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In fairness however, just yesterday there was an usenix paper about "slicer", a large scale sharding system developed at google. Some of the authors were liste
by znpy 5y ago
In fairness however, just yesterday there was an usenix paper about "slicer", a large scale sharding system developed at google.
Some of the authors were listed as google employees but it wasn't if any of them owned google shares. They probably do, but you can't really tell.
- jagger27 5y agoTo me the difference is the @google.com email addresses at the top makes their intentions and motivations clear. It tells us that the authors were paid a salary by a known entity to do their research. Especially coming from Google, they get paid their plush SV salary either way if their project fails or becomes the next Gmail. The financial incentives around cryptocurrencies are different. Eminem just bought a link to a picture of a bored ape for 123 ETH ($450k USD). I'd love to read a neutral and rational explanation for the social and technical merits of that in a peer reviewed paper. Who would write such a thing who wasn't either selling their own NFTs or holding a shitload of ETH? Disclosure: I have a wallet with ~0.11 Ethereum that I mined myself a few years ago.