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by ak_111 3y ago
Actually I can see this morphing into a Russia interference conspiracy. If the main social media used by liberals goes down, while the one used by Trump (forgot what it's called) stays up, surely that is an advantage for him?
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by ak_111 3y ago
"Academics can be very ...territorial" Ironic statement given the context.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Still wondering if I can use emacs bindings on KDE, I recall a few years ago that wasn't possible without some tricky workarounds.
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by ak_111 3y ago
There must be some incredibly interesting internal documents in Tim Cook's email archive discussing the business, product and financial strategy of this whole project. We can only hope that one day it leaks or we get some glimpse on ho
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by ak_111 3y ago
I know it sounds utterly morbid, but has anyone proposed the conspiracy that Len was "suicided" after his identity was identified by a very shady -- possibly state-backed -- actors . This guy was a walking bag of cash at that poin
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by ak_111 3y ago
So Satoshi used: Japanese pseudonym. German email domain. British English and a US Timezone. His ability to generate entropy in his identity is significantly underrated.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Well, one of the theories I fancy is that we know that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto worked on a classified defence project, now it is almost impossible that he was the creator of btc, however there is a chance that a group of security service ha
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by ak_111 3y ago
I don't think he will need to worry more about security than say Bill Gates or Elon Musk. Annoying, but certainly doable with the money he has. But I can imagine that can factor in for lots of people who are risk averse and don't
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by ak_111 3y ago
What is the strongest evidence AGAINST Sassaman?
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by ak_111 3y ago
Genuine question, if you are satoshi and not insanely media shy, what would be a real concern for not divulging your identity in 2024? You are rich enough to manage any security, tax or legal hits that you need to manage. Furthermore due to
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by ak_111 3y ago
Satoshi having the foresight and discipline to take careful measures that would enable him to keep his identity secret, and succeeding to do so up to this point is almost more impressive achievement of his technical skills than bitcoin. Eve
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by ak_111 3y ago
Interesting, I was raised in the 1980s and even then Japan had a good reputation electronic wise.
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by ak_111 3y ago
Charlemagne: word for 'king' in many European countries derive from his name (german 'Karl', polish 'Krol', Lithuanian, ...)
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by ak_111 3y ago
Genuine question why would you describe it as "Chinese garbage" if it worked perfectly? Are you referring to its aesthetics or the price? In both cases I don't think this adjective is merited...
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by ak_111 3y ago
Seems like worst of both worlds if you are starting out: recession in terms of job opportunities (hard to find a job) yet house prices are still were they were at the beginning of Covid (11 times earning - a historical record by a long shot
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by ak_111 3y ago
The "being in a rush" theory sounds very interesting and very plausible combined with adapting a pseudonym to avoid lawsuits. However, if these were the two reasons behind keeping his identity secret, wouldn't Hal Finney be a
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by ak_111 3y ago
I always find it baffling appealing to the fact that "eating meat is lindy" - i.e. something stone age humans and us did for hundreds of thousands of years, hence healthy, at least it won't kill you. Because it ignores the fa
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by ak_111 3y ago
The extreme all meat diet have only started gaining wide mainstream traction (as far as I can tell) only over the last 6-8 years (and for some reason seems to overlap strongly with certain segment of crypto and MAGA population). So it will
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by ak_111 3y ago
Tangent: I thought you were going to hate the inflection point metaphor (and hence started your post with a pun about it). The point being inflection points mathematically speaking don't usually imply a peak, rather a change in conca
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by ak_111 3y ago
There is a general license in islamic theology that when it comes to life and death situations you are allowed to break almost any of the rules temporarily (survival overrides close to any other religious obligation/rule). This include
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by ak_111 3y ago
What they call it doesn't sound like legendary marketing that I was expecting.
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by ak_111 3y ago
I am afraid you can't simply blame the conservative for this. This is a total societal breakdown, and I am not being dramatic if you consider other simultaneous scandals such as PPE. By that I mean it is impressive how this could happe
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by ak_111 3y ago
Way better interpretation that i missed!
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You never saw it go differently but it must be in many organisation. I can't imagine you can sustain the technical excellence over decades in places like Nvidia, Apple, Nintendo, ... without having a very robust process of protecting h
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by ak_111 3y ago
Some of the Chinese companies that are now dominating some corners of the electric car market barely existed 5 years ago and they score far better than many expected on reliability scores. I guess scale allows you to compensate for years of
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by ak_111 3y ago
I keep getting an ad which claims to be the "Tesla of heaters" it even shows the tesla logo when they say this. If anything I am surprised that Elon is not suing them (youtube) just for fun (given the problems he is having with ad
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by ak_111 3y ago
I think there are some 3 letter domain available on most TLD including .ai, I wonder why these haven't been taken up yet?
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Where do you draw the line? I saw many funding proposals for extremely abstract category theory justified on the basis it helps number theorists solve problems related to cryptography and protect e-commerce. Between friends everyone knows t
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by ak_111 3y ago
I totally disagree. I think it is more likely we will have quantum chips running your iphone before this prize gets cashed (and I am a bit of a quantum computing sceptic). For comparison, even field medalists sometime struggle with getting
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by ak_111 3y ago
Which ones do you have and which jobs are you targeting? Do you not even notice an uptick in interview requests?

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