imafraidofmuricans

imafraidofmuricans t1_iza460v wrote

One hundred average American households use that energy to keep hundreds of humans alive and comfortable.

What utility does eth provide?

Because what it sounds like to me is that we could cut ethereum and provide power to hundreds of people.

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imafraidofmuricans t1_iza3yax wrote

So what you are saying is that the ones that don't use up the power of an entire country while providing little to no value are worthless.

What does that say about all the ones that do?!

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imafraidofmuricans t1_iwm58yd wrote

Because: you can't just start a company without capital. Then you have to try and buy your way in, and Ticketmaster has huge capital to waste on making sure you don't.

Like, what are you going to do? Show up outside a venue and ask kindly if they'll let you sell the tickets on your entirely unknown website?

The thing free market enthusiasts like to ignore is that all free markets tend towards monopolies. Because more money means more power. More power means more money. It will A L W A Y S end in monopolies.

The very function is that companies will fail, and the ones making the most money don't fail and will always be the only one left.

It's amazing really how so many don't understand such a basic concept.

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imafraidofmuricans t1_ivyh1k6 wrote

No they can't.

The instruments aren't delicate for the fun of it. Sensitivity means fragility. Even sensitive instruments on earth are fragile.

Going to grab an RTG at home depo, for that matter? It seems you dont quite understand that Mars is not earth. The atmosphere is thin as hell and there is more dust than even in your bedroom. Off they shelf parts would get shredded by dust alone. I remind you that curiosity weights 1 ton and is the size of a car. The issue is not payload weight, it's how absurdly hostile Mars is. It's not beach sand.

"Planetary science mass insanity". I'm going to be blunt: you are an idiot. Not because you know less than the people doing this work. But because you fail to realize you know nothing, and choose to call it "mass insanity".

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imafraidofmuricans t1_ivu9kqj wrote

It was (is) a big enough issue that the practice of putting antibiotics in livestock feed was outlawed in Sweden in the 80s.

Your anecdote is noted.

Let's put it this way: what is more likely?

Nobody is putting antibiotics on feed and it was outlawed just because, and all these scientists studying the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria from livestock to humans are just doing it for absolutely no reason (again, see the links above, that's what they are about).

Or

Your family's farm is not typical.

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