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Agreed. Thought it was excellent all round. Not really my thing musically but his showmanship and talent is unquestionable. Well organised, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. If you’re going tomorrow and have standing tickets, the queue for gates 21-23 was insane but the pitch entrances under the SBR stand were empty and we walked straight in. You can ignore the gate entrance on your ticket and use any of them. Fireworks at the end were excellent 👍🏻
Cool, thanks for the info. I was only going by what the missus told me, and that was only after a quick Google. On another note, I'm constantly blown away by how good the cameras are on modern phones. Mind-blowing!
Same here, our little garden has been like the Eden Project this year. Butterflies, ladybugs, and loads of damselflies and dragonflies. Saved what i believe is a female emperor dragonfly from the cat last night. Wonderful.
Design in Bitcoin is not efficient. Proof-of-work exists to maintain it decentralised and censorship-free. Waving a magic wand does not give you the robustness of a neutral, unhackable monetary network. The energy cost is not meaningless; it is the cost of freedom from institutional capture, state control, and centralised systems. FIAT, gold or BTC, their collective belief gives them worth rather than 1s and 0s. Furthermore, technically it's not binary; it's not only "1s and 0s" any more than a website is "just electricity". That argument is not only reductive but also ignorant of the cryptographic, distributed, and consensus-critical structure providing Bitcoin's integrity and immutability.
A couple of other points. A full acoustic survey on the data centres found any sound impacts to be imperceptible (50 dB night and 72 dB day limits not found to be exceeded) – hardly a 'loud hum' as quoted in the article.
Also, it would appear that a number of locals lost significant money with a share issue related to the company (Greenridge Generation Holdings) that owns the plant. Perhaps that's where their grievance lies.
Yes I have thank you and I'm not really clear on the point you are making. That said, I'd rather live there than next to a goldmine.
The OP made the point the BTC should be banned on the basis of its environmental impact and the effect on some of the residents of Dresden. I'm merely making the point that there are other stores of value being mined at far greater human and environmental costs that don't appear to face such a backlash from the masses.
Gold mining uses approximately 250 terawatt-hours of energy (twice that of BTC), emits well over 100 million tonnes of CO₂ (2.5x all of UK aviation), and still claims dozens (officially – the toll is much higher for the unofficial artisanal miners) of industrial lives every year, while millions of artisanal miners, including children, face toxic mercury and unsafe pits. All to mine a 'store of value', of which 50% goes on producing vanity trinkets and only 5% does anything useful (and is easily replaced or recycled).
The environmental impact is astonishing; it's an environmental catastrophe. It releases 1,200 tonnes of mercury a year into rivers and oceans, causes toxic cyanide spills that wipe out aquatic life, has stripped over 100,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest in Peru alone and creates acid mine drainage that poisons waterways for centuries, and when tailings dams collapse, they bury towns and kill hundreds of people.
All this for a global cultural obsession for something that is considered a symbol of status and wealth.
But some people in the US don't like the hum, so we have to ban BitCoin. Try living next to a gold mine!
No idea who was commentating (the co-commentator mentioned he had signed Harmess during a brief spell in management?) on what I watched but it was shockingly bad!
The highlight for me was when Morsey tackled KDB and he said, “he’s got the ball from De Bruyne, I’m sure he’ll remember that tackle for a long time’ or words to that effect! Patronising much!
There are limited DGWs this season to slot in, GW33 ( following League Cup Final - Max 4 EPL teams) and GW36 (following FAC Semi-Finals - Max 4 EPL teams). So on the face of it, there is not much opportunity to take advantage of a DGW.
It ignores the possibility of severe weather, royal deaths and global pandemics, but still, it is possibly worth a go!
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Monday 7th August AM, Heathrow T3 arrivals, what I assume was a Dad wearing his ITFC shirt, meeting his son with a big emotional hug. Gave me a lump in the throat!
And then, the other day, a chap cutting his hedge in Bermuda. I was a bit disappointed by this one as I thought I was the only Blue in the village!
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