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* New (?) Climate Models Predict a Transformed United States by 2070.
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We learned that we don't need the threat of violence to establish a currency.
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Try forcing 100% of online traffic through an airport security checkpoint.
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Just link it to climate change and you can get free money to solve it now.
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Looks like Cloudflare beat us to it.
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What's to stop them from using fake IDs
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How does having a personal ID tied to browsing activity help with spam? Are spammers not real people with IDs?
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> Using school as a sorting mechanism, we appear to be on the way to creating a caste system, complete with untouchables who wander through subway trains begging and sleep on the streets. Wow, he nailed that one, didn't he? > But
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Is there a special cheat code to unlock them?
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I think in 2022 we can expect the most profitable Internet company to return a count of search results more accurate than 4 orders of magnitude off.
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The smartphone has become the nexus of addiction for the average consumer. It delivers porn, social media, and now gambling at great cost to us all. I wonder what it would take for humanity to break free of these chains.
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> While the company told us that Googlers who support Israel’s violence “can’t be regulated,” workers who support Palestinian freedom were still recieving official warnings from HR.
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Very nice summary here and I agree 100%.
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I want to thank everyone who engaged with me instead of downvoting me. Okay, I think I see now where I was separately wrong and partially wrong in the previous comments. When I said there's a huge monetary upside to a 51% attack, that&
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As I've explained in nearly every comment, one is mined by 100% hashpower, the other is mined by 51% hashpower. The 49% are still using the other blocks, too.
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So, now that I've obliterated the 51% attack idea, shall we move on to 66% attack? It doesn't matter if it's a 90% attack. The minority miners are constantly receiving and using the majority's blocks. So it is not 66% vs
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Adding the double-spend concept into it makes it even more silly. If you are changing the validation rules of Bitcoin to allow double-spend, then your block is rejected by the entire network and you must fork, even if you had 99% of the has
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The 51% can ignore the 49%'s blocks, but there is no way the 51% can force the 49% to ignore THEIR blocks. The only way 51% of miners can fork the blockchain and actually overtake the other 49% with more restrictive rules is if they ha
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If 51% of miners decide to totally ignore the other 49% then their chain will most definitely not be the longest chain for any more than 30 minutes. Because the 49% are still using 100% of miners' work. The only way they can maintain t
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51% < 100% The other 49% are still incorporating the 51%'s blocks in their work. There is no way 51% of miners can stay ahead of the combined hashpower of the entire Bitcoin mining population.
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That assumes the other 49% won't accept the bad guys' blocks in their chain. Those blocks are valid, so the 49% will accept them and build off of them. At any point there is still a 49% chance the next block will be mined by a goo
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This 51% attack thing is such a canard. If 51% of Bitcoin miners are malicious, the most harm they can do is fail to include your valid transaction in their blocks. So, your transaction will be confirmed in the next block mined by one of th
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Well, the FBI isn't helping its own case by doing things like this.
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Birds of a feather flock together.
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It already has. The ultimate expression of this dopamine mill is on-demand porn, and that's already run its course addicting practically the entire population and giving them sexual dysfunction. Social media is like "porn lite.&qu
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Is it the young generation pushing ESG? ESG seems to me like the vanguard of socialism in today's era. And the blame for that rests on the Finks, the O'Learies, and the Buffetts of the world. Not the young people who don't kn
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I don't see how naming a manufacturer would do anything but make me look more biased. Like I said, I don't work in the field, so it would be pointless for me to try and construct an argument beyond the obvious points that Turkey h
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It's good that they're coming out and saying this, but let's see if their words have teeth. Big Tech are paying the best and brightest not to work at other companies or start their own.
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Perhaps, or maybe the world is transforming.
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> Start googling or have fun poking at the Rails console against a running copy of the code until you figure it out) can be a pain Funny, none of those things sound bad to me, but just like part of the job :D Could be Stockholm Syndrome?

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