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Why not also start enforcing littering fines? A $270-$500 ticket should be help to incentivize a behavior change.

It's not really clear to me how PoS is providing any security in Decred above that provided by the PoW. If a single entity is able to get 51% of the hashrate why can't they effecti…

Something like bitcoin may actually result in lower overall energy costs by providing a guaranteed base level of income for new power generation. Building a new plant is much less …

The problem with the current FAA rules is that even commercial pilots are banned from taking part in a service like this. In fact, even pilots with the highest possible certificati…

Suppose that instead the shock was intense enough to kill half the chimps and wasn't turned off. Now the chimp that "gets out there and grabs it" causes many deaths. The real moral…

Planes need extra power for takeoff and emergency scenarios like a twin on a single engine. It's possible that these requirements lead to engines which have a optimal power output …

From my understanding, that code is just a verification that the password you entered to decrypt your wallet was correct. It works by testing one of the addresses in the wallet (ve…

1. I haven't, I'll have to give it a try. 2. I use KiTTY, a PuTTY port with a few extra features. It's not amazing but is decent after some configuration.

I used to code with a macbook pro for about a year and recently switched to the asus zenbook ux301. I definitely prefer it over the macbook. I was very disappointed with the multi-…

This article seems overly optimistic. SEOs can now add spam links to competitor sites to negatively affect their pagerank.

Check out section 6.1. It briefly describes how the selfish pool can use a Sybil attack to selectively forward blocks, greatly increasing the probability of winning the 'first wins…