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by josh2600 3y ago
Everything in security is layers of defense against a threat model. To design a secure system one must first ask who is going to attack it and with what forces. Making truly secure systems is an art and is rarified ground.
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by josh2600 3y ago
The answer to why BigCo can’t outcompete startup is always the same. In BigCo you have ego that blocks authentic artistic critique. There are traditions. There are rules. We learned our lesson last time. In the best organizations, artistic
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by josh2600 3y ago
I remain unconvinced of the practical applications of solutions like this. These seem like academic toys. Pre-processing a dynamic database is a non-starter. No database that is used for any real world use case is static at scale, especiall
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by josh2600 3y ago
Just want to say that Lugg has consistently been one of the best experiences I have moving things from place to place on short notice. Great customer service and the work is always done on point and on time. It’s more reliable than any othe
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by josh2600 3y ago
Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of on
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by josh2600 3y ago
Hard agree. CBDCs are a substrate. There will always be integrations to the substrate. Ideally protocols are as simple as possible and applications utilize them to build bespoke services. If the protocol itself is too customizable it become
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by josh2600 3y ago
The lightning cable being sealed is amazing. The fact that there’s no cavity to trap dust on the cable is amazing. There’s still the dust catching port on the iPhone itself but avoiding the cable having a dust cavity is a huge win.
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by josh2600 3y ago
So is apple just gonna buy this company or what?
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by josh2600 3y ago
I’m pretty hard on my laptops and have never had an apple charger break despite very heavy use for 1 year+. I have had apple chargers fail in the second year of operation.
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by josh2600 3y ago
Why not just ITAR everything AI? It worked out well for encryption in the 90’s…
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by josh2600 3y ago
AI = Ennui
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by josh2600 4y ago
This is Joshua Goldbard, Founder of MobileCoin I had the distinct pleasure of working with Bob daily for the last few years. Bob was an incredible human being who I will miss every day. He was my friend and someone who drank deeply from the
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by josh2600 4y ago
Threads like these make me really happy to be a Hacker News reader. This is a slice of life that is very far afield from my own but one where I appreciate the attention to detail and correctness that holds the whole damn thing together. I g
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by josh2600 4y ago
Regulation is a public-private partnership. Most companies in crypto want to be regulated but haven’t been able to reach a shared plateau of understanding with the SEC. One way or another, we’re going to end up with regulation soon.
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by josh2600 4y ago
I want to know what the author's ELO is (forgive me if it was disclosed and I am unobservant). Maybe ChatGPT trainers will eventually have ELO's.
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by josh2600 4y ago
Let's just be clear, Signature didn't 'collapse', the FED killed Signature to send a message to other banks. Barney Frank straight up says as much: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1635328
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by josh2600 4y ago
If it ain't open-source, you can't trust it. Signal or GTFO.
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by josh2600 4y ago
Just want to say what a gift Bunnie is to the hardware hacking community. Thank you for all of the work you do helping to push hardware forward in our world!!
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by josh2600 4y ago
For now.
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by josh2600 4y ago
So most interview questions like "make a binary tree" are dead. The best interview question that will never die: "What's the weirdest bug you debugged? What made it weird?" For posterity: https://www.game
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by josh2600 4y ago
I bought my first bitcoins using local bitcoins many many years ago, must’ve been around a decade at this point. A guy showed up to a location with a duffel bag and a handgun. I put some money into a bag and gave him a public key. We sat th
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by josh2600 4y ago
Society is also a scam if you view it through this lens. All innovation, all technology can be wielded for good or for evil. With fire anyone can burn a building or cook a steak. I like to find the people who are using technology to help ot
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by josh2600 4y ago
This reminds me of the switch from circuits to packet-switched networks. Basically what happened is that telco operators only wanted to sell circuits which, like a circuit board, were essentially a closed loop. This is why t1’s were always
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by josh2600 4y ago
I think this is an unfair characterization. My point was to try to help individuals mentally model what could happen in the event of a cofactor attack. I think it would’ve been more confusing to say “imagine spending a txo 8x!” Because most
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by josh2600 4y ago
Yes this is my point. This removes cofactor attacks which famously allowed multi-spend. Dalek removes or severely reduces this possibility.
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by josh2600 4y ago
https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek 25519, ristretto group.
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by josh2600 4y ago
I feel like most people look at stablecoins and say "this is such an easy business!" and in a way they're right, but they're also wrong. Stablecoins derive stability through a system. This system uses collateralization t
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by josh2600 4y ago
I can't even describe how mindblowing all of this satcomm stuff is for me. As a kid I grew up on 2600hz lore and the magic of the blue boxes, all of the witchcraft that went into making those insane switching infrastructures. How the w
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by josh2600 4y ago
It’s actually so nuts. People rarely get into the details of how crazy accounting was in Enron. They made an agreement to build a power plant, then booked 50 years of profit from operating it before they broke ground.
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by josh2600 4y ago
I have friends who have done both Ayahuasca and DMT. Ayahuasca seems to be much longer acting and more intense when administered correctly (but a lot of it seems to be set and setting). DMT has two variants, the n-n and the 5-meo. Friends r

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