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by MrXOR 6y ago
Jörg Arndt (jj) also wrote an awesome book about π. https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/pi-unleashed
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Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains (Book)(distributedconsensus.net)
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I am a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki and Pete Docter.
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Why has Fermat's Last Theorem been so difficult to prove? (1999)(scientificamerican.com)
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What Is Good Mathematics? (2007)(arxiv.org)
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by MrXOR 6y ago
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: illegal drugs and software (social media).
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Thanks! Very useful.
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Academia is the best place to do novel research, and a bad place to write great codes (like Tarsnap). You can't do great research on "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture", if you are not an academian (like Manjul Bhargava).
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by MrXOR 6y ago
@mechanical_fish! please come back
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Attacks only get better ... https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/researchers-exploit-http-...
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Online Voting is a very hard problem. In "political" online voting, you (voters) are adversary, everyone is adversary, everything is adversary. Your enemies are all APT groups around the world. You can't trust others, you can
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by MrXOR 6y ago
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Security by obscurity is dangerous. You can eliminate any obscurity with reverse engineering, spying, etc. Obscurity makes your system prone to catastrophic collapse and loss of security. Security by open design is necessary but even insuff
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by MrXOR 6y ago
"Amicus Plato, amicus Aristoteles, magis amica veritas" (my greatest friend is truth) [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Q: How Much Energy Does It Take to Store a Bit? A: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph240/jiang2/ Q: How Much Energy Does It Take to Erase a Bit? A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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How Much Energy Does It Take to Send a Bit? (2018)(large.stanford.edu)
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Leslie Lamport: Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses (2013)(wired.com)
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Shor: Are you sure? NSA: Antoine Joux > Quantum Computers, Like him! Crown Sterling: We sell CADO-NFS™ for breaking ECDSA of Nakamoto's funny money. To be continued ...
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by MrXOR 6y ago
>It doesn't address scalability with respect to transaction volume. For scalability with small transaction volume, Coda[1] is the best. [1] https://codaprotocol.com
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Ripple is not permissionless. I think Algorand[1] is the first. [1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...
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by MrXOR 6y ago
The greater success is blockchain, It will swallow dollars.
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Global state? Please explain more.
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Could you please clarify?
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by MrXOR 6y ago
No, Craig Wright is Fakoshi! https://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/04/logical-fallacies-...
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Interesting! You want secure asemic cipher? say hello to Format-preserving encryption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format-preserving_encryption
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by MrXOR 6y ago
This is the blockchain trilemma: Decentralization, Scalability or Security, choose only two.
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Satoshi used Hungarian notation?!
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by MrXOR 6y ago
No, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118746
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by MrXOR 6y ago
Was Satoshi a Cryptographer? EDIT: (probably) No [1] [1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshi-nakamoto-had-outside-...

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