It has never been the goal of bitcoin. The original Satoshi paper rather implies the "unbank the banked" objective which is to remove corrupt middleman.
I can confirm it's not fiction as it was written by father of my friend.
TL;DR from goodreads:
During a short business trip to California, Irishman Denis Sugrue was arrested and accused of spying for Russia. But this is no Cold War thriller - this is 2005 in Bush's America.
Facing ten years in federal prison, Sugrue must negotiate the corrupt corridors of American justice and attempt to convince FBI agents that the fact of his innocence outweighs the embarrassment of a failed prosecution.
Web Push API requires centralized service the messages are sent over what has serious privacy implications. Android Chrome makes it even worse because it does not allow changing the Push API provider (Google's proprietary GCM/FCM is used)
For life seen as a part of system/society reproduction is the key motivation (for lack of a better word). Non-reproducing activities are irrelevant temporary aberrations because societies that don't reproduce get extinct and are replaced by societies that focus on reproduction.
even experienced architects working in familiar domains have great difficulty getting boundaries right at the beginning. By building a monolith first, you can figure out what the right boundaries are
This line of thought reaches two decades ago and was expressed in a wonderful essay "Big Ball of Mud" http://www.laputan.org/mud/
It's not only a misnomer but the term is not needed. We've had SOA, web services, microservices, now serverless. I'm not saying it's all hype. It's rather a steady, lasting a few decades, transition towards outsourcing by encapsulating complexity into services. For me we've just arrived to the point where web services are mature enough so they can be consumed directly from the browser.
Unfortunately no word on durability and maintenance guarantees. What happens after a few years when batteries lose most of their capacity? Who is going to take care of recycling? I'm honestly curious about details because as opposed to lead-acid batteries industry, there is no profitable or existing li-ion recycling market.
With the difference that when user types the password it is not displayed on the screen. Server-side generated password must be somehow presented to the user.
systems should probably not let users pick their passwords.
That is they get to pick a generated password (by the system)
It implies that the system knows plaintext password. Even if the system deletes the password and keeps a hash, it remains the problem of distributing that password to the client in a secure way.
It might be the natural size optimal for efficiency but not for survival (in the natural selection sense). The capacity of an organization grows with headcount even with diminishing efficiency per capita.
This is so terrible use case for blockchain. In a trusted environment blockchain might only introduce complexity and security problems. Hey, but isn't it what consulting is about?
You can view GOPATH centered development as a sign of simplicity. Probably not the most elegant thing in the world but the code organization is easy to fix with: