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You'll understand when you're older.

An interesting article about the US army's fight against malaria in the pacific theater during WW II:

https://armyhistory.org/the-other-foe-the-u-s-armys-fight-ag...

TL;DR: By spraying DDT everywhere, and coercing troops to take Atabrine (that often had nasty side effects), they reduced malaria incidence by about 70%. The Japanese, by contrast had little protection - nearly all Japanese soldiers had malaria at some time.

An interesting discussion of that here: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...

Nice try, IBM!

I wonder if tin foil can block this :p

I love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE

In Newport, Washington, electricity is so inexpensive ($0.05/kWh) that almost everyone uses electric baseboard heat - and it gets very cold (10 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter. Those baseboard heaters could be swapped out with bitcoin miners with NO change in power consumption, and there are plenty of other places around the world with similar conditions.

A couple of suggestions for improvements: 1) Use quaternions instead of Euler angles for rotation 2) Show latitude and longitude grid so it's easier to identify equator and polar regions, etc...

For wartime use. Military convoys might need to go off-road or around road damage.

They could do brake and other inspections there too.

RTFA

"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to European Union figures."

That's an incredibly large amount of pesticides - over two pounds of active ingredient per French citizen per year.

Interesting that three of the top five destination states (Texas, Nevada and Washington) have no state income tax.

http://gafw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/UGA4799073-clear-...

That was interesting, but I think their conclusion about the linux kernel being comparatively top-heavy with relatively few "work horses" was probably greatly influenced by the fact that they only analyzed the linux kernel, not linux kernel + device drivers. IMO, device drivers should be considered part of the OS - really, the work horses of the OS, not called by any other code.

Interesting subject matter and story, but terrible writing. I'm having difficulty believing that it was really written by an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillen_Wood

Tezos - Participate in the governance of your cryptocurrency. Read the source code of any smart-contract on the blockchain.

As I understand it, the source code of tezos itself is stored on its own blockchain. Any modifications to the source are proposed by and voted on by owners of the tezos currency (weighted by how much they own). Also, unlike Ethereum, smart contracts are stored as source code on the blockchain, rather than as compiled bytecode.

LOL, that's an interesting new metric for financial transactions - I like it! I sure hope Vitalik et. al. can pull off Casper as advertised.

No. XT and Classic were code forks, not blockchain forks. If certain runtime conditions had been met, they would have become blockchain forks, but those conditions were never met.

You're (understandably) confusing a code fork with a chain fork:

Code fork: taking the source code from one project, modifying it, then offering the result as a new project. This is what the overwhelming majority of altcoins are. For example Litecoin is a five-year-old code fork of Bitcoin. Even though Litecoin's code is nearly identical to Bitcoin's, Litecoin from the beginning created its own blockchain, which shares no data with Bitcoin's blockchain.

Chain fork: taking the blockchain from one project, and adding new blocks to that chain that are not compatible with the chain's original style. Variations of this are soft forks (the block-adding rules are made more strict), and hard forks (the block-adding rules are made less strict). Both this week's BTC-BCH fork and last year's ETH-ETC fork were hard forks.

Complications: obviously, a chain fork requires changes to the relevant code to be able to work, so a chain fork usually comes with a code fork, but not necessarily. For example, theoretically, a completely new code base could be created from scratch in a clean-room kind of environment to add new kinds of blocks to an old blockchain.

Less than 12 hours.

I'd like to see this too.

This brings up two problems based on the fact that very few people take the time to pay for and use a tumbling service unless they are trying to launder money:

1) Governments know that criminals use tumbling services, so there is a non-trivial chance that tumbling services are actually honeypots run by LEO's. If you think LEO's are not smart enough to think of this, consider freeway DUI checkpoints: a huge flashing sign across a freeway announces "Warning: DUI Checkpoint Ahead - Prepare to Stop." If you stay on the freeway, you'll notice that you never see any DUI checkpoint. The checkpoint was actually at the end of the first exit ramp after the sign - placed there to catch the fearful drunks that take the first exit after seeing the sign. (Frankly, I'm suspicious of publicly-available VPN's like StrongVPN for the same reason.)

2) Once your coins are tumbled with the coins of other criminals, the coins you withdraw from the service are associated not only with your own crimes, but also with the crimes of all the other criminals using the service at the same time.

Please stop linking to pay walled articles.

Weird. I distinctly remember at the time that it was reported as a car crash, but everything I can google now agrees with you. Ok, he died from malaria. I also loved his comedy movie "Contact High" (2009). Basically a European stoner movie that IMHO is much better than any of the Cheech and Chong movies!

Michael Glawogger, an Austrian documentary director, who died tragically in a car crash in 2014, made a 2005 documentary partly about Pashtun workers in Pakistan who dismantle ships. The part about the ship-breaking workers starts at about 1:21:10 and lasts about 25 minutes. It's really fascinating - I highly recommend it. The documentary is called "Workingman's Death". Actually, the whole documentary is really good: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478331/

Spelling error: MOSFET is misspelled as MOFET the first time.

Dude, go back and finish your degree.

That's why the market cap of bitcoin is 1/1000 the market cap of gold - to compensate for that risk.

"I cannot think of a single serious-minded peer who takes BTC seriously"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman