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Why not also start enforcing littering fines? A $270-$500 ticket should be help to incentivize a behavior change.

It's not really clear to me how PoS is providing any security in Decred above that provided by the PoW.

If a single entity is able to get 51% of the hashrate why can't they effectively control which PoS tickets are selected?

Since the overall reward & transaction fees are distributed between both PoS & PoW, it seems to follow that at there will be fewer PoW miners resulting in less overall security vs. a pure PoW protocol.

Something like bitcoin may actually result in lower overall energy costs by providing a guaranteed base level of income for new power generation.

Building a new plant is much less risky if there is guaranteed off-peak demand. New plants also tend to me more environmentally friendly.

The problem with the current FAA rules is that even commercial pilots are banned from taking part in a service like this.

In fact, even pilots with the highest possible certification (Airline Transport Pilot) cannot provide transport unless operating under a company with a Part 119 Commercial Air Carrier license.

Suppose that instead the shock was intense enough to kill half the chimps and wasn't turned off. Now the chimp that "gets out there and grabs it" causes many deaths.

The real moral here should be the importance of passing down the reasoning behind certain actions. Information would allow future chimps to weigh the risk/benefit of touching the electric meat.

Planes need extra power for takeoff and emergency scenarios like a twin on a single engine.

It's possible that these requirements lead to engines which have a optimal power output above what would be required in straight & level flight.

From my understanding, that code is just a verification that the password you entered to decrypt your wallet was correct. It works by testing one of the addresses in the wallet (verifying that the secret key matches the pubkey address).

If one works, they should all work. If they don't then the wallet file is probably corrupted. So it'd be a nice check for corruption but doesn't seem to have much of a security implication.

1. I haven't, I'll have to give it a try.

2. I use KiTTY, a PuTTY port with a few extra features. It's not amazing but is decent after some configuration.

I used to code with a macbook pro for about a year and recently switched to the asus zenbook ux301. I definitely prefer it over the macbook.

I was very disappointed with the multi-monitor support on Mac. Some apps takeover both monitors while others don't, and maximizing/docking windows left/right was just tedious. Windows nails multi-monitor support, even remembering the display configuration based on which external monitor is plugged in.

Not having Linux is annoying because cygwin is pretty terrible, but I just SSH into a remote linux server or local vm.

This article seems overly optimistic. SEOs can now add spam links to competitor sites to negatively affect their pagerank.

Check out section 6.1. It briefly describes how the selfish pool can use a Sybil attack to selectively forward blocks, greatly increasing the probability of winning the 'first wins' tiebreaker.