I would highly recommend reading David Deutsch's book "The Beginning of Infinity". He would describe what you are talking about as a culture of criticism which leads to a dynamic society which

Those equations you have written there contain non-quantifiable variables (e.g. what is the SI unit of corruption?) Not only that, I get the strong sense that the equations were just made up on the spot

I wish I had more influence and my votes counted for more. This was a really nice little article and I'd never seen this stuff before.

I'll do a follow up post on how it's done. It's some really nice recursive code.

I wish to make something clear that I did not in the article. I understand that without Proof of Work there is no Bitcoin. Consensus cannot be reached without it. But it is proof of useless work. One simply

That was such a kind thing to say. It really made my day.

Nice! Will have to listen

Yes, the level of attention people are paying to other's work is astounding.

Hmm, seems like you didn't actually get much interest here. Well, I for one would be very interested to see what you had to say about game programming.

"Great, any other rules you'd like to give to the hacker trying to crack this" was priceless :-)

Yep, that's certainly much more secure!

I'm up-voting you because you tried very hard, but what you have said is actually not very good advice. Why? Because the attacker only needs to find out all of those bits of information to guess what your

It's been great having this discussion with you but really there's not too much point in trying to convince me. I also don't believe that people are imprinted with energy when they are born. I believe

@fairytalelife, I really feel for you and I do hope, every so dearly, that you do manage to work out what your password is. However I feel, for the benefit of the community, that I need to explain something

I have to say, I really didn't like this article. The fact that people believe in so many superstitious things in the 21st century continues to astound me, when there are powerful modes of explanation

Unfortunately, I haven't been practising what I preach. I was digitally promiscuous for many years. It was only after the Snowden revelations that I started to take privacy seriously.

Thank you @pedrosgali. I spent quite a while on it. If you know anyone else who would enjoy it please forward it on, regardless of whether they are Steemers or not

Thanks for the vote @complexring . Have you been on Steem from the very beginning? What do you think of it as a blogging platform?

Hey @creatr, I thought about this but the funny thing is that the "shortcut" link is almost as long as the book itself! You could consider the shortcut to be an encoding of the book.

They have this airport in a flight simulator! This video of a 737 taking off from that airport had me in stitches: (I know this could never happen in real life but it's a great watch anyway)