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by everfree 1y ago
I think it would be much easier for e.g. state actors to take control of a few of the world's PoW mining locations than to compromise a bunch of people's private keys.
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by everfree 1y ago
To join a PoW chain as a profitable miner, you need cooperation from a chip fabrication factory, a local courier, your local government (customs), and your local electricity company, at minimum. To join a PoS chain as a profitable staker, a
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by everfree 1y ago
> Proof of Stake is self serving self referencial database. Proof of Work is much more self-serving than Proof of Stake, as it demands external expenditures to keep itself running. PoS can perform the same job (running a blockchain) with
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by everfree 2y ago
I do wish those rules were a bit better defined.
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by everfree 2y ago
Legitimate? What do you mean?
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by everfree 2y ago
You don't need the gamma function to get to 7. You can stay at an Algebra 1 level. I solved the puzzle for 1-10 before looking at the answers, and this was my solution for 7: ⌊√222⌋/2 or more readably: floor(sqrt(222)) / 2
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by everfree 2y ago
> those <expletive> crypto bros, a bunch of failed morons (self-proven by all these hacks) Bankers are a bunch of idiots, too. I know this to be true because that one investment bank collapsed a bunch of years ago. In all seriousne
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by everfree 2y ago
Without Advanced Data Protection, your data is still encrypted at rest, it's just that Apple safeguards the encryption key. The purpose of ADP is to remove control of this key from Apple, so that it's impossible for Apple to leak
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by everfree 2y ago
Just because mutual funds are priced and traded daily doesn't mean their market value isn't still bouncing around every millisecond.
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by everfree 2y ago
> Then discovered they had to turn it off in each app that uses it individually. Technically the "Learn from this App" feature isn't an Apple Intelligence feature. It's been there since at least iOS 15 in 2021. I have
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by everfree 2y ago
> I have a local AI analysing everything I do on my Mac, iPhone whatever Which feature is this? I must not fully understand what Apple Intelligence does. I thought it was just for summarizing notifications, editing text and generating im
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by everfree 2y ago
Not an LLM, just someone who has way too much time on my hands and a penchant for jumping into internet comment threads in a way that I end up regretting later. I'm not sure whether I should take it as a compliment that I can apparentl
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by everfree 2y ago
> If your name is like `microsoft.com`, then you call the registrar. As I said, large companies like Microsoft don't risk their domains being stolen in the first place, since they use enterprise protection services like MarkMonitor.
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by everfree 2y ago
> So call the registry? Verisign's phone tree is pretty gnarly last time I checked. > The difference is that a judgement will actually get you something It could easily cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to win a lawsu
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by everfree 2y ago
Aside from my point that most contracts can be based on highly-vetted templates, smart contracts don't need to be written in JavaScript or Rust. They can be written using little puzzle pieces that anyone can understand. https:/&#
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by everfree 2y ago
> If it's a high-value domain, you call the registrar and get it back. When a domain name is stolen, definitionally it leaves control of the registrar. > Worst case, you can sue the thief if you hold a trademark for the name. You
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by everfree 2y ago
> After a decade, there are no examples of widely used smart contracts or even long-running projects that haven't been fueled by boom and bust speculation cycles MakerDAO, Aave, Uniswap, Ethereum Name Service, and OpenSea are all lo
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by everfree 2y ago
Crypto lets you engage in any contract you and your counterparty can codify. The reason that so many scams are run through crypto is because the vast majority of people either don't use smart contracts (in which case you're just s
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by everfree 2y ago
Possession is 9/10 of the law. A guarantee of possession gives you that 9/10. A legal contract leaves you calling a lawyer to grasp at the other 1/10, if it's even worth it for the financial value of your contract. In sh
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by everfree 2y ago
Have you ever had a domain name stolen? They're also gone forever in most cases. There is no standard recovery path once a domain leaves the hands of your registrar. You might as well be trying to reverse an international wire transfer
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by everfree 2y ago
Blockchains can potentially produce value by receiving transaction fees and burning them. This is similar in some ways to a stock buyback. Both Ethereum and Solana are currently coded to do this, though AFAIK neither of them are currently
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by everfree 2y ago
Of all blockchains that have any current relevance, only Bitcoin runs on ASIC/GPU - all the rest are staked rather than mined.
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by everfree 2y ago
Auditing isn't typically about forcing people to be honest, it's about discovering when people haven't been honest and being able to attribute the fault to a specific bad actor.
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by everfree 2y ago
My favorite example is Ethereum Name Service (ENS). Instead of a patchwork of DNS servers that can go down, registrars that go through enshittification cycles, and complicated ownership/transfer rules that vary based on country and TLD
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by everfree 2y ago
The major problem is that private solutions (like consortium chains) offer privacy but no standardized interoperability or neutral root of trust, and public solutions (like Ethereum blobs) offer interoperability and neutrality but no inbuil
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by everfree 2y ago
I think the more important question is how many people in the world don't live within a 250 mile circle around New York? An investigator could potentially cut their geographical search down by 95%+.
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by everfree 2y ago
Pretty sure if someone is misusing your company logo, they’re violating both copyright and trademark, among other things. I’m not a lawyer though.
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by everfree 2y ago
From their home page, it looks like their stated goal is to remove brand impersonation materials. Lookalike websites, social media compromises, malicious links, etc. They allege to work with registrars, contribute to blocklists and take dow
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by everfree 2y ago
Vanity addresses are a similar idea.
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by everfree 2y ago
> In basically every case, the initial group that claimed to have it and the main promoters of it have been young females. Thus, some skepticism is justified. Women are generally more prone to social contagion. I think the most useful qu

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