The more decentralized mining is, the harder the 51% attack

Therefore, you want mining that is about as efficient on a current CPU as it is on a high end GPU or even ASIC. That way big server farm investments scale up with a low integer factor -- compared to a Bitcoin ASIC farm which can be (IIRC) dozens of millions of times more efficient per dollar than your PC CPU.

Various strategies were considered and tested. The end result was really clever: create a simple virtual machine with specific characteristics (such as non-halting totality, and a syntaxless bytecode). The one-way function is simply to run the random input program to completion, and provide the output. In other words, be a CPU.

The algo was specifically released as a separate standalone so others could pick it up. But there is only one crypto that uses it. It's the one that actually encrypts the data on the blockchain, has hundreds of .onion nodes run to this day independently by true believers (and yes I am one), so that actually it would be really hard for even a major government to shut down its untraceable transactions.

I just checked, for the first time in probably 2 years. Huh. It's not even in the top 25 market cap anymore. But it's the only coin that IMO for better or worse matches the original Tim May style cryptoanarchist vision that Satoshi was gesturing towards. And I don't need to say its name because you know which one it is.

London. Conservative? Hahaha. Yikes. Those are words so diametrically opposed in substance that I refuse to put them in the same sentence.

No. This is purely the result of the "progressive" globalist set importing so many third worlders that native English are a -20 point minority in their own capitol, police being directed to turn a blind eye to any number of criminal transgressions if the perpetrators fall on the right side of the paper bag test, while simultaneously going after native English for things such as going to church during the Covid lockdowns while ignoring the politicians throwing extravagant bashes, going after comedians, politicians, and regular citizens for posting unapproved narratives and very mildly spicy language on the internet, prosecutors turning away cases such as the former while voraciously persecuting the later.
London in particular, and the UK as a whole is seemingly the result of someone asking "what is a sensible, rational approach to successful governance of a population?" and then doing the exact opposite.

Actually people like that are why Slashdot is still kicking in the age of Reddit and Fedi. I am here for my fellow nerds and await the day my particular hyperspecialization becomes newsworthy

meh missed making link about prisoner exchange

Hackernews Aug 12 2025 on the Salesforce hack: Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses

I bet anything China, Russia, and Iran are those so-called cybercrime groups. Check this BlackHat talk about catching the (at the time) biggest ever card fraud guy. Russian oligarch son. Guess what, he was one of those returned to Russia in an exchange with the Trump admin as part of "peace negotiations".

Cyberattacks are part of the low level war they are also waging via dragging anchors to cut Internet cables, throwing drones and jets into NATO airspace, and ofc disinformation campaigns.

So yeah they are leveraging the cybercrime aspect to further weaken USA / NATO / The West / Tolerant Inclusive Democracy.

What kind of traffic cones do you have that require a CS degree to place? Are they self deploying? Operate on a mesh network? Inquiring minds want to know!

Alternative spelling : Just think of it as Evolution in Action.

(With the caveat that people need to do the Reddit thing before dying without issue, to have maximal eugenic effect.)

They must have run into very strange and unexpected artefacts to have to rely on machine learning to correct this...

Or someone developed a new deconvolution algorithm some time between feature freeze on the instrument package (2012, thereabouts?) and today, and it turned out to be particularly more useful with the AMI focussing-aid.

But it's on-the-ground post-processing, so it can be retrospectively applied by any researcher on their "proprietary" period data, and by anyone else to non-proprietary data in the STSI archive.

Do you have any idea how competitive the process of getting observation time on JWST is? Something approaching 10% of time requests get granted. The other 90% don't get granted.

Your sketched procedure fails at

1. Take lots of photos of the same shot

And again at

2. Repeat step 1 for a lot of overlapping images

Curiosity (and Perseverance) are in a different situation - while the arm/ drill/ XRF tools are nose-up on a rock doing one set of analyses, the cameras can be more-or-less independently pursuing the sort of photographic oversampling you're talking about. The data from, say, an hour of XRF scanning is going to use a lot less bandwidth to Earth than an hour of imaging data.

Building design tends to go for a 2:1 safety margin between expected loads and design strengths. Bridges tend to be a lot more conservative 6:1 or 8:1 between design strength : expected load.

There are good arguments you can have whether a design (and construction process) should have an 8:1 safety margin, or a 6: 1 margin, into which you can easily get a 60% materials cost. If you can justify the lower safety factor and lower cost.

As the Forth road bridge example I just mentioned upthread illustrates, changes in vehicle design can seriously impact the expectations for a structure. The introduction through the 1980s of increased lorry weights from 28 tonnes when the bridge was designed and built to a maximum of 44 tonnes when a replacement bridge was commissioned lead to increased rates of wire breakages in the suspension cables and ... well you (and the bridge managers) can see where that's going to end up.

So, order of a hundred years?

Note : you asked about "bones", not fossils. The process of turning a bone (any tissue, really, but most often a bone or a tooth, for a vertebrate) into a fossil is a subject of it's own, stretching in effects from forensic science, through archæology and into regular palæontology Look up "taphonomy".

A 100 year lifetime isn't at all unreasonable for a structure. No structure is eternal (though the Pyramids are making a decent attempt - they'll probably not make it beyond their half-million).

I was driving over the new Forth road bridge recently, eyeballing the 140-odd year old riveted cast iron of the Rail Bridge, and the old road suspension bridge (which made it past it's 50 year design life but didn't make it's century because of increases in vehicle loads and counts leading to accelerating wear rates). I wonder how they're going to bring the old road bridge down? Dismantling, or dynamite? There are enough ships using that channel that dynamite has a *lot* of difficulties.

The sheer irony of Microsoft - Microsoft, of all people/ corporations - protesting about the bad effects of ransomware and extortionate demands.

I don't know if you could make up something as funny intentionally, but it's certainly beyond me.

How many people drive a pickup with a huge cargo bed that only gets used a couple times a year?

In this country? I can't remember seeing one that didn't have a company's logos down the side. Oh - tell a lie ; one of my neighbours uses one. It's a day-to-day load shifter for his building work business, but he doesn't waste money on vinyls for it. He has a normal car too, and they alternate on the street outside his apartment.

Old cars certainly can't hold a candle to new cars in the spying department. Practically all of them have remote data connections now, so every aspect of your life can be monitored and monetized by global data brokers. At least my old car won't rat me out to my insurance company if I'm a little happy on the accelerator, or if I occasionally use my brakes to their full ability.

Probably a free stater. They do love their pedos