That’s why I specified a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. They use so much less energy that it is practically negligible in comparison, and more on the order of traditional online transactions.

Yeah, exactly. A regular user isn’t going to notice an extra few cents on their electricity bill (boiling water costs more), but a data centre certainly will when you scale up.

Scarcity is what powers this type of challenge: you have to prove you spent a certain amount of electricity in exchange for access to the site, and because electricity isn’t free, this imposes a dollar cost on bots.

You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.

Obviously there are practical roadblocks to this today that a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge doesn’t face, but longer term…

O.o

I leave to sleep for the night and come back to a comment wasteland 🤣

You kinda missed the point of the post. Nothing they said implied that the history books didn’t contain monstrosities, just that the books didn’t prepare them for living life while monstrosities occur.

How does it compare to keycloak?

Don’t need to hop timelines for that! What kind of ice cream do you want?

Depending on how corrupt of a president you want to be, even if you aren’t in there, you might use it to blackmail other powerful people.

There was a time when I would’ve agreed with you. I still endeavour to this day to avoid profanity.

Today, however, I don’t agree that using “fuck” is at all an indicator of a low vocabulary (except in the case of overuse, but that’s true of any word). There are emotions that civil people aren’t supposed to feel, so we need words that we aren’t supposed to use to express them.

Fuck can be used to great effect, and should be.

A democratic leader needs to accurately represent their constituents and surround themselves with knowledgeable experts. No matter how well-schooled someone is, no one person can know everything involved in running a country.

Doesn’t this scene end with a perfectly painted room?

You mistyped a few fucks.

3.5e just had some much room to explore. Yeah, some parts sucked or didn’t make sense, but I think that really led to some interesting characters and fun moments in games. I haven’t played 5e much precisely because it’s so smooth in comparison.