Privacy coins and HIPAA — what worked for you?

Dr.ReproEndo said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

One concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

amsterdam_pete said:

Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody…

Coming at amsterdam_pete’s question from a different direction. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

Following on from fiona_VT — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

Closing the loop on my own question.

For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.