A reorg attack and a DoS are equivalent in my mind - anyone who's capable of pulling off a lengthy DoS is also capable of performing a reorg attack, whether they actually do or not is kind of irrelevant.

Specific cases like "empty blocks" could be addressed via a hard fork.

But there's nothing stopping miners from faking transactions in blocks, sending amounts to themselves, filling the block with OP_RETURNs, or just doing the minimum possible to get around your "fix".

PoW absolutely relies on >50% of miners being honest, always has done.

I'm happy for you and hope that when the world returns to normality, you are able to apply the lessons you have learned.

The weak link is the legal entity of the corporation.

Nah.

Change the 5% to whatever you like, it doesn't matter.

Just a fantastic piece of kit. If only the mainboard were upgradable...

The lack of webcam is a bonus as far as I'm concerned; "Zoom culture" can burn.

The UK will have vaccinated at least 20 million of the most vulnerable on March 1, providing a high level of protection three weeks later.

From then, the virus becomes simply less relevant than our collective mental health.

Mourning together is better than just being in solitary confinement forever; it's a 100% chance of a mental illness vs. a ~1-5% chance of a physical illness.

March 23, one year since the beginning of restrictions in the UK, I'm done.

Social distancing indefinitely (until Autumn? 2022? 2023? ...) is something other people can do.

The majority of people throw a few grand at an old banger and drive it until it stops working.

I've been playing emulated retro games for the last ten years, there's enough of them to last a lifetime.

A fair few people I know do want to visit the office 3 of 5 days, sure.

Reading this sort of thing is just bizarre. It's like that special brand of American "fake smile".

Open offices cut costs too. Are they better?

"Everything is fine".

We're in the middle of a three month period of it being illegal for anyone to visit my home...

You are not rich if you have ten billion Zimbabwean dollars.

In the UK we've restricted the activity of healthy individuals for about 11 months now - the latest episode being an approximately 3 month period within which it's illegal to meet anyone else within your own home.

Psychological trials, even trivial things like filling in surveys or taking reaction speed tests are carefully monitored for ethical concerns, lockdown we just went all in on with no cost-benefit analysis.

It seems bizarre to me that in that context we should be worrying about the ethics of a challenge study with a few hundred or few thousand volunteers.

Loads of people I know have _already_ volunteered themselves for it in the outside world with no compensation and with no benefit to science because they're not able to mentally handle indefinite restrictions.

There was a time that it did, and then we banned CFCs, and now it doesn't.

Shouting at people about CO2 is simply never ever ever going to fix the problem. It needs to be incentivised or it won't happen.