The EEE is way underpowered for todays standards, no doubt. However, IIRC, you can replace it's battery which is a feature todays handheld/ultraportable computers don't have.
Look into Microsofts Surface Line of products and look at the Windows Tablets Samsung has to offer. One current Windows Notebook I find intrigueing is the Huawei Matebook. Very neat device. Like a rippoff of the MacBook but built around Windows. Definitely check that one out.
12" - 13" ARM Linux Laptop, thin, made of direct recycled plastic.
Point in case: I have a cheapo 11" Chromebook based on ARM. It has the smallest and shittiest battery you can imagine but still runs approx. 6 hours on a single charge. I'd love to have a decent portable rasberry pi style laptop with 30+hrs runtime. I'd prefer that over some overpowered Apple thingie. Especially for us programmers the prospect of a lightweight 30+ hour linux laptop is particularly enticing.
This should advance the reputation of FOS Hardware further. Which can't be wrong.... I'm starting to desperately awaits decent quality cheap FOS Hardware ARM Laptop. That would move things forward in this department.
There are many things that are way different then back in the IE days, the most important perhaps being that unlike IE the essential parts of Chrome are FOSS. There are quite a few feasible Chrome clones out there - commercial and enthusiast/FOSS and Chrome is way closer to web standards that IE ever was. Google would be very stupid to turn Chrome into something proprietary.
Google wants the Web to remain free. They just want everyone to use Google, that's all.
The danger with Google isn't Chrome but that they potentially have the power to hijack the web. For ordinary people who can't tell the difference they bascially have already, with their search engine. However, as soon as they attempt lock-in, people would notice and streat clear. The choice to rely on Google ranking for you business is nearly without alternatives for many people, but still no one forces you to do it,
I see some dangers lurking but Chrome turning proprietary and locking others out sure isn't one of them. At least not yet.
WordPress is an insane mess. The simple task of migration to another domain is nigh impossible with WP. With relatively well built systems such as Joomla it's done in a few minutes.
However, unlike my attempt 7 years ago with Joomla, I've actually manged to make a decent living of WordPress in the last 4 years and continue to do so. Thus I have decided to deal with the mess. It's sort of like bloated ERP Setups. They may be expensive and they may be outdated, but they provide an endless opportunity for stuff that needs to be done and can get billed.... And at least it is open source.
Bottom line: Count me in on the never ending WP craze.
Comparing PHP with Scala is like comparing "Game of Thrones" with "Ulysses". Any n00b can program something useful in PHP within an hour. That's the whole point of PHP. That's why we have such amazingly feature complete systems like WordPress. Given, the architecture of these PHP systems is so bizarre any reasonably seasoned programmer will not believe his eyes when he looks at the actual code - but it does work (most of the time) and it is useful.
Scala is a programming language that forces you to know what you are doing. Yeah, no shit it has less bugs. If I don't know what a JVM and what bytecode is, there is little chance I'll even get started with Scala. Only an experienced Programmierung will get the point of Scala in the first place. Thus Scala code has less bugs. No surprise here.
No social networks. I have one spoof account on FB for my social dancing contacts which I use as needed. Can go for weeks without looking at it. My other social network account has my real portrait and name and is basically there to lead people to my professional Homepage (I do websoftware development).
Email:
I get roughly 5 meaningful emails a week (that includes work), the rest is mostly newsletter spam which I filter or unsubscribe. I seriously cannot fathom what these poor sobs getting 200 emails a day handle it.
Web:
I read and write a little Slashdot every day, and skim German newspapers and newsmags. Although I've reduced that lately - to much cheaply produced read & enrage bait even in respectable outlets (they are *all* struggling to compete). I watch John Oliver, Jim Sterling, and the occasional TED talk. Tim Ferriss (tim.blog) roughly once a month.
Professional:
Techcrunch roughly once a week, Chromedev channel on YouTube roughly once a month.
My biggest struggle is trying not to get caught up in to many web technology fads, which I don't always manage. With full stack webdev you never stop learning so there is more than enough information for me to take in anyways.
Books: roughly 1 every two months right now. To little. I read American scientific stuff (poor economics, why Nations fail, etc.) and some sci-fi and cyberpunk fiction.
Recently I've picked up the habit of breaking off reading if I find I have more important/rewarding things to do, like yoga, dancing or planning my next trip.
