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If everyone stopped mining transactions couldn't go through anymore and the value of bitcoin would drop. If you're heavily invested in bitcoin that's bad. Also miners try to squeeze in their preferred transactions which they can't do when they're not mining. Finally the costs dont drop to zero when you turn the miners off, so the loss from mining might be less than the loss when not mining.

This calculation is a bit naive, you should at least take into account the capabilities and crew training and operation cost. That's before you start thinking about the cost of crew rescue missions. It seems to fly way higher than the poseidon, so I guess it covers more ground as well.

Are 18 dollar virgin negronis a thing? I love these obscure bits of cultural information. Does anyone know of a resource that lists more?

Unfortunately no, experts are typically switched out for every token. The way I understand it the idea was something like having each expert be good at one kind of task, but that's not how it panned out after training.

That's not the case. Most of these wouldn't kill you. Many of those that would kill you would be spotted in time anyways.

And the few that would kill you and would otherwise not be noticed are so rare that the risk of the procedures on the others is considered higher.

No, you still wouldn't, because doctors are neither free nor perfectly rational.

The probability of finding something worth a biopsy is not low, it is high compared to the probability of the patient requiring intervention.

It is not only money, machines and doctors are also a limited resource.

The other bit is that no one follows your protocol, everyone looks at the scans, finds reasons to worry. Then you have the choice between unnecessary biopsies and psychological stress.

I find this wording also "a bit strange".

It is not a mathematical impossibility in any way.

For example they might be able to read the backups, the keys might be somehow (accidentaly or not) leaked...

And then the part about Telegram not having end2end encryption? What's this all about?

thank you for this, I have a follow up question: Now an attacker can not install an old, vulnerable version. But couldn't they just install a new, vulnerable version? Is there something that enforces encryption key deletion in one case and not the other?

I agree, most websites allow complex flows. But I suspect, that most loads don't ever touch those. There is probably an automated way to deliver just a flat page, and maybe even allow for the top 5 interactions without loading all the frameworks and libraries.

Maybe it's time we make a simple web page 100KB again? Is there some kind of CDN minification, adblocking and compression service? Maybe even server side rendering of websites?

Then a smartphone would work fine with 1GB of RAM and everyone could be happy.