Yep, road where goes with the square of vehicle weight. A singe semi truck is far more damaging than a hundred cars, and bikes don’t do damage period.
As for EVs, while they are often heavier than ICE’s, it’s only by a few percent, and less impactful than the vehicle obesity epidemic we’ve seen here in the US in the last decade.
The NFT is only pseudonymous so long as the account can’t be tied back to an actual person, since most platforms already allow gifting of games to people’s accounts, it would be trivial to tie them back publicly.
The same authority problems also apply to NFTs, does everyone agree to use the same chain and only that chain, if the chain is forked becuse the founders of etherium loose 15 percent of the entire currency on a obvious scam again which version of the NFTs hosted on it are valid? How to the platforms deal with someone scaming someone else by selling them the wrong version on a third party marketplace?
If publishers can’t be bothered to sell their own games after a while, why would they want to sell someone else’s for free, and why would that incentive disappear if they use their own private API instead of a publicly accessible one?
I mean i’d rather register my license of XXX Hentai Boobmania with a govement office than make it permanently and irreversiblly publicly available for everyone to see.
Again, if they can be bothered to host the game, I don’t see how a database that’s smaller than most modern AAA games is more likely to disappear. You could also forgo a central database in favor of each storefront hosting thier own, and just using a private API. More secure too, since it wouldn’t present an easily attack surface for hackers.
The blockchain doesn’t need incentives to be slow and unwieldy when it takes hours to confirm a transaction, and a gas war can randomly delay things even more.
Archive.org is well, a non profit archive, not a storefront. If you used NFTs and wanted to charge for it, you would need to charge per download. Finally, while a NFT could provide a proof of license, so could any other database.
If the storefront goes bankrupt all that public ledger does is give you a dead link unless another storefront picks it up, but if they wanted to do that they could just as easily buy that database from the dying company anyway.
Moreover why would anyone else have an incentive to pay the significant costs associated with hosting a game ownership was on a blockchain, and therefore could be sold independently without them receiving a cut?
Presumably becuse their the ones paying server costs to host the game, let you download it again and again on diffrent devices, and manage all the technical issues with the system of getting it to you.
Um, if the store goes bankrupt then the game ceases to exist. You would at best have a contextless link that pointed to nowhere.
You could also achieve exactly the same benefits without adding in the expense of gas fees at all. Indeed that gives you quite a few other benefits like being able to reverse fraudulent transactions and being able to ensure the platform gets a cut.
I imagine the unnecessary part is the whole being built on an unwieldy and expensive third party platform when it would be far easier to just use these platforms existing customer database. All major digital platforms keep track of customer accounts anyway so you can download the game more than once, so it’s not like it would be hard to implement a in house transfer system that doesn’t require an irrelevant middleman.
I don’t exactly expect that a smallish internet fourm can fix the fetishization of high school children across the english speaking world, but we absolutely can effect this preticular lemmy community.
While I also have it blocked, it is really hard to say recommend lemmy to friends when even from beehaw you have “i can’t believe it’s not child porn” making up a bunch of /all.
I’m not saying no one else could do it obviously, we’re talking about something China straight up did, mearly that if the US wanted in, it could have gotten in. The process is not that sensitive to labor prices and so gets limited benefit from being in a poorer country. Easily the largest constraint on scaling has been the start up capital, and most poor countries don’t have the kind of capital required. The US does.
The US had first mover advantage, we’ve been building cells for specialized applications at scale since the 70s. We could have turned that leed into a massive supply of cheap panels for export in the two thousands, but instead threw it away in favor of more government fossil investment and now taking about an article where conservatives are wining about it.
I don’t really think the US has any natural disadvantage in solar cell production either. While the process has diverged more and more significantly in the last decade or so in search of higher efficiency, at the end of the day solar cells are just a specialized type of computer chip, and share the same production chain. The process is highly automated, and the US had the experience required.
While there is a naritive of deindustrialsation in the US, it is worth noting that this is relative. In real terms there are more manufacturing jobs today in the US than there were in the sixties, they’ve just haven’t grown at the same rate as the service sector.
Advantage wise, the US used to be the world leader in solar technology, it’s industry having created many of the processes China would latter need to import and catch up in before they could pull ahead of. The US government also has the capital to spend and invest on a scale not matched by most other nations, but is unlikely to spend that sort of money on subsidizing a foreign nation’s manufacturing capacity. Combined with the sort of private capital it can move with even minor incentives, i’d say the US had a huge advantage when it comes to massively scaling up a high tech manufacturing process, what it lacked was any sort of coherent long term direction, often on purpose.
A decent portion of the US solar industry already is. The problem is that while the US might be able to satisfy its own needs, maybe, it turns out that investing into actually building enough new factories to turn out more panels a year that the entire us electrical demand is liable to make some big economies of scale, and give you a very profitable export market.
Given that major conservative donate like Shell and BP are busy campaigning for putting economic restrictions on african countries that are trying to buy chinese solar instead of US natural gas, i’d imagine that this is a natural PR route to take.
Of course the US could have used our experience in silicon to build thouse largely automated massive solar factories ourselves, but when we talk about building solar capacity it’s allways talked about as an ‘great economic burden’ placed on the government though ‘expensive subsidies’.
Words cannot express my gratitude. My solution up until this point has been just relaying them, but that’s obviously kinda annoying. Thank you so much.
Really niche, but i can recommend the connections museum. Really nice breakdowns of how very easy telephone switches and networks worked.
To be fair, i think it may have some use for fleet vehicles like taxis and long range buses because these are applications where being able to refill in minutes at a fuel depo you already run actually matters as compared to the stress you would put on a large battery fast charging day in day out. I also believe that Japan has a nuclear plant that is being built with the capacity to efficacy generate hydrogen directly. That being said, for personal vehicles I can’t really see the market of people who need that fast of a refil being large enough to reach the economies of scale necessary to be practical.
It makes some sense to use electric or biofuel trucks to move goods for short distances as well as the distance between a facility and an distribution yard, but for long distance I fully agree that we called them multi modal containers for a reason. You can move a container from truck to electric train in seconds, and indeed we already do that for anything that has to travel by ship anyway.
Moving goods vast distances over land extremely cheaply and with zero carbon emissions is a problem that was solved long ago with overhead electrified rail, and it’s amazing to see the lengths we here in North America will go to avoid investing in it.