This isn't really news. Climate refugees will outnumber other refugees (war, economical, social) within two to four decades. This has been suspected for 2,5 decades and since was proven to be a correct assumption. Scientists also pretty much agree that certain parts of earth will be inhabitable at the end of this century. Central india and large areas in africa are on that list. Global heat wave death rates are rising by the year and this will only get worse.
It's really not that hard. We all did '10: print "Hi, I'm MasterBlaster!âoe; 20: goto 10 back in the day. Everyone gets that in less than 90 seconds.
Just like basic math it takes 5 minutes to explain programming in principle to a regular adult. Unless you're a total dimwitt or just don't want to listen. Those types should actually really be dismissed as too stupid to understand.
You can close by saying that the real work starts "... when you have 150000 files of source code and have to find that feature that needs updating. We have automated tools for this, but it takes understanding, foresight, some technical knowledge and a measurable frustration tolerance. That's why we earn a little more than the regular worker."
Bingo. The job of a programmer explained perfectly sufficiently.
... seriously hilarious grey-hat hacker prank waiting to happen. I suspect bananapeels won't cut it, put I'm sure that plastic tarp, sailfishing string, graphite spray/powder, oil, spray-paint, craltops, remote controlled tilt-ramps, duct-tape, wall-to-wall carpeting tape, some other trinkets and perhaps even some more elaborate wireless/mobile connection hacking can produce balls of fun with this partolbot. Or some way to mislead it into a pit or curb with fake portable walls or something.
Don't tell me you weren't thinking about this yourselves the minute you read the story.
Bottom line: Could some local hacker crew get to it and post an anonymous video on youtube about the results? I'd like something to laugh about.
... are all ingredients of urban romantic sujets. I also could imagine that open, manually strung powerlines are very common in Japan, just as are top-down built wooden houses - for traditional reasons. And perhaps because of earthquakes, difficult landscape and easy maintainability.
"5 centimeters per second" has elaborate and long short of urban and suburban settings, including details such as crooked modern lamp posts, bulding sites, modern urban life, and yes, powerlines, etc. The best shots in Ghost in the Shell are run-down urban sujets with strong Hong-Kong shanty town quoting built in. The Gits helicopter ride to the tune of Gits "Nightstalker" is cyberpunk romanticism / film noir poetry at its peak, as are the rainy sujet/mood shots in Gits. Quite close to key scenes in Bladerunner and Casablanca IMHO.
These shots and settings are all basically visual versions of a type A Simon & Garfunkel song. Take Sounds of Silence as an example if that's the only one you know. The japanese are a cultivated modern traditional and romantic folk, so they are quite into this.... It's basically half of what anime is all about. The other half being a kind-of soft-of Star Trek style techno-romanticism, as in NGE.
Let's not forget that many anime are for grown-ups. Film noir / contemporary arthous style and/or cyberpunk is more or less the western version of it. And quite a bit is quoted by the japanese. They also quote franco-belgian comics a lot, quite a few of which use a similar nuanced style and language.... Unlike U.S. americans the japanse are a little more broader minded and are actually aware that franco-belgian comics exist and that the richest body of western comics and graphic novels has absolutely nothing to do with superheroes. (Sorry, I had to squeeze that in here.)
... but for reasons unrelated to their job performance.
The fundamental problem is, that a woman can do something no man ever has and ever will be capable of: She can bear children and comfort a man. This is a cold hard evolutionary and technical fact. As a man in a society where women take the worth out of what I'm doing and care less about choosing a man for good and using him to start a family, I must subconsciously suspect that I and most importantly my genes are not needed. I thus withdraw.
If however I am building an entirely new society from scratch... Let's say for example I'm a sexually unattractive super-nerd leaving a society were I'm not needed that wouldn't ever get me a decent women and I go into a barren wasteland and rent a garage and start cutting up silicon on the wacky premise that this newfangled semiconductor thing takes off - then I would be pretty demanding that any women that comes along plays her part and takes care of a good or halfway useful man and leaves the hard work to us men.
It's really that simple. Sorry lady, but your PhD mean less than nothing to me if your young and beautiful. You could be a cleaning lady (not for long though) and I would still be interested in you. Have a PhD and signal me every step of the way that you don't need me or any other man around then no, you won't get my support. You will probably get even less than some male asshole at work. At least I don't ever expect to make love to him and he might come in handy when we need to oust that pesky competition.
