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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by arcticbull on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:07AM (#30344253)
Which is why crypto cannot work for the general public. It pretends otherwise in spite of overwhelming evidence.
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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by yuvadam on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:22AM (#30344356)
I'm curious to understand what exactly you mean by that statement
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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by thematrixturtle on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:29AM (#30344392)
I presume they mean that out in the real world, there are lots of edge cases where reversing a transaction is a better outcome than chest-thumping about "Code is Law".
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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story by Tabular-Iceberg on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:08AM (#30345402)
That was a solved problem long before computers came about. If a transaction is wrong, don’t change it, add another that compensates for the error.

The real problem with crypto is that usually what is asked for is a ledger, and the crypto and distributed parts are just bloat.

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