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The first that comes in my mind is: he lived 70 years, born and raised in a rich country, he had a lovely family. He had a good life reason to be happy and he should start thinking about others with less luck like him, E.g. children dying to underfeeding, genetics diseases, war, etc.


He’s dying and writing about how he feels about it. It doesn’t bother me that he has his own death at the forefront of his mind.


Agreed, it's not like he would all of sudden have time or resources to solve the aforementioned issues so what would be the use.

Either use your expertise and skills to make as much meaningful impact you can or just take the time off and enjoy what you have left. Both are fine to me.


Two fallacies:

1- "Mining Involves Computation-intensive Operations" => this is just a cheap brute force loop for guessing the nonce

2- "Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency" => Whales and Pools can control the price. 65% of Hashrate is concentrated in China.


Sorry I don't understand how the first one is wrong?

AFAIK it uses two iterations of SHA-256 to generate the hash.

ie. A cryptographic hashing function designed to be computationally expensive/infeasible to reverse.


Hashing is the easy part and because it is not reversible miners waste energy looping and trying different nonces so you get a hash with the required amount of zeros.

For my is just like a brute force password try-loop with a hashing in between. And that is the whole science XD


>Hashing is the easy part and because it is not reversible miners waste energy looping and trying different nonces so you get a hash with the required amount of zeros.

The above is massively computationally expensive, hence why it's not a fallacy.


sorry with all respect but Expensiveness is related with how many zeros have the target because you have too loop more.

That is why you waste more energy (more expensive) now than years ago.


I disagree, the computational expensive aspect is the fact that you are trying to find the inverse of the double hash. Hence you are forced to brute force.

If the problem was adjusted where it wasn't using a double hash, and had some simple two-way function than it wouldn't be considered computationally expensive. That is irrespective of the length of the nonce. E.G if it was just a how much do I add to get a nonce of length x.

The complexity here is caused by the double hash.

The length of the nonce is just an even further scaling of an already difficult problem.


look we can discuss a lot about what is expensive. But my comment was about that just a brute force "guessing" loop algorithm in PoW is being sold like a "Computation-intensive Operation" what in my opinion is just a stupid way to waste energy and belongs in the same club of institutions like Bank Industry and Gold Mining that also waste energy. PoS is loot better.


I would like to add to your comment that the stupid algorithm called "mathematical puzzle" is just a brute force loop in order to find the nonce => nonsense waste of energy


Have a Whale more calories than a person?


How no locks in JavaScript? Have you heard about async await?


We are disusing something so ridiculously as we were trying to explain how a baby alone could possibly win the FIFA World Cup 2018


Seems that you are not a programmer. Even with Intelligence people can write code (much much simpler and buggy) how can chaos build such a complex thing? Can you answer what was first? information (RNA/DNA) or the first cell?


What makes you think I'm not a programmer? I was marveling at how evolution can lead so something so systematic.

> Can you answer what was first? information (RNA/DNA) or the first cell?

No I can't. What are you getting at?


I would change the title of the article: "Human kids drinking Milk of a Cow are 1.5 cm taller than normal ones"

Who knows what kind of hormones the Diary Industry puts on the Cow-Milk you are drinking.

Cow=> Not your mother, not your Milk!


The title is a bit misleading. Those 3-year-olds are 1.5cm shorter than average growth percentile. It doesn't mention the effect on adolescent height on the same diet, since most adult growth spurt happens on teenager age.


Even by reducing meat consumption you need to know that a poor animal had to die just because of your taste.


Why not? there are so many people out there buying/selling child or necrophilia pornography in the darknet. I hope they get caught by the police.

But, please I'm not saying that @codeninjajosh is on target because of that.


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