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The file format is contorted, where necessary, to make common operations fast.
Why Are the Microsoft Office File Formats So Complicated?
joelonsoftware.com
PoW systems demonstrate economic stake in a cleverly indirect way: You buy a bunch of computer hardware and pay for a lot of electricity and do a bunch of calculations to prove you really care about Bitcoin. PoS systems demonstrate the economic stake directly: You just invest a lot of money in Ethereum and post it as a bond, which proves you care.
The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine
bloomberg.com
What humans do best is see information in our environment, synthesize it, and connect it with related ideas in novel ways. But it’s much harder for us to come up with something out of nothing.
Writing With Machines
every.to
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