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John McAfee has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder.

Jonny Nox posted:

Man, that dude with the sign has an immaculately punchable face.

I'm glad France dissapeared him.

divabot posted:

divabot posted:

https://twitter.com/Tr0llyTr0llFace/status/1422616630140485634

quote:

When residents of an affluent estate community in Alberta started hearing noise from a nearby power plant, they didn't expect their complaints of sleepless nights would lead to a months-long investigation that would find the company had set up operations without approval.

Now, Link Global, the company behind the bitcoin mining operation, is being ordered by the province's utility commission to shut down two plants until it can prove it's allowed to operate — a move the company says will cost jobs and cause oil and gas infrastructure to sit dormant.

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"We have a hot tub in the back. We'd go sit and go, hey, what is that airplane landing in our field?" Haas said.

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Link Global, based in Vancouver, had set up four 1.25 MW gas generators at the site, pulling power from a dormant natural gas well owned by Calgary-based company MAGA Energy.

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There was just one problem. The company hadn't notified neighbours of its plans. Or the county. Or the provincial utilities commission — which allows power plants to be set up without approval if they meet several conditions, including only generating power for the company's own use and proving the plant has no adverse effects on people or the environment.

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AUC enforcement investigators wrote that Link Global initially claimed it had an "extensive history" of consultation with the AUC, Sturgeon County and neighbouring residents — but that the company provided no evidence to back that up. A month later, in June, the company finally acknowledged it didn't notify or consult local stakeholders, as it said it was "unaware of the statutory and regulatory requirements."

Link Global had told the AUC in a January letter that it had done a noise impact assessment that found no change between the plant being turned on and off.

But it didn't provide a copy of that noise assessment — instead, it just gave a link to a non-functioning online folder followed by the note "(SORRY LINK IS NOT WORKING)." It also provided a sheet stating the company meets U.S. emission standards but initially provided no evidence as to whether it met Alberta standards.

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The company temporarily shut down operations following the AUC order and began operating only during daytime hours (it took a few days to wind things down, another item of contention in AUC enforcement filings). Link Global also implemented noise abatement measures such as a wall of straw bales and exhaust baffles.

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But Jenkins, who has a background in forestry and international clean energy development, argues the operation can provide an environmental benefit.

"You're using underutilized or unused power, or even retooling and retasking existing infrastructure. We wouldn't go in and put a new well in," he said.

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On Friday, the AUC ruled that both the Sturgeon County and Kirkwall plants were in contravention of the rules.

They have to shut down operations immediately and can only resume once Link Global has proven that it's either obtained permission under the province's environmental protection act or confirmation that permission is not required.

The company will also have to pay penalties — a $50,000 to $75,000 fine, reduced by up to 50 per cent because Link Global admitted to breaking the rules.

"The commission does not take lightly that Link Global began operating multiple power plants in a jurisdiction with which it had no familiarity, and failed to conduct a basic level of due diligence to understand the regulatory regime in which it was operating," the commission ruled.

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More penalties could be on the way. The commission will now review whether specific sanctions should be imposed against Link Global for operating without approval — a decision on that is expected this fall.

Shame Boy posted:

i really hope they chose that name before like, 2015

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MAGA Energy Ltd. (Make Alberta Great Again) is a private oil & gas production company based in Calgary, Alberta, with 20 employees. Current total production is approximately 1800 BOE/day, equally weighted between oil, gas, and natural gas liquids. The total well count of MAGA is approximately 250 with 95 producing wells. MAGA’s land position consists of 100 sections (64,000 acres), the majority of which carry a 100% working interest.

Chalks posted:

what's the point of assigning people random positions in a queue? isn't that just giving the thing to people at random without having a queue?

Shageletic posted:

Seeing the pod’s nascent form, I felt a boringly pragmatic urge to ask Romundt what happened if, once afloat, you needed to buy a pint of milk. My question seemed to miss the point, too wedded to old-fashioned notions of locality and human connection. The Pods had been designed to have a hatch in the roof, Romundt said. He was talking to some drone creators and imagined people flying to their pods independently, landing on the roof and entering through the hatch. Perhaps that’s how you’d get your milk.

Shame Boy posted:

on some of the designs they show a door at some position in the "stem" thing so presumably you could drive a boat up to that, when the tide is at the right level (they're fixed to the bottom remember!) and the ocean is perfectly calm and flat like in that picture

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Cryptocurrency litecoin gave up a 20% gain and tumbled back to earth following a fake press release sent out by GlobeNewswire that referenced a partnership with Walmart.

Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove confirmed the press release is not authentic. He also said the retailer has been in touch with the newswire company to investigate how the false press release got posted.

super fart shooter posted:

I have to admit when the nft thing first came along, i was a little baffled and felt like i was losing the plot... but now that they've quickly evolved into a less obfuscated form that is plainly just a cryptocurrency, but "coin" is replaced with "lion" or "ape", it now makes perfect sense to me

Chalks posted:

nice bloomberg article about tether being a giant fraud:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-mystery-where-s-the-69-billion-backing-the-stablecoin-tether

doubt it'll change anything but seeing big news outlets doing first hand research into this stuff is reassuring

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It was hard to believe that people had sent $69 billion in real U.S. dollars to a company that seemed to be practically quilted out of red flags.
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Now Pierce wears loud hats, vests, and bracelets, like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, and speaks in riddles, like Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Then 50, Devasini was almost elderly by cryptobro standards.
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Its founder, John Betts, whom I met in Manhattan, puffed on a vape pen as he explained that Tether was a legitimate business

Main Paineframe posted:

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1445815492623601665

fisting by many posted:

i think this was even a thread title before but this quote popped up again

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1446557189338898435

Mercury_Storm posted:

that sounds an awful lot like a ponzi scheme to me

KnifeWrench posted:

the words "lend" and "mint" don't feel like they should be interchangeable, but they're being used that way in that passage?

Shame Boy posted:

so uh, what stops me from just submitting a series of numbers to this network and saying "yeah these are my eyeball numbers i'm a person give me money"? is the answer "nothing"? because i think the answer is "nothing"

KnifeWrench posted:

lmfao I thought this was a humorous paraphrase but it's a direct quote

Shame Boy posted:

so yes, this is all privately controlled and the only way to access the network is via the Orb, fantastic

FAUXTON posted:

starboard citizen

Pigbuster posted:

https://twitter.com/calvinbecerra/status/1454328591202721796
https://twitter.com/calvinbecerra/status/1454962642339074048

FAUXTON posted:

safu means stolen and gently caress you

Qwertycoatl posted:

remember that dao from last week that was going to buy the consititution, and failed? have a followup

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8av/constitutiondao-aftermath-everyone-very-mad-confused-losing-lots-of-money-fighting-crying-etc

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ConstitutionDAO accepted only ether, the token on Ethereum. For someone to convert USD to $PEOPLE tokens, the process had several steps. First, we had to buy Ethereum on an exchange (we used Coinbase). We bought $200 worth of Ethereum. Coinbase took a $3 fee. Then, we had to send the Ethereum from Coinbase to a MetaMask crypto wallet. To do this, we had to pay a $12 network fee. Then, we had to send the Ethereum from MetaMask to Juicebox. So-called "gas" fees vary wildly and depend on how busy the Ethereum network is at any given moment and the complexity of the transaction. Right now, gas fees on Ethereum are very high, and a highly complex operation could end up costing hundreds of dollars in fees. In our case, we paid a $75 gas fee to contribute roughly $75 to the project. Of the initial $200 we bought in ETH, $90 was eaten up in fees simply to donate to ConstitutionDAO.

Hammerite posted:

I can't make the numbers add up. They started out with $200. They paid $3 to Coinbase, leaving them with $197. Then they paid a $12 "network fee", leaving them with $185. Then they paid a $75 "gas fee", leaving them with $110. But it says that only $75 ended up at the destination? Where did $35 go

Boxturret posted:

has there ever been a successful dao or have they all been dead on arrival?

Xarn posted:

What loving bars does this person visit?

chestnut santabag posted:

Bart Sells His Soul

ultrafilter posted:

https://twitter.com/FinancialJuice/status/1466057650349748227

Commence wailing, gnashing of teeth, etc., etc.

Boxturret posted:

if they fork the ether blockchain doesn't that mean that nfts get duplicated too?

The_Franz posted:

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1466484675766071414?t=KHQSpWM4ZZFSvheRGPXWGA&s=19
bitcoin will be too big to fail by the end of next year

Eeyo posted:

it’s weird to me the guy is an objectivist. like would ayn rand approve of just giving away the “work” of contributing to wikipedia for free?

Shageletic posted:

Looked up the twitter handle of the person giving this guy his info about influencers and NFTs, and they're doing a great job showing the life cycle of some of these projects

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1410356555124518920