Bottom line: A big problem in today's society is that it doesn't love or respect it's men that much anymore. If we are not needed, coun't me out. I'm doing part-time webdev, and dancing and the occasional ONS on the side. I musn't, but it's what today's educated women seem to want. A reliable relationship seems pretty unlikely these days and times. And what looks like the Fall of the white man may actually be the Fall of society. I'm not saying it is so, but 2nd+ feminists shouldn't applaud to loud just yet.
... to see if you're doing fine with your workout regime you have a problem.
Every human has very sophisticated built-in fitness tracker, finely tuned to him/her and adjusted for the current state of all things bodyly. It's called hormone system & brain.
It goes something like this:
- If your heart is pounding, slow down. - If you're having trouble catching your breath, slow down. - If you want to put your heart, circulation and respiratory system through the wringer, sprint uphill as fast as you can for 10 Minutes. Rest and relax for a longer time afterwards. - If you're fat, change your diet. - If you're inflexible, do Yoga. - If you're getting old and/or are stiff and weak do Kung Fu and/or Aikido. - If your muscles are tense, get some Tai Massage. - If you're low on excersize time quit watching TV. - If you want to get a handle on your sexuality, do Tantra seminars.... And so on. It's not that difficult.
We are currently in a gadget craze and it's getting silly. I don't need a webserver on my toaster or some app to control it. If I want toast, I go over to the toaster, put some toast in, push down the lever and wait for the toast to pop up. There is no app whatsoever that will make this experience any better. On the contrary, it will get worse and some jocker will finally hack it some day and burn my toast to a crisp and I won't be able to do anything about it.
It's the same with fitness trackers.
OTOH, if you insist: There are still Pebbles available, although that plattform is dead. Apple seems to have the smartwatch thing covered though. Like some expert said a while ago: There is no market for smartwatches. There's a market for the Apple watch.... Just don't expect it to improve your fitness. That only happens with workouts.
I happen to be in the lucky place of having (at least) two careers in an lifetime. The other being performing arts. (I have a dancing/performing arts diploma) I can assure you the things holding me back in one are the precise same things holding me back in my other career in IT. It boils down to this: All careers, IT and elsewhere, that deserve the name are hand crafted and built on the willingness to have uncomfortable/difficult conversations and make tough decisions. Your current IT lead is just the very same as your current choreograph: Beyond a minimal extent he/she doesn't give a flying fuck where you are at in 20 years from now. And they don't have to. It's not their job or their concern.
It should however be yours.
I'm pretty glad with how my career is going and you can be sure all advancements are based on going through very very tough patches and seeing them through and coming out on top. Eventually.
... if Bitcoin is cryptographically safe, then transfer and validation at a mass scale will be so expensive that one might as well ditch the crypto part entirely and validate with simple crypto against some neutral central system.
Building something of such a digital currency including the infrastructure needed to handle it at mass scale would be cheaper faster and maybe even safer, considering how many parts of the distributed system are losing Bitcoin due to hacks and failures.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't RTFA. What's the problem? AFAICT AMP is an open standard suggested by Google. Is this some new petty RSS wars thing? Can someone explain?
The EEE is way underpowered for todays standards, no doubt. However, IIRC, you can replace it's battery which is a feature todays handheld/ultraportable computers don't have.
Look into Microsofts Surface Line of products and look at the Windows Tablets Samsung has to offer. One current Windows Notebook I find intrigueing is the Huawei Matebook. Very neat device. Like a rippoff of the MacBook but built around Windows. Definitely check that one out.
12" - 13" ARM Linux Laptop, thin, made of direct recycled plastic.
Point in case: I have a cheapo 11" Chromebook based on ARM. It has the smallest and shittiest battery you can imagine but still runs approx. 6 hours on a single charge. I'd love to have a decent portable rasberry pi style laptop with 30+hrs runtime. I'd prefer that over some overpowered Apple thingie. Especially for us programmers the prospect of a lightweight 30+ hour linux laptop is particularly enticing.
This should advance the reputation of FOS Hardware further. Which can't be wrong. ... I'm starting to desperately awaits decent quality cheap FOS Hardware ARM Laptop. That would move things forward in this department.
