adam_mckenna

It uses a model called "Big Pickle" by default which is an alias for minimax 2.5, as far as I've been able to tell.

Your advice to her would be filed under "how to succeed in the white cis het male dominated world".

Those aren't the droids she's looking for, so to speak.

Programmers in general? Probably do. The programmer who has free time to do phone screens? Less likely.

It's bro culture. They don't want introverts -- they want people to drink and watch the game with who they can high five.

Not exactly. Some Chinese mining firms maintain a stratum connection to pools in the US so they can get just the new block header when a new block is found on the network. They then mine on that header until the full block is downloaded and validated by their local bitcoind (which can take 20 seconds, to several minutes in the worst case) This has been referred to as "SPV Mining".

If they find the next block during the time they are mining only against the block header, that block will contain no transactions. This doesn't happen very often, and there are some other issues that can arise from the practice (a multi-block fork happened once), but miners believe that it increases their profitability so (afaik) they continue to do it. More info here: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/38437/what-is-spv...

Lightning network is designed for settlements between off-chain transaction providers, it's not for peer-to-peer payments.