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by dsacco 9y ago
So you want the data to be public, but you don't want the data about who accesses the data to be public?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The entire point is that it's deeply screwed up for you to need to hide your wealth from your neighbors--or from some set of neighbors but not others--for fear of being robbed. That's a normative statement, not a positive o
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by dsacco 9y ago
Keep in mind the following: 1. Economic theories can be empirically descriptive without being constructively prescriptive (much like other theoretical disciplines, such as math or physics), 2. You're reading about his work from what is
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by dsacco 9y ago
Which theory specifically is used to "justify our entire social order"? How do we know it's incorrect, and what are the criteria for a successful theory?
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm not really following you. Rationality and adaptive markets hypothesis are not mutually exclusive. Moreover you seem to be attacking a strawman of what economists mean when they use the term, "rational actor". Economists d
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don’t really follow how an app like this leads to dysfunctional mindsets. Your slippery slope argument feels hysterical; this is just an app, and it’s a digital version of what teens already do...
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by dsacco 9y ago
A few questions: > As a payment system I think cryptocurrency is vastly better; the more I use my hardware wallet, the more I'm horrified by legacy systems that work by giving vendors the ability to withdraw as much as they want. I
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'd like to see a lawyer chime in on the legality of using civil forfeiture laws to compel someone to give up their private key or password. My intuition is that law enforcement would seize literally everything peripherally related to,
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by dsacco 9y ago
> - widespread privacy loss through corporations (Equifax, Verizon) Bitcoin does not offer a compelling solution for privacy concerns. Intrinsically, the blockchain is antithetical to this: it stores a record of every transaction. It w
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by dsacco 9y ago
I have to be honest with you, as someone who writes in both C++ and Python, I really do not see Python being more of a candidate than C++ for displacing Fortran. Can you clarify why you think Python might be able to do it? For scientifi
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by dsacco 9y ago
Speaking as someone who has worked in security with many different companies: I don’t think your bar is reasonable (or intrinsically desirable).
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by dsacco 9y ago
You’re aware of the irony in posting this, right?
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It's fascinating that this is only six pages long. The complexity analysis and corresponding math is sufficiently light as to be both straightforwardly comprehensible and inline with the body of the paper (instead of thrown into a &quo
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by dsacco 9y ago
This story has been upvoted a fair bit without any discussion, so to kick that off a bit: the author is Ross Anderson, a well known cryptographer at Cambridge and author of the excellent Security Engineering. The article is a particularly
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Why Cryptosystems Fail (1993)(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by dsacco 9y ago
Your question (if I interpret correctly) is about how trapdoor functions work in asymmetric cryptography, which is broader than elliptic curves in particular. I can give a basic overview; in essence, you use a trapdoor function because you
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is pretty good! The arithmetic of elliptic curves gets very complex, but I like how you arrived at points on an elliptic curve just by defining groups and fields. It might be a slight improvement to give a short, Rudin-style explanatio
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by dsacco 9y ago
>You work too hard for your money in order to just give "them" what they want without a fight. So you're happy to give them a fight for your money, but not for your time? Consider who the real sucker is in the situation
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by dsacco 9y ago
What does “very” mean? Do you mind quantifying that with a percentage? As it stands it doesn’t really answer the question: “very” is an imprecise measurement.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Okay, that’s pretty slick. I guess lucky for me I always enter my password in the Settings app directly, because I don’t know my password and the iPhone won’t let me go to a password manager when it gives me this popup without warning.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree with you that Rick and Morty isn't a nihilist show, and neither are any of the characters nihilists. Rick is deeply cynical and maybe a philosophical pessimist, and he's definitely a moral relativist, but I wouldn't c
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'd challenge that very strongly. I think morality is very compatible with nihilism, both in the existential and moral nihilistic varieties. In existential nihilism, the only real requirement is that the nihilist rejects any notion of
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by dsacco 9y ago
> they’re making twice as much money as everyone else ...if that's not your definition of "succeeding", then okay fine, but be aware that this is a major component of most peoples' definitions, so yours will be th
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by dsacco 9y ago
Why do you believe that people en masse "put up" with these tech companies? In my experience you're right that they're not stupid or unreasonable, but I think you're otherwise mistaken about the opinions of the vast
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yeah, actually I agree. Rust is one of the very few characters I can think of off the top of my head that successfully bridges the gap between romantic cynicism and true nihilism.
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's pretty common for something with a large following to have two entirely different but mutually valid experiences of its fanbase. That can emerge in pretty much all apparently incongruent reports in society. For example, in a salar
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by dsacco 9y ago
> You want a really nihilistic show? Watch Seinfeld. Eh? Do you mean nihilist in the (meta) sense that the show "is about nothing" and has no inherent meaning? Because none of the characters on Seinfeld strike me as nihilist
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by dsacco 9y ago
Productive for the first five nights?! How the hell did you not crash after the second one? I’m pretty sure I begin having auditory hallucinations after just one all-nighter!
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by dsacco 9y ago
A stylistic critique here: I think the trend of taking a quote from the article and presenting it on its own somewhere else on the page is overused, especially in blogs and magazines. For example, in this article, we have a sentence pulled
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by dsacco 9y ago
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