There are many things that are way different then back in the IE days, the most important perhaps being that unlike IE the essential parts of Chrome are FOSS. There are quite a few feasible Chrome clones out there - commercial and enthusiast/FOSS and Chrome is way closer to web standards that IE ever was. Google would be very stupid to turn Chrome into something proprietary.
Google wants the Web to remain free. They just want everyone to use Google, that's all.
The danger with Google isn't Chrome but that they potentially have the power to hijack the web. For ordinary people who can't tell the difference they bascially have already, with their search engine. However, as soon as they attempt lock-in, people would notice and streat clear. The choice to rely on Google ranking for you business is nearly without alternatives for many people, but still no one forces you to do it,
I see some dangers lurking but Chrome turning proprietary and locking others out sure isn't one of them. At least not yet.
My 2 cents.
WordPress is an insane mess. The simple task of migration to another domain is nigh impossible with WP. With relatively well built systems such as Joomla it's done in a few minutes.
However, unlike my attempt 7 years ago with Joomla, I've actually manged to make a decent living of WordPress in the last 4 years and continue to do so. Thus I have decided to deal with the mess. It's sort of like bloated ERP Setups. They may be expensive and they may be outdated, but they provide an endless opportunity for stuff that needs to be done and can get billed. ... And at least it is open source.
Bottom line: Count me in on the never ending WP craze.
Comparing PHP with Scala is like comparing "Game of Thrones" with "Ulysses".
Any n00b can program something useful in PHP within an hour. That's the whole point of PHP. That's why we have such amazingly feature complete systems like WordPress. Given, the architecture of these PHP systems is so bizarre any reasonably seasoned programmer will not believe his eyes when he looks at the actual code - but it does work (most of the time) and it is useful.
Scala is a programming language that forces you to know what you are doing. Yeah, no shit it has less bugs. If I don't know what a JVM and what bytecode is, there is little chance I'll even get started with Scala. Only an experienced Programmierung will get the point of Scala in the first place. Thus Scala code has less bugs. No surprise here.
My 2 cents.
... market USians still think "superhero comics" == "comics".
Meanwhile European, Franco-Belgian and Japanese comics still make up 95% of the total of all comics and are still doing perfectly fine.
There, FTFY.
In other news:
"Are marvel and DC fans finally discovering how shitty, bland, boring, overpriced and repetitive their favorite comics are?"
"DC comic readers head explodes from overload after catching glimpse of Franco-Belgian hardcover by Vance & van Hamme"
"Marvel enthusiast dies of heart attack and endorphine overdose after repeatedly masturbating to French Milo Manara album."
"US Superhero fan sells all belongings, moves to southern Europe after enchanting read of Coseys "A trip to Italy" comic"
"Euro comic shipment arrives at US borders. Marvel & DC stock plummets."
Quite scary now that it's getting real. ... Considering that I used to enjoy playing Shadowrun and reading Gibson.
It's not quite the same these days.
I gave as gifts books from Seneca and Epikur (Epicurous in English?). Epiktet would be one I'd recommend aswell.
Better than any holy scripture, way smarter and more effective at leading to a good and useful life. With way less guilt. I.e. none.
These days I would pretty much call myself a stoics or Epicurean much more than anything else.
The Eco balance of meat is orders of magnitude worse than the worst mono-agriculture. If we can replace meat with plant, we sold. ASAP.
I'm not even taking about animal mistreatment and, even worse, the abolishment of anti-biotics by abuse by the meat industry.
Live stock meat is bad. Very bad in many ways. We should get rid of 99% of it.
social networks:
No social networks. I have one spoof account on FB for my social dancing contacts which I use as needed. Can go for weeks without looking at it. My other social network account has my real portrait and name and is basically there to lead people to my professional Homepage (I do websoftware development).
Email:
I get roughly 5 meaningful emails a week (that includes work), the rest is mostly newsletter spam which I filter or unsubscribe. I seriously cannot fathom what these poor sobs getting 200 emails a day handle it.
Web:
I read and write a little Slashdot every day, and skim German newspapers and newsmags. Although I've reduced that lately - to much cheaply produced read & enrage bait even in respectable outlets (they are *all* struggling to compete). I watch John Oliver, Jim Sterling, and the occasional TED talk. Tim Ferriss (tim.blog) roughly once a month.
Professional:
Techcrunch roughly once a week, Chromedev channel on YouTube roughly once a month.
