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Applied Politics For Crypto

yellow manual - applied politics for the crypto industry Preface Moderation is not an ideology1. It is not an opinion. It is not a thought. Likewise, it is an absence of thought. In other w...

Optimal autonomous organizations

Imagine if the holders of Chipotle shares had to elect the next new burrito flavor

Originally posted on https://graymirror.substack.com/p/optimal-autonomous-organizations In 2022, the distributed autonomous organization is sort of a thing. DAOs exist. They are not a joke. Bu...

High Resolution High Throughput

High resolution, high throughput (pt 2) source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frankmcsherry/blog/master/posts/2017-03-01.md This post is about the second of two issues I outlined a while ...

Differential Dataflow Pt1

Differential dataflow roadmap source https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2016-07-26.md I’m going to take this post to try and outline what I think is an important directio...

File locking in Linux

File locking in Linux Introduction Advisory locking Common features Differing features File descriptors and i-nodes BSD locks (flock) POSIX record locks (fcntl) lockf function Open file descrip...

Questions For New Tech

Questions for a new technology Given that coordination and communication swamp all other costs in modern software development it is a pressing area to invest in, especially as your team scales....

Pricing Transaction Costs

Gas Pricing Notes and Suggestions Carrying over from the issues we have: DO NOT TRACK GAS USED VIA WRAPPER: gas used through a wrapper contract is not accurate with Multicall due to EIP-2929...

Rationality Is Self Defeating

Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems – Bryan Ford’s Home Page Excerpt Many blockchain and cryptocurrency fans seem to prefer building and analyzing decentralized systems i...

The Allowchain

The Blockchain and the Whitechain

The blockchain and the whitechain - by Curtis Yarvin “There is one centralized whitelist of registered addresses.” The libertarian dream of crypto isn’t dead yet—but we can see its death from...

Is Folk's theorem the Blockchain's nightmare

Is Folk’s theorem the Blockchain’s nightmare? source, https://youtu.be/WsrzWuA0xdo Editors Note: Could not find these slides, so these are my own notes. There is more content than this in th...