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541.
by hiq 5y ago
> Not a single tx has been reverted on BTC network in 13 years (well, except of couple of early bugs that caused network split) The article mentions that the networks tends towards centralization, at which point the guarantees BTC was su
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by hiq 5y ago
Not an accountant either, but from past threads they seem to be quite different: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... See in particular this comment from a user who claims to be a form
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by hiq 5y ago
The comment I was replying to was suggesting to trust a server in a federated architecture. I pointed out that it's not that easy for 99% users. On the other hand, I don't need to trust Signal's servers, by design, thanks to
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by hiq 5y ago
> Of course an issue tracker isn't a discussion forum, but a good project team would have taken an extra couple of seconds to point issue reporters and commenters to an FAQ answer (assuming they had an answer that would withstand sc
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by hiq 5y ago
The comment you're answering to is pointing out that this is unsustainable in its current implementation in El Salvador (and implicitly unlikely to last), meaning that this example does not refute that > Bitcoin does not have any pl
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by hiq 5y ago
According to your link below ( https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency ) these are not audits, but attestations. Tether has plenty of these as well.
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by hiq 5y ago
This is an issue from 2016, it's 2022 now and Signal works perfectly fine without Google Play Services. The .apk is there if you don't want to use Google Play Store: https://signal.org/android/apk/ and i
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by hiq 5y ago
You're just saying that Signal's priorities don't align with those of some people, but the point of the article is that, given certain priorities, they'll be more easily fulfilled if your system is centralized, nothing
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by hiq 5y ago
> Compromised apps can very much silence such warnings. Again, this is not a useful take since this equally applies to any other app, federated or not. > If you get your service and your (preferably open-source) software from differen
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by hiq 5y ago
> You do not trust the service provider. To be consistent, you do not trust the software provided by this provider. These are completely different threat models. You're saying that since you can't have bulletproof security, you
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by hiq 5y ago
> Why do you trust their client apps? Because it's open-source, has been reviewed extensively, and people (with various degrees of expertise) keep looking at it. > You aren't building them yourselves, right? It builds reprod
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by hiq 5y ago
I think you're saying that Signal is not perfect, and I agree, but there's just nothing better at the moment. Email encryption is a bad reference because it has negligible usage (in comparison with modern messengers) and has prove
553.
by hiq 5y ago
> One person who does verify a fingerprint will get a real fingerprint. Or maybe they'll just show you same numbers as to your buddy, because they control both server and client software and users have very very limited resources to
554.
by hiq 5y ago
> It is not a protection, just a security theater. Signal is a perfectly good protection against passive attackers. MITMing a non negligible portion of Signal users would be too visible to be worth doing. This doesn't solve target s
555.
by hiq 5y ago
What do your points have to do with the centralized nature of Signal, or the drawbacks of federated networks pointed out by the article?
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by hiq 5y ago
> RSS feeds are still alive You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't think you'll convince many people with this.
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by hiq 5y ago
> Email can be e2e encrypted easily if you want it. Not with the same security guarantees, the same usability, nor the absence of footguns that apps such as Signal provide. > Also, proper e2ee requires identity verification of your co
558.
by hiq 5y ago
What's your exit strategy?
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by hiq 5y ago
> electricity usage has an upper limit of $37m per day I don't see how you compute such an upper limit given that it depends on the transactions fees. You're talking about the profitability if miners don't mine any transac
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by hiq 5y ago
> The Lightning network that is layered on top of Bitcoin is what is actually useful for buying stuff. Much of this article is based on this misunderstanding. It's not obvious to me what this changes with respect to the article, can
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by hiq 5y ago
> There was a popular internet sentiment ~10 years ago where everyone was convinced renting was superior to buying. "Invest the extra cash in an index fund!" This is still something people should look into, but it depends on yo
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by hiq 5y ago
> I can’t bulk edit transactions to reclassify them after the fact. If you store your transactions in a plaintext format, why don't you use CLI tools? I just renamed a bunch of accounts using sed for instance, in a hledger journal.
563.
by hiq 5y ago
One common question of this type (I've had it, and heard a few others as well) is: implement a function returning the factorial of its input (so n!). Basically FizzBuzz. I recently got that question after a homework with about 200 line
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by hiq 5y ago
Problem is you only have to fail once to leak information, and there are only a finite number of bits of information you can leak before your identity is known.
565.
by hiq 5y ago
I guess I should have expanded: a watermark is useful to reduce the number of possibilities of who could have released it. Over time, the more information is gained, the closer you are to a singleton (the result of the intersection of sets)
566.
by hiq 5y ago
Doesn't work if the watermark has a time-based component.
567.
by hiq 5y ago
Ok, so the interests are so low that it does make sense financially? I often see ads for such loans that seem less advantageous than just saving and buying it cash, so I thought it was mostly for people who could not save fast enough.
568.
by hiq 5y ago
> a car loan Is it normal for a software engineer (or anybody who could afford it after saving for a few months) to get a loan to buy a car in the US? Is it worth it financially? Or is it to improve credit scores, maybe?
569.
by hiq 5y ago
> it has some people who are there as a retirement. In which way does it transpire during interviews / once they join your company?
570.
by hiq 5y ago
What kind of mistakes did you make, what kind of bad hires did you have? I'm curious what kind of flaws would correlate with having worked for a big company before.

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