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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Speaking of Apple, this reminds me of the story that when Microsoft bought Bungie Studios in 2000, they got an angry phone call from Steve Jobs, since Bungie were the last big game studio that made games for Mac computers. https:/&#x2
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I want to be like "oh btw this isn't an intervention, and you don't get a choice..." It's people like you that make platforms want to remove such emojis.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> One of these keys is public and stored on Apple’s servers, while the other key is a secret key and stays on your device at all times. “The server never learns what your private key is, and your devices keep it safe,” So the server copy
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For another example of how Ethereum might be useful for certificate transparency, there's a fascinating paper from 2016 called "EthIKS: Using Ethereum to audit a CONIKS key transparency log" which is probably way ahead of its
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You've already talked about Sigstore (which is an excellent technology for this space), so we can consider developers holding keys that are stored in an append-only log. Then it doesn't matter if the domain expires and someone re
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Can't you deal with it the same way you'd deal with someone frequently referencing their favourite author or their personal blog?
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Bellatrix upgrade goes live, sets stage for Ethereum’s Merge(cryptoslate.com)
3 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|0 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The the first part of the Merge, known as the Bellatrix hard fork, was scheduled to take place at 12.34pm BST (7.34am ET) on Tuesday, 6 September, with the second and final part of the Merge taking place at some point between 13-15 Sep
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Ethereum Merge: ‘Most important moment in crypto history’ begins(independent.co.uk)
5 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In addition, law enforcement has long demanded backdoor access to private user devices and user data Law enforcement has long demanded all sorts of things, but the presence of such a demand doesn't mean that they have the backdoor
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
My point about the Jevons paradox is that if, for example, 10% of people stopped eating meat (for climate reasons), that could mean that the price of meat goes down, which would make meat more affordable for other potential consumers, so a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I made a similar suggestion a couple of years ago[0] on a discussion about Google banning a podcasting app ("after 9 years for letting users play podcasts that reference COVID-19"). Of course it's a terrible idea (which might
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Okay, perhaps I should have asked "How many lives do you think would be saved this century compared to the default scenario where an extra 10% of the world aren't convinced to follow those rules?".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Let's say you could convince an extra 10% of the world to follow those rules, and that it doesn't cause a rebound effect (as per the Jevons paradox). How much extra time would that buy us before an unstoppable climate catastrophe
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thank you, I'm flattered. Initially I thought that this prompt couldn't really go anywhere, at least not without getting stuck in some clichéd trope, but having come back to it, I think there is scope to make an interesting story
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That sounds like the right answer, thank you.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Did I misunderstand the question?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This sounds like the premise for a cryptographer's ghost story. "... and they realised that the bias in their quantum RNG wasn't noise at all... it was a message coming from another dimension... And not just a message, but
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The remnants within the GBP are often fragments, particles, or microscopic. Fair point. Having microscopic taggants sounds like a good idea, but I was thinking about the problems of companies stealing nets, or using counterfeit nets, o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> it's impossible to have a discussion about concerns like these without everyone retreating to "Their corners" Which means that not only do advanced economies fail to reap the full benefit of the technologies they develop
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
How do those costs and benefits compare to something like, say, coffee? In general, how should society decide whether a technology/product/service has too big an environmental cost?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I can imagine headlines like that too, but the idea of electing 5 (or some other odd number of) entities is that they would be able to share among themselves the cryptographically signed evidence of the spam they detected, and then the bond
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If you insist. I put my suggestion as a reply to another comment in this discussion, specifically here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32717921
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I don't mind doing some paperwork or paying a fee to prove I'm legit. Then how about this: The big email companies all declare one day that any newly registered domain (with an MX record) needs to post a bond for good behavi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
IRC, XMPP, and Matrix (in increasing order of support for E2E crypto). I'm not sure how well those protocols (as implemented, in practice) support clients that go offline for long periods of time.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, any solution would have to take into account the reality that losing nets will continue to happen despite the best efforts of the crew. Ultimately, though, someone has to pay for the cost of removing these nets from the ocean, and idea
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> which tend to be microscopic and integrated into either objects or materials. The advantage of a barcode is that it could be read remotely, potentially from a passing ship, or just a whistleblower on board with a camera.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> You can, of course, access your bank from a browser. For now. Do you think the W3C would resist if banks tried to standardise a way for sites to determine if you are running with Secure Boot enabled? This would be part of a system to
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> he changed his mind not because of the pressure but a surge in credible violent threats stemming from the site. How did he know they were credible and weren't just nonsense that was mass-produced by a GPT-3 clone? It seems that no
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
How hard would it be to get nations to agree that all (new) fishing nets be made from line that contains a barcode-like pattern, with that pattern being registered to each ship (just as each ship itself is registered by governments already)

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