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Blockchain: the wave of the future

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Why this hasn't been done is pretty baffling to me.

Because the blockchain needs an incentive. Who is going to be taking part in the blockchain if there is nothing in it for them? That's why these tokens are often tied to crypto currencies, as mining is the incentive.

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And they say English is bad

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Well, the Union of South Africa were participants in the war against Germany, so that's still a bit weird. Don't know about the affiliation of the magazine in question, but the support for joining the allies wasn't clear cut, but only a narrow majority among the ruling white class.

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Viranomaisten valtavasti maksaneet järjestelmät menevät roskiin – ”Epäonnistuvat vuodesta toiseen”, professori tylyttää

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Apotti oli yksi artikkelin esimerkkijärjestelmä. En olis sekunttiakaan yllättyny, jos sen ympäriltä paljastuu ihan hervoton korruptiohimmeli. Siitä on tullu jo aika erikoisia kommentteja.

Juuri tämä korruptio on se osa jota ei ihan kauheasti tuoda ilmi. Korruptio kun on melkein maan tapa mitä tulee julkisiin hankintoihin, mutta jostain syystä selkeästi huono valinta toimittajaksi tai jopa itse toteutukseksi tuodaan esiin digihankinnoissa, mutta ei muissa hankinnoissa.

Historiasta löytyy kyllä esimerkkejä surkeista analoogisista hankinnoista, joista kärsitään yhä. Esimerkkinä Helsingin metro, joka päätettiin jostain syystä kaivaa maapallon ytimen syvyyteen eikä siihen ns. katutason alle, mikä tekee laajentamisesta työlästä ja kallista. Ja kun selvitellään että miksi se syvämetro nyt sitten silloin taannoin valittiin, niin korruptiohan se sielläkin hääräsi.

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Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

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The first point is a non issue. If we just stop for a second and think about it, the calorie output of the animals has to be less than the calorie input. Otherwise they would generate energy out of thin air. The bigger thing is that they are also homeothermic animals, which means that majority of the input calories are used to regulate body heat and not to generate output calories (aka meat). From calorie persective, going through homeothermic animals is pure waste of energy.

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Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed With Misinformation and Junk Science Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with unreliable information

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What really started the whole "fi-sci" (fiction-science) on Discovery was Mythbusters. I know many people don't want to hear it as they loved the show, but it was often very unscientific, especially their methods and the hasty and often false conclusions they made from their scientifically invalid tests.

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It's interesting debate to observe from my perspective as my native tongue has no different pronunciations for letters, they are always the same regardless of their placement in words. G is always pronounced the same, and so is P. (Spoiler: it's hard G and hard P).

This brought another thing in my mind about soft G. Let's take for example Gin, which is with soft G I believe (it's hard G here because there is only hard G). Then there is the acronym GT for Gin & Tonic. The question is, in English language countries, is the acronym pronounced jay-T instead of gee-T?

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Suomi vastustaa Chat Control -asetusta

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Milläköhän perusteilla tämä esitys sopii suomalaisten oikeistopuolueiden ajamaan politiikkaan niin että tämä on ihan märkä uni? Tuntuu ennemmin siltä että kyseessä on nykyisen oikeistohallituksen "märkä uni" samalla tavoin kuin pohjoiskorean talousjärjestelmä oli edellisen vasemmistohallituksen "märkä uni" - omasta päästä keksittyjen olkiukkojen unissa.

Varmasti kyllä löytyy yksittäisiä poliitikkoja puolueesta kuin puolueesta joka haaveilee jostain massavalvonnasta lasten etujen takia tms. Mutta itse en todellakaan näe että valvontayhteiskunta olisi suomessa erityinen oikeisto-vasemmisto kysymys, se vaikuttaa tuontitavaralta jossa ulkomaiden poliittisia keskusteluniaheita yritetään survoa suomen muottiin.

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‘My voice matters’: Felons vote at polls for first time after voting rights restored

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There are people who don't respect the judgement or voice of people who have abortions, or provide them. The former probably ask about the latter "why should we allow them to vote" too. That just emphasizes the fact that personal feelings are not good enough reason to limit a right. The right to vote should be the basis. As a right it needs no justification, on the contrary, any limitations to it are the ones that need to be justified. And justified better than "I don't respect this and that".