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nvlron Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

Not really a bait of switch though since Ethereum has always been very clear that this is the plan. Anyone who bought a rig should have known that they had a limited investment horizon.

nvlron Iceland's attempts to replant its forests

Like all things, there is another side to the story too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-rea...

nvlron Show HN: Version Control for Microsoft Word

This is very cool, and I wish we had something like this, but I don't see many law firms going for it.

Most law firms (and I would guess all major ones) will not allow uploading of client documents or work-product to any cloud provider, let alone an unproven start up. This risk is frankly way too high.

The only way I see this happening in the legal context is if it can be run from the firm's servers with all data hosted locally.

nvlron Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

Jury found in Goldman's favor. It also found that the Bakers had mishandled their roles in the transaction. The jury determined that the Bakers had breached their fiduciary duty to their co-founders in failing to advise them about potential problems with the deal.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/goldman-overcomes-its...