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by jl2718 4y ago
Mostly correct. I had tokens stolen from a wallet using a fairly obtuse scheme involving ERC-20 token approval and a proxy contract. This is required for almost all DEX users, and really is a weakness of the EVM in that it restricts user tr
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> those who want to see this industry succeed As a very early and ardent believer in cryptocurrency, and cryptography in general, I'm not sure that I do want this "industry" to succeed. I see it as an imperfect but necessa
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by jl2718 4y ago
I was once surprised to learn that, in some cultures, dishonesty is regarded as a skill. After all these years, I’m starting to see their point.
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One missing piece: $1B BTC being auctioned by the IRS soon. This is such a big number that it will almost certainly be bought at a discount by an arbitrageur and liquidated on the market, so this was the impetus for the broad-market crash t
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Faking the liquidity.
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There was a period of time during the COVID lockdown when I had dreams/nightmares about my time in or with the military every night: basic training, deployment, etc. I wish I still had them; my dreams of normal life today are probably
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> …Elon will do far worse things… Non-sequitur. The story is about middle management doing evil things for almost no incentive except a small pat on the back for padding a short-term revenue number, while the actual owner-leader who bene
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by jl2718 4y ago
Thought: Intellectual property should have nothing to do with payments to register your ideas with the government. Essentially, IP cases should revolve around whether an idea was “stolen”, which is different than coming up with the same thi
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Deceptive title. No answer, just magical thinking about people ignoring their incentives. Here’s an idea, not a great one, but something: torts and bonds. Regulators specify public-interest outcomes and associated monetary values, which are
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“Asymmetric” has taken on a fuzzy definition in the military, kind of like “agile” or “disruptive” in more familiar domains. He states that submarines are the one true asymmetric advantage they have, but the nature of asymmetry implies that
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Similar story. I got my first job assignment at to do a comparison of hardware for the EUMETSAT METOP ground station. This was 2004 and the leading options were custom hardware ASICs in the $1-10M range. There was a snow storm and I had rid
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No. Encryption that is "not provably quantum-insecure" is available. I doubt this will ever extend to "provably quantum-resistant".
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If you're talking about Langley, they money was tragically wasted as the local bicycle mechanics achieved the result mostly by ignoring the theories that turned out to be wrong, and are still wrong, and have been proven to be wrong, an
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They're way better than average at understanding money and power. Obviously it is you that is confused into thinking this has something to do with scientific reality. Not saying I do either...
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Please understand that a CA is a human person, subject to all laws of the jurisdictions in which they reside, as well as human nature.
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Datagram is a layer-3 protocol. There’s a lot going on underneath that.
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The ultimate dream protocol is one in which a sender just encodes bits in a certain way such that the receiver will get them, and puts them on the line without any handshaking or synchronization. I don’t think this is impossible. The space
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Passwords have low entropy and high reuse, so they can be used outside of their purpose, which is to allow access to a single resource. A salted hash is only useful to the resource it provides access to, and a salted and peppered hash provi
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by jl2718 4y ago
Much of this report is obvious to the point of boring, and it was one small part of it that seemed so nonsensical that it ‘went viral’: higher living standards and lower infant mortality actually decreases population. Beguiling as much for
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by jl2718 4y ago
Children are always, in every society, very costly to the immediate family that cares for them, and any benefit accrues to the greatly extended family, tribe, religious sect, kingdom, state, or market economy. The idea that people decide to
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by jl2718 4y ago
I always worry about those, because it suggest that they might be using those passwords to build a string of some sort, like a database query, or a json object. This is a problem firstly because string libraries are notoriously vulnerable,
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by jl2718 4y ago
> as living standards improve, the number of children per family starts to decline Nice theory, but causality clearly goes in the opposite direction.
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But cloud is still growing while the stock drops. This tells me that the cloud investment thesis is incorrect, and investors actually care more about PC Windows and Xbox. This makes more sense because cloud compute is destined to become a l
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This seems to be on the long arc of a dominant trend. It could be awful, but so are a lot of things we now accept as normal. My concerns about VR are essentially depicted in “Wall-E”, but I also wonder if there is a forward direction that r
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There are two kinds of “in-office” jobs: 1. We find the cheapest capable workers all over the world, and put them in an office for administrative monitoring, while they work on our ideas in fully-distributed teams through email and remote m
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Silly question: how much continuous power transfer has been reliably demonstrated today with a 1MW millimeter-wave source through a 20km waveguide for more than an hour?
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They’re now funded by investors at a loss. It doesn’t make accounting sense, but neither does politics. Media is power.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I expect to get flamed for this, maybe rightfully, so apologies for any unintended insensitivities. Here goes: In my personal life, the mtf women that I have known best, have very strong negative views of how men and boys are treated, espec
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Except that they withheld even the very core data of their argument, which is the four numbers that comprise the two ROI estimations. It’s not brave or insightful to throw away the evidence and declare the crime unsolved.
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Cost-benefit is easy to explain. Men with a low-tier liberal arts college degree fare far worse than men in the trades. A woman with any college degree at all, is a shoe-in for government or administrative jobs, and a woman with no college

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