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by ahnick 6y ago
Market share in the US mobile OS market. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
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I've been using a T480 (same as author) and it has been very reliable. I even dropped it getting out of the van a while back and it landed on a corner of the laptop when it hit the pavement. It has still been running just as well as
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I'm asking what the process of creating a borrowed dollar is versus the process of creating an inflationary dollar? Is there some financial instrument that the dollar is backed by that enables it to be paid back?
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What is the difference between a borrowed dollar and an inflationary dollar?
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I agree with your statements about the non government sector and other items; however, I still don't follow your line of argumentation. My understanding of why the US can print money without regard for consequences is because there are
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I am sincerely asking here... as long as the US dollar remains the majority reserve currency won't the US be able to successfully print its way out and basically ignore the balance sheet? If you think the US could experience repercuss
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Wouldn't you still need to be careful about the device auto-joining to open public wifi? Basically, if you were going to be away from your house you'd have to always remember to disable the wifi before you left. Alternatively, j
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Is the desktop app available on Linux or does the Windows version work under Wine?
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IMHO, Keybase is the best example of a friendly tool for public key cryptography. It's really a shame that Zoom acquired them. I still think their stitching together a secure identity based on the aggregation of people's social
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Yes, I think that is a risk in the absence of a true "Proof of Deletion". Perhaps though it would be so expensive to maintain a copy of all this data that no one is paying you for that nodes would be incentivized to just perform
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I'm not trying to fit any peg into any hole. Filecoin is the one that advertises the network is for private data. It's hard to quantify the risk from future theoretical attacks and anyone that is storing private data on Filecoin
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I assume the network doesn't broadcast a connection between real life identity and the data you're storing. So my understanding is that in the example of a decentralized app that uses Filecoin to store an IPFS object on the netw
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Yes, I agree. It is just a mitigation. At least though it would not be actively available on the main network. The more I think about this, the more I think being able to have some sort of reputation system for node operators would be re
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In terms of an incentive, I would say that the node owner would honor the deletion request if the network pays them to do that. If I'm a node operator I don't so much care about the particular data I'm hosting, just what the
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by ahnick 6y ago
Yes, I understand that. I have this same issue with using just pure IPFS to store private data. IPFS for public data makes a lot of sense to me. When using IPFS for private data there seems like there is an inherent risk (hopefully only
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by ahnick 6y ago
The same reason people set permissions on their encrypted S3 object blob or you have to login to download any encrypted file from a multitude of applications. As computing power increases and/or as flaws in encryption implementations
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When I say "user" here I'm talking about me the service provider being the user of the network. Instead of "user hostile", what I should have said is it "just doesn't solve the problem of access". Th
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The ciphertext is irrelevant now, today. That might not always be the case if computing power improves sufficiently to be able to breakthrough that encryption or a flaw in the encryption algorithm (or default parameters being used in a par
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Why is that? I think it is entirely possible that in the future, encryption techniques used today will become compromised as both computing power improves and/or flaws are discovered. If someone is holding ciphertext encrypted with a
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I disagree. Again encryption is not the same as not having access at all to the data. If centralized services offer the concept of having access control mechanisms available and we trust them to delete the files, then why not have those s
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by ahnick 6y ago
I agree, at least afaik there is no way to construct a formal "Proof of Deletion". This risk though I believe exists with even centralized services, so for example if I ask Amazon to delete this blob of data I actually don't
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by ahnick 6y ago
So I have read this is why they didn't implement deletion support before. With that said, I would still think that 1) It should be possible to guarantee that a particular object is not being actively served by a node on the network at
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by ahnick 6y ago
Just because the storage network is decentralized (i.e. I don't get to choose where the files are hosted) doesn't mean that the nodes operating on that network can't be designed to honor a deletion request. For example, Tard
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I think you might not be understanding what I mean. I'd like to be able to use Filecoin as a backend storage that will only serve up data to people in a particular group. Take the example of a traditional website or web application l
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What I don't understand about Filecoin is that they advertise it is for "Private data" too, but there are no access control mechanisms and no ability to delete data from the network. (You can "unpin" it, but there&
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It is unsurprising given that the raison d'etre for Filecoin was never the demand for decentralized storage, or backup, or anything else. It was started with the sole purpose of raising money, because of the overwhelming demand for hy
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by ahnick 6y ago
How do you like the reMarkable tablet? What does your workflow with it look like?
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+1 for Plausible. I've been using it for our name generator product Mashword ( https://mashword.com ) and it was really straightforward to implement. It's reasonably priced, has a clean interface and graphs, is privacy
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Play is also an anti-competitive monopoly as well. Google was a bit smarter about avoiding potential anti-trust though, because they at least give the illusion of choice with 3rd party app stores. There basically is not a competitive marke
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Prices are set by what the market will bear That's the entire issue right there. When Apple is the market, then they can make it whatever they want. If Apple has to legitimately compete with other "App Stores", then the m

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