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tomerwelleron Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum

"...a Byzantine quorum system with 20 nodes would be more decentralized than Bitcoin or Ethereum with significantly fewer resource costs. Of course, the design of a quorum protocol that provides open participation, while fairly selecting 20 nodes to sequence transactions, is non-trivial."

That's exactly what the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) is: https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...

(Full disclosure: I work at Stellar)

tomerwelleron Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

You have a point. Describing their workflow has value to it.

With that said, the title of the post is not "Meet our workflow", It's "Meet X: bla bla". In the world of software, one expects to actually see a product named X that bla blas.

tomerwelleron Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform

Describing your ML platform is nice. Open sourcing it would have been nicer.

tomerwelleron Using JavaScript Modules in ClojureScript

The fact that their example includes using cljsjs package for externs is troubling. For the meanwhile, to avoid worrying about extern files, I'd stick to using a separate build process for npm packages.

Shameless self promotion: http://blob.tomerweller.com/reagent-import-react-components-...