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Oh I forgot. Asshat hackernews admins banned this account because I got into a disagreement withsomeone. What a bunch of snowflakes. use VPN account from now on and incognito mode,…

These are not "Rules of Programming", but are excellent "Guidelines for Performance". Having 30yrs under my belt I have come to all the same conclusions as Rob Pike over my years, …

It's not "the" blockchain. There's not just one of them. Putting the word "the" in front is like saying "The Database". Let's all learn how "The Database" works. Silly right? We sa…

That motherboard site was so bloated with ADs and other nonsense that I couldn't even get it to scroll. And I have a pretty fast machine. Amazing how unusable the web is becoming.

And I'll just be using a VPN from now on, also, because I'm tired of you banning me every time some dickhead tries to start something that I end up finishing for them.

The Anders video (below) shows an example blockchain implementation where each node payload is only plain text. https://anders.com/blockchain/ The idea that each hashed payload nee…

In every post i've made it has been crystal clear I'm referring to "blockchain the data-structure"... The "consensus component" is an algorithm for detecting if one blockchain disa…

A very literal reading of the Merkle sentence on wikipedia could conclude that it's stating each block of a blockchain must contain a valid Merkle tree, and so technically that sen…

I just wonder what goes on in your mind when you try to ponder the phrase "simplest possible blockchain"...because you don't think there's a specific single characteristic of a "bl…

The simplest implementation of a blockchain would be about 100 lines of Java code (assuming simple CRC hash). It's a linked list where each node rehashes not only that node's data …

The Wikipedia article on blockchain has this sentence: "From the technical point of view a blockchain is a hashchain inside another hashchain", and that sums it up. The actual bloc…

Merkel WAS a genuine innovation, and it DOES collapse into plain blockchain if all 'nodes' on a given tree have one child, because in this case the directed graph (tree) is a linke…

I'm no lawyer, but they really need to outlaw patents on 'general purpose' technologies. Adam Carolla famously got sued for owning a podcast company, when someone claimed to have a…

Very interesting, thanks. I had never heard of Merkle Tree. Since a linked list is merely a special case of a 'tree structure' (i.e. one where there is always only one child), we c…

Back in 2008 I invented an algorithm for tree structures where the definition of the hash of any node, was "the hash of hashes of all its immediate children". I had invented a way …

wow. That Anders video is definitely the best description/explanation of blockchain I've ever seen.

Interesting standard. I'm also working on an app that you would categorize as an open source social media platform: SubNode -> http://sbnode.com

sounds cool. Yeah in that case i'd much rather use your bracket than my fanny pack!

I would be afraid to have my garage able to be gotten into by anyone who happens to know where I live and has a screwdriver. But from a technical standpoint, I'm impressed with wha…

Yeah, when there is something interesting (like a wreck) on the side of the road don't take your foot off the gas and slow down slightly to look. If each person only slows down 1/1…

One other solution is that whoever it was in hollywood that first declared fanny packs to be 'uncool' needs to be 'drawn and quartered'. My little tiny remote is easy to access whi…

Wikipedia was a technology that was at one point capable of becoming a competitor, but the found their niche and stayed there. I am working on an app (sbnode.com) that I hope WILL …

I've developed a sort of 'core technology' that can be used to build out what can hopefully become another option in the social media arena. It's open source. It's supports a fully…