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> Until I understand how Bitcoin does that, I will not believe in it. And don't give me hand-wavy bullshit. Speak plainly. You're probably being down-voted bec
by DanWaterworth 11y ago
> Until I understand how Bitcoin does that, I will not believe in it. And don't give me hand-wavy bullshit. Speak plainly.
You're probably being down-voted because that information is available to you. You just need to look for it.
- perfunctory 11y ago> that information is available to you. You just need to look for it. In this case almost all questions on HN should be downvoted.
- DanWaterworth 11y agoThere wasn't a question.
- geofft 11y agoNot really, I think. There are questions like "Why is my site not attracting users" or "Is this business / project idea viable", where putting it in front of the HN audience is looking for information. There are questions like "Is Cisco generally nice to acquired companies' free products" or "How profitable is Uber in the long term" that can't be trivially answered with public data, but can lead to productive discussions. There's stuff like "What should I do about this particular diversity problem in my company, from my position," where discussion is the best way to get an answer. All of this is very different from asking a technical question that is (in theory) answered in the very first technical paper on the subject. There's also the question of relevance. "Ask HN: What's your favorite resource for explaining Paxos?" as a top-level post is very different from commenting on some random AWS blog post insinuating that Paxos can't possibly work.