a lot of immigrants from cultures like this. The motivated people that got out of their shithole countries because they figured they were better than their neighbors. And also better than us.

Does AOSP not support Chinese input?

BTW, Heliboard is available from Izzy and is open source and does good (non-nudge) prediction locally.