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  • The problem IS the centralized authority. Can you forever trust a government to not artificially inflate or deflate the value of a currency? The whole point was to have a system with no single authority. No single point of failure.

    It is, however, not perfect. The volatility, limited number of transacrions per second , and reliance on an incredible amount of energy expense were the largest of these when the original bitcoin concept was created. Some of these issues have solutions, but its still an evolving technology.

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  • Heat isnt a great generator of electrical power. At least not at lower temperatures ( below boiling, for steam generation). It also suffers from conversion loss. Anytime you convert energy, there is a loss. Using the heat directly avoids another conversion.

  • Sorry, i just assumed we were at a point where no one other than the 2 of us would be reading this deep.

    Yes that is how generations work. But generations in general is a very loose term. If somone in my grandparents' generation didnt have kids, they would still be the last generation.

    But it really doesnt matter. The point is that humanity has only had this ability in the last 100 years or so

  • Oh, ffs. You dont see that the reason you "need" sponsorblock is because we used adblock so much that the only way the creators could make a living was injecting their own adds into their own videos.

    The money youtube makes from selling your data does not cover the cost of running the business.

    What about all the creators of videos you watched that you dont support on patreon? They dont deserve anything for their work?

  • Im neither. Im a software developer for a small tech company.

    My reasoning is 100% selfish. I dont want the content creators that i watch to stop creating things i find incredibly valuable. And i dont want google to cancel a service that i find incredibly valuable.

    Dont think that they wont do it. It just has to become unprofitable.

    They have already killed 14 services this year alone. https://killedbygoogle.com/

  • I mean.. kinda? If i do the math in my head.. if there is a 1 in a million chance every day for something to happen. It seems like it wont happen.

    But a million days is just about 2,700 years. The human race has been around maybe 100 thousand? Its a bunch of probabilities stacked on top of each other, in a way that reminds me alot of the Fermi paradox.

    And we keep inventing new ways to do it and making the current ways easier. There are also plenty of non self inflicted ways it could happen. Commet or meteor, gamma ray bust, supervolcano, etc.

    It really isnt a question of if, but when. Before or after we become interplanetary or better intersolar-system species. My hope at this point is just not in my lifetime.

  • Ya, by 1st time, i meant in the last generation of humans. Starting in the 30s or so when people started seeing the invention of the things listed above.

    I didnt mean like just now in the 2023. Or last decade.

    • You also get to play video with a screen off on mobile
    • You also get to download for offline viewing
    • You also support the creators of the videos, not just google.
    • AND FFS YOU DONT GET ADS.

    Using adblock isnt some innate human right. They are well within their rights to block adblock.

    You get almost the whole worlds information for free in video form. You can be entertained or use it as a teaching tool. It is the best place at this point for product demos and reviews. It is a crazy wealth of information and infrastructure that everyone takes advantage of and somehow just expect to be free. If Google cancells it because it is not profitable, i would bet the efficiency of the entire human race takes a significant nose dive. It also probably runs one of the highest sets of data storage and encoding on the planet.