betterunix2

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by betterunix2 5y ago
Keeping track of which lambda owns which captured variables can quickly become impractical, especially for complex capture structures that can create shared and even cyclic ownership in unclear and unexpected ways. For example, you might h
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by betterunix2 5y ago
There are examples of far worse languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Exa... At least the Hello World example is readable...
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Eh, of all the things to criticize C++ over, compile times is somewhere near the bottom of the list. Compile times matter in extreme cases, but 3 seconds is not really something I would worry about. I have seen Lisp compilers take longer
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by betterunix2 5y ago
...because there is no way that a country would try to use a missile launch as a distraction while conducting an actual attack with an airplane...
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Or that an airplane failing to squawk is shot down because everyone thought the country is under attack, and the airplane had a malfunctioning radio. Similar to the KAL007 situation, a civilian plane shot down by Soviet air defense during
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Like I said, what if one of those planes had a malfunctioning transponder? It is a somewhat stretched scenario, but the NK military might have gotten bold and decided to shoot a missile all the way to the boundary of US territorial waters
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It is worth reviewing the KAL007 incident to understand why you see this kind of reaction. The USSR was doing a missile test, the US was flying a surveillance plane just outside Soviet airspace, and just prior to that the US had been delib
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by betterunix2 5y ago
NK does not announce where their missiles are going, and NORAD probably wanted to clear some airspace to better track the missile, especially given that NK has missiles that can reach the west coast. The military also probably wanted to av
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by betterunix2 5y ago
That is an impressive list of cryptographers working on blockchains, but at major cryptography conferences there is less and less blockchain work being presented, to the point where CRYPTO'21 didn't have any blockchain sessions at
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by betterunix2 5y ago
My job would be much simpler if I could deploy generic MPC; all I would have to do is maintain a library and maybe a compiler, without having to design and implement an entirely new protocol every time someone came along with some new fea
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It is not that simple. If you are willing to shell out more money for "professional" products, you can get products that standalone or you can buy a standalone system (e.g. security cameras with an NVR etc.). What we are getting
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It is not true that anyone knowledgeable in a field finds everything in that field straightforward. For example, Schoof's algorithm for counting points on elliptic curves was so non-obvious to relevant experts that he struggled to get
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Some interesting research is being done by some cryptocurrency companies like ZCash and Algorand. Their work on ZKPs and SNARKs has been interesting, but it is worth pointing out that they are not the only people working on this. More
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by betterunix2 5y ago
MPC has been deployed at large scale by numerous companies, at least for the ads industry; I know because I actually work on exactly this full time and I have seen the numbers (but unfortunately I cannot share specifics). There is nothing
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Paperless tech is not there. If it was there it would not be so inconvenient to do simple things like underlining some text or crossing out a word. I have tried all the above and it is still too cumbersome to really be comfortable. It&#x
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Except that ZKPs had already seen real-world use before Satoshi's whitepaper was circulated; in fact, there was an already-defunct startup that was selling ZKP-driven authentication tech. Secure multiparty computation is even more adv
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Well, let's see, the technical program for this year's RealWorldCrypto conference includes...side channel attacks, symmetric cryptography, privacy, attacks on privacy, cryptography for the ads industry, messaging, post-quantum cry
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"IACR, was founded by people who were working on cryptocurrency" This is extremely misleading. IACR was proposed by David Chaum in 1982, a year before his first paper on ecash, and its first board members in 1983 included Whitfie
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by betterunix2 5y ago
...why do you have to have a peer-to-peer network managing a blockchain just to verify membership data? It would be simpler to just have whoever controls memberships sign a user's public key to indicate membership (and then you add so
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Actually it is backed by US law and the strength of the US government in terms of enforcing those laws. In particular, the dollar is backed by US tax and debt laws; US taxes must be paid in dollars, debts in the US can be cleared with doll
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by betterunix2 5y ago
As an American, I have to pay taxes and abide by US laws and the rulings of US courts, and all the above work exclusively with USD. So I cannot switch away from the dollar completely; whatever business I conduct in some other currency, I w
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by betterunix2 5y ago
There will always be some demand for printing, even if it is reduced over time. For example I and several my teammates routinely print research papers so that we can take pens/highlighters and mark them up or put a post-it note on som
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by betterunix2 5y ago
What exactly is the difference? Censorship for the purpose of protecting business interests is still censorship by any reasonable and honest definition. Even moreso considering the history of copyright law and its relationship with censor
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It's funny, many years ago when Bitcoin was relatively new I and a number of others pointed out that there is no particular reason why it should have any value, since there is zero barrier to creating your own cryptocurrency and theref
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Distributed storage does not make any difference for lock-in with a centralized API. For example, imagine a system for storing photos on some distributed system and a popular, centralized web front-end for users. Now what I will do with t
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I was referring to technical solutions, not fines or regulatory measures. For example, before Bitcoin cryptographers published a mountain of research on designing secure and anonymous electronic payments, but relied on a central bank that
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Do you actually think blockchain tech is remotely competitive with the big platforms? Blockchain payment systems have had more than a decade to become popular and still are not even remotely competitive with the big payment processors. Mo
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Github relies on a distributed storage architecture (local git repositories on developers' machines) and in theory anyone can take a project from github and duplicate it on gitlab etc. In reality nobody bothers and a project hosted on
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Why would we ever move toward decentralization? It is almost always easier to have at least some central point of control in any distributed system, even the Internet (IANA, RIRs, etc.). It is also very difficult to remove a centralized c
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by betterunix2 5y ago
My mother has been using Linux exclusively since I was in high school. Occasionally I have to head over to her place to deal with some weird issue but it has become less and less common over time, to the point where I am almost surprised w

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