The greater the difference between the outside temperature and the temperature you're trying to maintain inside the worse the COP gets which means in extreme conditions when you need them they most are the worst conditions for them in terms of energy efficiency.
It pisses me off every time I look at the roof of an apartment that was built in the last twenty years and see a hundred individual air source heat pumps.
They probably could have reduced everybody's electric bill by a third by installing a glycol loop and water source heat pumps but that would require the investors and contractors to actually give a shit about the people will live in the buildings.
@teknomunk Yeah I forgot about that. If builders were forced to hire competent contractors to install the units instead of illiterate wetbacks it would be another shoah.
@augustus The concept of a trans-national money, whether fiat or crypto or gold, sounds nice on paper but always causes more trouble than benefits.
If I'm in the US and I want to trade with China I should buy stuff with dollars here, ship it over to China and sell it for yuan, then use those yuan to buy stuff in China and ship it back here to sell for dollars.
All global trade could be performed in this fashion without any need for an international reserve currency of any kind, but of course that would force forex traders to stop gambling with the world economy and get real jobs instead which would basically be another shoah.
@bot@meso@rees@kroner HOAs were originally invented to "maintain property values" a.k.a. keep the niggers out. It's not legal to explicitly ban niggers anymore so they invented a bunch of arcane and tedious rules that niggers are incapable of following so they can be indirectly banned without violating any laws.
The problem is that the people who run HOAs now either don't know that's what they're supposed to be doing or else are actively subverting that purpose out of spite.
@OceanRedux The most coherent versions of the theory posit a sharp drop off in organic human-generated content for various reasons at a certain point in recent history which large corporate interests are hiding with bot farms to make the internet look less like a ghost town than it really is, also for their own various reasons.
@Publius2@OceanRedux@PunishedD >Bot networks are written to amplify either corporate advertising schlock or judeo-libtard political narratives
There's more too it than that because, while I don't have any specific links handy, I've seen web sites full of non-advertising, non-political content which I am certain were not human generated.
The last time I remember this I was researching public campgrounds and hiking trails in Alaska and came across some sites purporting to be blogs written by real people whose prose landed squarely in the uncanny valley.
The multichain work I have done in the past does not involve speaking RPC to a server running somewhere else - it consists of joining the P2P network as a peer and interacting with it natively.
This is easy enough for Bitcoin-derived protocols because they are so well documented, and would presumably be the same for Ethereum although I haven't started on that yet.
But I've had no luck finding the documentation I'd need to attempt this approach for Monero which is a shame.
@caekislove@victor@silverpill@Moon That was always the dirty little secret of all the appcoin-based business models: if anyone ever invented something that was actually useful then it would be immediately forked to remove the coin and keep the underlying features.
No amount of cryptographic snake oil can ever make digital coin clipping a viable strategy in the long term.
@Moon@victor@10grans@caekislove@silverpill To the extent that combining payments with a social network is desirable, it's most useful if it isn't tied to any currency in particular at all and simply lets the participants use whichever ones they want.
Nobody in the crypto scene is going to built that though because it they only work on projects that pump specific coins.