About that food, water, heating and electricity not being that expensive. I’m afraid that won’t be so true in the future. UK is leading here.

Another US centric article.

As someone who’s stuck with doing the automation, it definitely doesn’t make my life easier. Or faster. It’s just stressful, full of boring complexity and annoying. First world problems, I know.

Are you aware of the rich history of your last sentence? And the mandatory salute to go with it?

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Try looking at facts. Data. Or, rather, don’t if you don’t want to become depressed.

An idiotic idea which will go nowhere just the one about putting PV modules on road surfaces was.

That your audience is global.

Sure, but you do realize the situation is typically different outside of the US?

What is stopping renters to use these then, and give a middle finger to the landlords?

You’re sure living in a real estate bubble. Not going to last, thankfully.

I live in such a place. This is obviously rent gouging.

If the landlords do not provide a service, you’re welcome to go to the bank to approve your loan, buy or build a house, maintain it, pay back the loan and deal with delinquent renters and sell it when it’s time for you to move out. None of which concerns you as a renter.

It is a massive PITA and it’s a so-so store of value at best. That there are assholes who charge you through the nose for the rent doesn’t mean it’s a landlord problem. It’s an asshole problem.

ADD subtype PI, for primary inattentive. If methylphenidate and atomoxetine don’t work for you make sure you try lysdexamfetamine.

To be fair, in 1912 it was not at all obvious at which scale humanity started to burn everything after 1950.

Fully decentralized p2p cryptocurrency transactions without double spending by proof of work (improvement upon Hashcash) was done first with Bitcoin. The term fintech did not exist at the time. EDIT: looked it up, apparently first use as Fin-Tech was 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fintech – it’s not the current use of the term though.

What other solutions to double spending were there in financial cryptography before?

It’s pretty hard to get banned on all instances of Lemmy. Particularly, your own.

You are rude, pointlessly combative and move goalposts. Bye.

The point is that even Lemmy instances not optimized for a P2P distribution model can be run on an embedded footprint on domestic fiber broadband. Which is going beyond 10G in some locations. Though symmetric 1G fiber is quite enough.

The aggregate network crossection and compute plus storage on network edge up to on-prem is already more than sufficient for the purposes without requring significant DC footprint. Even factoring in porn and cat videos.

The reasons many people use commercial cloud and DC hosted severs is cost, network quality and convenience. Self-hosting is a PITA but my point it would be adequate for the kind of people that consume resources like lemmy. Though you probably could build a Netflix scale platform on mostly P2P though it would be tough engineering.