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Got it, thank you for that explanation. I completely agree that we can eliminate all kinds of erroneous behaviors with better type systems. > good luck with a legacy microservice a…

I imagine an implementation of this is equivalent to writing code and tests with the same level of detail as one might today. Language features put constraints on the solution, but…

Not quite. Dropping a column or updating a row is typically irreversible.

Decred appears to have solved the PoW 51% attack via a hybrid PoW/PoS consensus mechanism. It's practically unfeasable to attack at this point.

I took an interest in programming in high-school and ran into Todd (mentioned in the article) in the lobby of an online first-person shooter. The topic of programming came up, and …