How does it work with split-brain people? Some studies have even had patients where each hemisphere of their brain had started to form diverging opinions on subjects. What a coincidence it is that the interface's failure cases look exactly like how you would expect a physical brain to fail!
Make a virtual reality to hook it up to. Something resembling a simple videogame with some simple predictable natural laws and plenty of ways for it to get feedback should be good.
If you have a virtual brain, you could write up its senses to a virtual reality that has simple rules it could figure out. A sandbox videogame like Minecraft wouldn't be a terrible starting point.
How does brain damage work with dualism? Or split-brain people? Does the extra-physical phenomenon closely watch the brain and make sure to mirror physical changes to the brain? That's ridiculous. That doesn't answer any questions if you propose there's some extra-physical phenomenon which closely mimics the physical brain and provides no testable hypotheses.
If too many transactions happen within a certain amount of time, then a block will be larger than 1mb. If the 1mb limit is kept, then those transactions would have to wait until the next block. If that block hits the 1mb limit and so on for a while, then you have transactions that never get finalized. Dropping random transactions isn't a great plan. (Technically, miners could prioritize transactions by the voluntary transaction fee the sender includes, but I don't know if that behavior is widely implemented or standardized yet.)
Anyone on the network could just request a port open to themself and forward connections from it to unforwarded ports within the LAN, so the ability to request ports to be open for others doesn't really get an attacker much further.
Will this finally allow non-admin users to install packaged programs into their own user home folders? I hate how there's been no easy way for users to install packaged programs into their own home folders without privileges.
What are those obvious reasons? I don't mind NAT so much when it at least has the decency to let me request port forwards to myself such as with UPnP. (Of course, I don't think any consumer routers are smart enough to forward UPnP requests they get upstream, which is frustrating in some situations.)
It's been a while since you could mine them on your own and come out ahead on electricity versus bitcoin value.
The reason mining does lower returns now is because more people are mining now. I imagine many of them are driven by profits and are smart enough to only mine if they have a machine that mines more bitcoins than what they spend on electricity. Your post reads like the joke "No one goes to that club any more, it's too crowded!".
I tried to use a SIP client for Skype-style usage once. Maybe I just had a terrible one recommended to me, but I did not know it was possible to make a messenger app that confusing. Does anyone really expect average Skype users to convert to that?
... then the sun could have exploded and some trace of that life may have made it to Earth...
A star exploding would probably melt its planets instead of sending pieces of the planet across space. However, there are many meteorites found on Earth that have come from the Moon and Mars, so other events could eject material from a planet.
The process involved in just DNA replication (not counting the transcription and translation processes involved in protein synthesis) in even the simplest prokaryotic cells involves more than 30 specialized proteins that perform the tasks of accurately copying the genetic material. They include DNA polymerases, primases, helicases, topoisomerases, DNA binding proteins, DNA ligases, and editing enzymes. And these are just for simple prokaryotes, not eukaryotes. All these protein mechanisms MUST be present for just this one process in this one simple form of life.
Older forms of life could likely had simpler replication methods. (Related, I think it's theorized that older life didn't even have DNA but only used RNA, which is only a temporary intermediate product in modern life.) There's no reason to assume it had to have all popped into existence at once exactly as complex as it is now.
If you're mining in a place with power expensive enough and hardware inefficient enough that you're losing money, then you're doing it wrong. Plenty of people are able to get it right though.
3) The post you're replying to explained how that wasn't relevant to him. Not everyone who uses bitcoin also mines. It has no effect on him whether or not his computer is efficient enough to mine.
Er, do you even know how bitcoin works? The mining process is essential to verifying the history of transactions. The fact that it's also used to generate bitcoins is just something that's tacked on in order to make it profitable for people to mine.
(Also, after all bitcoins are generated, miners will still get the fees from transactions, so it should hopefully stay profitable.)
The idea that a chaotic system can give rise to complex life is in the not even wrong category. I am not saying that the probabilities are small. I am saying that the probability is exactly zero.
Did you miss Darwin's Theory of Evolution? It's kind of obscure, you might not have heard of it yet. Anyway, it demonstrates one mechanism that simpler life can become more adapted to its environment and become more complex. So the idea that chaotic systems can't give rise to more organized systems already has a big widely-accepted contradiction.
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How does it work with split-brain people? Some studies have even had patients where each hemisphere of their brain had started to form diverging opinions on subjects. What a coincidence it is that the interface's failure cases look exactly like how you would expect a physical brain to fail!
Firefox has the ability to treat all cookies as session cookies. It's a useful feature.
Make a virtual reality to hook it up to. Something resembling a simple videogame with some simple predictable natural laws and plenty of ways for it to get feedback should be good.
