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  1. Re:A middle man always comes back into the picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen (hbr.org)

    Aaah, no, no no no no no no! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    It has gone wrong.

  2. Re:"Fixing" the problem undermines the entire idea by astrodoom · · Score: 1 · on Ethereum Debate Marred By Second Digital Currency Heist (dailydot.com)

    "Also, this isn't a heist, because nothing was stolen. It's more of a counterfeiting operation, if I understand the commentary correctly. Someone took advantage of a recursive bug and an anti-pattern of calling recursive code before updating values and essentially created more 33% more Ether than previously existed out of thin air."

    It was a heist. Ether didn't get created, it just got moved. The child DAO tokens could theoretically have been "created" out of thin air if you drained the DAO past 0 recursively, then the balances were updated on all those recursive calls (after the sending of the tokens). That didn't happen though, he was just able to stack a bunch of withdraw operations up recursively, and the withdraws executed before the balance was checked (for each method call). Even if the past zero drain had been attempted, the Ethereum network would have errored out when the contract tried to send more funds than it had, so you couldn't generate Ether out of the ether (teehee).

    Here's a great write-up: http://hackingdistributed.com/...

  3. The General consensus is that it was pure fraud. by blackicye · · Score: 5, Informative · on MtGox Sets Up Call Center For Worried Bitcoiners

    http://hackingdistributed.com/...

  4. Re:Do they even know what notarizing is? by EminGünSirer · · Score: 2 · on Cornell Researchers Unveil a Virtual Notary

    If you were to look at the subsection called "Truth vs. Notarization" in this link in the article, you'll find much of the same points made.

  5. Re:Get Partners then Figure it Out by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users?

    Following your example of using Mongo, I am interested in hearing how you counter the arguments in this article and why Mongo is a better fit for any task, please.

  6. Re:One suggestion... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users?

    Regarding your recommendation of mongodb, I am interested in hearing how you counter the arguments in this article and why the other solutions are worse.

  7. Re:Node.JS + MongoDB + Geolocation DNS by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users?

    MongoDB is designed for clustering and replication of various types of Data.

    I am interested in hearing how you counter the arguments in this article please.

  8. Re:MongoDB is broken by design. by stephanruby · · Score: 3, Interesting · on A Tale of Two Databases, Revisited: DynamoDB and MongoDB

    Nice astroturf. See here for a detailed analysis of why MongoDB is broken by design.

    Speaking of which, the same back to you.

    Did you know the author of the article you pointed to is a competitor and recommends his NoSQL Database called HyperDex as a reasonable alternative (although, he doesn't state he's the developer for HyperDex, nor does he state the fact that HyperDex is still in alpha and doesn't work properly)?

    Nicely played Anonymous Coward!

  9. MongoDB is broken by design. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting · on A Tale of Two Databases, Revisited: DynamoDB and MongoDB

    Nice astroturf. See here for a detailed analysis of why MongoDB is broken by design.