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by andreskytt 4y ago
I’m genuinely curious as to why discussions on identity inevitably also involve claims about that identity. For authentication purposes, all that’s necessary is for a user to prove they are in control of an identifiers by presenting some cr
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by andreskytt 4y ago
That is the curse of experience. In any field, I’d imagine. The trick is to be able to share your experience in a way that it get heard, watch people hit the fall when it is not and then help pick up the pieces without going “told you so”.
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Hq location can be quite irrelevant. Legal intercept laws can be quite old-fashioned and might make a case than two German citizens having a conversation while on German soil makes the conversation fall under German jurisdiction. There can
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by andreskytt 4y ago
It went wrong, when young nice folks with fresh MBAs realized, that the point of diminishing returns for software quality can be very low. Just throw things into production and maybe catch some of the bigger foobars and let the hockey stick
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by andreskytt 4y ago
This is why I do not teach on graduate level. There is only so much I’m willing to do to drag some damn sod kicking and screaming through the content. There is only so much effort I’m willing to put into engaging people who actively do not
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by andreskytt 4y ago
See, that’s a difference between someone born in the USSR and someone born elsewhere. I, as person from the USSR, remember well how the offical rate of the ruble was a meaningless number. In theory, you could sell rubles at that rate. In pr
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Wombat is the only known animal whose poo is cubical. The reason for this appears to be, that this allows the poo to be easily stacked high to mark territory.
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by andreskytt 4y ago
Complexity never really goes away, it can merely be transformed from one type to another. This organization has apparently decided it rather deals with the complexity of not having processes rather than the complexity of maintaining them. W
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by andreskytt 4y ago
To be more precise, the nature of trust shifts. In case of a central database, one must trust the organization running the database. In case of blockchain you need to trust the math behind it, its implementation _and_ that the network struc
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by andreskytt 5y ago
So, like, give unique IDs to things and then move them around?
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by andreskytt 5y ago
It is much more complicated than that. Read the Gulag Archipelago. You’ll find descriptions of True Believers who firmly believe everyone else but them is there for a very good reason. But with them, a mistake has been made. Hodorkovsky did
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by andreskytt 5y ago
You are mostly right, but mistaken in one significant way. Between the February and October revolutions of 1917, a nascent democracy was there. The monarchy has been overthrown and there had been reasonably open elections with diverse resul
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by andreskytt 5y ago
It also gives Ukrainians something to teach their children. The Snake Island and others. In Estonia, the last known rebel fighter from wwii committed suicide to avoid capture in 1976. Whatever the outcome now, people will remember, people w
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by andreskytt 5y ago
It’s an extremely cautionary tale of information warfare and propaganda in general. They can provide short-term benefits, but in the long run, it will be impossible to maintain a complete blanket of falsehood without obscuring the reality f
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Um, no. It is the democratization, that ticks Russia off. Regardless of EU and US involvement, Russian leadership cannot tolerate a culturally similar country doing better. This would provoke so many questions: how come they get to change t
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Oh, but they do! The gas reserves have never been lower on the European side of the pipelines. That makes no financial sense at this time of high prices.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Yes. It’s a deterrent and a financial tool. “I supply you now, but what if I cut it off?” Also, gas means legitimate money moving in Europe to buy people with, look at the history of French or German politicians working for Russian gas inte
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by andreskytt 5y ago
We don’t even necessarily know, to what extent we lack fidelity in our understanding of what goes on in pur bodies. I’ve found I have often mistaken thirst for hunger. Also, after having done endurance sport for a few years I’ve realized, t
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I’ve heard much more cyberpunk people than I’ll ever be argue it’s the other way around. That WG didn’t predict the future but the futures comes to be as there’s a generation of people really kinda thinking it makes sense and living it. I g
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Vitruvius, “Ten books on architecture”, talks extensively about city design and how to make it so there are no wind corridors. An excellent reading and most relevant to software architecture: he distills things down to basics shared across
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I found this stimulating. I don’t need to be shown some ancient mysteries of prime numbers to be entertained, it is quite sufficient to put my mind on the track of “why would that not work in higher dimensions?” Why isn’t our universe built
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Isn’t it because a lot of people no longer consider stealing morally wrong? There’s an outside voice saying “you deserve this, they’ve got insurance, it’s ok” and the inner voice no longer reponds with “that’s not ok”. Might that be the con
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Ha, she predates Dead Kennedys and Henley by quite a bit. I did know about her but not _that_.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5856-6_... Has a bunch of useful references. Olivier de Weck of the MIT held an awesome conference speech at the 2016 MIT SDM Conference explaining sources, met
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Anything blockchain-based requires every user not only to trust, that their identity is private, but that it will remain so indefinitely. With all the nodes having access to all the data, you must assume nobody is ever going to find a way t
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by andreskytt 5y ago
“Nobody would do that“ Back in the day people did exactly that.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
This is much more complex and much less related to globalism than to us monetary policy. Using the dollar as a global fiat is certainly beneficial but it also means others are very interested in selling things to US to get dollars and buyin
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Please, do not generalize. Life in Finland is much different from life in Italy and in Milwaukee. Low-trust societies are not inevitable in the West and there are clear examples. There is a marked difference between “glibalism is wrong” and
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Basically crypto is a way to scale up illegal financial activity? One trader has a way to get money in nobody asks questions about and is able to capitalize that ability.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Observe, this is a policy limitation rather than a technological one. These policies can and will change and there can and will be limits to crypto in the country. Unless you can get everyone in the country to accept crypto, you’d still nee

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