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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by astrange on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:02PM (#35550369)
Nothing is ever irreversible, it's just a question of how expensive it is to make the database writes. Ethereum forked the whole currency to undo a write (the DAO hack) and if the legal system can find a hacker they can make them reverse their transaction.

…But having someone with admin access over the network and can fix mistakes is just a lot cheaper than refusing to build that in for ideological reasons.

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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by JohnFen on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:37PM (#35558158)
Most (but not all) things in life are technically reversible. But some things are so difficult or expensive to reverse that they are effectively irreversible nonetheless.
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