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Reply to the original post, which this post links to: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p55xvy/re_cryp...
(Disclaimer: I'm not the author of either article, but I find the second one much more insightful and in line with how I see things).
- airlines are heavily regulated
- slots are owned by airlines
- pilot unions control major US airlines
- a large percentage of airliners are already owned by leasing companies
- airline flights are dispatched
- airlines hedge fuel prices in advance.
- pilot training is done on specific models and they do route checks. Their "personal business model" is based on seniority at one airline, not like Uber drivers
- virtually anybody can start a new airline under the above rules.
Twitter profile shows CTO of a bitcoin startup and i don't see anything else that this person knows anything above baseline about airlines.
Comments seem like "Things that I think would make a ideal airline if I controlled the universe"
As a practical example, our preferred HA solution for MySQL replication has effectively no network partition safety - if a network becomes partitioned, we'll end up with split brain. However, we have not once had to deal with this specific problem in our years of operation on hundreds of servers.
That said, do make the assumption that your AWS instances will be unable to reach each other for 10+ seconds on a frequent basis. Your life will be happier if you've already planned for that.
From: [0]
Author of [0] labels ALL cryptocurrencies as an abusive, CPU burning, botnet creating, ponzi scamming abject disaster which he cries as '...one of the worst inventions of the 21st century.'
He then further rants about CIs... but overall, this is an ant screaming for water in the Sahara Desert.
The reply to [0] debunks anti-cryptocurrency alarmist myths (which needs citations) in [2]. Everyone in [1] is also replying to [2].
Reality: The world once again moves on and cryptocurrencies are here to stay and have reached the mainstream.
And finally, a reply to my post:
> I wonder if you read the article.
I wonder if you read the guidelines? [3]
[0] https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p55xvy/re_cryp...
[2] https://paste.ee/p/vfs3B
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html