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by acuster 2y ago
(A better, more considered, response than I gave yesterday.) Alastair Reid's article "How to improve the RISC-V specification" makes some great points: namely that the RISC-V specification needs improvement, (implicitly) that
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by acuster 2y ago
Sorry, it's three in the (sunday) morning, and I've been hitting the whysky trying to handle the estabilshment journalists having fun, while other journalists are talking about humans struggling to get water while themselves being
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by acuster 2y ago
You are quite right that the document that 'specifies' RISC-V remains a key weakness in the whole movement. For expediency, the choice was made to not sweat it. So the document is actually called a 'Manual' but is linked
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by acuster 7y ago
One of the better ways that occurred to me when we Cal grad students were protesting a couple of decades ago was, rather than withhold the grades, simply to give everyone an 'A'. That form of protest most directly targeted the i
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by acuster 7y ago
You are right, of course, that most of the accounts at the central bank are digital. Also, 'money' is a loose term and 'digital money' much more so. I used the term loosely since fully defining it would take a lot of tim
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by acuster 7y ago
Kudos to the swedes for working methodically to try to find a way for the central bank to issue digital money. They have been working for a number of years on this and seem to be thinking effectively about all of the issues involved. One of
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by acuster 7y ago
External Auditing. I can't audit the central bank's server but I can audit the publicly published blockchain.
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by acuster 8y ago
Your 'one thing' is exactly what Thomas Malthus originally wrote about in the first well-known book on population growth! His thesis, glibly summarized, was that population growth gives the rich a structural problem: given that re