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That’s what proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are about. I’m saying that the problem has been solved and would need to just be applied to this use case.

> a year or two behind the times How exactly? I agree with you that use of blockchain on its own is not fully secure, but that can be mitigated for the most part through the same s…

> Oh wow! Thanks for telling us!... In the US, admitting you did something wrong could open you up to a class action suit where some customers could be eligible for damages due to …

I’m not a fan of everything Bukowski wrote, but I wouldn’t try to censor him so that little Jimmy could read it, and I liked the movie Barfly. Similarly, I’m not a fan of everythin…

I just happened to look at the top comments on a front-page HN post and noticed the following: The comment at the top had posted 0 minutes ago and already had the top post in a sub…

This is good advice. Another thing to consider is cost-to-benefit ratio. If you don’t know cost, first look at: Product costs: free Resource alignment costs: (Re-)hiring + severanc…

In my experience, the main reason these companies fail and especially why acquisitions don’t turn out well is the assumption that the way you do business and the people you have ar…

> That said, Common Lisp is weird. What I find particularly jarring is that functions and variables live in different namespaces: if you put a function into a variable, you can’t j…

I like this post but “unscrupulous merchant” seems harsh for a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those chang…

Same here, I avoid them when I can. It won’t be too long before the gas stations are fast chargers, though- I give it 20 years.

That’s kind of harsh. Ruby was a great language and especially great syntax. Except for some duplication of methods and early misspelling of one or two methods, it would’ve been mu…

Rails 1 was released in 2004.

I guess it’s a cultural difference because I don’t associate those things immediately with the word “bull”, even when it’s in the context of “red”. If someone were to say,”Do you w…

How many operations and objects? The method he’s talking about would seem more efficient for the purpose vs all of the strings still being created even if never used in the plain h…

Which became dominant for a while, but cgi scripts on the server-side were also hot. Enter Perl and PhP server-side. Then there was JSP, ASP, and ColdFusion, all server-side. Rails…

I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than clie…

So: total reliance on someone giving something away for free that could break or be taken away at any time and you have no privacy- that’s ok, even if they’re not going to hire you…

That’s awesome! In comparison, here a quote from the OP’s blog entry: “Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Pyth…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Fighting_Bull “During the breeding, in order to preserve their natural characteristics, the bulls rarely encounter human beings, and if ever…

It’s probably not just universities either. A company I work for spent the majority of their budget and then some on things that they didn’t need, much without any forethought or p…

Students today have become quite reliant on Google Docs essentially putting almost all of their classwork out on the web. What if it were to fail? That’s different than it used to …

The font on this blog would seem appropriate for the style and subject matter, but it’s hard for me to read.

I felt the same way reading it, but I also admire the ability to self-brand, even though personally I’ve given up on that, having gained weight and worn boxers to work most days re…

Why hasn’t w3c taken on some way to avoid the unnecessary complexity? (Simplified font definition and usage standard.)

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