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I'm sure that'll be reassuring when production goes down at 3am... and you're seeing an error message that nobody else in the world has encountered.

Can you explain in detail further?

How would the smart contract confirm the decryption works... without having access to the key and data (and therefor making it all public?)

How does this protect against meaningless data being sent - all you've confirmed is that something can be decrypted... but says nothing about what is being decrypted.

What use case do you have for this. What situation is there where you need data from someone, but so little trust exists you can't pay them before or after the data is sent?

> I can only assume that it is because their licensing demands are too high.

This seems an arbitrary assumption. Products don't make it to market for myriads of reasons. Seems like a poor example to use to target patents - especially as with patents you know that within ~20 years that idea will be freely available to everyone.

Incredible as in 'that's a great deal' or as in 'that seems a ripoff'?

I find 50c to read 100GB from disk, do useful work on it (including running javascript code or ML models if you are so inclined) and returning a result in seconds... pretty damn incredible.

Getting a CS degree:

Pro - You might get hired by xwdv.

Con - You might get hired by xwdv.

So far the cons seem to outweigh the pro's for me.

lolwhat.

Runs startup. It fails.

Makes a game. It fails.

Fair enough, those things are really hard to do.

Gets into tech interview, asked a question he doesn't know the answer to and DOES NOT RESEARCH THE ANSWER FOR THE NEXT INTERVIEW?

Now I'm starting to understand why the startup and game failed. Sure, reversing a tree is arbitrary. However, when there's a 6 figure job on the other side of that arbitrary line... it's probably worth learning.