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by gonehome 4y ago
I’m not advocating for putting 100% of your money into BTC, but a chunk would help (especially in countries with less stable currencies). The hospital might not take it directly, but he’d still retain control of it and be able to find a way
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by gonehome 4y ago
People mock the value of BTC a lot on HN, but it’s this exact kind of risk that it helps protect against (if you self custody).
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by gonehome 4y ago
I liked the post - heads up that you can make your Reddit front page even better by enabling compact links in settings. This makes old Reddit look like Reddit from 2008, it’s great.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I preordered this when it first came up months ago and it arrived a couple of days ago - fun to know I got a copy before Charles did :). The first edition was really great. Excited to see the updates.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I don’t think they helped overall, I’d agree on net they acted to make things less secure by arguing for the small key sizes. We mostly agree. I just think strengthening public DES based on a security issue that was not public at the time i
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by gonehome 4y ago
They had a privately known way to weaken DES that effectively shortens the key length. They could have pretended to allow a longer key length while secretly retaining their privately known attack that lets them shorten it (without also acti
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by gonehome 4y ago
> "NSA credited tweaks to DES can be understood as ensuring that a weakened DES stayed deployed longer which was to their advantage. They clearly explain this in the history quoted by the author" I'm not sure I buy that th
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think it's just both. It's a giant organization of people arguing in favor of different things at different times over its history, I'd guess there's disagreement internally. Some arguing it's critical to secure e
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by gonehome 4y ago
I remember reading about this in Steven Levy's crypto and elsewhere, there was a lot of internal arguing about lots of this stuff at the time and people had different opinions. I remember that some of the suggested changes from NSA sha
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by gonehome 4y ago
He has a large audience and is anodyne enough to not matter as part of the interview. He may ask some dumb questions or say some dumb stuff, but he won’t be hostile. It’s why someone may go on tv for a few minute spot, it’s good for getting
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by gonehome 4y ago
Force touch and 3D touch are the same feature - they just called it 3D because “forced touching” had a bad sound to it. Currently it’s “long press”. I think they did this so they could remove the physical layer required for 3D Touch that to
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah it's isolating, though the internet was an incredible improvement in access to new information and interesting/smart people to learn from. There are major benefits to being in or at least close to a more populated hub.
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by gonehome 4y ago
The "is Coinbase layer 1, 2, or 3" is a particularly dumb one and a good example of how eye-rollingly bad his questions can be. It's hard for the guest to get into the interesting details when interrupted with a question that
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by gonehome 4y ago
For me it's not that he doesn't push back, it's that he often interrupts with some trite nonsense. So the guest is getting in the details of something specific and interesting and Lex will interrupt with something he thinks i
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah it drives me crazy and I'm unable to listen to them. It's maybe mean to say, but I just don't think he's that smart and unfortunately it shows. It also doesn't help that he doesn't seem to be aware of it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think most are betting on AR. Humane (some ex-iPhone people) is working on some sort of projection like UI, but they have put out very little detail about it. Apple is working on some sort of AR related heads up display. If the hardware c
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by gonehome 4y ago
The author is Byrne Hobart: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart and his substack The Diff is just generally great.
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by gonehome 4y ago
One thing I’ve always thought would be interesting is that age discrimination laws only protect people older than 40. That means you can legally discriminate against young people. If ageism is truly a thing it means that there exist old peo
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah we’ve already entered marketing land when it comes to this years ago.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah I’m also wondering what’s going to happen at that point.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I agree, relatedly it's also nice to have a place where physical attractiveness doesn't get outsized attention. You'd think it'd be a commodity online at this point, but it's interesting to me it seems to never lose
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by gonehome 4y ago
One thing I remember thinking was neat when I visited friends at FB (Meta) HQ in Menlo Park was they had fb.com/shitty (or something like that) which simulated terrible connections. They even had little stations with crappy and yellowe
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah this seems to be a common trend? It's easier to make money by capturing some small group of attention and getting them to pay you. In the best form of this you get interesting podcasts/writing that can be really great (Ben Th
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, though I wonder if Aaronson’s writing tone is somewhat influenced by Alexander’s. At least he reminded me of him by the end. I’m pretty sure they all know/read each other - related communities/ideas. PBS also has a (now disc
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by gonehome 4y ago
It’s if it was the only link you have in your bio. I have Twitter in my bio, but also my personal site. If your bio only had Twitter/gmail and no other sites they didn’t include it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think they mean they filtered out users that only had links to their Twitter account in their bio (as opposed to a personal site or something) - not that they filtered them because they submit Twitter threads. As others said it’s probably
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’m on there - at least for me the vast majority is from comments. The one time my blog hit #1 it was ironically submitted by somebody else.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Public bridges often get blocked (the CCP does this too). Tor then spreads them privately through social media with people they trust in the country. Those are harder to find, but that’s also why they’re harder to block.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Urbit solves it by making the ID scarce with a cheap, but non-zero cost that makes spam prohibitively expensive. It also makes blocking and moderation easy and the pseudonyms accrue reputation.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’ve seen this go both ways. The other outcome is that people are so terrified of trying anything (maybe because of fear of failure, but not always) that they never do anything.

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