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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>>(Don't assume that HTTPS is keeping you safe.) >Why? because https depends on certificate authorities and CAs depend on coercible companies which depend on governments from not molesting them. The existence of QUANTUM INSERT
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
I don't think anyone in the net-privacy realm would be surprised by anything written in this blog. A better title would have been: "On overview of Traffic Analysis intelligence leaks on Tor". All tor does is provide onion ad
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>My house was blurred [...] It almost draws more attention [...], which is probably contrary to privacy interests. You're commenting on privacy when you're addressing covertness. Privacy/Secrecy qualities addresses observa
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
The CIA doesn't rely on TLS, do you? "Development Tradecraft DOs and DON'Ts [...] (U) Networking Directive Rationale [...] DO NOT solely rely on SSL/TLS to secure data in transit. Numerous man-in-middle attack vecto
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Graeber's writing offers many thought provoking left anarchist perspective that's sorely missing in public debate. I thoroughly enjoyed "Debt"'s perspective on social-economic collaboration, money, credit, debt, and
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
also see git-based blogs (strong publisher authentication via pgp signing commits) https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/02/09/my-new-git-based... https://laanwj.github.io/about/
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>To have a centralized state sponsored education or health care system allows it to be more efficient that smaller for profit institutions that have incentives to increase cost to the students as their profit depends on that. An institut
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Htop 3.0(github.com)
604 points by DINKDINK 6y ago|102 comments
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>You're thinking about this from a pirate's point of view I'm thinking about it from a cost / enforcement point of view. PGP survived outright, explicit ban by the most powerful government with some of the most powerf
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>these days people get music from spotify ($$) and similar services, not from torrents ($free). I'd say centralized won. My point is less about what content delivery systems are most prevalent at the present moment, more so about wh
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Is your position that centralized services can out survive distributed ones? Because user IP's are less observable? The past 25 years of cyber/cypherpunk software and legal battles say otherwise. Decentralized solutions outlive
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Positive and Negative Rights or Coercion and Non-Coercion Rights "Negative and positive rights are rights that oblige either inaction (negative rights) or action (positive rights). These obligations may be of either a legal or moral ch
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
"The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour week is that no one who is not worth $106 a week to an employer will be employed at all. You cannot make a man w
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Inflation taxes the wealth of all savers -- this is unavoidable. Currently many countries have, or are proposing additional wealth taxes that are graduated in amount (What the original article is discussing). >blame wealth tax for the
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Sound similar to our current situation? “[...]her position was alarmingly worse, the financial situation beyond her understanding. The krone, at 25 Swiss centimes the previous Christmas, was now quoted at one-twelfth of a centime. Her share
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>No-one is saying that regular Joe's with $800 in their savings account should be penalized for just letting them sit. Does no one in this thread understand that there already exists wealth taxes in countries without explicit wealth
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>If you have $10 million in the bank, you're not just a "saver" or "refraining from consumption". If an economic agent holds a money, they are -- by definition -- saving their money. If they instead decide to sp
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
The mistakes pro/con proponents of "wealth taxes" make is: Proponents of wealth taxes argue that by institutionalizing theft to a broader degree, everyone will live in a utopia, the man at the margin will prosper. In essence
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>Penalizing static value seems almost reasonable. Ah yes, the economic argument of "punish savers and people refraining from consumption will lead us to our Centrally Planned Utopia" >If you have a bucket of money that isn&#
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
"The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour week is that no one who is not worth $106 a week to an employer will be employed at all. You cannot make a man w
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>> Housing costs are not up because of Airbnb >I think they are partially. You're mistaking housing costs with prices. Housing costs are the input prices of components that entrepreneurs accept or reject to produce housing.
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
People have paid Beyonce > 125,000x the musician down the street. Why should tell people who want to pay her money that they're wrong and we should steal from Beyonce to give to a musician no one wants to pay? Are you saying milli
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>if these techniques and vulnerabilities were made public[...] Should the government prove that it followed the law when investigating a criminal? Did they obtain the proper warrants that people recognize preserve stable law and order? I
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Other comments have already addressed why it's an unstable strategy to integrate two independent pieces of value to PoW but it bears repeating: All Proof of Work is useful to those who pay for it. Proof of Work does not reward "t
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
What's the difference between what and nettop? Other similar tools: nettop iptraf iftop nethogs
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>It will still be owned by a private company you have no control over I don't have any ethical justification to enslave or coerce or control a person. Why should I have any ethical justification to enslave or coerce or control, if
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>There's also a lot of resistance to electronic banking in... certain circles In the USA as of 2017, 8.4 million households (6.5% of households) don't have any bank account. [1] [1] https://www.fdic.gov/househol
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
You've moved goalposts. Your original claim was: A) >It’s impossible to count how many of those abandoned transactions were successfully replayed on the new chain now it's B) >nodes don't know if re-org's are happ
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>You don't need byzantine fault tolerance within an organization. Maybe you haven't encountered a need for BFT in organizations that you've observed but it would be fallacious to say "...and ergo no organization would
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
Do you have a background in distributed systems? In the same why the common advice with cryptography is, "one can build cipher unbreakable to the creator but not the world", the same way too "one can create a 'blockchain

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