David Schwartz

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I am OpenCoin's Chief Cryptographer and one of the architects of the Ripple payment system.

I live in California's Gold Country, east of Sacramento.

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Jan 22	comment	Is “May I have some drink?” incorrect? The give away is if you Google for "have some drink", none of the first 20 hits are even remotely like your usage. The first two that are even close are on pages filled with non-standard word usage like "wanna".
Jan 22	comment	Correct usage of “yet” in the middle of the sentence Without a comma, it becomes incomprehensible. "I'm someone like you and yet like no one." That just doesn't scan.
Jan 19	comment	How to avoid repeating a word already contained in “RAID”? @JonHanna: See my comment to the question. It is simply false that the way a word originated tells us something about how it should be used today.
Jan 19	comment	Should we use “like” as a conjunction? Use it if the people you plan to use it on are going to react favorably to it. Don't if they won't.
Jan 19	answered	What's the difference between 'just' and 'fair'?
Jan 15	comment	Which phrase is more natural to a native speaker? You probably could say, "The problem-underlying notions included X, Y, and Z", but I doubt anyone would. (It reads unnaturally, and to speak it you have to run "problem" and "underlying" together awkwardly, then pause after them, to make it clear what you mean.)
Jan 9	comment	Is it “Check and mate” or “Checkmate”? No one says "mate" for a stalemate. Nevertheless, a stalemate is a type of mate. No one says "entity" for a dump truck, but a dump truck is an entity. (A "mate" is an undesirable end result, from the middle English "mat".)
Jan 9	comment	Can one prefer 'either' or 'neither'? @Jay: You're assuming "I prefer neither" would be understood as "I prefer neither to the other". That conclusions requires ignoring the context. The context is not "Do you prefer X to Y?" or "Do you prefer X or Y?". The context is, "Do you prefer X or do you prefer Y?". In that context, it would be understood to mean that neither is preferred to other things. Nothing in the context compares the two things to each other.
Jan 8	comment	Can one prefer 'either' or 'neither'? I don't think anyone would actually interpret the statements this way. "I prefer neither" would be understood to mean you have no use for either of them. "I prefer either" would be understood to mean that you find them both about equally useful.
Jan 7	answered	Ask question without using “?” in it
Jan 3	answered	“The point is moot”
Dec 27	awarded	Necromancer
Dec 21	comment	Explanation for “emails”? @tchrist: But the same is not true for email, otherwise, "Send me an email" would be incorrect, just as "Send me a mail" is incorrect.
Dec 19	comment	Comma or Semicolon You can't use a semicolon. The clause beginning with "including' can't stand on its own.
Dec 18	answered	Is the sentence “My pain look like my pride” grammatically correct?
Dec 17	comment	Is it okay saying “What the deal with him is that …” Just like you'd say "His problem is that he is too ...", you'd have to say "What the deal with him is is that he is too ...", and that would be extremely confusing (two identical words in a row). So say "His deal is ..."
Dec 12	comment	Does the plural include the singular? Since "case" is plural, it's talking about two cases in which amendment is permitted. Your co-worker's interpretation makes no sense because with that interpretation, there would only be one case.
Dec 11	comment	polite way to ask someone to be patient? It's not presumptive if you had already taken time and they have already been patient. In that case, and that's the more common case IMO, you're showing your appreciation for the patience they have already shown.
Dec 10	comment	Why don’t people ever say “I have wanted to ask”? I think the main reason is that you would probably only be pointing that out if you were actually going to ask. And saying "have wanted" implies that you stopped. If you stopped wanting to ask, why are you asking?
Dec 8	asked	Name for title used before a name for phonetic or rhythmic reasons