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by jl2718 4y ago
Circular logic: this is exactly the problem at hand. But we can go further: Disinformation campaigns are generally self-serving, so there is another conditional distribution on profit, or perhaps more measurably, resource expenditure. So if
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by jl2718 4y ago
What are the best references available for telling the story of exactly how stolen Bitcoin turns into nuclear weapons?
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by jl2718 4y ago
> ads that [don’t] track them Does that mean “can’t” or “promise not to”.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Censorship is a strong indicator of an unpopular idea that is likely to be objectively true. This is not political; it is Bayes’ theorem.
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by jl2718 4y ago
11x abs…. What are you, crazy? Nobody can work out their abs in 11x.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I am a 10x engineer. I have the awesome capability to show you that a project is going to cost 10x the time/budget, and why you don’t need it, and should probably focus on the obvious 1x idea.
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by jl2718 4y ago
This is probably a stupid question, but why do they use an elliptic group rather than, e.g. an ordinary exponential group? It seems they’re using the property that the group order is N-1.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Code automation seems like a poor substitute for effective abstractions in a language, but, having seen this game before many times, I think it’s the way we are headed. Writing code will become entirely idiomatic, like the pidgin language w
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by jl2718 4y ago
Sorry; it was me. I ruined dating apps. In all the years I had a profile, I never actually intended to meet anybody. It was a great profile. I told jokes, I admitted things I’d never tell anybody in person. I was simultaneously boastful and
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by jl2718 4y ago
Bizarre response. It reads like you're implying that an ally of "Germany/Sweden/etc" did it.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Yes there is. Government is not supposed to be a self-serving entity. Government is there to serve the people. Democracy is meaningless without transparency.
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by jl2718 4y ago
Why would the attacker use RSA-155? The obvious answer is data size because all of the files have a symmetric key that must be encrypted in the field size and communicated. Let's not go into any helpful discussions around that, but, I
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by jl2718 4y ago
I looked up the actual citation. Here's what I found interesting: Copyright theft became a crime (versus tort) in 1990 and only applied to the sale of physical copies. It expanded to digital distribution in 2008. https://www
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by jl2718 4y ago
Did you know that Madoff didn't charge fees? His crime was faking the numbers, but the way he made money is, much like SBF, through leverage of managing that money. I don't know much about it, but until the lawyers got involved, t
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by jl2718 4y ago
IANAL, but they may have structured their investment as senior debt, and depositors may have some other funny legal status. Also Alameda has to be dissolved before FTX, so technically FTX depositors are a creditor to Alameda while the Alame
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by jl2718 4y ago
He's being honest here, and we should listen to him. Point 1: Most personalities are shams. Ethics/politics among the powerful is a lie/shibboleth. Instinctively you know this to be true, but hope in a great savior is deeply
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by jl2718 4y ago
Okay great; you learned something and now have a soft fork to improve it.
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by jl2718 4y ago
This is simply because you are inured to a certain type of parasitism. Whatever system you personally believe in, that's probably not what we have right now, and not what you'll ever get with a small number of people in charge. Im
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by jl2718 4y ago
You can't prove that they are telling the truth. Cryptography is the only tool I know of that gives you this ability.
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by jl2718 4y ago
No; it's not. Cryptocurrency exists as an alternative to the government-granted monopoly on the financial sector, which consumes a huge amount of value from every transaction in the economy, causing a great deal of unneccesary misery f
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by jl2718 4y ago
This 51% number is not really relevant in blockchain consensus. There is Byzantine consensus, which derives from a specific set of assumptions, but those don't really apply. In reality, consensus is not at all a vote. Coinbase and Circ
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by jl2718 4y ago
It seems to me that validators aren't taking their sovereignty seriously. They are either following the exact suggested rules of the blockchain, or they are following the laws, but I have not seen the idealized consensus scenario where
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by jl2718 4y ago
Are you suggesting that KYC/AML protects consumers from the bank?
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by jl2718 4y ago
https://twitter.com/jagoecapital/status/1590751676105125888
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by jl2718 4y ago
So, did Madoff's victims just end up with normal returns like they would have gotten any other way?
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by jl2718 4y ago
I would like this to be a rogue white-hat. Anybody have a theory?
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by jl2718 4y ago
Yes, smart contracts can be programmed to allow terrible human behavior. Banks also have this feature. But... they can also be programmed NOT to allow terrible human behavior. Banks do not have this feature.
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by jl2718 4y ago
A CEX is "like a bank" because it's a human that takes custody of assets, not because it does trades and loans. Smart Contracts, however, can't be regulated the same way that human custodians can, but they are also desig
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by jl2718 4y ago
A simple way to do this is to lock up coins on a lightning channel and then use that state as input to a side chain. This would probably require some form of massive multisig to form output consensus, which is a lot more efficient with Schn
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by jl2718 4y ago
Not phishing, but yes; very different issue. In this case, it was reported to the FBI as a private key disclosure through an old-fashioned MS Word macro virus, but I have my doubts versus inside job.

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