silence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1年前Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clockswapo.stexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down19
arrow-up1137arrow-down1external-linkClimate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clockswapo.stsilence7@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1年前message-square26fedilink
minus-square🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1年前Well, I did not expect this.
minus-squareChris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·1年前Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1年前They’re the same picture.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21年前It’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds. That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process. Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even. TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.
Well, I did not expect this.
Right? What is wrong with us that a handful of seconds is worth huge sums of made up money?
Capitalism and greed
They’re the same picture.
Even communists can be greedy
It’s mainly about how many transactions can be packed into those seconds.
That number, once upon a time, was less than one: one transaction took more than one second to process.
Now, with modern computational power, that number is millions, hundreds of millions even.
TL;DR: faster computers faster transactions.