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Digital "miners" run specially configured computers to solve the problems and generate currency, whose value ultimate fluctuates according to market demand. Math pays. Who'da thunk? (Seems kind of esoteric to me...)
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: Seems kind of esoteric to me...
It's actually a straight forward but brute force computation called a Hashcash but usually you allocate all the computer resources to find a solution rather than implementing it as some low level background process, since, for bitcoin at least, I believe it requires some specialized hardware / GPU's. I'm surprised embedding a background miner worked at all.
Marc
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My snark wasn't clear enough - sorry. The fact that solving a math problem leads to money in that way seems esoteric, and stupid, to me. But if people want to pay...
Edit - interesting article, by the way! Thanks for the link.
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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I looked into this a while back and found that the amount you pay in energy costs are more than what you would actually receive in bitcoin.
There is no such thing as "something for nothing".
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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So you get paid to waste electricity and contribute to global warming.
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Correct, so it is something that you run on your machine at work, not your machine at home.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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If you're paying for hardware and power then yes you either need the latest and greatest ASIC miner or to be mining some me-too coin that doesn't have a dedicated ASIC yet. But if you're stealing resources it doesn't matter how inefficient they are since the cost to you is zero. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google doesn’t lose trademark even if it is a generic term for searching the Web. Guess he should have googled the legal precedents
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Yeah, anybody got some Kleenextm to help wipe up my river of tears?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It didn't help that he registered all those domains beforehand.
That guy is an idiot to the ∞th degree.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: ∞th degree.
Almost. More like to the googol degree. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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∞ > googol
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: ∞ > googol
google == googol
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And Enid Blyton wrote the word Google long before t'Internet.
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Enid Blyton
Eh? Who dat?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Even worse than a generic name to search the net;
"What browser are you using?"
"Google"
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The only google products I use are android, maps, and translate, but "to google" is a new verb, and has nothing to do with the noun.
The guy was a w@nker, though. What's unfortunate is that treating this w@nker justly will come up as precedent in other cases, where the respondents aren't w@nkers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A group that took credit for leaking NSA cyber spying tools - including ones used in the WannaCry global ransomware attack - has said it plans to sell code that can be used to hack into the world's most used computers, software and phones. "If I had a rocket launcher I'd make somebody pay"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "If I had a rocket launcher I'd make somebody pay"
I made for my wife a yarn "Skane Contain" that is an 8 x 8 stacked array of 12" x 4" PVC pipes. All pop rived together where they join.
You should see it.
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A Canadian reference, points (or pints) for you!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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MyJetPack.borrow.you==False
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As it turns out, "a malicious third party" had managed to break into a "non-core system" that DocuSign uses to send out service announcement emails. OK, who had DocuSign as the next hacking victim?
You will the pool (which is currently empty due to all the hacking)
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Sounds like a great subject for a rolling survey!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Send a family member's ashes on a final journey around the Earth. How much for unloved ones?
Comedy = tragedy + time
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