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by jaekwon 13y ago
The more civilians you kill, the more enemy you make, the more you need the military.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
I tried to cancel my membership, but there's no way to do it online without giving them a call. They won't pick up if you call, you have to press 1 and 1 again to get a callback. Shady and left a bad taste in my mouth. Would not t
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by jaekwon 13y ago
I just want a DNS system. That is, I want to know whether what I am buying is original or not. Let the market decide whether they want the original or fakes. Even the original creator shouldn't have a say on whether other people buy an
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Sure. But it was a strange thing to begin with. Why would anybody trust a cloud provider with sensitive information? Another way to look at the NSA -- they are hardening our security.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yeah haha! Let's at least make the system consistent. To be fair, then I'd also have to let the NSA keep records from "third parties", since I'm a Kopimist of sorts. Actually, I'm OK with the NSA having my data
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Sounds like the judge is saying that what third parties can have, the NSA can have.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Ugh.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
> the biggest problem is that the SHA1 digest of a message is not an authenticator of that message, because an attacker can generate the same digest given only the contents of the message. Curious, if the secret token comes after the m
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by jaekwon 13y ago
What is the economics of the incentive system for data storage vs cost of storage? For the miner who mines a block, he only needs to store the additional data in the block. But the commons of the miner network needs to store all data, so is
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Good point on technology. I also doubt that the deflationary spiral is a big issue as it's made out to be. To prove it, I assumed that it is a big issue, and then proved that it isn't -- proof by contradiction. I think ultimately
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by jaekwon 13y ago
We should also be careful to distinguish an exchange in a positive-currency, vs one in a debt-currency, which by definition is a trade of indebtedness. Can you really have a "voluntary" exchange of indebtedness? No, no, no. We do
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by jaekwon 13y ago
He starts out by saying that Anarchism is a truism. That is, we by default live in Anarchism and cannot escape it. Then perhaps the discussion is really about what the world should be like in the future. If the discussion brings together An
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Anarchism is anti-state. Anarcho-socialism is also anti-property, given some muddy definition of property. Your statement is typical from anarcho-socialists who want to squat on the word "anarchism" while failing to define what pr
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by jaekwon 13y ago
As I understand it, anarcho-socialism is against private (and especially corporate) "property" enforced by a state government in favor of personal "property". What "property" means in anarcho-socialism is still
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yeah, if I were a snowman in Arabia I'd be pretty meh too.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
:/ does this have any practical application?
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by jaekwon 13y ago
This thread inspired me to write my thoughts down: http://jaekwon.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/the-supernova-theory...
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Just as there are lobbyists in Washing DC, and think-tanks that survey popular opinion to sway the people in a certain direction (e.g. why do you think the rich are getting richer; see Koch brothers), there are those who rely and profit fro
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yup. And this is why it won't gain the kind of adoption that Bitcoin is getting. I don't trust it any more than I trust a human.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Double spending isn't really about trust. It's about transactional atomicity. After reading a bit, I've concluded that Ripple doesn't actually solve the consensus problem. Whether it works or not depends on the shape of
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by jaekwon 13y ago
I'd made a faraday cage with tin foil in my backpack to thwart the tag alarm system, and tested it out on a large retail electronics store. So yeah, maybe it doesn't require the social skills needed for the author's cons, but
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by jaekwon 13y ago
This was bound to happen, and cannot be stopped from happening, given the nature of bitcoin. It's not the end for bitcoin anonymity. There will always be a market for "dirty" coins, and there won't be one definition of &
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by jaekwon 13y ago
You falsely accused us of refusing to offer a browser extension for fear of losing users. Again, that is false.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Let's try to keep things friendly, or at least correct. We haven't refused anything. Everything is on the table.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
I see. We can't provide secrecy, but I think we can provide some level of deniability, and also make it a pain for those who are surveilling. I'm not aware of any application that provides secrecy besides BitMessage. Are there oth
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by jaekwon 13y ago
All client code is essentially equally sensitive. I'm not sure why you're making a distinction at all.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! >> A better approach would be to have the client pull a list of revoked certs along with the JS source/hash. That's not much better, as the client will have to pull a list from somewhere, and that so
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by jaekwon 13y ago
That's already happened w/ the crypto.getRandomNumber function, which openpgp.js uses/
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by jaekwon 13y ago
That could happen. The API is already there, in JSON over HTTP. One could gut all the UI logic and run it in a node program, or rewrite the client.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
What do you mean by "The only way this could work is based on network participants, and that's highly subjective." ?

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