It is plausible that an attack could be made by renting cpus for a couple hours for a few million bucks
It isn't plausible. Bitcoin mining leaders do it by dedicated hardware. Assuming your plan is renting general purpose GPUs on a computing cluster
Maximum Bitcoin Total Bitcoin Hashrate is 43EH/s https://blockchain.info/es/cha... (E stands for Exa = 10^18)
For a 51% attack, starting from 0, you'd need to add another 43EH/s to the pool.
The Nvidia Tesla S2070 has a hash rate of 749.23
You'd need to rent 57 Gigas of GPUs plus all the infrastructure to manage that. For context the third largest supercomputer has 18K of GPUs https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't know if that amount of GPUs exists in the world, but if it does, the renting price hour is 70 cents / hour per GPU https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
So you need an investment of 40 Trillion dollars if my math is ok
Current bitcoin market cap is 130 Billions. https://charts.bitcoin.com/cha...
Renting specialized mining hardware is also not viable. Suppose there are enough miners available at renting for a 51% attack (which there aren't). By renting that hardware you're just displacing the demand for renting miners, so more miners are purchased to be added to the renting farms. You won't be able to rent miners fast enough to achieve the 51% attack. It's not like you'd have that amount waiting for you just for an hour.
Bitcoin price is unregulated. There is no as you say, Big Bank behind it.
Exchanges are also unregulated as of today. In case of stupidly high volatility, they could just block shut down.
I don't think it's possible a 51% scam is possible. Imagine a 51% attack. It's really costly. You have all your investment on ASIC boards, plus all the infrastructure installation (power and bandwidth and storage ). You use your mining power to modify transactions. Immediately after the price of bitcoin plumbs to 0. Reality is, you can't steal enough bitcoins through the 51% attack and get out of your position with dollars before you recover the infrastructure cost of achieving that 51%.
The only purpose of this attack would be breaking bitcoin. Only a big government would be interested burning a lot of money just to produce chaos.
Nobody cares about of your code, most of it is useless to anybody else. It's clients that matter. Algorithms are a different beast but most projects don't have secret sauces.
1. If Git hub doesn’t bring in the money a company like Microsoft will just kill it.
Microsoft has been migrating migrating from team foundation to git
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Even if they don't directly say it. This is COM ->.net or Win Forms -> WPF all over again. Microsoft is betting at Git as their future version manager.
Visual Studio is nicely integrated with git, with commit shortcuts next to code blocks so you know faster who to yell at if something is brakes.
With this purchase their are pulling all the enterprise clients into their cloud. And they may maintain the position as the go-to open source repository with not much maintenance costs. They also have all their own azure customers that can moved to their new repo.
It seems like a good plan for me, not sure if worth 7B plan.
Normally one would expect good to become cheaper when bought in bulk. Especially for something like electricity, where the infrastructure for delivery has a substantial cost
The issue with BTC is that, even if the price of power was fixed (which it isn't), the price of BTC isn't. Miners go on/off if their expected return is above certain threshold.
This stochastic consumption doesn't justify the investment required to accommodate the miners on the grid.
Not what you're using it for, that's not their fucking business.
But they could enforce contracts above certain consumption, so that your demand can't just evaporate with fluctuations of BTC.
Correct those numbers by racially profiling crime offenders and you'll see that there's no discrimination.
Now, if you had a statistic on innocent men shot by cops without resisting to authority you might have a claim there. Also, there is the point in that if you're a cop facing a black man on a suspicious action, you're more likely to get shot. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Sometimes it does. Depression is highly correlated with inequality. Capitalism produces inequality, so maybe not china/india, but going to somewhere isolated, where people have lower expectations can help you re-calibrate your own.
Either that or drive you nuts.
Sad to crumble your fairy land, but on "old model" the author pays for the reviewing and editing process, the reviewers are not paid for the reviewing, and on a lot of cases, no edition is done by the editors.
What you're paying for is the Journal reputation, some times because you're interested on it, but on most cases because you need it to survive the publish or perish madness that rules academia.
US is pretty high on the life expectancy rank
It's equal Cuba's. If the fat american estereotipe holds true, that speaks of the american curative health system, as Cuba should be one of the best exponents of a good preventive health system.
properly funding public research is WAY cheaper than these ruthless extortion tactics we've turned healthcare into for the past few decades.
We all want that to be true, unfortunately that isn't the case, and US keeps leading the world pharma innovation
I hate ruthless capitalism as much as the next guy, but reality is that it keeps outperforming any other system on most serious metrics.
Does Qualcomm have any competition on the LTE modem + ARM SOC?
Can't think of any non Qualcomm mobile phone. Each Qualcomm chip not sold in a ZTE will be a Qualcomm sold by any other brand.
The real issue, not explained here. Is that whatsapp chats are encrypted end to end. If we are to believe Facebook, they can't read you conversations (unless their explicitly target them).
On Chat groups the conversations are logged on Whatsapp servers.
Ironically, 4chan might remain as the las freedom bastion.
Besides child porn, anything else is allowed as long as it goes on the proper containment board.
I might be wrong but when I searched for RTOSs QNX was the only POSIX offer. Linux RTOS offers were just an RTOS with linux bubbled as an independent task.
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It is plausible that an attack could be made by renting cpus for a couple hours for a few million bucks
It isn't plausible. Bitcoin mining leaders do it by dedicated hardware. Assuming your plan is renting general purpose GPUs on a computing cluster
Maximum Bitcoin Total Bitcoin Hashrate is 43EH/s https://blockchain.info/es/cha... (E stands for Exa = 10^18) For a 51% attack, starting from 0, you'd need to add another 43EH/s to the pool. The Nvidia Tesla S2070 has a hash rate of 749.23
You'd need to rent 57 Gigas of GPUs plus all the infrastructure to manage that. For context the third largest supercomputer has 18K of GPUs https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't know if that amount of GPUs exists in the world, but if it does, the renting price hour is 70 cents / hour per GPU https://www.theregister.co.uk/... So you need an investment of 40 Trillion dollars if my math is ok Current bitcoin market cap is 130 Billions. https://charts.bitcoin.com/cha...
