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Re:Ask HN: Isn't the trust model in blockchain broken at the periphery? on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:03PM (#16190760)
Reputation and competition I understand. How does time help?

Ask HN: Isn't the trust model in blockchain broken at the periphery?

Posted by suhaschatekar on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have been pondering about end-to-end trust in a blockchain based system.A crypto-currency blockchain has end-to-end trust as the value (crypto-currency in this case) is generated and consumed within the chain. There is no outside element.But a non-crypto-currency blockchain will rely on an external party pushing value/information/knowledge into the chain as a fact. Let's take real estate as...

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Re:Visualising Complex APIs Using API Map on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:58AM (#13571551)
That is intentionally left out of this diagram for two reasons

(1) - That detail is covered by API specs like Swagger (2) - Two endpoints that return the same resource (of the back of two different operations on the same resource) may return a slightly different format/field. This is up to the developer of the API and best captured in API spces.

Re:Visualising Complex APIs Using API Map on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:53AM (#13571533)
It has lot of similarities with ERD so can say it is ERD for API.
Re:Visualising Complex APIs Using API Map on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:53AM (#13571530)
That's exactly the point of this diagram - make audience familiar with the API's domain before throwing them into useful detail of specs like Swagger.

You brought another very good point about being able to hyperlink directly into Swagger, something we have been talking about a lot recently. Unfortunately, we have not come across a tool that does this satisfactorily.

Re:Exploring Fake, an F# Build System for all of .Net on Saturday March 15, 2014 @06:38PM (#7406827)
Can I use it as a substitute of psexec.exe executing my scripts on remote machine?