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[email protected] · January 11th 17, 03:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:51:51 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:20:35 on Wed, 11 Jan
2017, d remarked:

An industry that can "afford" to "throw way" people who are less than
50% through their useful career cannot be short of suitable workers.

I agree that there's ageism, but some of that is justified if you want
fresh minds to address new problems.

That works in a small percentage of cases. However what usually happens is
the "fresh minds" make the same old mistakes of previous generations and just
end up re-inventing the wheel. Often poorly.

I'm not sure how that would apply to something like Blockchain. No wheel
to re-invent, there.

Since no one has any idea who invented blockchain and bitcoin there's no way
of knowing if they're a young genius or an ageing professor. Or a government
agency. My money is on one of the latter since no one young who invents
something like that off their own bat is going to remain anonymous when they
could shout it to the world and make a fortune on the back of it.

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Spud