fair enough, makes sense, I was trying to think outside the box of “storing” the power as pumped hydro or batteries…but I guess where they exist, these industries still welcome the negative prices when they happen :)

There is never surplus power with a network of a few “turn it on as needed” intensive industrial uses like haber-bosch reactors for ammonia, dessalination plants and electrolysis for aluminium or other metals…right?

At this point what they learn in business schools is the full bestiary of legal and illegal tricks and scams you can use to extract money from us cattle and contribute as little as possible to the upkeep :(

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Maybe it will get worse in the future, but what resources do immigrants require? They don’t need nannies or childcare or schooling…they just work, consume and pay taxes like everyone else. Has this ever been a problem for the US? Up to the 1930s, the US had an immigration of over 11% of population, the same as it’s been since the 2000s. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time

I won’t even mention the EU, we’re in demographic suicide here because raising kids people until they have a job and a house and stability is fucking expensive xP

Ok, fine, I hadn’t considered that and it’s a factor. None of the demographically declining countries like Italy, Japan, Portugal is doing great in terms of growth…but they don’t have deflation either. You also have the productivity growth factor into account with automation (meaning each citizen produces more but also uses more resources)

Why doesn’t even the far right want to reduce dependence on fuel imports from other countries? I thought fascists were all for “autarky” and depending on nobody else…

Sure, any economy can experience deflation if you have more goods chasing the same amount of currency, but the point is that most economies usually print money, that causes inflation (moderately that mimics around 2% (approx. linear resource growth) and 4% (rent extraction). Interest rates influence market behaviour that causes inflation but do not determine inflation.

This is just the easiest step of the green transition: reduce costly energy imports through efficiency and it makes sense even without a green transition point of view. If even that can’t be done with public assent, there is no hope for anything beyond that in countries that buy cheap and/or export fossil fuels :/

Probably a typo, but currency is *inflationary, cryptocurrency is *deflationary, that’s why it’s not for spending “now” (e.g. hodlbros)

Everyone uses “oracles” eventually, there is no true “trustless”, but you can have systems which are publicly “loud” about being changed, even ethereum needs “oracles” that can be tampered with and which you need to trust, that’s why I used the word.

There are examples like DNS or the Mozilla foundation or all sorts of repos. Due to the receipt system you can verify if the commit history has been tampered with (your image has been removed from the database or edited). For court documents each court could host its own database where checksums are verified periodically, by “oracles”.

Look, Git exists and image or document registration in an official onine database is Git diffs with less functionality because you can’t remove previous commits: you just append new lines. This is a solved problem. If you’re trying to solve a double-spend problem, then you need more than that, but it’s overkill for your problem.

PS: maybe I’m oversimplifying it, but here’s more discussion on this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-considered-a-block-chain

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59509764/is-git-distributed-or-decentralized

A nonprofit with multiple synchronized copies of the database and you can get your own copy, synchronize, fork it if you have the space, like a GitLab repository. Remember this is not for secure transactions and to prevent double-spending like a currency. It’s just an additive database. You don’t need to overkill with a blockchain.

Why are you replying here? I’m talking to you upstairs. Chill out.

Sometimes it is, but even when it isn’t, “taste” by itself is not by itself what is making people stopping themselves from an adequate vehicle.

This is what I was originally replying to and I think it’s nonsense (regardless of how “refined” your taste is):

Well if Mercedes and BMW could stop making electric cars as ugly as humanly possible we would quickly see them take that market back.

Yes, I’m one of those people who wouldn’t mind living in Zion, eating nutritious slop and wearing unremarkable homemade textiles ;)

PS: but I understand many people need to brag to their friends or impress their clients or make themselves feel better by displaying their status in some material way.

I just don’t see any huge aesthetic differences between any of the cars for sale that would singlehandedly stop e.g. German electric cars from being sold: they all look like sleek solutions to a conditioned aerodynamics problem :D

Haha, yea, the only heresy greater than owning an ugly efficient car these days is riding a bus 😧, it seems.

Ugly? Why do people fetishize their cars? I want it to work efficiently, be safe and cheap to maintain…if it looks like a gherkin, so be it 😄 The problem with German electric cars is not that, it’s that atm they can’t compete with China in price and they have no tech edge in supply chains anymore. Also, newer generations in Europe aren’t as obsessed with owning a car anymore (I think).

How is that better than an immutable database where you guarantee trust simply by gettin your own public hash receipt for the database every time you introduce a new item? Why obfuscate things by riding the “Blockchain” hype bandwagon?