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There is no chance in the world that you are even going to mine even a single block with this set up in a thousand years.

As a matter of fact even with a GPU rack it will take a hundred years or so given what you are up against by now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXerV3f5jN8

Are you aware of the political and societal implications and surroundings of f.x. the cases around Jimmy Savile or Marc Dutroux?

Maybe you should watch some documentaries about that to realize that this is by the same token part of any "culture".

The assumption that only pedophiles rape very young children is wrong - there is a "phenomenon" of substituting preferrred sex partners with what is available.

That's why there is a rape problem in prisons which is certainly not caused by gays ...

On HN regularly posters demand the US not to impose their values upon other "cultures".

Then again - I don't believe this is part of Afgan culture at all anyway. I think that happens when survival bias due to war and destruction over a long period of time leads to very fucked up people climbing to the top of a society.

At the end of the day - or maybe rather at its start - the US is partly responsible for Afghanistan being trapped in a downward spiral.

Have a look at this (randomly chosen gallery) about Afghanistan in its 60s - I don't think that culture would be very fond of rapists.

http://www.upworthy.com/afghanistan-in-the-1960s-prepare-to-...

why the downvote?

both the guy and the gf are black - interestingly this is not mentioned in the text.

What the article does not mention is that the guy and his gf are black ...

[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223533/North-Caroli...]

Now one might righfully argue that this case is not just ludicrous but also racist.

the overfishing problem you mention is also addressed in "Cowspiracy" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/) which I highly recommend. Since few days available on Netflix Germany.

yes

No need to leave Google for that purpose - just use Google from incognito mode in Firefox.

Funny coincidence that according to that chart we are right now at an all time high.

> the decent thing to do is mention that you are the developer behind said website

or just use a fake account ... like anybody else :D

Bruce Schneier's PasswordSafe (according to this paper the safest of all those considered):

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Available for:

- Windows

- Linux

- Android

There are so many premises wrong here - it hurts:

1. The majority of people in fact doesn't care about being tracked - "hackers" (and also myself) do care though - but that's a minority.

2. Most people like good advertisement.

3. It's wrong to just naturally assume that ads have to be annoying. A discreet, not-moving, not-animated ad is not bothering anybody.

4. Just as most people aren't willing to pay for content they aren't willing to pay for the maintenance of ad blockers - which is why the devs of those ABs will (and as a matter of fact) already offer whitelisting for money. [http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...]

5. More and more web-sites will simply deny access to their content if ad blocking is detected.

6. The HN people's perspective on ads is in each and every way not that of the majority of people potentially clicking ads. We are not the driving force.

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The equilibrium will be Ad Blockers that white list benevolent and discreet ads - advertisement as an income source will become less attractive but it won't go away.

Also Ad Blocking depends on detectable code or ad servers. If the ad dissemination technology shifts accordingly then Ad Blockers simply won't be able to detect ads any longer.

The decision is of course that you would comply ... but that's at the end of the day b/c police fails to protect their citizens in Mexico ... even worse, they directly cooperate with the cartels to an extent that they become hardly distinguishable. Think about the dozens of students mass murdered few months ago.

> but Mexico has come a long way in the last 25 or 30 years.

Do you really think Mexico made progress during the past decades just b/c they have malls and fast internet? I guess any untouched indian tribe in the Brazilian rain forest offers more original culture than what developed in Mexico during the past twenty years.

It takes two to dance Tango ...

The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.

Judging from what you read and hear about Mexico it seems to be trapped in a downward spiral degenerating every aspect about its society and government. It's absolutely disgusting and revealing to watch documentaries like "Narco Cultura" and about their eating disorders [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/america-fattest-obese-un-14...].

You want to grab that country by the shoulders and shake it to its senses. But then again you (or whatever is left of your body) don't want to end up hanging upside down from a bridge somewhere ...

> Express now collect 1% to 3% of domestic credit and debit transactions, generating more than $70 billion a year in fees in the U.S. market alone. “That’s a tax on all payments,” says Wedbush analyst Luria. With Bitcoin that goes practically to zero.

There are and will be also tx fees for Bitcoin.

> Here’s how primitive the infrastructure is now: The Bitcoin blockchain can currently handle 7 transactions a second

That's not an infrastracture issue but an intentional limitation by design.

[http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/855/what-keeps-th...]

Are you worried about bears?

good point - but experiencing goes beyond visual perception which is what constraining yourself to the perspective of your cam narrows it down to.

how?

What tool do you use for visualizing table relationships (foreign key constraints f.x.) in PostgreSQL?

Then you should reevaluate your eating options.

There is more than cooked or take-away or Soylent.

How about this:

- Whole-wheat bread

- Avocado

- Smoked fish

- a piece of feta

- an apple

- a banana

Just one of many cold-dish very healthy meals. A good mix of everything - carbon hydrates, proteins, fats, ruffage, vitamins, minerals - enjoy.

My favorite argument for food being more than just a percentual composition of nutrients is the fact that your gut is effectively able to smell.

> Olfactory receptor responding to gut microbiota-derived signals plays a role in renin secretion and blood pressure regulation

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600440/]

Beyond my scepticism regarding the long-term benefit of a simplification of eating down to relying to a single designed food source - I am also worried about the mindset of a person who is motivated in doing so.

Absolutely ... the same principle can be extrapolated to self-confidence, education, patience, ...

- self-confidence to not buy an expensive Apple smartphone like your peers but a reasonable priced one from Huawai

- education to efficiently think about a products features

- patience to not buy as soon as possible but take time to observe prices and wait for meaningful reviews on amazon

At the end of the day it all comes down to your personal biography, upbringing etc.

In some African countries drinking water is more expensive than Coca Cola ...

(f.x. http://daniaspillett.theworldrace.org/?filename=where-coke-i...)

In my (anecdotal) experience the relation between price an quality is not just not proportional - it seems to be completely spurious after a certain minimum-price is reached.

You can get very high quality and long lasting stuff for reasonable prices. People who are poor though tend to not investigate products or reflect on decisions they make in that area. This leads to buying overpriced and unnecessary gadgets - often of very low-quality.

The shoe-analogy doesn't really work in my opinion nowadays that manufacturing is industrialized and automated.