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Re:Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:27PM (#16730896)
True, but in practice "blockchain" implies some sort of distributed consensus.

Except for private blockchains, which are totally brain-dead.

Re:Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:24PM (#16730879)
>There are many uses for blockchain other than as a cryptocurrency.

Name one.

Re:Dark Patterns, the Ratchet on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:49PM (#16690354)
That's everywhere on Windows. They did the same thing to try to railroad people into installing Windows 10. They do the same thing for every software upgrade.

OS X isn't much better.