But such a "51% attack" would be prohibitively expensive: Coinometrics, a data provider, reckons it would cost $425m in equipment and electricity.The enigmatic Mr Nakamoto designed the system to keep everybody honest.
Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
It's always struck me as ironic that location-based services when they are often at their most useful – outside of a user's home country – are prohibitively expensive due to those data charges and therefore rendered useless.
On the other hand, the data-intensive nature of the MCE problem often makes naive dynamic load distribution strategies that require extensive data movement prohibitively expensive.
Originally founded in late 2012 as a way to enable you to share your home Wi-Fi with friends on Facebook, the Stockholm-based company has since pivoted to become a broader Wi-Fi sharing community, and one that recently found traction in developing markets where cellular data remains prohibitively expensive.
Originally founded in late 2012 as a way to enable you to share your home Wi-Fi with friends on Facebook, the Stockholm-based company has since pivoted to become a broader Wi-Fi sharing community, and has found traction in developing markets where cellular data remains prohibitively expensive.
The large numbers also made certain aspects of data collection prohibitively expensive.
"Statistically meaningful data are often prohibitively expensive".
In many cases, the collection of the needed ground-truth data is often prohibitively expensive or logistically infeasible.
Such data are limited, however, because of the potential for ecological bias, although collecting detailed patient-level data is often prohibitively expensive.
Obtaining such data can be prohibitively expensive.
