gojomo

58 ms·

631.
by gojomo 5y ago
Wow, from headline thought this'd be a one-note joke, & thus kinda dumb. But trying actual mechanics I now see it as "ha, ha, but serious" – a fun little illustration of the different contours of binary-strings vs words,
632.
by gojomo 5y ago
Besides eliminating the superficially-impossible rows (like `YYYYM`), does it do anything against more-sophisticated chaffing, like one or more accounts posting possible-but-inaccurate hint grids pointing at an alternate answer?
633.
by gojomo 5y ago
Thanks, Captain Kirk. You get a commendation for knowing how to 'View Source'.
634.
by gojomo 5y ago
Definitely emblematic of an era, & the midtown skyline, & a popular photo subject!
635.
by gojomo 5y ago
Lots of scholarship disagrees, but: before this press release, I'd never heard of the "World Heart Federation". Now I have. That was the real purpose of it issuing this provocative, but not quite scientifically-settled, state
636.
by gojomo 5y ago
Of course the Statue of Liberty & Empire State Building were the undisputed 1/2 (in either order) NYC landmarks for many decades before the WTC arrived. The Empire State Building had been the tallest building in the world for almos
637.
by gojomo 5y ago
Indeed. They were the most prominent feature of the lower Manhattan skyline, often the prominent focus of any photos/flyover/footage of the city, especially views from either New Jersey to the west or Brooklyn to the east. A nice
638.
by gojomo 5y ago
I consider entropy a troublesome thing. I wish it could be reversed. But, the universe is how it is. Privacy is general-purpose, and the things you can do with it resistant to unbundling.
639.
by gojomo 5y ago
Sure, just like laws against mind-altering drugs have erased them from society. As your link notes, there is no "right to be forgotten" in the US, & any attempt to bootstrap one would seem to require a partial repeal of the st
640.
by gojomo 5y ago
Indeed - the developer here could ask Zooko, & be open to consider other names that convey homage & inspirations without wholesale endorsement. (1st thing that comes to mind: 'Zooter', combining suggestive fragments of &#x
641.
by gojomo 5y ago
I totally support your right to live in a surveillance police state of your own choosing – far from people who prefer privacy & freedom.
642.
by gojomo 5y ago
And yet, both kinds of privacy depend on the same freedom-of-technology. If you give up your privacy-of-commerce based on fears of 'money laundering', your privacy-for-speech is probably already dead.
643.
by gojomo 5y ago
No, this is very good news, because it reveals the essential equivalency between privacy-for-speech & privacy-for-commerce.
644.
by gojomo 5y ago
Though MobileCoin may have borrowed a consensus mechanism from Stellar, I've seen no indication that it's a token on the Stellar chain.
645.
by gojomo 5y ago
With the integration of MobileCoin, Signal has a potential web3-style path to sustainability. https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...
646.
by gojomo 5y ago
That’s false. Speculation helps to communicate to those who don’t yet know, from life experience, that many “found unresponsive” deaths are actually OD/suicide/suicide-by-bender.
647.
by gojomo 5y ago
Interesting that Marlinspike's "first impressions of web3" (HN's current top story, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 ) doesn't mention Signal's embrace of MobileCoin.
648.
Signal's Cryptocurrency Feature Has Gone Worldwide(wired.com)
2 points by gojomo 5y ago|1 comments
649.
by gojomo 5y ago
As a web3 skeptic, Marlinspike has still been quick to outfit Signal with a privileged 'house cryptocurrency', MobileCoin, whose value-appreciation-with-usage will accrue to favored projects. That's web3, too! https:/&#
650.
by gojomo 5y ago
It's OK - tech nonprofits that rely more heavily on individual donations, like the EFF, Internet Archive, or Wikipedia, will still take your dirty crypto. Less than 2% of Mozilla's revenues are from contributions, so it's che
651.
by gojomo 5y ago
As a handicap, I'm now beginning each new day with the prior day's answer word.
652.
by gojomo 5y ago
HN previously (4mo ago): "Nirvana sued by the man who appeared on Nevermind’s album cover as a baby" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299543 173pt 339 comments
653.
Nirvana's Nevermind [baby] cover art lawsuit dismissed(bbc.com)
5 points by gojomo 5y ago|1 comments
654.
by gojomo 5y ago
But Italy, hit extremely hard by early waves, and now with a much-higher vax rate than South Africa, could more easily miss a rising wave of mild cases in already-immune that don't seek treatment. There are plenty of factors in all dir
655.
by gojomo 5y ago
There's nothing in the HN Guidelines which would suggest this sort of article is disallowed: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Also, everything that's unpleasant to consider isn't a 'consp
656.
by gojomo 5y ago
Thanks for referencing my tweet - & asking some questions I would! I 1st learned of the referenced Italy antibody-escape gain-of-function paper via an HN post which appeared almost concurrently with the first reports of the (not-yet-nam
657.
by gojomo 5y ago
"We're so glad you asked. Our possible range, depending on the candidate, is from minimum wage to $1M/year."
658.
The Most Revealing Moment in the New Joan Didion Documentary (2017)(newyorker.com)
2 points by gojomo 5y ago|0 comments
659.
by gojomo 5y ago
I'd agree those are among the real, internal corporate motivations for why Twitter has only teased openness in ways no one can rely on. And yet, Dorsey's tweet labels the "killing API access", before his 2015-2021 CEO te
660.
by gojomo 5y ago
Hey, don't forget how Twitter acquired video microblogging service Vine, used their platform power to kill comeptitor Periscope, then let the product languish into death... leaving that medium wide-open for China's TikTok to take

More ›