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I'm not sure I understand the issue. I'm betting that the amount of energy used to power online games for Play Station Online is orders of magnitude worse than for bitcoin with arguably less benifit to society. What am I missing?

Oh it most certainly can... it SHOULDN'T but it absolutely can.

This seems to be the argument that Richard Stallman has been making for years.

Great point! This comment provided more incite that the whole of the article.

The forum support is simply awful. At one point the top 3 feature requests (in the pinned feature request forum) were all the ability to bookmark classes. Not a single response in any of the threads in years... nothing... it is just amazing.

If it didn't then you are probably doing one or the other wrong.

It cannot. The Google implementation must effectively be done on a blob as the result would not be usable in a structure specific document. What is more, things that require a block chain (like git) are NOT covered with this current attack as both the source and resulting have to be worked on.

Currently the attack vector only works when you can get both documents to "work towards each other" to produce a valid identical SHA1 value.

Your argument is exceedingly well reasoned. I would love to hear a countervailing opinion to compare it to. Can someone please post a thoughtful reply to PKop main point?

Excellent excellent link! Thanks for posting it. Seriously... thank you.

tl;dr The rough estimates of the number of habitable planets in the universe just went from 20 trillion to 100 trillion based on the fact that it looks like almost all stars have planets.

GPG, of course, allows you to use asymmetric crypto and currently supports RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, and DSA algorithms for that purpose.

But for bulk data encrypting good symmetric (AES, CAST5, etc.) is both more secure and significantly faster.

I am getting concerned about this juvenile concept of peoples emotions being fragile eggs that could be destroyed at any given moment. Why is it the HOSTING services job to decided community guidelines?

I don't know. Escapism before the advent of technology generally meant writing letters, reading books, walking, drinking, and visiting friends. All these activities seem to promote mental health and productive behavior compared to digital media. Digital media generally discourages socializing (or at least not real human interaction), discourages sleep, promotes a lack of physical exercise, et al.

Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not trying to argue; just talking out loud about my perceptions as a Software Engineering, Civ5, and CSGo player.

Every bank that existed before 1960 starting with ancient Greek temple depositories all the way through the first "official" banks of 12th century Venice.

No the article uses ATMs as an example but the general accounting principals apply regardless. Consider paper checks or IOUs. Humanity literally has thousands of years doing eventual financial consistency while ACID compliance has only existed for the last 50 or so.

I'm not saying ACID isn't good (or that NoSQL is a panacea) but we have long had exceedingly successful financial systems without ACID.

Nobody "deserves" or should "expect" a lifestyle. Life is simply a series of choices. If you choose to have a $40,000 car on 100K income, then you choose to take money from your stocks because you choose a lifestyle over substance.

I make more than 100k, and I have never bought a car for more than $14,000... why? Because I choose my family over my lifestyle.

no kidding... $40,000 is a nice'ish car?

My home is 2-3 years of my annual salary. So is most of my co-workers. Yes, that is probably not true for a teachers salary (although my first home was definitely within 4 years of a teachers salary.)

Are you living in the Bay Area? Is that why medium home prices are so high?

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The author points to the fallacy himself in the second paragraph when he mentioned that job growth used to be going towards the suburbs when population growth was moving into them.

People create jobs, not places, not governments, not even money... people. Yes, all these things can help (sometimes dramatically) but ultimately all jobs are the product of the creativity and hard work of people.

But DNS is the keys to the kingdom. After beginning most of what we now call "the internet" hanging on to one last key doesn't seem like to much to ask. Can someone imagine France giving up the right determine if certain wines are Bordeaux? Or the Swedish Academy of Sciences getting final say on who wins the Nobel Peace prize?

I assume your comment was intended to prove his point. Attack the person instead of discuss and debate the issue??!?

What is the difference between Hate Speech and Newspeak? When do we cross over the line from good intentions to thoughtcrime? Is the best way to end racial, religious, or sexual discrimination to hide it or to lambaste those who would propagate it?

I think it would be foolish to NOT assume facebook AND Gawker do this.

Thank god we have this article from the New York Times to tell the rest of the country how we should be organizing ourselves.

The Chrome integration is what is new right? I have been using Google Docs via phone using voice typing for a LONG time now.

In fact, when I wanted to use voice typing at my desk I would just open the phone, open the document on both the phone and Chrome and watch the text appear on screen. Then edit it from the keyboard.

That was the general wisdom back in the late 70's but the reality now is we have found WAY WAY more carbon based fuel sources than we ever thought could be captured. Updated global estimates for oil are somewhere between 50 and 250 years and most estimates (other than those by left leaning not for profits) estimate 100 to 180 years worth of coal.

This is true, but subsidies for for renewable sources is significantly higher on a cost/kw amount (the number consumers care about.) What is more, renewable are not taxed ANYWHERE NEAR the same rate as fossil fuels which in the United States can be crazy high. For example, in California over half the cost of a gallon of gas is State and Federal Taxes.

And then, even with the lower taxes and larger subsidies, many places have to put price controls on the sale price of renewable energy like setting the production price on residential solar to the retail price instead of the wholesale price.

Under this same logic the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) would have lead to the impeachment of the President and most of the Democrats in Congress. It was HUGELY unpopular and has only recently become so-so... 5 YEARS after it was passed.

Neither is teacher salary. You are spot on in your factor rankings and it make me absolutely crazy every time people try to turn student failure into a teacher pay issue.

Nationally speaking money spent per student is at an all-time high ($11,749 according to figures from Figures in the Statistical Abstract of the United States.) Yet we are getting worse and worse results. Private schools, on average, spend significantly less per student ($7,171 according to the same source) but achieve significantly better results.

Some school districts spend almost $25,000 per student which is drastically larger than all but a handful of the most expensive private K-12 schools in the world.

Money is simply not the problem and every single statistical number I have seen shows it.