Why I am not Enthusiastic about the Blockchain or Bitcoin – Part 1: A Terrible Investment

A couple weeks ago I was discussing a technical architecture with a consultant working for a client of mine.  After this, we ended just small-talking about this and that in tech, and ended up discussing “the blockchain” and “cryptocurrency.”  Much to the surprise of the other consultant, my judgement of the blockchain is that it […]

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My experience after just under a week with the iPhone X: I feel very secure when my phone says “Face ID” before filling in my username/password on a web page, I feel much less secure when it just logs me in to my investment account without having to do anything but look at my phone. […]

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If privately sponsored research is suspect because private companies cannot be trusted to not influence the results in their favor, how come we can trust publicly funded research not to do the same? Not to skew results in favor of the people but in favor of the public sector bureaucracy. […]

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