Argentina’s white wine revolution - Drinks International - Dining and Cooking

When the New World first began to disrupt the hegemony of Old World wine, among the viticultural reasons it was a clever marketing decision to have a varietal

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Deandre Ayton Spends a Season Proving He’s Deandre Ayton - NBA

As the 2025 NBA Playoffs chug onward and the Portland Trail Blazers await their fate in the NBA Draft Lottery, we’re taking a look at the performance of

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Frank (Peng) Fu ( https://cse.sc.edu/~pfu/ ) is looking for one or two Ph.D. students to join the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina.

Topic : #Quantum #programming languages and quantum computing, with a strong focus on leveraging methods from #type systems, programming language theory, #category theory, and theorem #proving.

Deadline: February 1, 2025.

How to apply: Read https://cse.sc.edu/graduate/admissions and contact Frank at pfu@cse.sc.edu

Frank Fu

NFL coach Kevin Maxen is proving, once and for all, that gay people belong on the gridiron - Queerty

Kevin Maxen became the first male NFL coach to publicly come out as gay this year.

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"Unique power strategy"

"August was a landmark month for Riot in showcasing the benefits of our unique power strategy," Les said. "Riot achieved a new monthly record for Power and Demand Response Credits … which surpassed the total amount of all Credits received in 2022.A #Texas #bitcoin "#mining" outfit MADE MORE MONEY last month from NOT mining bitcoin than it did from actually mining bitcoin, because Texas so desperately needed the power.

If this doesn't show up how utterly batshit insane the fetishism of cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin in particular — is,
what does?

There's been a lot of talk about switching to proof-of-stake and proof-of-storage algorithms, and how they are "better" than proof-of-work. But let's make one common thing about virtually ALL cryptocurrencies abundantly clear (I'm not certain to what extent it applies to the proof-of-stake ones):

ALMOST EVERY #CRYPTOCURRENCY IN EXISTENCE IS BASED UPON #PROVING THAT YOU #WASTED #SOMETHING.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/texas_crypto_mining_outfit_energy/

Texas cryptomining outfit earns more from idling rigs than digging Bitcoin

It's not a broken business model if the subsidies make up for cratering market and flagging demand

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