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> There were many developers quite interested in larger block size for many years Yet, they weren't around when it came time to make it happen. > Segwit2x had over 90% of the hashp…

Excellent writeup! I came to the same conclusion a few years ago with Thiers' Law: good money drives out bad, http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/

That seems to imply that there are no grey or black markets for currencies. This is contrary to what has been observed in history and in some countries today.

Wow, so this really was a catastrophic failure on multiple levels. Lotta of self-reflection for some in Paris this weekend!

Shouldn't this be a government expense, and not a campaign expense? Do candidates pay for their own physical security?

Wow! This is interesting. I thought the "WMDs in Iraq" was fake news, turns out the "no WMDs in Iraq" is fake news! So much fake news, hard to sort everything out.

And then there's everything in between. That's where the actual debate is. Was "WMDs in Iraq!" fake news in 2002, 2003, or 2004?

TIL! I just saw "Laurelai is an independent journalist"

Thank you for the educational write up! Bitcoin literacy is sorely lacking among journalists, and yet they often forget to contact experts such as yourself...

I could not disagree more. We should adapt to climate change as it happens. Besides, all of the resources we pour into forcing the climate to not change (which would be unprecedent…

No reason it couldn't be a mix of both.

Why? You don't think managing infrastructure composed of open source components is providing a valuable service?

That's a trade-off. Is the cost of learning and context switching between languages/frameworks less than the benefit of using a tool that is X% more appropriate?

$400,000,000 per year to produce audio content? Seems high. NPR is at $140,000,000.

Article you linked to is about passive investing in commodities pushing commodities prices up. I agree this is a negative externality. But we're discussing passive investing in equ…

They weren't outsourcing software development work, they were outsourcing the manual task of checking PDFs against XLS files. The quality wasn't the problem, the throughput and cos…

When I worked at Deloitte they made a similar decision to outsource to India instead of training staff to learn Python and automate the time consuming, low value work. That's when …

Yes.

Why?

The conclusions you've reached are not uncontroversial in the academic literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmet...

Awesome product, awesome team. Very excited to see how fast adoption happens and where they take this. Getting content producers paid by viewers rather than advertisers is crucial …

Sounds like we should change how electricity is produced?

Most miners sell their bitcoins to buy more hardware and pay their electricity bills... Why go through the trouble of running a mining rig instead of just buying the coins sold by …