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ASIC testing?
A bunch of people who used to mine but stopped noticed the publicity surrounding the halving decided to start up again?
The NSA is trying to mount at 51% attack?
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Good luck with that. Teenagers always have other reasons to revolt, particularly daughters. You've a major shock coming yet. This is a very precarious position for you to take now that an increasing number of parents are adopting peaceful parenting methods and producing evidence to the contrary. In the future when your views of childhood and parents have been so utterly and completely debunked that the truth is impossible to ignore you won't be able to claim, "I didn't know." Remember how radically the generally accepted standards of behavior changed in terms of race relations in the 20th century. Do you want to be that guy who blindly follows tradition by joining the KKK, just before the civil rights movement starts? |
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We won't run out of it any time soon. The earth's crust is estimated to contain over a trillion tons of thorium, where each ton is capable of producing a gigawatt-year of energy when burned in a LFTR. Compare this to the number of tons of coal a 1 GW power plant needs to consume in a year.
In fact, if you collected the ashes from a 1 GW coal power plant produced in the course of a year you'd find 13 tons of thorium.
In other words the usable energy content of coal is 93% nuclear and 7% chemical and right now we're completely ignoring the nuclear energy.
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Thorium is almost three times more abundant than uranium, approximately as common as lead.
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If your 15 year old daughter chooses to repeatedly violate household rules, but no actual laws, what recourse do you have as a parent if they refuse to listen to a voice of wisdom?
It's your problem, not hers and the time to avoid it was 15 years ago. If she doesn't respect to you at age 15 years it's because your so-called wisdom is crap and she's figured it out. If you've built your relationship on using your position of superior power to enforce your rules on to her then of course she's going to ignore them once she starts to get some power of her own. If you ran roughshod over her preferences when she was young instead of treating her with respect and negotiating she's going to run roughshod over your preferences when she gets the chance, just like your example taught her. If you treat your children from the beginning with the deference and respect you want them to treat you with in the future, you won't have to live in fear of what they're going to do when you're no longer able to dominate them. |
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The reward halving came a bit more quickly than it should have if a bunch of hashing power hadn't shown up out of nowhere. Where did it come from?  |
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For instance, I think Dropbox is ideal for backing up P2SH scripts and tx/address comments, but should the user should never backup his entire wallet to Dropbox. And I don't trust users to manually&responsibly set up reliable backups. This won't work for everyone, but for those people who have it installed Freenet is ideal for storing data like this. For that matter you could securely backup the entire wallet in Freenet. |
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Is there a way for any of them to actually prove it technically?
No, it's not possible for a VPN provider to prove they aren't keeping logs, and it's pointless to try. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned the operators are either - they can always be tricked or coerced into keeping the logs and forbidden from telling you about them. If you're using a VPN for privacy reasons always assume they are logging all your traffic and adjust your usage accordingly. Pick one that lets you use bitcoins to pay, and allows you to connect via Tor. |
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Here's an event for a meetup on 1 December. This venue doesn't yet accept bitcoins, but if anyone wants to pay that way we should be able to work out an in person trade to make it happen. The more people who show up, the easier it will be to convince the owner to start accepting them. Details and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinCryptocurrency/Dallas/758562/ |
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If everyone had that kind of attitude (I won't believe it's possible until it is fully commercialized) we would still be riding horses to work. The inability distinguish between magic and science displayed in your comment is why we haven't seen as much technological advancement as we otherwise could have. |
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France is doing a great job producing over 80% of their power with nuclear and they are doing great.
Just goes to show how much damage you can cause mixing good intentions with ignorance. They are doing fine with archaic nuclear technology. Imagine what they could do with a "modern" (developed in the 1970s) reactor design like LFTR. |
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I don't know what it is, but the slashdot crowd seems to get dumber and lazier every day. I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some of the posters involved are hired to shape opinions on certain topics. There's an entire industry devoted to social media astroturfing. |
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I'd really like to get in touch with these fellow RH users who compiled your software, because I've been completely unable to compile the Satoshi client on Fedora. There have been people who *claimed* it "could" be done, but none of them were people who actually DID it. There is one fellow who offered an RPM of the Satoshi client from his repository, but I never could get it to work. So, if you actually know people who could help me get the most recent stable version of the Satoshi client, and the mos recent version of the Armory client installed on Fedora, I'd be ecstatic.
On a side, I'm teaching myself programming right now. I got tired of not knowing how to do shit. Besides, it seems like a good career path. May be a long time though before I can produce anything of value.
If this is your goal you might be better served by Gentoo or Linux From Scratch as opposed to Fedora. |
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Little offtopic guys, but there is something bugging me - since nuclear power plants are producing strontium-90 as one of fission products, wouldnt it be a good idea to use it to produce electricty? According to wikipedia strontium-90 produces around 0.46 kilowatts of heat per kilogram, due to radioactive decay with half life of about 30 years. Wouldnt it be a good idea to turn it into power source? I mean something like Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) or just hot steam production for traditional turbines?
It's hard to accumulate enough of it in a small place to produce usable amounts of energy. Just due to thermodynamics thermal energy is difficult to convert into a usable, concentrated form like electricity unless the temperature of your heat source exceeds 250C, and even that isn't particularly efficient. |
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If you're punishing children at all you're doing it wrong. The entire retaliation-based parenting parenting paradigm should be scrapped as abusive and counterproductive. |
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This is a chart of my naive, semi-random sampling of blockchain info:  |
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