Rafaël Garcia-SuarezThe free-market case against cryptoFree markets, as Adam Smith pointed out long ago, run on trust and regulation. The actors in a free market need to trust its mechanisms in…May 16, 2022May 16, 2022
Rafaël Garcia-SuarezWhy does Donkeyskin’s donkey shit gold?Many years ago, I was struck by the similarity between two very well-known fairy tales from Charles Perrault: Cinderella and Donkeyskin…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Rafaël Garcia-SuarezThe shift of perspective in “A Room of One’s Own”Near the middle of A Room of One’s Own, while considering what could have been the life of women during the past centuries, Virginia Woolf…Apr 23, 2017Apr 23, 2017
Rafaël Garcia-SuarezThe Turing ClosetIn popular culture, the words “Turing Test” evoke a simple dialogue, a series of questions and answers, between a human interrogator and a…Jan 7, 20171Jan 7, 20171
Rafaël Garcia-SuarezinBooking.com EngineeringProfiling in ProductionAt Booking.com, we’re big fans of monitoring. With the usual battery of system-level monitors, we keep an eye on the health of our servers…May 1, 2013May 1, 2013