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by ahnick 2y ago
Great info. What's the source for this data?
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by ahnick 2y ago
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
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by ahnick 2y ago
but you did bother to comment on it. :)
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by ahnick 2y ago
Here are the key points outlining why thewanderer1983's response misinterprets noch's comment and contains inaccuracies: Misinterpretation of the Original Point: Intelligence vs. Moral Superiority: Noch discusses the
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by ahnick 2y ago
Questions I have in these types of situations: * Does replacing the CISO actually make the system more secure? Presumably he had a lot of tribal knowledge built-up and who is going to know the system better than him? * As systems get more a
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by ahnick 2y ago
Exactly!
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by ahnick 2y ago
What are you even talking about? Being able to run 10 year old software (on any OS) is orthogonal to being able to build a piece software whose dependencies are completely missing. Don't pretend like this doesn't happen on Windows
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by ahnick 2y ago
Anyone made the jump from Linux to OpenBSD on a laptop as their daily driver? If so, any tips or suggestions for making such a change? What did you find the biggest benefit to be?
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by ahnick 3y ago
Tim writes a post about a "Money Bubble". There is now an alternative form of money that anyone can buy through their 401k if you believe there is a money bubble. He dismisses?(or doesn't even consider it?) since it uses a bl
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by ahnick 3y ago
The real answer is that the ongoing 50 year old, fiat money system experiment is a bad idea.
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by ahnick 3y ago
That must be why that Bitcoin thing didn't pan out.
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by ahnick 3y ago
You have data to back that up? How do you know that the death rate from heat won't eventually eclipse the cold weather death rate?
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by ahnick 3y ago
Who do you trust currently?
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by ahnick 3y ago
> You’re saying this as if it’s a “when”, not an “if”. Yes, the fact that Blackrock has now applied for a spot Bitcoin ETF makes it much more "when" than "if". > Chargebacks aren’t something to worry about for cust
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by ahnick 3y ago
Right, Flexa is already integrated in a number of PoS (Point-of-Sale) devices and providers (e.g. NCR), which makes its merchant acceptance fairly broad already. Once stablecoin legislation occurs, then being able to accept something like U
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by ahnick 3y ago
Buying an operation like Discover doesn't seem radical enough. IMHO they need to do something like buy Flexa ( https://flexa.network/ ) and do a complete end run around the entire TradFi payment space. If they do that, t
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by ahnick 3y ago
It seems like you could build a separate salt water basin that would hold the pumped sea water, so as to avoid having to pump it into Gatun lake. Then the salt water could be pumped into the locks to supplement the fresh water, when fresh w
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by ahnick 3y ago
This strikes me as being very similar to Jargon ( https://github.com/jbrukh/gpt-jargon ), but maybe more formal in its specification?
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by ahnick 4y ago
Yeah, I didn't think so. :) I know of no single incident of SHA-256 or SHA-3 having collisions successfully generated. Cracking SHA-256 with rainbow tables is a fundamentally different exercise as you are relying on someone having sele
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by ahnick 4y ago
> So what you want is faster access to HELOCs, and why does an NFT allow that? It helps facilitate more automated approval b/c if you were to complete an application with your wallet then the system could check for the presence of t
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by ahnick 4y ago
> Absolutely. And this is one of the methods that is used to do just that. I'm not talking about a theoretical security issue here, this is a weakness that has been leveraged in the real world for a long time. Oh really? Care to sha
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by ahnick 4y ago
The purpose of having property deeds represented as NFTs on a blockchain is not to eliminate the need for a governing body, but to make the ownership transparent, trivially verifiable, and easy to transfer. I've outlined this many time
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by ahnick 4y ago
It is extremely hard to break cryptographic hash functions to the point it is considered impossible. If you could do that, then you could be breaking into all sorts of systems. Cryptographic one-way hash functions are actually the preferred
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by ahnick 4y ago
> You claimed it as a benefit! There's no reason that NFTs for property deeds would: Be standardised, or be on the same chain. That's more an application level concern, so please take that point back. There's different sta
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by ahnick 4y ago
> That's just centralized in a different form. Or more precisely - not decentralized. How many copies of the data in different locations do you need to be considered decentralized? In fact, I'd argue you just care about having
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by ahnick 4y ago
Since the on-chain hash is part of an immutable object that no one can change, then anyone can use it to verify that the off-chain data is valid at anytime. (No one needs to go ask someone else whether it is valid they can check for themsel
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by ahnick 4y ago
It doesn't prevent the manipulation, but it does assist in detecting it. If someone manipulates the off-chain data, then when that off-chain data is hashed and re-verified against the hash stored in the NFT on-chain then there will be
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by ahnick 4y ago
You can replicate it to multiple sources or use a decentralized storage solution if you are concerned about data availability.
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by ahnick 4y ago
Just because you host on AWS doesn't mean you get 0 downtime. AWS regions do go down occasionally. Compare that to a hundred thousand node globally distributed network -> https://dashboard.chia.net/d/em15uQ47k&#
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by ahnick 4y ago
The blockchain is a piece of additive technology. It doesn't replace existing relational databases, nosql databases, object storage, etc. You can store data in any location you like (doesn't have to be a centralized location) and

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