Gold is already worthless, main purpose of gold is that its shiny and pretty, less than 1% of gold mined gets used for electronics and stuff. The rest ist accessoires. The only reason gold costs something is because people think that it is worth something.
The site can not request the information by itself, so you would have to actively do this procedure by yourself. And why would you try to send a certificate if you are under 18. And this trick only works once in a lifetime only on website that track you in a way (the certificate is not able to be used to track you, afaik not even across individual usages, so if you use a porn website every day and have to send a new certificate every day it's not able to track you).
But the period between when costs exceed revenue and when difficulty falls low enough to restore profitability is where the damage happens, both to miners and to the spot market that absorbs their forced selling.
Ohh no, the poor people investing in a useless product are not making money while they waste energy and ressources. Next you are gonna tell me that gold and diamond prices are also dropping and some poor investors wont get richer by it.
https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
Apparently they have a way to deliver messages without knowing who sent the message. So they can see that you recieved messages but can't see by whom.
I am not technical versed in this side of things but afaik the way signal is structured they cant even tell who you are talking to. (I mean maybe there is some way around it, they control the servers after all, i dont know if the claim is verifable)
Funfact: sperm contains protamin, the antidote for heparin which is used for anti coagulatory properties in medicine. During cardio vascular surgery you get a shit ton of heparin so they can perform the open heart surgery (so the heart lung machine doesn't get clogged). After the surgery you get protamin so you do not bleed to death. This protamin is often sourced from salmon sperm. If you have strong fish allergies you could theoretically react on it but it's not very likely.
Can Lab meat be vegan if the starter culture needs to come from a real animal? After what time does it become vegan? 1 year? 3 years? 50?
I think even ai tgat uses stolen art can become ethical again, but not with big corpos behind it.
The grapheneOS team has stated repeatedly that the fairphone does not meet the requirements for GrapheneOS, they are currently working with a hardware partner to bring GrapheneOS to a (supposedly) new device. This is most likely not fairphone because
Fairphone is not selling worldwide, the annoucement mentioned a worldwide partner
Fairphone does not mean the Hardware rwquirements and (arguably more importantly because it is harder to fix) the software requirements. They do not have timely enough upgrades.
While i agree with the sentiment v-bucks are not 100% profit. People buy v-bucks for skins, these skins have to be produced by people who typically don't do that for free. And for ongoing sells of v-bucks fortnite has to get regular updates, one of the selling points of fortnite are the regular seasons and events, these are not free to produce. Obviously they do all of this to increase profit but 100% profit ratio is a strange take.
The rip by annas archive is 170kbps ogg for most of the songs (most meaning listening probability, not quantifying numbers.).Furthermore 96kbps is more than enough for casual listeners. You may hear a difference but most people wont care tbh.
Or e.g. in my last appartment we had an weird electrical water heater that didn't work that well. I was able to easily estimate the extra cost it procured by estimating water volume, temperature difference and electrical price, most annoying par was converting from joule to calories because it is not base 10. (would have taken >3years so not worth it for me)
I do stuff like this all the time. Like if i bought a pool i wanted to estimates how much water it needes to estimate all the follow up costs, if i am cooking something i often switch between kg and g, if am measuring things i switch between cm, m and mm depending on what i am currently measuring all the time. E.g. i needed a new working plate in my kitchen, i wanted it precut to fit exactly in after moving some cabinets while still aligning the sink. The whole space was measured in meters, but the individual cuts were all measured in milimeters. I was able to do all of that in 5 minutes with one piece of paper for sketching and my head. (And it fitted down to the milimeter in the end).
Unable to predict electricity use and generation on a large scale, leading to unstable electricity network (e.g. peak generation at 12 o clock while everynone is working).
Should you be allowed to have children if you are a known carrier of some bad but not inmediatly deadly risk gene like fragile x, chorea huntington, mucoviszidosis, diabetes 1 (let's ignore the worsening of fragile x and chorea huntingtion across generations for a moment)? Should you be allowed to have children if you have trisomie 21, or some other mental disability? If you say no i think you are ableist and can't comprehend that people with special needs are still people that can be happy and can have desires.
If you say yes why can't two cousins have a child? What if they have two forms of birth control and just want to fuck? What if they are the same sex? I my experience most people who are against two cousins having sex do not give a flying fuck about some theoretical chile but just think it's icky. Which is a fair feeling you are allowed to have but should not be basis for a law.
This has a lot of dystopian uses, but I also hope that it can be used by the open source community for home automation. That could be really great.