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Comment Re:What warms the ocean more? (Score 4, Informative) 20

What warms the ocean more? Greenhouse gasses from power generation for cooling, or just using the ocean directly as a heat sink.

Greenhouse gasses, by orders of magnitude.

The gasses leverage the vast energy available from the sun over a span of decades. The server heat is one and done.

Undoubtedly, the greenhouse gasses released from powering these servers will warm the oceans far more than the servers themselves will.

Comment Re:Economists please break it down (Score 1) 82

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Comment Re:Curious catch 22 (Score 1) 238

If you automate everything then you break the social contract. Millions of unemployed people lead to unrest in the land.
Winning is losing.

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

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