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I should go to McDonalds and plug in an Antminer. After all, the sign does say “free charging station.”
Replace it with the "changing station" notice in the bathroom and then you're legit.
Finally some one understands my situation
I am not stealing any electricity
If i dont use it ...its going to waste any way
You quoted a good example of restaurant
If you cook 100 meals a day and you have to cook 100 meals a day no less
Since the number of customers may vary..
You have to cook the meals in advance so you have to cook extra meals to satisfy customers
Now at the end of the day 10meals are left either you could throw them in the dustbin or give it to the hotel management
My example may be a little vague
We are producing around 35-40 mega watt per hour
And we need to adjust accordingly to the fluctuations of the machines and have to keep coal/steam of 1mw standby in case of fluctuations
If load increases the xtra steam is consumed and
If it decreases the turbine refuses/rejects extra steam into the air
So thats raw material we have to waste i am actually looking to use that
If anyone thinks i am stealing no iam not
I am just consuming something which is going to go to waste any ways
Until you are told that you are allowed to use it, it still isn't yours. Theft is theft.
I guess that point may be legitimate but it varies country to country as over here
They simply don't give a damn
Edit:
Asking my boss permission
No thanx i dont want to look like a foooool
@noaman Just because there’s a surplus, doesn’t automatically mean that you can have it. Say I have a few extra doughnuts and you take one because there’s extra. I certainly wouldn’t be happy.
In most Western countries this isn't really an argument; if you're using an asset given to you in order to assist you in your job and you divert its usage to something entirely different and/or personal, it's embezzlement. Then again, some workers can enjoy some "benefits": a worker in a candy factory may get some free candies but probably won't be allowed to download the whole candy production in their wallet.
You may suggest this to your boss as a business idea; since you're an energy producer you probably can rely on really low (yet not totally negligible if you're doing it seriously) power costs
Okay let me put it this way
There is no legal matter involved here
Lets assume from now on
He has given permission of lets say 2-5kw
No more than that
Thats abuse of service
Just assuming :-)
But has he? If not, it's still theft.
Say you have few extra donuts they are going to rot
So you will let them rot instead of giving it to a person in need ?
I was looking into etherum
That's the big difference here: @doghouch giving someone else left over food for free is different from someone coming & taking it without asking (which, by the looks of it, is the situation you are in).
And if you are saying you are in need of the electricity to mine a cryptocurrency for some extra income, maybe you should consider looking for another job with a higher salary?
Possibly. Did they ask for one, did I take pity and offer one, or did they swipe it?
One general question
Why is it hard for you people to digest the fact that electricity is available to me at zero cost as an incentive by my employer
You are abusing a service.
No i am not
Abusing would be to open a data center :-p
I guess we should close this thread as i dont see this turning into productive
@wss
Common sense.
So, only stealing a little is OK. Gotcha.
I worked at a supermarket years ago, and even though we had to put the food into trash every night, we werent allowed to eat it ourselves.. why? cause then we wouldnt need to buy food at all and the store would lose money. In ur situation, not only you would eat this throwaway food without permission but also looking to monentize what your company throws away without ur boss's permission.
Thats the issue here.
No offense, but people like you are the reason why here asian countries can't develop. here in sri lanka it's no better than in pakistan. corruption is top to bottom. I am sure your boss may do something behind the scene too.
It really doesn't surprise me that someone in a less developed nation can get electricity for free because he works for the power company.
Corruption is nothing to do with this bro
There is corruption in my country but you are taking this to a whole new.level
Do you have any friends that work in power plants..,...
Ask them if they pay for electricity or not
there's a bit of a difference between standard household free power as a benefit and a mining farm
Employees in power plants in western countries most certainly do not get free power.
Imagine if everyone starts doing something like what you plan to do? then how government provides enough electricity to the country? Nothing is for free, the coals are bought by the government with the tax money of general public, so misusing that resources for your personal gain is not right. If you use power to charge your phone or something like that then it's something, but mining costs a lot of power. I know you can't stop the corruption, but someone has to start from somewhere, and if everyone does their job well, then corruption will automatically go down. I know you may have financial difficulties, I understand it but this is not the way to address it.
What part of "This has been given to you" and "I'm just going to take this because it isn't being used anyhow" seem to be synonyms?
With how coal produces power, it's possible for a circuit to be overloaded if batteries aren't being used and/or it's not being distributed properly. At times this can lead to power being sold for next to nothing..
As for the mining part, to make $200/mo you could do so for right around ~1200 kW/h. Initial cost will depend on GPU's, and you'd be at a price point around $2000-$3000. Pending what you get into specifically, the investment ROI could be ~6-10 months.
Which is irrelevant in this case.
You've never been outside the US? I think you're totally ignoring the cultural context. It's a different world. This could be part of his pay for all you know. It may be figured into the pay indirectly - e.g., "we don't pay as well as some other companies but we don't charge you for your electricity while you work here". It could just be a way of life or a different cultural norm. In the US, if you work in a retail shop, it's very common to get an employee discount. Maybe where he lives it's common to get free power if you work for the power company. You just don't know.
Just seems a bit presumptuous to condemn the guy as a baby-killing thief based on very little information.
I've lived outside of the US for several years. Theft is still theft.
None of this was stated, nor implied.
No. He's just a thief.