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If you are designing for 8 demands it’s likely that 6 are easy, 7 requires serious contemplation, and that doing all 8 results in a worse system overall. Key lesson from system-design legend [Jeff Dean](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf).
The Napkin Math Methodology for System Design
sirupsen.com
I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place for new application development, and in particular field-level encryption with distinct keys for each entity you might contract with (e.g. each business for a business-to-business product, each user for a consumer product).
A Brief Rant on Converging Compliance Regimes.
lethain.com
The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both "good" and "bad" money (both forms required to be accepted at equal value under legal tender law) quickly becomes dominated by the "bad" money. This is because people spending money will hand over the "bad" coins rather than the "good" ones, keeping the "good" ones for themselves. Legal tender laws act as a form of price control. In such a case, the intrinsically less valuable money is preferred in exchange, because people prefer to save the intrinsically more valuable money.
Gresham's law
wikipedia.org
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