A Deployment-First Methodology to Mechanism Design and Refinement in Distributed Systems · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2301.04508/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Deployment-First Methodology to Mechanism Design and Refinement in Distributed Systems — mentioned by synctexthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156929urn:hackerpapers:mention:2301.04508:40156929Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:55:12 GMT<p>Our university is cycling distance from Amsterdam, everything is legal there. But more seriously, it is indeed difficult to work on CyberPunk 2.0 topics within a university. Solid question! As an academic you critically rely on incoming grant money, so my strategy for past decades have been to discover what the real problems are before they become hype. That means you need to need to run your research team as a startup. Very few academic thinkers. We discover what is hard using our deployment-first methodology [1]. We have 2.3 million downloads of our distributed system. Our &quot;Bandwidth as a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2301.04508/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DC