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I think this idea first appeared in the United States. I'm sure there's a story about how Ford sold the Model T. Few people could afford to purchase up front, so groups of people j…

Is it necessary to buy books? At my university (in the UK), they have lots of copies of textbooks in the library. And if there's a book they do not have, you can ask them to buy it…

Yes, I did an experiment tracking which coins I had were fake. I found 10 out of 200.

Does the data include power information? At least you could get some sort of bound on the distance it is likely to have travelled.

But what if you are filming from the public street/highway. Surely that should be legal?

Did you invest $500,000 in real dollars, or earn it from mining?

When each shipment nets maybe $30,000,000 for the shipping company and you pay about £20,000 for the crew during that time, you'd need to save a lot of money elsewhere to make this…

From my understanding, a big part of its intended usage is for interfacing from applications in other languages. So you can offload all of the difficult calculations from your C/Ja…

> I don't see any other way around this. Vote with your feet.

Or just contract the work out.

I haven't cited any statistic from blockchain.info, and haven't considered hardware at all. All I have done is employ economic argument, which I think makes sense. It doesn't matte…

A new block gets mined every 10 minutes, each with a 25BTC bounty. That's 600 * 25 * 6 * 24 = $2,160,000 per day. No rational person would spend more in electricity than the reward…

Here's a back of the envelope calculation. In theory (by supply-demand idea), you would make a negligible profit mining bitcoins. Each bitcoin is worth about $600. If our supply-de…

I'm not sure you can call the Euclidean algorithm a "computer algorithm", it having been discovered some 2,000 years before computers existed.

What's the chance of somebody losing their phone and their watch at the same time?

Personally, I'd rather my information be in the hands of the United States rather than my own governments (the United Kingdom -- unfortunately it's with both!) Your own government …

On the other hand, any traffic that needs to cross the Atlantic, via the Apollo cables, takes a detour via GCHQ Bude, which is funded by the NSA ( http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/U…

When communicating with the general public, it's useful to use words they understand.

Those PDFs are normally watermarked with a unique identifier for your account. It's not worth it.

Don't eat processed food.

Here's another experiment. Eat 500 calories of 50% fat, 50% sugar. For example, ice cream. You'll feel much hungrier than both a fat and sugar only diet. It's fat and sugar combine…

While this technical analysis is interesting, I'm not convinced it is a significant reason behind Flappy Bird's success. I don't think any other game has created as much of a buzz.…

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