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How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem

We're excited to share a special feed drop from The a16z Crypto Show. In the first episode of First Principles: The Scientific Roots of Blockchain Technology, Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham trace the decades of computer science research that laid the foundation for modern blockchains. Long before Bitcoin, researchers were studying one of distributed computing's hardest challenges: how independent machines can reliably agree on a shared state, even when some participants are faulty or malic...

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Politics

What should be done to prevent violent plans like this in public events?

A federal grand jury indicted eight men on Thursday for their roles in planning an attack on the UFC fight at the White House last month. The Department of Justice said the two-count indictment, returned in Ohio, replaces the initial charges filed in criminal complaints spread across various states. The initial seven suspects were arrested […]

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Culture

Mindfulness Will Never Be Enough

As this summer started, I slipped into spiritual sleepiness. For the last nine months of the school year, I’d served as editor for my college newspaper, vice president for a club, and a residence life leader, all while working several part-time jobs. In my exhaustion, God sustained me through the Psalms. I was physically exhausted, Read more. The post Mindfulness Will Never Be Enough appeared first on Christianity Today

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