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But...posting a hash doesn't force you to do anything. All it does is help you be cryptographically-verifiably smug after the fact.
by ForHackernews 7y ago
But...posting a hash doesn't force you to do anything. All it does is help you be cryptographically-verifiably smug after the fact.
- tptacek 7y agoNo, it demonstrates that you're not backtesting whatever your model was to fit the current reality.
- nico_h 7y 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.