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https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft-volume-ii
They come to the same conclusion as Dan - that Ballmer did a ton of things right and he was actually a much better CEO than the credit he's given today.
Part 1 of the podcast focuses on Bill Gates' era - both episodes are super engaging, the research and preparation they do is remarkably good.
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1) is always paid by the customer that initiates the payment. 2) can be paid by anyone, as these contracts are permissionless and anyone can interact with them. At the moment Coinbase picks up the tab for doing this, but we will likely not be doing this in the long-term
that's how our ETH processing works at the moment, we derive different BIP44 addresses and the customers pay to them. But that approach is possible only because the transactions fees are paid in ethereum as well; you cannot pay the tx fees in ERC20. With smart contracts someone else can pay the fees, which makes it ideal for our use case.
There are other schemes that don't require a copy of each shard, allowing you to reconstruct the file if any subset of the nodes is online.
http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/assignments/rec-therac25.html
The Leveson paper is quite long, and not all parts are equally important:
Skim Sections 1 and 2. You should understand the basics of the Therac-25's design and how it was used. (You may also find this figure a helpful accompaniment to Figure 1 on page 4.)
Skim Sections 3.1-3.3, which detail a few of the Therac-25 incidents.
Read Sections 3.4 and 3.5. These detail a particular incident, the software bug that led to it, and the response to the bug. Pay close attention to 3.5.3, which describes the bug.
Skip Section 3.6. (It describes an additional incident and a different bug—feel free to read if you are interested, though)
Read Section 4 closely.You can order it here http://www.amazon.com/Poemotion-2-Takahiro-Kurashima/dp/3037...