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If you're aching for typespecs in Elixir being useful, but are dissapointed with Dialyzer, I recommend checking out my library Hammox: https://github.com/msz/hammox . It's an impro…

China and India have an extremely small infection percentage - all the areas below 0.001% are filtered out. You're right, that's likely very misleading - I'll leave them in for com…

All the informational dashboards I've seen so far have two main problems for me: 1) they show total cases including recoveries and deaths by default, bumping up countries like Chin…

Nitpick: Bitcoin, being a system where the history of all transactions is publicly available, is hardly an "anonymous" system. It is an additional level of separation from other fo…

Correct, as far as I know. Breaking the cryptography with quantum computers is often raised as well, but Bitcoin can transition to a quantum-resistant algorithm if that proves to b…

I describe this in the "Security in numbers" paragraph in the last part (Part Three): "As pointed out before, giving rewards for creating blocks creates an arms race in computing p…

Hi! Author here. Thanks for the appreciation! You're right, I didn't describe the details of networking. My main goal was to keep it as short as possible while still explaining the…

>There is a const operator, which helps ensure primitives don’t get mutated. But anything that’s not a primitive is as malleable as jell-o Making so many errors in a sentence about…