My biggest struggle is trying not to get caught up in to many web technology fads, which I don't always manage. With full stack webdev you never stop learning so there is more than enough information for me to take in anyways.
Books: roughly 1 every two months right now. To little. I read American scientific stuff (poor economics, why Nations fail, etc.) and some sci-fi and cyberpunk fiction.
Recently I've picked up the habit of breaking off reading if I find I have more important/rewarding things to do, like yoga, dancing or planning my next trip.
My 2 cents.
Captain Stoic was glad to help.
This isn't really news. Climate refugees will outnumber other refugees (war, economical, social) within two to four decades. This has been suspected for 2,5 decades and since was proven to be a correct assumption.
Scientists also pretty much agree that certain parts of earth will be inhabitable at the end of this century. Central india and large areas in africa are on that list. Global heat wave death rates are rising by the year and this will only get worse.
Get one of those. Their setup does look like the prime choose a choice for someone who wants to avoid the big two.
It's really not that hard. We all did '10: print "Hi, I'm MasterBlaster!âoe; 20: goto 10 back in the day. Everyone gets that in less than 90 seconds.
Just like basic math it takes 5 minutes to explain programming in principle to a regular adult. Unless you're a total dimwitt or just don't want to listen. Those types should actually really be dismissed as too stupid to understand.
You can close by saying that the real work starts "... when you have 150000 files of source code and have to find that feature that needs updating. We have automated tools for this, but it takes understanding, foresight, some technical knowledge and a measurable frustration tolerance. That's why we earn a little more than the regular worker."
Bingo. The job of a programmer explained perfectly sufficiently.
... seriously hilarious grey-hat hacker prank waiting to happen. I suspect bananapeels won't cut it, put I'm sure that plastic tarp, sailfishing string, graphite spray/powder, oil, spray-paint, craltops, remote controlled tilt-ramps, duct-tape, wall-to-wall carpeting tape, some other trinkets and perhaps even some more elaborate wireless/mobile connection hacking can produce balls of fun with this partolbot. Or some way to mislead it into a pit or curb with fake portable walls or something.
Don't tell me you weren't thinking about this yourselves the minute you read the story.
Bottom line:
Could some local hacker crew get to it and post an anonymous video on youtube about the results? I'd like something to laugh about.
Yeah, right. Ada Livingston was punching cards and didn't know what she was doing. As did Grace Hopper.
... rebrand to "All-American US Antiviral" and use some sort of Eagle + Stars & Stripes thingie as their logo/CI.
I have not a single doubt they'd be back into business in no time.
... are all ingredients of urban romantic sujets. I also could imagine that open, manually strung powerlines are very common in Japan, just as are top-down built wooden houses - for traditional reasons. And perhaps because of earthquakes, difficult landscape and easy maintainability.
"5 centimeters per second" has elaborate and long short of urban and suburban settings, including details such as crooked modern lamp posts, bulding sites, modern urban life, and yes, powerlines, etc. The best shots in Ghost in the Shell are run-down urban sujets with strong Hong-Kong shanty town quoting built in. The Gits helicopter ride to the tune of Gits "Nightstalker" is cyberpunk romanticism / film noir poetry at its peak, as are the rainy sujet/mood shots in Gits. Quite close to key scenes in Bladerunner and Casablanca IMHO.
These shots and settings are all basically visual versions of a type A Simon & Garfunkel song. Take Sounds of Silence as an example if that's the only one you know. The japanese are a cultivated modern traditional and romantic folk, so they are quite into this. ... It's basically half of what anime is all about. The other half being a kind-of soft-of Star Trek style techno-romanticism, as in NGE.
Let's not forget that many anime are for grown-ups. Film noir / contemporary arthous style and/or cyberpunk is more or less the western version of it. And quite a bit is quoted by the japanese. They also quote franco-belgian comics a lot, quite a few of which use a similar nuanced style and language. ... Unlike U.S. americans the japanse are a little more broader minded and are actually aware that franco-belgian comics exist and that the richest body of western comics and graphic novels has absolutely nothing to do with superheroes. (Sorry, I had to squeeze that in here.)
My 2 cents.
... but for reasons unrelated to their job performance.
