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See my response below. As if blockchain could only be done that way. Which is not true. That's Blockchain alpha, which is bitcoin and etherum. I see many articles like this that portray a very incomplete picture of blockchain and are usually very biased our misinformed.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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David O'Neil wrote: 906 kilowatt-hours, [...] enough to power a two-person household for about three months.
That is assuming you are either living in a rather warm climate, or you do not use electricity neither for hot water nor room heating.
The average Norwegian household uses 16 000 kilowatt-hours a year, 1333 kWh per month on the average. Heat pumps are used everywhere, we switched to LED based light years ago. (Before the heat pump / LED takeover, the average poser consumption was 20 000 kWh/year.)
906 kWh / 3 months is 10 kWh a day. I spend that much even midsummer, on cooler/freezer, hot water, cooking, washing machine, dishwasher and various other electric equipment and tools, and of course a little light for basement/attic or at late night.
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My understanding was that there is a building built with BTC Miners at it's core to generate heat for the building in a cold climate.
Talk about re-use. Proof of work, for "creating" BTC was an important part of the thesis. Eventually all BTC will be created. Then the only money available will be fees for recording transactions. This will be the opportunity to reduce the energy consumed, but the challenge is keeping the miners to keep the network secure.
You saw the drop in BTC, etc over the last few days. I joked that ETH didn't drop as much, because the WHALES (big players/sellers), could not afford the ETH fees! (ETH is so expensive as a network, that it's success is literally killing itself. I am already on 2 other ETH forks to reduce those fees).
Bugs have a WHOLE different meaning when the software is protecting a TRILLION DOLLARS of other peoples money!
The free market is already responding. But blockchain will survive. Square (now block), and PayPal, and many banks are YEARS into their development efforts.
It's the internet era, all over again!
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Thank You An enlightening article Maybe selling the ugly gorilla NFTs mentioned in today's news letter will pay the electric bill By the way here is a suggestion as to how to possibly pay all your electric bills for a very long time Write some AI code which generates thousands of NFTs of ugly gorillas
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As you say, the rest of the article seems well-written, but that figure of 906 kWh per transaction must be nonsense: the figure is not substantiated, and is probably referring to the cost of mining a block of transactions (~3,000 as of 2019).
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Background
My son's fiancee is looking for a job and submitted a cover letter & resume to BigCo.
BigCo responded with:
Please contact 5 references (at least 3 of them must be managers) and have them take this survey about your work.
Survey has numerous detailed questions.
Her best references are the current place she works but of course she can't use those without letting the cat out of the bag.
My Background
I've worked at current place 13 years. (I've worked in IT 30 years.)
If I had to provide 3 manager references they would be from companies where the people wouldn't even remember me.
Additionally
Managers tend to be stooges & the reason I have left companies, soo.... 
The Poll
Would you be able to provide 3 Managers from your past that you could be confident would give you good responses?
The Point
I think the request by BigCo. is ridiculous & I'm wondering if it seems _normal_ to others.
Thanks
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No. Most previous employers will do nothing more than confirm employment dates.
No previous employer/manager would take such a survey.
Clearly BigCo wants a "reason" to reject her without seeming to be misogynists.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Most previous employers will do nothing more than confirm employment dates.
No previous employer/manager would take such a survey.
That's exactly what I thought & said.
We're in US but I thought it (providing survey-level data) wasn't allowed even here.
Thanks so much for your reply.
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Would probably violate HR regulations at the former employer.
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It's legally allowed in the U.S., but leaves a company open to lawsuit. So it is never allowed by company HR policy.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Check out the disclaimer text that she has to include with any reference she contacts.
This whole process is garbage.
snapshot from the sample she was given...
https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmUvd.png[^]
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raddevus wrote: Would you be able to provide 3 Managers from your past that you could be confident would give you good responses?
No, I would not remember them or have any way to contact them. Even if I did, I would not. People change all the time - for good or for bad. So past impressions could be invalid.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: o, I would not remember them or have any way to contact them. Even if I did, I would not. People change all the time - for good or for bad. So past impressions could be invalid.
I feel the same way about it.
Thanks very much for chiming in. The hiring process is so broken. It's amazing people even get hired.
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I've been at the same place for 29+ years, 1 manager, alas I am not qualified. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Are you talking about your job or your marriage? 
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Damn near both, 21 years married. Hmm, well that's 2 managers, I'm getting closer to the required 3. Wait, my mother-in-law is living with us now, that indeed makes three! Woohoo, BigCo. here I come! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You could not possibly be more correct!
ed
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That beats me by 7 years! I started here part-time while in my third and final go a getting a degree. The project I was hired in for back in '98 is thriving and still evolving. It's been a good ride! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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kmoorevs wrote: thriving and still evolving. It's been a good ride!
Exactly, on any given day I might write in C, C++, Assembler (8, 16, & 32 bit), and some C#. Doing PC based stuff and embedded stuff. I've maintained some code for at least 25 years. It keeps you on your toes.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm hard to forget, some will probably not be able to even with constant therapy. Actually, it's only my last boss who could need some therapy, which also is why I left there. The others already gave me something like that when I left and they are quite good. That will have to suffice. Running back with anybody's survey ia a joke.
I wonder if that's a sneaky trap. Anyone who can contact 5 former bosses changes his employment more often than some people their underwear. And that's not a good thing at all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Thanks for your input. I agree. 
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Do the managers have to be her "direct report" managers or could they be managers of other groups that she may have interfaced with? Maybe managers of customers, vendors, etc...?
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Good question. Based on the survey they are people who do know what she did day-to-day and what she was like in her role. But she has only had 4 jobs in her life anyways (since she is still young) so that makes it difficult also.
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