Renting specialized mining hardware is also not viable. Suppose there are enough miners available at renting for a 51% attack (which there aren't). By renting that hardware you're just displacing the demand for renting miners, so more miners are purchased to be added to the renting farms. You won't be able to rent miners fast enough to achieve the 51% attack. It's not like you'd have that amount waiting for you just for an hour.
Bitcoin price is unregulated. There is no as you say, Big Bank behind it. Exchanges are also unregulated as of today. In case of stupidly high volatility, they could just block shut down.
I don't think it's possible a 51% scam is possible. Imagine a 51% attack. It's really costly. You have all your investment on ASIC boards, plus all the infrastructure installation (power and bandwidth and storage ). You use your mining power to modify transactions. Immediately after the price of bitcoin plumbs to 0. Reality is, you can't steal enough bitcoins through the 51% attack and get out of your position with dollars before you recover the infrastructure cost of achieving that 51%.
The only purpose of this attack would be breaking bitcoin. Only a big government would be interested burning a lot of money just to produce chaos.
Could you point at how that works?
Nobody cares about of your code, most of it is useless to anybody else. It's clients that matter.
Algorithms are a different beast but most projects don't have secret sauces.
1. If Git hub doesn’t bring in the money a company like Microsoft will just kill it.
Microsoft has been migrating migrating from team foundation to git https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... .net or Win Forms -> WPF all over again. Microsoft is betting at Git as their future version manager.
Even if they don't directly say it. This is COM ->
Visual Studio is nicely integrated with git, with commit shortcuts next to code blocks so you know faster who to yell at if something is brakes.
With this purchase their are pulling all the enterprise clients into their cloud. And they may maintain the position as the go-to open source repository with not much maintenance costs. They also have all their own azure customers that can moved to their new repo.
It seems like a good plan for me, not sure if worth 7B plan.
I mean, my god, you find it via a Google search, check on YouTube and see testimonials, and then you call.
I don't get that part of the scam. Isn't it cheaper to hire a bunch of fake testimonials? This is really sophisticated but I don't see the purpose.
Normally one would expect good to become cheaper when bought in bulk. Especially for something like electricity, where the infrastructure for delivery has a substantial cost
The issue with BTC is that, even if the price of power was fixed (which it isn't), the price of BTC isn't. Miners go on/off if their expected return is above certain threshold.
This stochastic consumption doesn't justify the investment required to accommodate the miners on the grid.
If it isn't a good idea anywhere else, why would it be here? Where do you do with the other (real) industries that require that power.
Not what you're using it for, that's not their fucking business. But they could enforce contracts above certain consumption, so that your demand can't just evaporate with fluctuations of BTC.
Correct those numbers by racially profiling crime offenders and you'll see that there's no discrimination.
Now, if you had a statistic on innocent men shot by cops without resisting to authority you might have a claim there. Also, there is the point in that if you're a cop facing a black man on a suspicious action, you're more likely to get shot. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Sometimes it does. Depression is highly correlated with inequality. Capitalism produces inequality, so maybe not china/india, but going to somewhere isolated, where people have lower expectations can help you re-calibrate your own. Either that or drive you nuts.
Sad to crumble your fairy land, but on "old model" the author pays for the reviewing and editing process, the reviewers are not paid for the reviewing, and on a lot of cases, no edition is done by the editors.
What you're paying for is the Journal reputation, some times because you're interested on it, but on most cases because you need it to survive the publish or perish madness that rules academia.
US is pretty high on the life expectancy rank
It's equal Cuba's. If the fat american estereotipe holds true, that speaks of the american curative health system, as Cuba should be one of the best exponents of a good preventive health system.
properly funding public research is WAY cheaper than these ruthless extortion tactics we've turned healthcare into for the past few decades.
We all want that to be true, unfortunately that isn't the case, and US keeps leading the world pharma innovation
I hate ruthless capitalism as much as the next guy, but reality is that it keeps outperforming any other system on most serious metrics.
and we'll happily fund the countless failures in the hopes of an eventual win
Do you? Really? I thought big pharma were the ones putting the money.
Using Wikipedia as an authority source...
Both sides of can play the same game
Does Qualcomm have any competition on the LTE modem + ARM SOC?
Can't think of any non Qualcomm mobile phone. Each Qualcomm chip not sold in a ZTE will be a Qualcomm sold by any other brand.
I understood that they found the evidence among terabytes of hoarded "data" like 4chan posts.
"He usually copies online forums such as 4chan and Reddit, where posts are either quickly erased or can become difficult to locate."
I thought that only porn hoarders existed, but this guy was hoarding 4chan's shitposts.
but a law in the country requires movies to not appear in home platforms for 36 months after their theatrical release.
Doesn't this put out Cannes every international movie? Or are dvd relases and streaming services delayed in France.
The real issue, not explained here. Is that whatsapp chats are encrypted end to end. If we are to believe Facebook, they can't read you conversations (unless their explicitly target them).
On Chat groups the conversations are logged on Whatsapp servers.
You can't opt out of somebody else sharing your number. This is a no argument.
That would make 400% returns.
Ironically, 4chan might remain as the las freedom bastion.
Besides child porn, anything else is allowed as long as it goes on the proper containment board.
I might be wrong but when I searched for RTOSs QNX was the only POSIX offer. Linux RTOS offers were just an RTOS with linux bubbled as an independent task.