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Crypto: Climate change means new tech has less time today to prove itself
I spent this weekend reading about permissioned and permissionless blockchain systems. If you want to get in on it, I can’t recommend this post by David Rosenthal enough. Much of the complexity of executing transactions of the major extant cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Tech, Bitcoin, blockchain, carbon dioxide concentration, carbon emissions, cryptocurrencies, David Rosenthal, decentralisation, Ethereum, Molly White, non-fungible tokens, proof of work, web2, web3
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Christopher Nolan’s explosion
In May, Total Film reported that the production team of Tenet, led by director Christopher Nolan, found that using a second-hand Boeing 747 was better than recreating a scene involving an exploding plane with miniatures and CGI. I’m not clear … Continue reading
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Tagged AMD, AMD FirePro, carbon credits, carbon emissions, CGI, Christopher Nolan, climate change, Furmark benchmark, fx, GPU, graphics processing units, Interstellar, negative externalities, Nvidia, Nvidia Quadro, One Health, special effects, Tenet
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