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by Asdfbla 9y ago
There's more dimensions to that though. Can participants have identities? If yes, then you don't need proof-of-work, for instance but can have a distributed ledgers with conventional algorithms for Byzantine agreement etc. Might b
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Very interesting research, but trying to derive actionable recommendations for humans seems a bit laughable at this point. Still seems tough to become immortal these days. Harvesting young blood, a rigid diet, castration and starving yourse
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Would be funny to see a game server exploit (since this was about Epic Games here) via specially crafted network packages that look like valid game messages. Has this happened before? Seems natural that those game coordinator backends and s
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I suppose if a Cloud provider could ensure that all your VM instances run on the same host and no other VM is allowed there then the issue would be a bit mitigated. Although this restriction on how the cloud provider is allowed to schedule
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
A for loop also is an implicit branch, by the way. At least it will be compiled to something with a conditional jump. So being unsure about how many times you want to do a thing is a no-go too.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Just curious: Even after an attacker goes through all the effort of finding out the physical address of the memory location they want to manipulate, how would someone make sure to get an adjacent memory location to even attempt to execute t
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The way it reads it sounds reasonable, but ultimately it seems more targeted at aspiring consultants who were already pretty entrepreneurial minded than at the general programmer crowd. Apart from doing things 'right' (proper rate
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Is there really much there is to expect though? Bitcoin's value has no real basis one way or another, since all the purported practical uses have fizzled out once the network became incapable of actual commerce due to various factors l
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I wonder if reporting on Bitcoin's random walk is really newsworthy these days.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
In any case, you shouldn't neglect the subtle but important sources of bias those pre-crime models can have. Here's an interesting talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfThopD7L1Y Basically, one instance
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Making them deflationary is more of a political statement than anything else I think. The crypto-currency crowd has this libertarian streak and of course those people believe that inflation is the devil, used by governments and banks to rob
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Very strange to see that. Are the managers responsible at Mozilla not aware that a significant part of the appeal of Firefox is user autonomy and privacy? No reason to gamble away your reputation by violating user trust like that. I unders
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems unnecessarily adversarial of you. I think Moxie has justified his standpoint relatively convincingly, even if you may not agree with it. And to some degree, the success of Signal, or Signal's protocol as implemented widely used s
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
While yet another cryptocurrency doesn't sound so good, I think Moxie has at least proven himself enough with Signal (in terms of being pragmatic about usability while trying to get the maximum amount of security and privacy for users)
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I still think it's an interesting approach. If you want to be more efficient and less wasteful than Bitcoin, at some point trust has to come into play. And reducing your trust to the manufacturers of secure enclaves (whose products can
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
If IoT botnets become more prevalent (and it doesn't seem like IoT makers have incentives to make their devices more secure), I wonder if ISPs will just start monitoring the traffic patterns of their customers for possible DDoS activit
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I'm curious how far practical implementations of the NIST guidelines take the advice to preempt dictionary attacks by not letting users choose known bad choices. Of course the advice is perfectly reasonable, but when a user can't
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Sounds like an interesting approach, but just that I understand the scope or impact of the paper right: Surely data-aware indexing can't be the novel part, right? Or was it always so complicated to model the data distribution that no o
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
At least traditional modern financial instruments still have some connection to an underlying real-world market, even if they are 10 layers of financial abstraction removed from reality. They can also always sort of justify it by saying tha
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Yeah, if you are interested in the technical aspects of cryptocurrencies it can be really frustrating because there's so much bullshit and unsubstantiated hype out there. It's as hyped as deep learning, but I guess at least there
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Pretty sure it used to be that you have to deliberately pin content that you want to share on your node. Else nodes that accessed it will throw it out of their cache if they don't need it anymore. Maybe they changed the behavior in the
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I think by default IPFS also doesn't even replicate content. So you don't even have to block hash lookups in the whole network but just take down the one host that currently has the only replica.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Not that creating Bitcoin wasn't an achievement, but it built upon heaps of existing systems that explored proof of work, distributed ledgers and so on. The main innovation was the combination of ledgers with proof of work to prevent S
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Trust and security, maybe, but actual utility? That's far from clear. Cryptocurrencies have a rather extreme threat model and it's not clear at all that people who are not regime critics or criminals (I don't mean to disparag
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
You're right of course, but still there is a point: For 1 'intellectually' interesting data science job created there's probably 10 that have more to do with data massaging and all the relatively boring logistical stuff
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Is deniability really good for public offices? Politicians surely need some degree confidentiality on certain documents and communications, but they also need be held accountable for their actions (while in office).
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Was it just the time that the ecosystem needed to adapt to the Python 3 changes or were there essential changes in the 3.x versions up to 3.6 that made it easier to switch from Python 2?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
While I can understand that the switch to the new system was necessary, I hope they improve the new extension functionality a bit further. One negative thing that I noticed that extensions don't seem to be able to interact with the tab
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems plausible, though regardless of whether Kaspersky cooperates (maybe under some gag order) with Russian agencies or not, it seems prudent for any government in the world to avoid using software that potentially uploads confidential dat
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
You're right that they should be liable, but pragmatically it's maybe too much of a risk for smaller companies to face some potentially frivolous lawsuit for millions of damages supposedly caused by a ddos originating from some of

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