The fundamental problem is, that a woman can do something no man ever has and ever will be capable of: She can bear children and comfort a man. This is a cold hard evolutionary and technical fact. As a man in a society where women take the worth out of what I'm doing and care less about choosing a man for good and using him to start a family, I must subconsciously suspect that I and most importantly my genes are not needed. I thus withdraw.
If however I am building an entirely new society from scratch ... Let's say for example I'm a sexually unattractive super-nerd leaving a society were I'm not needed that wouldn't ever get me a decent women and I go into a barren wasteland and rent a garage and start cutting up silicon on the wacky premise that this newfangled semiconductor thing takes off - then I would be pretty demanding that any women that comes along plays her part and takes care of a good or halfway useful man and leaves the hard work to us men.
It's really that simple. Sorry lady, but your PhD mean less than nothing to me if your young and beautiful. You could be a cleaning lady (not for long though) and I would still be interested in you. Have a PhD and signal me every step of the way that you don't need me or any other man around then no, you won't get my support. You will probably get even less than some male asshole at work. At least I don't ever expect to make love to him and he might come in handy when we need to oust that pesky competition.
Bottom line: A big problem in today's society is that it doesn't love or respect it's men that much anymore. If we are not needed, coun't me out. I'm doing part-time webdev, and dancing and the occasional ONS on the side. I musn't, but it's what today's educated women seem to want. A reliable relationship seems pretty unlikely these days and times. And what looks like the Fall of the white man may actually be the Fall of society. I'm not saying it is so, but 2nd+ feminists shouldn't applaud to loud just yet.
My 2 cents.
... if you go on a shooting rampage - which I would totally get btw. - please be so kind and kill the right people.
That aside: A job this grueling you might want to quit.
Just sayin'.
... to see if you're doing fine with your workout regime you have a problem.
Every human has very sophisticated built-in fitness tracker, finely tuned to him/her and adjusted for the current state of all things bodyly. It's called hormone system & brain.
It goes something like this:
- If your heart is pounding, slow down. ...
- If you're having trouble catching your breath, slow down.
- If you want to put your heart, circulation and respiratory system through the wringer, sprint uphill as fast as you can for 10 Minutes. Rest and relax for a longer time afterwards.
- If you're fat, change your diet.
- If you're inflexible, do Yoga.
- If you're getting old and/or are stiff and weak do Kung Fu and/or Aikido.
- If your muscles are tense, get some Tai Massage.
- If you're low on excersize time quit watching TV.
- If you want to get a handle on your sexuality, do Tantra seminars.
And so on. It's not that difficult.
We are currently in a gadget craze and it's getting silly. I don't need a webserver on my toaster or some app to control it. If I want toast, I go over to the toaster, put some toast in, push down the lever and wait for the toast to pop up. There is no app whatsoever that will make this experience any better. On the contrary, it will get worse and some jocker will finally hack it some day and burn my toast to a crisp and I won't be able to do anything about it.
It's the same with fitness trackers.
OTOH, if you insist: ... Just don't expect it to improve your fitness. That only happens with workouts.
There are still Pebbles available, although that plattform is dead. Apple seems to have the smartwatch thing covered though. Like some expert said a while ago: There is no market for smartwatches. There's a market for the Apple watch.
... that stall every other career:
1) Not knowing my worth.
2) Relying on others to advance it.
Which are somewhat two sides of the same coin.
I happen to be in the lucky place of having (at least) two careers in an lifetime. The other being performing arts. (I have a dancing/performing arts diploma) I can assure you the things holding me back in one are the precise same things holding me back in my other career in IT. It boils down to this: All careers, IT and elsewhere, that deserve the name are hand crafted and built on the willingness to have uncomfortable/difficult conversations and make tough decisions. Your current IT lead is just the very same as your current choreograph: Beyond a minimal extent he/she doesn't give a flying fuck where you are at in 20 years from now. And they don't have to. It's not their job or their concern.
It should however be yours.
I'm pretty glad with how my career is going and you can be sure all advancements are based on going through very very tough patches and seeing them through and coming out on top. Eventually.
My two eurocents.
... if Bitcoin is cryptographically safe, then transfer and validation at a mass scale will be so expensive that one might as well ditch the crypto part entirely and validate with simple crypto against some neutral central system.
Building something of such a digital currency including the infrastructure needed to handle it at mass scale would be cheaper faster and maybe even safer, considering how many parts of the distributed system are losing Bitcoin due to hacks and failures.