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The point of the hash is a marker to force yourself to come to terms with your idea. You make it public and then act on it. The author has a visa to stay in Ja
by nico_h 6y ago
The point of the hash is a marker to force yourself to come to terms with your idea.
You make it public and then act on it.
The author has a visa to stay in Japan, a country with strict rules on the disruption of public order. Spreading unfounded speculation on a pandemic might rule afoul of such rules.
- ForHackernews 6y agoBut...posting a hash doesn't force you to do anything. All it does is help you be cryptographically-verifiably smug after the fact.
- tptacek 6y agoNo, it demonstrates that you're not backtesting whatever your model was to fit the current reality.
- nico_h 6y agoBut if you didn't act on it then you're just a shmuck that knew something and didn't help their neighbors, if you did act, you can justifiably _be_ smug because you did something about it. Posting it and acting on it build a "track record" that is harder to dismiss.