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by random023987 9y ago
> If your problem justifies a Hadoop cluster, you probably have the team that can properly set it up. 95% of the installations of a Hadoop cluster do not have a problem that justifies a Hadoop cluster.
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by random023987 9y ago
Rust has an explicit goal of zero-cost abstractions, while Go will allow more expensive abstractions in the service of simplicity.
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by random023987 9y ago
> The answer I got to this problem was "design middleware that handles this for you" which has to be a joke It's not a joke. The couch security model doesn't match the requirements of multi-user untrusted clients typi
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by random023987 9y ago
> Come to think of it, I should at least consider that he's making it up, but I've met him several time and he's well versed in crypto and way ahead of the curve in learning about this stuff. Who knows? If you poll people
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by random023987 9y ago
> One possibility would be a government mandate that financial transactions are done with a blockchain in order to have transparency. How does that stop governments from engaging in Iran-Contra behavior? How is that better than a governm
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by random023987 9y ago
> It's not as if our current system uses a negligible amount of power Our current system does in fact use a negligible amount of power. Each $2 latte you put on a credit card uses an amount of electricity so infinitesimal that it ca
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by random023987 9y ago
> In my opinion, the ICO is the blockchain killer app. There are so many examples, from Canadian Tire Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money to Microsoft Points https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by random023987 9y ago
Proof-of-work blockchains were developed to solve a problem that only exists in a small percentage of distributed engineering use-cases. Unless you need to build a "censorship-free" peer-to-peer ledger distributed among untrusted,