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The Blocksize War
- The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
- De: Jonathan Bier
- Narrado por: Guy Swann
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 362
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 302
This book covers bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface, the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls bitcoin’s protocol rules. It is not possible to cover every twist and turn in the labyrinthine conflict or all the arguments, but I have provided a chronology of the most significant events. This book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasure to Learn About
- De J. Lawler en 06-13-21
- The Blocksize War
- The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
- De: Jonathan Bier
- Narrado por: Guy Swann
Very dense but a good account
Revisado: 10-19-21
Some knowledge of the internal workings of blockchains, Bitcoin and the issues are a must. The book is dense with details, but is thorough and well done.
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Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,306
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,008
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,000
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent. Would make a good movie.
- De Andrew Dodson en 03-04-21
- Liftoff
- Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
Absolutely awesome!
Revisado: 08-04-21
A great book if only it was longer!
The book is an excellent narrative from inception to success.
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An Ugly Truth
- Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
- De: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
- Narrado por: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, Holter Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 632
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 527
Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users’ data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Juicy and well researched
- De Jacki C en 07-13-21
- An Ugly Truth
- Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
- De: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
- Narrado por: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, Holter Graham
A must read / listen
Revisado: 07-29-21
Fully digs into the misdeeds and selfishness of a monopoly. It puts into perspective the nonstop spin and lies that justifies their actions and failings. The book presents evidence why serious regulation is needed.
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A People's History of Computing in the United States
- De: Joy Lisi Rankin
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 78
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very mixed feelings
- De Paul en 02-27-19
Mostly about gender bias in computing
Revisado: 05-28-21
This book is a real disappointment. While it has a historical underpinning, the book incessantly harps on about gender, the masculinity of computing along with racial imbalance. The book has repetitive references to it. I gave up a few chapters in - it was intolerable. I can’t help wonder whether the author has a chip on their shoulder.
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How Apollo Flew to the Moon
- Springer Praxis Books
- De: W. David Woods
- Narrado por: Todd Belcher
- Duración: 21 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
Stung by the pioneering space successes of the Soviet Union - in particular, Gagarin being the first man in space - the United States gathered the best of its engineers and set itself the goal of reaching the moon within a decade. In an expanded second edition of How Apollo Flew to the Moon, David Woods tells the exciting story of how the resulting Apollo flights were conducted by following a virtual flight to the moon and its exploration of the surface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy read
- De DALLASBOX en 05-19-21
- How Apollo Flew to the Moon
- Springer Praxis Books
- De: W. David Woods
- Narrado por: Todd Belcher
Brilliant!
Revisado: 05-26-21
A little slow to get into the technical detail, then it satisfied the engineering geek in me.
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Apollo
- De: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,651
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,468
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,468
Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever for space, ops, and engineering fans
- De JDM en 10-29-19
- Apollo
- De: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
Yeah baby!
Revisado: 04-27-21
A brilliant book! Fascinating and well told. Scientists and engineers will also “geek out”. I wish there were more books like this.
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Shuttle, Houston
- My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
- De: Paul Dye
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles, and 11th-hour saves that have given us human spaceflight. Relaying stories of missions (and their grueling training) in vivid detail, Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director, examines the split-second decisions that the directors and astronauts were forced to make in a field where mistakes are unthinkable and errors led to the loss of national resources - and more importantly one's crew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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6 stars - just brilliant
- De Greg en 02-17-21
- Shuttle, Houston
- My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
- De: Paul Dye
- Narrado por: John Pruden
6 stars - just brilliant
Revisado: 02-17-21
I thoroughly insightful view in mission control for the shuttle. This book mixes just the right about of theory with explanations and real world stories from the author's career. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a very long time.
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Duración: 3 h y 32 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18,852
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,023
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,970
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
- De Judah Family en 07-05-19
- The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- De: Todd Zwillich
- Narrado por: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Overproduced
Revisado: 09-02-19
I couldn't figure out whether this was trying to be a serious audiobook or a podcast / TV infotainment episode. It is trying to cover what is an interesting story, yet it's completely overproduced with musical interludes, sound effects, audio snippits and the like. I found that made it impossible to concentrate on the underlaying story or to take it seriously. The telling of the story kept making unnecessary detours into unrelated aspects of the subject's life on the pretext of describing the life and times - most of it being "artistic license". I'm unsure whether these embellishments were to pad the length, "romanticise" it, or an attempt to make it more accessible to less technical audiences. Despite the length and my love for long form audiobooks, I gave up on it part way through.
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Banking Bad
- How Corporate Greed and Broken Governance Failed Australia
- De: Adele Ferguson
- Narrado por: Adele Ferguson
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
In Banking Bad, Adele Ferguson traces the origins of the banking scandal to the early 1990s, when buckets of money began pouring into compulsory superannuation funds, set up by Labor Treasurer Paul Keating. Attracted by the increasing cash, banks devised corrupt and questionable practices to get their hands on funds, along with aggressive selling practices that ignored due diligence, trust and honesty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly outstanding!
- De Greg en 09-02-19
- Banking Bad
- How Corporate Greed and Broken Governance Failed Australia
- De: Adele Ferguson
- Narrado por: Adele Ferguson
Truly outstanding!
Revisado: 09-02-19
A must read for all Australians. The book is packed with detail and very digestible. It also contains important lessons around politics and corporate regulation.
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Minefields
- A Life in the News Game
- De: Hugh Riminton
- Narrado por: Hugh Riminton
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Hugh Riminton was a small-town New Zealand teenager with a possible drinking problem and a job cleaning rat cages when a chance meeting with a radio news director changed his life. The news man took a chance on him, and at 17 Riminton became a cadet reporter. Over nearly 40 years he has been shot at, blown up, threatened with deportation and thrown in jail. He has reported from nearly 50 countries, witnessed massacres in Africa, wars and conflicts on four continents, and every kind of natural disaster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't recommend highly enough
- De Greg en 03-24-19
- Minefields
- A Life in the News Game
- De: Hugh Riminton
- Narrado por: Hugh Riminton
Can't recommend highly enough
Revisado: 03-24-19
A brilliant book that delivers insightful details of the major stories and events of his career. The content can be challenging but re-enforces the reason to be thankful we have quality journalists like this witnessing and reporting on so many important events in the world, but spare us from being exposed to the horrors and dangers.
His style is calm, balanced and truly professional. If only we had more people like him.
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