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So learning from your mistakes is relevant for everything except financial platforms and life support systems? Those we need to get perfect out of the gate?

That sounds great. Please provide some examples of financial systems (isn't capitalism a big experiment?) and life support systems (yeah we're not poking a stick at the environment at all...) supporting this theory.

I honestly don't have a dog in the bitcoin race, but considering it's a fairly recent invention I expect there'll be some growing pains just like everything else.




People building financial and life support systems should not only learn from their own mistakes, they should (must) also learn from the mistakes of their predecessors. If it takes you ten times to learn how to light a charcoal grill because you're too stubborn to ask for help, that's one thing. When you're dealing with money, you have a responsibility to try a little harder. "Don't put high value ssh keys on a server shared with irc yahoos" should not be a growing pain a financial platform experiences.




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