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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I think he meant that consciousness is currently irreducible. Consider this: 1. Someone figures out in a lab all possible causes of fear via the surveying method. Fear seems solved. 2. New people appear that claim to experience fear when so
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I think we as a community need to embrace a more holistic approach to the problem of privacy. It's great that some of us can protect privacy by going crazy on each channel that leaks our personal data. But the remaining >7B people o
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Technically, only copy-paste mutations are not enough as you confirm addresses on the screen. But, for example, DOM edits from a malicious extension are enough.
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It is already implemented for ERC20 token transfers which are probably >90% of smart contract invocations.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I'll reply here to the three comments: I admit that you're right guys. I have to concede my point about backdoors. If you modify user's view of Coinbase DOM then no security in the Ledger/Trezor is going to help with tha
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Yeah this is plain wrong. Sorry but you simply don't understand how transactions work in cryptocurrencies. You cannot edit a transaction (for example by changing it's outputs) after it has been signed. That's how cryptographi
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> but will not prevent you from sending your cryptoassets to the "wrong" endpoint. Can you explain how's that a problem? The only thing you can do with a signed transaction is to either broadcast it or not. MyEtherWallet s
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I used both a "swarm of crypto clients" and ledger/trezor, and the thing about the latter is that not only is it more secure (and argue with that if you want), but also more convenient . To a regular user those devices are k
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Yes they do - you don't need to plug in your device to see your current balance, even after power cycling the host device. That being said - there's virtually no privacy in most cryptocurrencies. Your Bitcoin/Ethereum/Ri
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
AFAIK given the Ledger's on-screen confirmation process it really doesn't matter what's the medium of communication between the host machine and the device. It could as well be sent via unencrypted http routed through China,
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as this will be a huge, sad show when it starts. The Economist's article on no-deal disruptions: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/11/24/what-to-expect
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Or a bad BGP route being broadcasted, whether intentionally or not: https://bgpmon.net/bgp-leak-causing-internet-outages-in-japa...
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Not only XKCD's anecdotal evidence confirms it's good to change. A straight coin toss experiment says so too: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/quittin... Also, personal, fro
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Totally agree. My complaint for this article would be that given how much time the author spent on the cultural story of pushing the working hours up it'd be good to first do the basics: 1) what is "work" precisely, 2) what a
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This is well researched, but unless I missed something it doesn't answer the basic question: just how many people work over 40 hours? It just kind of assumes that "this is what happens". But how often? I worked for 3 years at
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
You can visit more than one site with news/links to satisfy your curiosity, and I'm sure many people here do. And even more importantly the guidelines are explicit here - you know well what you will not find on this site (example:
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Yeah, sorry, my bad.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I have used lawyers to defend my contract rights against people that try to weasel out of paying up for some services. How about we don't go black and white on lawyers (go case by case instead), to appreciate the complexity of human in
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> And the upside is mandatory licensing fees for every Android device. Sorry, how could that be an upside? It's plain, zero-sum rent-seeking. I.e. only an upside if you happen to collect the rent.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Not sure I understand. It's pretty clear to me why Jimmy doesn't submit - it would slowly deteriorate the Wikipedia project. He's favoring long term benefits over short term benefits (for the project).
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Google is already on top of that data: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> As for it being 'game over', why? Because, the further part of the story goes, machines think quicker and they'll go on improving even quicker, all while having potentially different goals from us. To be completely fair,
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> Computers haven’t to date ever done anything on their own, what reason is there to think they ever will? Interestingly, people that spend a lot of time studying their own brain by meditating are usually very confident that what most pe
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I did use BFS/DFS or things like find/union in my job. But I'd say it's mostly about how quickly you can wrap your head around abstract concepts. An analogy from finance: if you take a pen and a paper, and think about it