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  • The same principal has been tried with crypto mining to reduce waste / cost.

    Capture the heat and use it elsewhere like to heat the building.

    Downside for heating buildings though is unless you’re doing it somewhere where it’s always cold, you eventually still end up with heat you can’t use, and at that scale, there’s better heating choices. I heard the city of vancouver was looking into heating a swimming pool with it, at least that would have a constant use.

    Then you still end up with the issue of the mining cards only being good for 2-3 years before the tech improves and they aren’t mining efficiently anymore, which then just leads to more e-waste.

    But imagine if the cards themselves had a really long useful life or were super cheap and easily recyclable, we could put miners in things like space / baseboard heaters which were already going to be doing resistive heating and then gain something from that instead of just heat.

    Imagine doing something like having a GPU based baseboard heater that folds proteins whenever it’s on, where it doesn’t become completely obsolete in a couple years.






  • You’ve got slippery slope backwards lol.

    Slippery slope is I can’t let you do ABC because if you do you’ll do XYZ.

    This is you can’t do ABC, XYZ, 123, QWERTY, but if you do XYZ, 123, QWERTY you shouldn’t tell us because it’s actually okay and we didn’t really mean all those other things.

    Valves policy if anything is the bad policy because it’s the strict policy you put in place because you’re implementing it due being worried about slippery slope.

    Edit: And were literally in a thread where someone from VALVE is defending this bad policy, so this is the exact place to say my piece on it.

    edit: Just to note, Valve will let you do it, they just stick you with a declaration that has a negative connotation to much of the community, such as the developer replying here, which is harmful to the game developer, while those who lie and did the exact same thing benefit from a shiny decal declaring their false purity






  • On the ultimatum note… there was this guy who was friends with my friends, I didn’t know him well, but they spent a lot of time together and I did see him many times a year. My friends were a couple (m/f). I asked why I hadn’t seen him in awhile, and they told me that he got a new girlfriend and his new girlfriend didn’t want him hanging out with other women, so he pretty much stopped being friends with them. I haven’t seen him since, it’s been like a decade.