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by dlubarov 5y ago
Just to add another data point, our startup uses Gusto and my salary isn't in the data. My old salary from Google (which I think used ADP) is though.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
There are a lot of variations, but in Zerocash-style schemes (which can be viewed as massive ring signatures), each note has an associated 'nullifier'. Spending a note involves revealing its nullifier, and for the transaction to b
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Ethereum already has options for private payments, such as Aztec ( https://zk.money/ ).
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by dlubarov 5y ago
You mention Google as a positive example, but they don't really have "a human-mediated process for restoring access". If you can't restore access with their recovery form, it seems the only option is to seek a court orde
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by dlubarov 5y ago
As I understand it, the BLAKE family is built on a tweaked version of the ChaCha cipher, and security is proven under the assumption that this primitive behaves like a random function. Arguably we shouldn't be too concerned that blake3
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by dlubarov 5y ago
See for yourself: https://pro.coinbase.com/trade/SOL-USD Again, there's hundreds of thousands in orders within a $0.25 spread - plenty of liquidity if you're not moving millions.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
If you don't want USDT, you can trade SOL/BUSD instead. The order book may be a little thinner, but not a big deal if you're not moving millions. While you might claim that BUSD isn't real money, you can just immediately
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Looking at SOL/USDT on Binance.com [1] as an example, it looks like there are typically orders for a few thousand USDT within a 1 cent spread (0.006% of the price), or orders for a few hundred thousand USDT within a 25 cent spread (0.1
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> 3. X and Y are both the same, I think. It seems like you reject this premise, maintaining that PoW networks are objectively verifiable? But you didn't really refute the parent's point there, which was that there are no "
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by dlubarov 5y ago
That seems a bit pedantic; the client itself prints > Assuming ancestors of block %s have valid signatures. when using -assumevalid. I agree it's imprecise, but it's not exactly wrong, since skipping scripts implies skipping si
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> But a situation where new entrants into the network are uncertain of the 'true' fork is not tenable in the long term. This is an important point to consider, but it can be mitigated with exit delays. E.g. with Eth2's cur
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by dlubarov 5y ago
I would suggest https://ethresear.ch/ . It's Ethereum focused, but pretty open to more general blockchain topics.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
If you believe Google blocked Firefox for competitive reasons, how would you explain - The Google engineer's explanation ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495498 ) - do you think he was just plain lying? - The Fire
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> the recent outage of Solana Do you mean [1]? It sounds like the consensus issues there were related to Solana's unusual PoH model. Validators being "unable to process all the proposed forks" would never happen in a BFT P
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> But there are real questions about whether it can ever work and won't in fact be vulnerable to attack. At this point PoS is quite prevalent among modern blockchains (Cosmos, Solana, NEAR, Algorand, Polygon, Cardano, ...). As far a
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> I know of no automated tools available today that can determine if an identifier is accurately and usefully named. Naming isn't very language-specific though [*], and poor naming should be flagged in coding interviews. Any Google
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by dlubarov 5y ago
In the literature [*], the "proof" is an actual proof, but that's not what the prover sends to the verifier. Rather, the verifier queries random pieces of the proof, eventually convincing themselves that with high probability
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Don't all those companies follow the same practice? I've used most of them and have issues all the time (though in most cases they have some car available, just not what I reserved). Seems like it's not just me :) https:&#x2
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by dlubarov 5y ago
LAX area but it seemed like a small agency. They were processing around 3-4 customers per hour, presumably as returns came in. We got a car after ~2h, but lots of others gave up and left. Hypothetically if nobody gave up, I expect the line
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by dlubarov 5y ago
It's understandable if a reserved car occasionally isn't available because it was returned late, but it seems like most car rental companies don't even attempt to limit reservations based on their inventory. It seems like sta
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Yep -- see Mastercard Automatic Billing Updater.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Not sure what you're getting at. Are you suggesting that independent discovery is a defense against patents? Or are you clear that it isn't a defense, but just arguing that something from the internet is more likely to be patented
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by dlubarov 5y ago
That mitigates copyright concerns, but patent infringement can occur even if the idea was independently rediscovered.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
https://github.com/matter-labs/awesome-zero-knowledge-proofs is more up to date.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
Ethereum apps are typically written in Solidity before being compiled to EVM bytecode. The EVM bytecode must be public, but one could keep the (more readable) Solidity code private, like distributing an executable without the source. I thin
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by dlubarov 5y ago
I wouldn't expect PoH to lead to much energy use, since nodes are evaluating a single hash chain. Since the computation can't be parallelized, computational throughput isn't a factor; only latency is.
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by dlubarov 5y ago
It holds for any two points with distinct x coordinates. Note that the third point might be outside the range of coordinates shown in the article's graphs. Particularly if the line is nearly vertical, you may need to zoom out to see th
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> Also, what's wrong with truncating the chain after X blocks? I would say nothing. Truncating history isn't explicitly built into the protocol, but that's what most users do in practice. I believe Geth and Parity both pru
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> The Fed may have bought treasury bonds but those still have to be paid back. Do you mean that when securities owned by the Fed mature, the Fed will destroy the money that it had created to buy them? In practice, I don't think that
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by dlubarov 5y ago
> What is the motive [...] What’s in it for them? There's a huge monetary incentive, since things like social security payments (the largest item in the federal budget) are inflation indexed. The Boskin Report [1], which argued that

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