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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by CJefferson on Sunday June 19, 2016 @03:58PM (#11934413)
Never have I read a post where Poe's law applied my strongly.

If you are serious, I think perhaps you are trying to solve too many social problems with technological ones -- see the recent DAO drainage -- if devices had wallets to pay for their own existence, they would almost certainly just get hacked. They'd certainly be a great target!

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by kordless on Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:01PM (#11934428)
The drainer of the DAO well might have a point arguing it is "legal" to do, given the protocol allows it. Solving that without a hard fork will be exceedingly enlightening. Solving social problems is a separate problem entirely, given the socials require centralization. We still need centralization, of course, but it has zero to do with embodying trusted infrastructure.
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