cassonmars

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by cassonmars 4y ago
Whoa, cool to see Warpcast on the front page of HN
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Strange you came to say this unprovoked to a stranger on the internet, but I’m going to rely on the body of medical evidence, psychological evaluations, quality of life improvements, etc. over your insistence to the contrary.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
> The Albatross disaster caused PolyData to eventually go under, and Heglsberg left PolyData to go work for Borland in the US. Interesting case of nominative determinism
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by cassonmars 4y ago
If it were a gender transition story, it reads more like a previous generation where therapists were more inclined to tell people to try to bury themselves in living the life of a person they’re not. And it plays out predictably in that cas
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Interesting post. One thing stood out to me: > The performance of older processes is also not sufficient for the latest cryptographic systems, such as Post Quantum algorithms or Multiparty Threshold ECDSA with Identifiable Aborts. On the
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by cassonmars 4y ago
I moved away from my Midwest hometown in my early twenties, lived in Seattle for nearly a decade, then got fed up with the path the city was on and moved back. I feel like moving away is valuable, and teaches you to appreciate the things yo
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Oh man, I remember BZFlag. I loved that game. Even with the poor graphics it was still so much fun because the gameplay was slow paced enough that text chat was possible along the chaos. It felt like competitive battles over IRC. Haven’t ex
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Is there a guide you followed or have for how to do this kind of hardening? I’ve wanted to do this for a while, don’t know where to start.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
It’s not even clear yet whether this has been a bad investment decision. Zuckerberg is playing a long game here, and the market is notoriously short-term, immediate-profits-driven. Long term investors may actually be quite pleased if this s
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by cassonmars 4y ago
I love that verifiable credentials are starting to make mainstream, but one thing I couldn’t glean from this page: is this purely VC from a perspective of “here’s the attributes I care to see”, or “here’s the characteristics I care to see”?
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by cassonmars 4y ago
For starters, signal retains a conversation for the length of time you grant. That can be indefinite. The way it is retained is in a local storage database. It is intentionally guarded against export (although this is somewhat unavoidable w
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Might be abuse of IPA, but 100% stealing this trick for platforms that don’t let me use LaTeX
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by cassonmars 4y ago
It was something I intrinsically knew, from the moment I became remotely cognizant of the differences between men and women (about 5 years old). I didn’t have words for it, and frequently any mention of the notion either by myself or in pop
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Doing so comes at a cost to privacy — by signal having a hosting server, even if the contents are E2EE, retrieving and storing these contents creates a metadata trail. I actually go over these drawbacks and tradeoffs in a recent blog post:
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by cassonmars 4y ago
While some people pick up the bottle in addiction due to purely genetic affinity, others are using it as an escape. While my existence is hotly debated on hacker news whenever the topic arises, my escape was a struggle in trying to not addr
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by cassonmars 4y ago
This is why I mentioned how dangerous and stupid it was. I experienced DTs for several days, and seizures. I’m lucky to have made it through that alive.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
I used to put away a liter of vodka a night. I kept it up for years, accumulating a solid decade of heavy drinking. I was miserable. It was souring my relationship. The stress from work, personal life, and declining mental state of course m
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by cassonmars 4y ago
They were moving towards E2EE when everyone freaked out about the on-device perceptual hashing trade off.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
There's a tremendous situational irony with the massive cookie notice at the bottom of the screen when this loads.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Literally just "Name/Name 1:1" so it's indistinguishable from other 1:1s, but if you're in a remote org and they aren't okay with and encouraging these kinds of recurring meetings, it's probably a toxic en
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by cassonmars 4y ago
The loss of cognitive overhead of dealing with a physical workspace with distractions abound has to be countered with a new cognitive overhead – putting initiative forward in reaching out to coworkers, setting up regular 1:1s to just chat.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
It absolutely is about regulating content. Just because the content and the people that generate it are vile does not mean an internet backbone utility should play great internet censor about it. I say this as exactly the kind of person (tr
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by cassonmars 4y ago
For starters, these events are totally unrelated, and are a very strange false equivalence. Would be very curious to see more details of Tavis’ claim though. That being said, CF is still in the right for the stand they’re taking on not bein
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Considering they could interact directly with the contract with no problem, that aspect worked out great.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
That can possibly work, however it has a significantly greater variability in deployment environments compared to traditional time lock puzzles due to it being trivially optimized by hardware (depending on the hash algorithm chosen). It unf
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by cassonmars 4y ago
This is not Timelock encryption. Timelock encryption relies on the use of time lock puzzles, which frequently revolve around variations of repeatedly squaring a value in a particular way which makes it impossible to shortcut without knowing
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by cassonmars 4y ago
It’s just the return of the crypto wars from the 90s. And privacy isn’t going to go down without a fight.
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by cassonmars 4y ago
Zero Knowledge, a variety of technologies which leverage cryptographic proofs that someone knows something is true, without revealing the knowledge to the verifier. This is useful for privacy, rolling a number of transactions into one bundl
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by cassonmars 5y ago
I had a friend who worked in assisted living centers, and saw a number of deaths related to falling. The one thing he noticed about those that fell most frequently was that they still drank alcohol. Anecdata from someone in the field, but i
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by cassonmars 5y ago
This is deeply concerning, as many have echoed, because you’re punishing people who are already on your side, for the most part. But it’s also concerning because you claim it’s not deplatforming as other registrars exist. Do you not think t

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