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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does Canada have a GDPR equivalent?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most trackers will only sync with their manufacturers app (therefore giving them the data)

it might be different with a full on smart watch as I assume you can install fitness apps on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If your happy to wear a fitness tracker there are lots of options by companies such as Garmin.

Not sure about phone only ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even mint forces you to do major version upgrades, and eventually something breaks enough that I have to do a clean install anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I imagine replacing the battery in your light switch in the dark (because you can't turn the lights on) is probably rather annoying. This sounds like a cool idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you have control of the network with a majority of mining right? So it's very possible that one or more organisations could control it for long enough that it's not trusted?

And how does proof of stake work cryptography?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most people have no idea

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It can't go above 9% of salary though. Treat it like a tax unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mad cow disease can (sometimes/possibly) take decades to have an effect. If you are some infected meat and have the wrong genetics you could wind up with a sponge for a brain 30 years later.

Prions are terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How many people can't finance that though, they are going to be on a ridiculously high interest loan that will way outstrip the fuel savings.

The second hand market won't be there for years (you can get a just about works petrol car ridiculously cheap) and who knows what their batteries will be like at that point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good point, just delete the second paragraph...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of fuels (like petrol) are a lot more energy dense than out best batteries. If we can synthesize fuels like that just using electricity as an energy source (that can be generated from renewables) then you have a carbon free dense store of energy that can be used to power a vehicle for a long distance without refueling.

The problem with these (fuel cells etc) is that the conversation rate is inefficient, wasting a lot of energy. As we are not using 100% renewable energy this means carbon is being released still.

If we had an entirely renewable energy grid (with oversupply when sunny/windy etc) then those energy losses would not matter.

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