If you have a virtual brain, you could write up its senses to a virtual reality that has simple rules it could figure out. A sandbox videogame like Minecraft wouldn't be a terrible starting point.
What would possibly lead you to conclude that number of lines of code would be proportional to the number of synapses?
How does brain damage work with dualism? Or split-brain people? Does the extra-physical phenomenon closely watch the brain and make sure to mirror physical changes to the brain? That's ridiculous. That doesn't answer any questions if you propose there's some extra-physical phenomenon which closely mimics the physical brain and provides no testable hypotheses.
It was already proved that there were an infinite number of primes.
If too many transactions happen within a certain amount of time, then a block will be larger than 1mb. If the 1mb limit is kept, then those transactions would have to wait until the next block. If that block hits the 1mb limit and so on for a while, then you have transactions that never get finalized. Dropping random transactions isn't a great plan. (Technically, miners could prioritize transactions by the voluntary transaction fee the sender includes, but I don't know if that behavior is widely implemented or standardized yet.)
Anyone on the network could just request a port open to themself and forward connections from it to unforwarded ports within the LAN, so the ability to request ports to be open for others doesn't really get an attacker much further.
Will this finally allow non-admin users to install packaged programs into their own user home folders? I hate how there's been no easy way for users to install packaged programs into their own home folders without privileges.
What are those obvious reasons? I don't mind NAT so much when it at least has the decency to let me request port forwards to myself such as with UPnP. (Of course, I don't think any consumer routers are smart enough to forward UPnP requests they get upstream, which is frustrating in some situations.)
I think a better analogy would be someone falling for a scam. Is it the victim's fault the 4th time they've sent $10,000 to a Nigerian prince?
It's been a while since you could mine them on your own and come out ahead on electricity versus bitcoin value.
The reason mining does lower returns now is because more people are mining now. I imagine many of them are driven by profits and are smart enough to only mine if they have a machine that mines more bitcoins than what they spend on electricity. Your post reads like the joke "No one goes to that club any more, it's too crowded!".
I tried to use a SIP client for Skype-style usage once. Maybe I just had a terrible one recommended to me, but I did not know it was possible to make a messenger app that confusing. Does anyone really expect average Skype users to convert to that?
Wasn't he one of the inventors or early players in deniable encryption, like what can TrueCrypt use?
if you could find a couple of thousand people willing to ... NEVER see their family or friends ever again
Sounds easy for the ones whose family and friends are on the ship too.
It didn't exactly take generation ships, but people did overcome that and colonize remote lands in the past.
... then the sun could have exploded and some trace of that life may have made it to Earth ...
A star exploding would probably melt its planets instead of sending pieces of the planet across space. However, there are many meteorites found on Earth that have come from the Moon and Mars, so other events could eject material from a planet.
The process involved in just DNA replication (not counting the transcription and translation processes involved in protein synthesis) in even the simplest prokaryotic cells involves more than 30 specialized proteins that perform the tasks of accurately copying the genetic material. They include DNA polymerases, primases, helicases, topoisomerases, DNA binding proteins, DNA ligases, and editing enzymes. And these are just for simple prokaryotes, not eukaryotes. All these protein mechanisms MUST be present for just this one process in this one simple form of life.
Older forms of life could likely had simpler replication methods. (Related, I think it's theorized that older life didn't even have DNA but only used RNA, which is only a temporary intermediate product in modern life.) There's no reason to assume it had to have all popped into existence at once exactly as complex as it is now.
However, if Bitcoin became more widespread, the demand and price would go up, causing it to be cost effective for more people to mine.
If you're mining in a place with power expensive enough and hardware inefficient enough that you're losing money, then you're doing it wrong. Plenty of people are able to get it right though.
This would pay the people running the network directly, not some other guys (the miners).
The miners are the ones that run the network.
3) The post you're replying to explained how that wasn't relevant to him. Not everyone who uses bitcoin also mines. It has no effect on him whether or not his computer is efficient enough to mine.
It will not even pay for itself in extraction/mining, ever.
As someone who has gotten money from mining, your post reeks of someone putting his fingers in his ears and yelling.
Er, do you even know how bitcoin works? The mining process is essential to verifying the history of transactions. The fact that it's also used to generate bitcoins is just something that's tacked on in order to make it profitable for people to mine.
(Also, after all bitcoins are generated, miners will still get the fees from transactions, so it should hopefully stay profitable.)
The idea that a chaotic system can give rise to complex life is in the not even wrong category. I am not saying that the probabilities are small. I am saying that the probability is exactly zero.
Did you miss Darwin's Theory of Evolution? It's kind of obscure, you might not have heard of it yet. Anyway, it demonstrates one mechanism that simpler life can become more adapted to its environment and become more complex. So the idea that chaotic systems can't give rise to more organized systems already has a big widely-accepted contradiction.