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Despite creating benefits in terms of speed and predictability, permissioned blockchains ultimately suffer from one important drawback. Trust is fickle. With permissioned blockchains, there is no guarantee that parties will not collude to
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“the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”
― Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
― Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
“The problem gets compounded by what’s called the “illusion of explanatory depth,” where we feel confidence in our understanding of a complex system, but in reality have just superficial knowledge.”
― Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
― Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
“the fundamental point that what we think of as “side effects” are misnamed. In a system there are no side effects—just effects, anticipated or not.”
― Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
― Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
“Undecidables disrupt this oppositional logic. They slip across both sides of an opposition but don’t properly fit either. They are more than the opposition can allow. And because of that, they question the very principle of “opposition”.”
― Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide
― Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Crome Yellow
― Crome Yellow
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