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by amenghra 9y ago
Give Square Cash a shot? Bitcoin support is being rolled out [1]. Full disclosure: I work at Square. https://www.bitsonline.com/square-expands-bitcoin-pic-guide/
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by amenghra 9y ago
There have been several cases of stolen construction equipment (fork lifts, wheel loader, etc.) being used to steal ATMs. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05LT-WpN5I Achieving 100% physical security is going to
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by amenghra 9y ago
http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/ins... is a humorfilled flowchart. Might help you pick your next game?
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by amenghra 9y ago
It’s always fun to look at the flow of knowledge from academia to the industry, and how some things can take decades. Reminds me of LinearML which was an experiment nearly 10 years ago. https://github.com/pikatchu/Linea
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by amenghra 9y ago
Very well written. Thanks for sharing!
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by amenghra 9y ago
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/thesis.pdf might provide useful background reading for those who aren’t familiar with type theories.
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by amenghra 9y ago
Can’t upvote you enough. An empty commercial space is also not bringing in any sales tax. No employees implies no income tax. Etc.
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by amenghra 9y ago
If you have small amounts of crypto currency and want a secure machine and don’t want to buy a hardware wallet: You can take your old phone or tablet, apply any available upgrades, factory reset it, use it only for crypto currency stuff. Ou
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Procedural Pirate Map generator(rawgit.com)
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by amenghra 9y ago
When the battery is weak, fire alarms have a tendency to chirp in the middle of the night because lowered temperature affects the battery negatively.
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Cyber Crossword(squarectf.com)
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(2009) futures trading gone wrong(thedailywtf.com)
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by amenghra 9y ago
CHVote is a fun read. The formal document is here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/325.pdf There's a higher level concept document here: https://github.com/republique-et-canton-de-geneve/chvote-p
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by amenghra 9y ago
http://altsoph.com/pp/rfc/ is the exact opposite. A fun visualization that will get you to go look at all those obsoleted RFCs!
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by amenghra 9y ago
That’s really cool! I have a bunch of old hardware, unfortunately I can only bring them online when I want to play with them and don’t have any permanent space. Do you know how many watts you consume? Are alternatives to old enterprise gear
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StartCom temination announcement
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by amenghra 9y ago
It could be fun if each puzzle were unlocked after 23h (or 25h). I.e. the start time shifts everyday by 1h to make it "fair" no matter what timezone you live in.
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by amenghra 9y ago
AoC is lots of fun. There's an active community on http://reddit.com/r/adventofcode where people share tips and help each other out. I highly recommend participating. AoC is designed as a speed coding competition,
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by amenghra 9y ago
In some cases, the financial institutions could be slowing things down so they can segment the market and have paid versions of similar but quicker services. Could be an interesting aspect to look into?
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by amenghra 9y ago
The very same reasons they have delays right now. Institutions are able to move money pretty quickly and cheaply between themselves. The reason you don’t get that as an end user is because of compliance, fraud, etc.
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by amenghra 9y ago
The reason things take days to clear is not because the underlying money moving rails are slow. If/when your stock exchange starts accepting bitcoins, they may still continue to take days to clear things.
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by amenghra 9y ago
Keyless cars let you do that. Typically, on an automatic, the car decides between starting the engine or just having the radio based on whether you are pressing on the foot brake pedal at the same time or not.
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by amenghra 9y ago
It's an active field of research. You can learn more by starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol
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by amenghra 9y ago
The same thing happens from the driver's point of view. Each additional rider adds a marginal value to any given driver; there's only so many rides they can make in a given day. In most two-sided markets, the ratio of users on bot
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by amenghra 9y ago
Most large business transactions (eg cargo shipments from one country to another) involve intermediary banks and letters of credit ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_credit ). Both parties usually don’t need ove
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by amenghra 9y ago
That's called a two-sided-marketplace. It quickly saturates (i.e. you need some minimum number of drivers and riders to bootstrap the marketplace). Network effect is when each user brings additional users (or each user prevents other u
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by amenghra 9y ago
> big network effects at play What is Uber's network effect? Most people I know will use whatever app gives them the cheapest ride / will drive for multiple companies. There might even be an opportunity for a $1 app that tells
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by amenghra 9y ago
> This bubble will pop. There might be more bubbles to come, but what doesn't kill it makes it stronger. Some bubbles pop and never recover. E.g. the tulip market isn’t a “strong” market today.
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by amenghra 9y ago
fun fact: the webcrypto api does allow marking a key as non-exportable. So you could imagine deriving the key from the passphrase and having it only exist within the WebCrypto framework. It is however going to be hard to prevent a malicious
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by amenghra 9y ago
You want CSP headers to mitigate XSS risks.

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