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by World177 4y ago
Google blocks ads from their competitors. [1] In the article, they state it’s because those companies are not following their standard, and are using too many resources. (Which they claim negatively impact device performance through metrics
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by World177 4y ago
The vaccine is just unrelated to the article. It's about the people who have had Covid-19, not the vaccine.
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by World177 4y ago
Discord does have a revenue share. [1] Elon Musk also recently stated that he planned to add creator monetization to Twitter. [2] From Discord > Good news: It's a 90/10 split! This means you, the creator, get to keep 90% of eac
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by World177 4y ago
Crypto.com Holds 20% of its' reserves in SHIB. [1] There's something strange happening, but there's more to crypto than just these bizarre meme tokens. [1] https://decrypt.co/114248/crypto-com-holds-20-of
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by World177 4y ago
> Additionally, a structure with the ownership of OpenAI would be put in place. Microsoft would entail a 49 percent stake while other investors would take over the other 49 percent. The remaining 2 percent will reportedly go to OpenAI’s
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by World177 4y ago
It looks like the EFF had one. [1] Though, the website currently does not load, and from archive.org, it looks like they killed the project sometime before July 2021. [2] [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05&#
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by World177 4y ago
Did you not see Storj's canary? They used a cryptographic signature. [1] For the government to continue ongoing operations, they would either have to physically seize the relevant private keys, or compel release of them if they couldn&
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by World177 4y ago
> This actually does not sound like the start-of-the-art for cryptography. I'm wrong. Review the paper Google provided as a source for more information. [1] There are also lectures available online from Ronald Rivest, [2] one of the
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by World177 4y ago
> Perhaps Google have some lightweight countermeasures against these types of attack (even a random some-milliseconds timing at the client side between receiving a signed blind token and using it to establish the VPN connection would hel
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by World177 4y ago
If Google's VPN used Tornado Cash's protocol, they wouldn't be able to take the proof of having a session key back to Zinc to determine who asked for that to be signed. (if we assume Zinc is malicious) The protocol used looks
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by World177 4y ago
> The fundamental anonymity model Google have employed is that the VPN tunnel is authenticated using "blind tokens" which are signed by an authorization service "Zinc." The Zinc service validates OAuth credentials pas
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by World177 4y ago
You are correct, I just misread it. edit: It should be fixed now.
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by World177 4y ago
From their recent 10Q for investors, they list a revenue of $7.8 billion for "Google Network" in revenue for the preceding 3 months before September 30, 2022 [1] There are 90 days in 3 months, so their revenue for a day is approxi
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by World177 4y ago
Water treatment at home isn’t difficult as long as it isn’t polluted with something bad like hydrocarbons. A distiller can be purchased for less than $100. There are many homes in Texas that are using heaters that aren’t heat pumps, so in t
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by World177 4y ago
I don't really find this suspicious. It would probably be better for him legally if they found a way to raise the funds to keep FTX solvent. He has also already stated the SEC killed his attempts to save FTX. [1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by World177 4y ago
archive.org also offers a way to save a snapshot of a page. [1] I just do not use it frequently because it takes more effort to navigate to it. [1] https://web.archive.org/save
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by World177 4y ago
> The 60M+ user base for ENS-enabled browsers is a genuinely impressive number. But at the same time it's about 1.1% of the world's total internet users. In terms of reach, it's basically like making your product a desktop
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by World177 4y ago
> To my knowledge, the Chrome Web Store user count represents the number of users with the extension installed who have opened Chrome in the past 7 days. So the 10M+ number for MetaMask includes everyone who installed the extension but i
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by World177 4y ago
Brave Browser states 50M monthly active users [1] and MetaMask states 30M monthly active users. [2] The Chrome extension shows 10M+ [3] which is the source I used. It seems like Daily Active Users (DAU) is more often used than Monthly Activ
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by World177 4y ago
There are really interesting use cases of "Web3" As an example, consider domains. Ethereum Name Service domains are currently one of the most popular. If you use these domains, you instantly have access to the 10,000,000 people us
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by World177 4y ago
They definitely lost money with Luna/UST. [1] I wonder if we'll ever find out how much they lost [1] https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/15233819532395233...
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by World177 4y ago
Y Combinator also backed a failed company [1] that was trying to take advantage of the high APR (20%) for UST staking. [2] I don't think there has been confirmation yet about how much UST Alameda was holding, but if true, it would add
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by World177 4y ago
It’s too early to believe they’re going to collapse. They managed to shrink the market capitalization by 15~ billion USDT after the LUNA collapse [1] while intermittently losing the peg by about as much right now for a month. I wouldn’t sto
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by World177 4y ago
License takes precedence when you don’t own the copyright. ToS takes precedence when legally allowed and you do own the copyright.
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by World177 4y ago
In my memory, when GitHub released it, they were explicit that using data like this “is common practice in machine learning.” Though, I tried to find the quote and couldn’t, so maybe my memory is wrong and I am remembering a blog post from
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by World177 4y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. The monopolist had a $100,000,000 theft last month, [1] after a $1 billion dollar loss from LUNA in the summer. [2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/business/binance-hack
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by World177 4y ago
> The point of attribution and copyright is to create a creator/inventor-friendly environment. They're building a class, but, beyond that, I'm not really confident there are any parties that feel like they've been har
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by World177 4y ago
> At this point, most people agree that investment for retirement generally involves putting money in an index fund and that's what people are doing. A percentage of their paycheck goes here. Withdrawing at retirement does create se
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by World177 4y ago
The first tweet is easy to understand https://www.newtraderu.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burry-... He's stating that too many people blindly believe investing in the top 500 companies in the Unit
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by World177 4y ago
> Incrediblest full of all the harmfulsts! Not only Machine learning: I do not agree that it's a good idea to make using copyrighted data for training illegal. The people who are upset that GPL code was used for training should be h

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