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by anon9001 5y ago
Tarsnap is entirely encrypted and the service provider can't see the keys. They run it on EC2 and S3: https://www.tarsnap.com/infrastructure.html
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by anon9001 5y ago
If this bothers you, you will be shocked to learn how US chartered banks operate.
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by anon9001 5y ago
> or whether there was creation ab nihilo. Just to be clear, you're alleging a massive fraud by these people: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/circle-2 > But I find it generally a bit suspicious that
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by anon9001 5y ago
> Based in Bermuda the Leather Bound Ledger is bound by the laws of Bermuda and thus ultimately the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The privy council can trace its origins to the Witenagemot of the old Anglo Saxon Kingdoms over
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by anon9001 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what this is showing. What does "Just printed $100,494,053 USDC!" mean? I think this means that someone minted $100M of USDC by depositing USD. The way this normally happens, USD deposits are made to
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by anon9001 5y ago
No, it's not hypothetical, there's a handful of those images embedded into bitcoin forever. I found this reference for you: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf See under "Illegal and Condemned Cont
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by anon9001 5y ago
So what you're saying is that you buy ETH for its utility of processing transactions on tokenized assets? And you get more value out of spending the ETH on gas than it cost you to purchase it? That sure sounds like a useful product to
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by anon9001 5y ago
A trend I've noticed every time this happens is that saying "tech stocks" is kind of like saying "cell phones". At some point they're just "phones" and "stocks". Not 20 years ago, it was ra
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by anon9001 5y ago
As a companion to this, it would be cool if there was a way to render any audio file as a spectrogram ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram ) directly in the terminal. Since this is HN, does anyone know what are th
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by anon9001 5y ago
> Maybe I'm naive, but it just seems that almost every job out there is about squeezing more profit out of people, and absolutely nothing else, and it doesn't really make me want to work. You may be naive, but this is right. T
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by anon9001 5y ago
If you don't use tor, you should start. I believe that it is mostly used by oppressed populations and that it is largely ran by parties that get utility from anonymity (activists, spies, law enforcement). I cannot prove this but I be
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by anon9001 5y ago
Strange is an understatement. I can very much relate. But if I'm being honest, so much has improved for me during the pandemic that I don't know how to feel about it. I feel very guilty for saying this because people are dying an
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by anon9001 5y ago
We have a lot of those same issues in the US and it is a well known driving force of "vaccine hesitancy". The problem is usually framed as "earned distrust of institutions", which is certainly a big part of the story.
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by anon9001 5y ago
> Speed? In the UK I can send money for free to any other UK bank account instantly. Not everywhere is as slow and expensive as the USA. If you believe that all the world is really the divine right of the queen, I suppose sending paymen
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by anon9001 5y ago
After a few brushes with medicine and seeing loved ones go through worse, I've had a lot of anxiety that something "medical" will happen again. Part of me wonders if the real reason the US has such low vaccination rates is be
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by anon9001 5y ago
Ok, I'll bite because you seem earnest. One killer feature that doesn't get nearly enough hype is uptime. Check out these stats: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-uptime/ The last incident to caus
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by anon9001 5y ago
> Smart contracts are a pile of money exposed directly to the internet with no firewall in the way. And no recourse when things inevitably go pear shaped. When you say it like that, it sounds like you're poking fun at the stupidity
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by anon9001 5y ago
The way this was explained to me is that you have the Church of England, which is technically an established church run by the state. The government<->church connection makes it easier to be distrustful of the church when you're
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by anon9001 5y ago
Atheist here and I've been pretty impressed with the work of the Satanic Temple over the last few years. What's membership actually look like? I'd consider joining in a secular/political sense, but I have no interest in
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by anon9001 5y ago
> My hit rate for meaningful messages skyrocketed since applying the above approach. As a skeptic and non-believer of all things spiritual, whenever I have one of those "meaningful messages" moments (we get them too), my reacti
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by anon9001 5y ago
Before agile: it's not done yet After agile: it's not done yet
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by anon9001 5y ago
Is it possible that DeFi is not a wave of emotions wrapped into tech? I think the more likely explanation is that it's a way for people who own crypto to borrow and lend. It's probably one of the first things to be built because
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by anon9001 5y ago
I think someone should add a "ratio" field via extension. It'd be a useful addition to https://sponsor.ajay.app/ which is already modifying the youtube UI.
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by anon9001 5y ago
I had never heard of MVHR before, but it seems like a very good idea. I wonder if it would work during wildfires.
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by anon9001 5y ago
What's the 132 precedent?
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by anon9001 5y ago
4chan is like a focus group for unacceptable ideas.
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by anon9001 5y ago
This is the right take. Also, every hacker online pre-facebook realized that it wouldn't take that much effort to do social engineering on a mass scale, but there was a brief period before any large organizations actually got involved
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by anon9001 5y ago
That's just another DRM to be disabled. If we can't disable it somehow, we'll switch operating systems. Keep in mind that we're still seeing jailbreaks for iPhones after all these years.
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by anon9001 5y ago
It's hard to believe $2.6T worth of crypto is all for criminal applications. Maybe you've overlooked something.
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by anon9001 5y ago
You're exactly right. Reading this article and the other HN comments, it makes me think our community is aging and becoming stuck in old ways of thinking. It's surprising and disappointing to see it happen to this group, but I gue

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