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  • Even if not everyone can or wants to own a house, there’s no good reason for these houses being owned by corpos or individuals.
    Housing is as much basic infrastructure/human needs as is health care, education, electricity, water supply, sewage system, internet access and should be in the hands of the public sector - alas, it most often isn’t and that alone should tell you enough.
    I’m not saying there shouldn’t be corpos allowed to provide service based on the public infrastructure, but the infrastrucure itself would be public in a fair and sane world.
    If you can’t kick out leeches from abusing public infrastrucure, well, you end up in the world we live in.
    Now you can call me communist or think about why the system we have is designed to help the rich getting richer.
    This is no natural state we live in. It’s an abomomination.




  • You could try to get a used Dell Wyse 5070.
    If you pick the right dual ranked RAM modules (e.g. Patriot PSD416G26662S), you can have a max. of 2x16 GB.
    There’s a slot for SATA SSDs onboard and with the right adapter (PCIe A/E key -> M key) you can plug an NVME SSD in the WiFi PCIe slot, which gives plenty room for storage and even allow for a disk mirror setup.
    All that is very well within your budget and quite a beast that once was meant to be just a thin client.


  • Oh, they can go in one sentence, if done right.
    Nano offers fast transactions on a decentralized network while using very little energy.
    Strictly speaking it’s not just one blockchain, but one per account, which only the account owner can update (add blocks to it).
    This asynchronous design is what makes Nano so fast, because there’s no need to wait for others when updating one’s own blockchain.
    What it doesn’t have (yet?) is a sufficiently large network effect, which it may never acquire.
    But it is one example of an attempt at making digital money based on blockchain technology, which is not just a copycat, scam, rugpull or other malicious nonsense.
    Monero comes to mind as well and maybe a handful others.
    Sadly almost all around blockchain is not just not innovative, but outright evil.





  • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFoolproof
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    It’s less the motion of the atmosphere that causes the distortion, but rather differences in its temperature and hence the density of the air, which causes differences in the refraction index of the air along the way of the light.
    The variable refraction index makes it look like the atmosphere is moving though.
    But that’s the effect of the light not going in a straight line and not the cause of it.