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by josh2600 1y ago
I can only assume that you don’t work in financial technology if you believe that KYC is a solved problem. Proving authenticity in an increasingly diasporic society is difficult. We should seek to either reduce or embrace entropy in the des
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by josh2600 1y ago
I don’t understand what the issue is… here’s a couple outputs from my ChatGPT: Marathon Crater can refer to a couple of things depending on context—space science or Earth geology—but the most common reference is to Marathon Crater on Mars,
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by josh2600 1y ago
I came here to write this exact response. Folks work in mission driven organizations. In organizations that are optimizing for dollars you see quality fall by the wayside. Mission driven organizations that understand the levers of capital a
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by josh2600 1y ago
Hand coded will always win for bespoke projects (and any hard tech startup is a bespoke project). The reality is that many startups are not tech hard. AI can help alleviate the pain of engineering a v0 to see if you have product market fit
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by josh2600 2y ago
There are many voices which try to tell you that signal is compromised. Notice that all of those voices have less open-source-ness than Signal in virtually all cases. Signal is doing its best to be a web scale company and also defend human
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by josh2600 2y ago
This is my read as well. Just double clicking here.
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by josh2600 2y ago
I’ve been working on developing an avatar within my prompt engineering to have a sort of ombudsman for interacting with ChatGPT’s agents. I’ve found this works better than having an agent itself. I’m able to invoke multiple different avatar
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by josh2600 2y ago
Hi, Very curious here as I haven’t seen any papers demonstrating attacks against the differential privacy systems proposed by Apple or Google that successfully deanonymize data. Such an attack in even a test database would be very interesti
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by josh2600 2y ago
Ahh yes, the labor of love that is code maintenance. Done is better than perfect until you’re reviewing the code in 10 years (or maybe 3 years with a more adept set of eyes over your shoulders). These days I ask my teams to be less clever a
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by josh2600 2y ago
Wow, this is a wild opinion. I wonder how many people you’ve talked to about this? I know tons of people in my social groups that love AI and use it every day in it’s current form.
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by josh2600 2y ago
Ok so who’s building ZK social networks?
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by josh2600 2y ago
Mergers in business are like dating. You can't just throw random people in a room and expect that they're going to like one another. It's about establishing shared context. Mergers happen because there is a shared vision that
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by josh2600 2y ago
FWIW, works fine for me.
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by josh2600 2y ago
We’re hiring for these roles, fully remote. Email is in my profile.
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by josh2600 2y ago
Lots of great founders and engineers have even less pedigree. Ultimately being a great founder requires humility to hire people smarter than yourself, drive to face adversity, and storytelling to build allies + capital. Doesn’t matter if yo
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by josh2600 2y ago
Stupid question: why don't they just offer to let Alumni pay for their content storage?
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by josh2600 2y ago
Just want to say how amazed I am that people are still using Bunnie’s Chumby!!
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by josh2600 2y ago
Anecdata: I know 2 people with horrific glioblastoma who are on multiple years of life. One of them is on year 8+.
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by josh2600 2y ago
Cap is different because cap is about network planning constraints and doesn’t take into account things like security per se. I think parts of Vitalik’s points are kinda moot and break down when you examine them through the lens of “any suf
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by josh2600 2y ago
Algorand’s solution as originally stated is predicated on a non-colluding majority. At IACR when this algorithm was proposed, Silvio famously said as a counterpoint to the very apt criticisms that a colluding majority could defraud the prot
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by josh2600 2y ago
My pops wouldn’t let us play on the internet at first so my brother played Warcraft and StarCraft using AppleTalk. I remember the only cable we had barely reached between the two computers so we had it hanging tight and if someone tripped o
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by josh2600 2y ago
One of the best to ever do it. I remember going to opening day at Pac Bell Park where Willie was hanging out next to his statue. It's a real good one that summarizes one of the greatest players in history. Seeing Willie and the Giants
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by josh2600 2y ago
The best startups have a concept which is summed up thusly: “We all go to the pay window at the same time.” It’s ok for founders to take a little bit of money off of the table if they extend that to their employees as well. Asymmetry is whe
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by josh2600 2y ago
Just make all security tech open source, then there’s no issues! I jest! (But kinda not?!)
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by josh2600 2y ago
Almost all chats on telegram are in fact unencrypted. The only chats that use their e2ee protocol are the ones that use the secret chat functionality which almost no one uses.
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by josh2600 3y ago
I worked in telecom for many years. Retail employees would perform sim swaps at locations I worked at for about $250-300. This was circa 2006 so I’m not surprised that people do it for $1000 with inflation. The reality is that cell phone em
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by josh2600 3y ago
Just going to note that it is widely suspected that Hal Finney did much of the programming on PGP with Zimmermann taking the heat for him.
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by josh2600 3y ago
I just want to thank you for this excellent comment which I found to be very helpful in contextualizing this conversation. I am excited about any kind of new network topologies because the current state of US Broadband is abysmal. Foolishly
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by josh2600 3y ago
I'll never forget the story of Paul Bunyan telecom out in I believe it was Montana who used federal funds to build to cabins at a cost of like $10,000+ per cabin to lay copper (back when that was a lot of money) under the right to serv
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by josh2600 3y ago
I'm fine with AT&T no longer supporting landlines if they start supporting fiber to every household. US broadband is a joke compared to many other parts of the world.

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