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by hannob 5y ago
There's also a principle in security that's called simplicity. "Defense in depth" is often quoted when people want to add further complexity to a system. There are cases where adding a security mechanism that adds comple
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by hannob 5y ago
Ransomware is the other big area where bitcoin is used for payment.
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by hannob 5y ago
Great idea. Not gonna happen quickly, particularly worldwide. So now what do we do about Bitcoin in the meantime?
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by hannob 5y ago
I think OTR kinda works on IRC, but isn't widely used. Ultimately I think the conclusion is that adding an encryption layer onto something that by design is simple and unencrypted rarely leads to any good outcome.
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by hannob 5y ago
Yeah he forgot all the good things bitcoin brings us, like having the carbon footprint of a small country.
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by hannob 5y ago
The big advantage of solar compared to next-generation nuclear is that it actually exists.
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by hannob 5y ago
> Battery powered cars are going to be the next disaster, after the fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms. Serious question: What is the fibre glass disposal scandal of wind farms? I googled for it and I didn't find it. There&#
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by hannob 5y ago
Ok, I read this and had a question right at the beginning and it wasn't answered: Why are GPU packages so large? Like, what's inherent about GPU functionality that makes them large compared to other things? (Usual python packages
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by hannob 5y ago
The arbiter is "if you build something that is build to be as inefficient as possible by design that's forbidden". I can't think of anything other than PoW that matches this.
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by hannob 5y ago
It's not a fossil fuel byproduct. It's a fossil fuel product. You take natural gas, split it in a process called steam reforming, you get hydrogen and CO2 emissions. Green hydrogen only exists in very small quantities these days a
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by hannob 5y ago
UK is exceptionally well positioned for offshore wind, being surrounded by water. Few countries have that luxury. I'm all for more offshore wind, but onshore wind will have to play an important role for future energy.
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by hannob 5y ago
Renewable energy is exceptionally popular and it's getting so cheap that money is hardly an issue any more. The biggest roadblock is opposition from industries that profit from the past energy system. This combined with listening too m
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by hannob 5y ago
Not secretly, but yes. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/municipal-buses-lead-...
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by hannob 5y ago
Maybe we just had a misunderstanding. What I was trying to say: Once this happens and everything breaks they will have an incentive to fix things quickly. By no means do I expect vendors of "SSL inspection" devices to act any so
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by hannob 5y ago
Ain't gonna happen. Let's Encrypt is too big to be ignored. You can't practically use the web like that.
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I guess that will give them an incentive to fix those devices quickly.
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by hannob 5y ago
2017. I guess if it was legit we would've heard about it by now.
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by hannob 6y ago
I don't think "natural" is not a very good metric or goal to begin with. Is cheese made from milk natural? I think people only believe that because cheese has been around forever, so they consider it being "normal",
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by hannob 6y ago
My first thought on the candles was: If you're worried about paritculate emissions and air quality in your flat then maybe just don't burn anything in your flat. I haven't researched that, but it always seemed entirely obviou
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by hannob 6y ago
The main problem with this "model" is that it assumes a world where only solar power, batteries and bitcoin exist. But we live in a more complicated world where coal power plants, other possible uses of excess electricity and many
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by hannob 6y ago
That's the theory of cap and trade. It's not how it works in any real-world setting.
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by hannob 6y ago
There's really nothing wrong with RSA keys. This issue is about the combination of RSA with SHA1 hashes for signatures. Using RSA with sha2-hashes is fine. (Yes, I know some people generally want to see RSA go away, but almost all more
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by hannob 6y ago
We know since many decades that a carbon price might be a good idea. But it's not that simple, because either you do it worldwide or you introduce lots of exceptions or you do something like carbon import tariffs (which the EU wants to
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by hannob 6y ago
The interesting thing is how this will influence a referendum that wants to force expropriation of the largest housing companies ("Deutsche Wohnen und Co enteignen"). When the referendum idea first came up a common argument agains
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by hannob 6y ago
"It's not much of a difference" is a terrible excuse. This isn't about the percentage points they were off, this is about how such a thing looks in the public. When you get a warning from a gov agency that you shared out
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by hannob 6y ago
The trials were too small to detect these rare side effects. There are limits of what you can find in a trial. That's why there's sideeffect monitoring after you put something into realworld use.
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by hannob 6y ago
Like half of the bad publicity for AZ is their own fault. The blood clotting issue is not, but the bad studies and the poor communication totally are. Getting a warning letter from an US agency for publishing outdated data in a press releas
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by hannob 6y ago
Counterpoint: Pretty sure p-hacking is older than 50 years. Yeah, the term only came up recently. But ultimately p-hacking is "just" exploiting freedom in the possible interpretation of statistical results. Also it wasn't rea
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by hannob 6y ago
Like 3D cinema. I found it interesting 2 times, then annoying, and then just started avoiding cinemas that didn't show the movie I wanted to see in 2D. Or the Nintendo 3DS. I quickly found the best thing about its 3D feature was that y
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by hannob 6y ago
Interesting this shows up here. I saw an article covering this study this morning and thought "yeah, that's how IT security works" (or does not work). Everyone agrees if you say "complexity is bad for security". But

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