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		notarobot123 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doom has been ported to an earbud It's intuitive to think of wasted compute capacity as correlating with a waste of material resources. Is this really the case though?

mathgeek 32 days ago [–]

Waste is subjective or, at best, hard to define. It's the classic "get rid of all the humans and nothing would be wasted" aphorism.

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