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masterbit | 1 month ago | on: Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

Super cool. My wife and me recently analyzed a small bagel shop that was open for sale in Berlin. Unfortunately it didn’t work out for us. But such a software would have been incredibly useful. Former owner did everything in .xls.

masterbit | 3 years ago | on: Pentax 645 [pdf]

… is there such a thing? For a Rolleiflex?

masterbit | 3 years ago | on: The case for bad coffee (2015)

Does anyone known The source and exact wording of this Tom Waits quote:

‘It getting harder and harder to find a real bad cup of coffee.’

masterbit | 4 years ago | on: No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122-year-old record

.. just listening to the audio book. It supports the articles headline with substantial insights. I can recommend it. Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984800

masterbit | 4 years ago | on: 'Superager' brains resist the march of time to have memories like 25-year-olds

As this comes out very late in their life, seems not be able to influence the natural selection process in human evolution.

masterbit | 4 years ago | on: Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study

https://www.drbronner.com/all-one-blog/2019/12/dr-bronners-s...

... Dr. Bronner is supporting research in that area for a while.

masterbit | 7 years ago | on: AI and Blockchain: An Introduction

... blockchain as the coded constitution for a future AI world: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/10/computational-law-sym...

masterbit | 7 years ago | on: Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCoin’ to rival Bitcoin

... like your classification. My version of that is in short:

Blockchain is a technical protocol ( crypto signed list over a P2P network with consensus). DLT is a higher level function on top of a blockchain which adds social / legal / economic status to the data in a blockchain.

masterbit | 7 years ago | on: Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCoin’ to rival Bitcoin

Blockchain coordinates databases over different legal entities. That's the magic. It's still your DB in your Datacenter when you run your own node. You have autonomy over your own records with your keys. And you have visibility of all other records. A big central DB is under the control of a central body. With a blockchain the central control is / could be limited.

masterbit | 8 years ago | on: Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf]

Look at R3 Corda, transactions only shared and stored between parties involved, not the rest of the network.