But blockchain is more
about the consensus of some digital asset and storage of information in a decentralised environment.
and I can honestly say I didn't know
about the consensus of the scientific community — just what the media said about the science.
I am talking
about a consensus of multiple lines of evidence (empirical evidence in addition to modeling, logic etc.) When there is a large degree of uncertainty, as there is in climate science, a consensus of evidence is most definitely very important.
I'm not talking
about a consensus of votes by university professors, am I?
Not exact matches
In effect, Quorum has two layers
of consensus on a single blockchain, meaning two ways
of reaching agreement
about its transaction records, both stored on one distributed database, or blockchain.
(For the record, Agrafioti demurs
about the potential automation
of those positions, rightly noting that there is no industry
consensus on whether AI can ever truly become as or more powerful than the human brain.)
Balsillie and Lazaridis would push through ideas they felt strongly
about, but the goal
of achieving
consensus nevertheless created confusion.
There has been a tremendous amount
of analysis and the
consensus is that there could be nothing positive for the global economy
about a separation
of the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Besides figuring out whether a family member can take over the company's operations, succession advisors say clans must also come up with a
consensus about a transfer
of ownership, as well as implement a plan that allows the founder to extract their equity from the firm.
At Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a
consensus that the majority
of investors don't care
about much else beyond quarterly earnings.
If Roberts's experiment confirmed the scientific
consensus about why the internet is so compelling, it also confirmed another evolving line
of research — spending time in nature is really, really good medicine for the human brain.
Analysts had expected Tesla to report a loss
of about 50 cents per share on $ 1.26 billion in revenue, according to a
consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty
about the precise amount
of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific
consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming
of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.
That's a very important change
of narrative from being
about a person to it being
about a
consensus among a much broader community.
Wired evidently had no trouble finding former colleagues to say nice things
about him, with the
consensus being that he's very Bill Gates - like: a technical genius who also happens to understand the business side
of things.
On Friday, Cboe reported fourth - quarter revenue
of $ 265 million, missing the
consensus by
about $ 2 million, and adjusted profit
of 87 cents a share.
Analysts expected it to report earnings
of about 13 cents per share on $ 1.19 billion in revenue, according to a
consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
A recent survey
of 45 economists by Bloomberg revealed a
consensus that its economy will grow
about 7.5 % to 8 % in 2012 through 2014.
to report earnings
of about 60 cents a share on $ 9.12 billion in revenue, according to a
consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.
Based on user reported registration data online, Osborne says he expects Tesla to announce Model 3 deliveries
of about 7,500 for the first quarter, below the 11,000
consensus.
It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront
of climate denial, manufacturing doubt
about the scientific
consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.
As investors, we are generally happier when the
consensus is worried and we highlighted some concern
about this very point at the beginning
of the year.
With a yield
of about 3.75 percent, Novartis has an analyst
consensus price target
of $ 87, some $ 15 north
of its current price.
Despite technical progress over the past year, the industry's main players have yet to reach a greater
consensus, and many questions remain
about a mainstream implementation
of the Blockchain.
Cardano uses a new algorithm for proof
of stake called Ouroboros, which determines how individual nodes reach
consensus about the network.
«What is striking at the moment is the lack
of a broader
consensus between policy makers
about what monetary policy can achieve and what it should do in the current situation,» said Jan Bopp, asset allocation strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin.
Between these two
consensus mechanisms, SolarCoin has a 2 % annual inflation rate, and the supply awarded to Proof -
of - Generation users on the network is projected to run out after
about forty years.
Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance
of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts»
consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7 percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.
For much
of my career I pretty much accepted the
consensus, but as I started to think more seriously
about the components
of the balance
of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay
about the transfer
of international status from Britain to the US.
The Street
consensus was looking for
about 13.7 in terms
of operating margin, and so maybe it over-earned by $ 0.05, if the
consensus would have been right, without the extra inventory and sales
of those supplies.
When you read
about Bitcoin and
consensus, the first thing that comes to mind is agreeing on the true version
of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Adjusted net income came in at $ 4.78 billion, up
about 10 % from year - ago levels, and that worked out to adjusted earnings
of $ 1.74 per share, topping the
consensus forecast for $ 1.72 per share among those following the stock.
«Respondents... generally agree
about monetary policy, but there is no clear
consensus about most fiscal issues,» said Jay Bryson, global economist at Wells Fargo Securities and chair
of the NABE's policy survey committee.
But something much more interesting struck me
about many
of my peers» choices: There seemed to be an overwhelming
consensus on shorting bitcoin and, as a contrarian, this uniform cynicism obviously piqued my interest.
Professor Woo, President
of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks
about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan
consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.
The state
of all accounts is the state
of the Ethereum network which is updated with every block and which the network really needs to reach a
consensus about.
There is an increasing
consensus about the value
of intact two - parent families, together with an understanding
of the social risks posed by increases in births outside
of marriage.
And in just that apparent
consensus about the ridiculousness
of it all, amid all those ashes scattered over a Christian teaching stretching back two millennia, arises a fascinating and in fact exceedingly amusing modern morality tale — amusing, at least, to those who take their humor dark.
Yet we seem increasingly unable to conduct a political dialogue out
of which might develop a
consensus about how to respond to this reality.
Neither among» Christians nor among Jews is there any settled
consensus about the nature and outcome
of that entanglement.
In the midst
of giving generally good advice to conservative pro-lifers
about how to play to their political strength — by emphasizing the issue
of late - term abortion, where a
consensus of public opinion is on their side — Krauthammer offered this:
They see an old
consensus about what it is essential to know eroded by the acid rains
of professional specialization.
Participants in the conversation from all walks
of life should seek to describe authentic human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a body
of principles and a
consensus about the best applications
of genetic knowledge emerge.
For all the theological divisions that separated Protestants from each other in the «50s (and separated Protestants, Catholics and Jews), a fairly firm
consensus existed
about the substance
of personal morality and the soundness
of American social and political life.
The
consensus on the evolution
of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth
about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.
We do not need to reject or twist defined doctrines in order to present our faith credibly in this new age
of discovery, neither do we need to distance ourselves from the scientific
consensus about the natural world.
As the years passed, Eliot grew increasingly pessimistic
about the possibility
of reaching a Christian
consensus in the West, resigning himself to the prospect
of «centuries
of barbarism.»
Because disagreements
about the nature
of the Christian faith are not at stake in the abortion controversy, this task could be undertaken ecumenically, aiming at transdenominational
consensus.
They not only challenge the
consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning
of Holiness theology, raise questions
about the varieties
of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues
about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.
To this Mr. Cizik replied that he had asked a couple
of scientists he knows
about that false cooling
consensus, and they denied that they ever believed that.