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Each hash is essentially an observation of a uniformly distributed variable (hopefully). When you flip a coin, it's heads with probability 1/2 and tails with probability 1/2. The fact that you flipped heads on the first go doesn't change the probabilities. In the same way, the fact that your hash didn't match the difficult on the first go, doesn't change the probability it will match the difficulty on future hashes. So each hash is independent of the attempts you've already made, so there's the same probability of a match at any time step.

This is awesome, but just a small comment about "Next block expected in 7 minutes". The next expected block is always due in 10 minutes, no matter when the previous block was generated. Mining is a memoryless process.

I'd consider contributing if this was a registered charity. It doesn't make sense to 'donate' to a limited company whose owners will see my money returned in the dividends. Crowdfunding in this way makes me sick to my stomach. They will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Interesting, but also pretty scary. It's effectively machine learning with real people as the algorithm. Literally plugging people into a computer.

The second video is obviously slowed down to keep pace with the old video. Certainly the buses and horse-drawn carts would be a lot slower.

Well, DNS is nothing but a mapping from a domain name to an IP address. All this is is a mapping from a piece of text, to a domain name to an IP address. Alternatively, a mapping from a piece of text to an IP address. In other words, it's nothing but a domain name with different syntax.

But delivery isn't free, and if you are a regular user you can pay £120 per year for all inclusive delivery with Tesco Delivery Saver.

And what do you think the client does with this? It downloads the file and implements the CSS rules.

Whether or not it is "hidden" from an average user, doesn't mean you are not using CSS.

header('Link: </visited.php?css&uri='.$_GET["uri"].'>; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css";');

It's in your source, look.

It does use CSS. See http://code.eligrey.com/visited.php?css&uri=http://news.....

You are quickly redirected away from that page, so you don't see it (unless you look at Firebug's Net tab, sniff packets, or equiv).

Edit: acutally, it's just included as a stylesheet (with a HTTP link header)

No, tuvinh isn't Brendon -- I'm Brendon. And yes, this is a plagarism. Don't you just hate it when someone does this? Doesn't even ask and doesn't change a single word (his title is better though ;)).

I have sent an email to the blog author asking him to remove it or credit it. It was thanks to you that I found out about it -- Trey Philips posted a comment saying someone here had said it was plagarised, and quickly enough I saw the blog post referring "unusual" amount of traffic. It's great how social communication on the internet works!

-Brendon.