btcindivist

What is not the case? 1-2% of total CO2 footprint? That flying a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a nontrivial distance every day?

I'm not saying cars are more efficient. It's just that the distance travelled is huge when one uses an airplane.

Depends on how many. Flying airplanes is around 1-2% of our total CO2 footprint. Of course, for an individual, doing 1 intercontinental flight with a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a car to work every day, but in total, not many people fly.

Depending on the efficiency of the rocket and the reduced number of people doing this, the numbers shouldn't be that much higher.

But there's only 3-4 DOM elements. I'm pretty sure doing this in canvas is not as trivial as this.

Given there's only a single svg element changing I'm not exactly sure you could have done it better.

It might just be that the ease-out transitions for the stroke are not efficiently implemented in whatever browser you're using.

If you've tried and check out and understand the code you'd see there's so little being done in JS that this stuff is surely not the bottleneck.

I'm pretty sure SpaceX hired the old experts that are stuck in the past.

There's nothing stopping you from iterating after the experts gave you a perfect start.

About a billion cows or so annually.

Cage free is still factory farming, there's just no cages, but a huge big closed dark cage. I'm in no denial when I'm buying those eggs.

The thing is, people don't really care about animals. Especially not the kind, calm and docile ones.

A holocaust is happening currently, 60 billion most docile and mostly female cows and fowls are eliminated every year. No one gives a damn.

Heck, even I don't. I drink my milk and eat my chicken. I consider those things mine and don't care if the milk is a product of forced selection that created a monster of a species, or that chicken is a flesh of an innocent animal.

I do not even care about what it does to the environment.

I'm voting with my money to have this practice continue.

The whole system is built for meat and milk to work. Yeah, it's some wierd suboptimal local minimum but that's what it is. I live in a meat culture and don't care if I can survive eating only plants.

I'm confused that Tesla did not hire these experts. I see Munro & Associates dropping criticism, and am baffled, given so much expert knowledge available that no one hired these guys or their competition.

I think C++ compiles down to a pure functional language that is then optimized into an efficient beast. So I'm not sure that pure code is hard to optimize.

The rest of my comment explains that worrying about BTC CO2 impact is useless.

People do a bunch of stuff that has magnitudes bigger CO2 footprint.

Are we profiling CO2 usage? If so, what, we want to optimize the tiny footprints instead of the biggest?

BTC mining, just like Christmas lights, can work with solar. Then we are going to complain about electricity wasted.

I'm not sure. Given that he was in a relationship with a professor there, he might have got an easy pass.

Ton of CO2 is generated by christmas lights. It trumps BTC or is very close.

Yes, producing a lot of cheap energy is an opportunity to use more of it.

There's a bunch of stupid things people do with energy and increase their CO2 impact. Bitcoin is just one.

I'm pretty sure abstaining from flying planes throughout all your life is more CO2 not emitted than building a small mining operation and mining for life.

I'm pretty sure if we summed up the CO2 impact of increased dietary requirements of athletes and body builders and similar would get to huge numbers.