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by josh2600 4y ago
https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ Worth reading.
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by josh2600 4y ago
I’ve spent a lot of time at the edge of decentralized and useful tech. You’re right that most decentralized systems don’t accomplish the goals they set out to achieve. A few key things: decentralized means a network of at least 3 nodes wher
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by josh2600 4y ago
America is really big. You’ll find a high level of variance across the country just like you will in most g20 countries. Big cities have lots of problems and lots of desirable features. It’s a toss up. Having recently returned from Japan to
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by josh2600 4y ago
So real. I grew up real poor and it made me hungry. I think that's where a lot of the hacker mentality comes from, one form of poverty or another. I am hoping to raise children soon and I am wondering how to help them to feel a hunger
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by josh2600 4y ago
I’ve found that there are oddballs in just about every culture who make new things. Some cultures celebrate them, others don’t. The most tolerant cultures tend to get the most interesting new art. Edit: corollary, some of the best new art h
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by josh2600 4y ago
This is the thing I don't get about HN. Crypto is one of the primary grounds for hacking right now. Not just hacking in the sense of writing code, but hacking in the sense of defining a system from scratch. Cryptocurrency is so quintes
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by josh2600 4y ago
Never underestimate the length of an Enterprise purchasing cycle.
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by josh2600 4y ago
Contactless checkout has a different security scope for card issuers. Magstripe + Pin is reusable, contactless auth has protections that bind the key exchange to that specific merchant and multiple pay auth attempts from a merchant get thro
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by josh2600 4y ago
I want to echo this sentiment: Change in society depends upon privacy. Women’s suffrage would not have happened without the ability for women to meet in secret to plan public assembly. This is also true of the civil rights movement. Gay mar
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by josh2600 4y ago
A hard fork based on tornado cash isn't likely, but what if miners refuse to process blocks that have tornado transactions in them? What happens then?
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by josh2600 4y ago
Just going to point out that Tornado cash did invoke chainalysis oracles for all of their interface tools. The problem is that on ethereum it's not possible to censor a deployed contract. There is a possibility that miners could collud
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by josh2600 4y ago
There is a difference between “good” and “audiophile.”
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by josh2600 4y ago
Everyone on this thread is making a lot of assumptions about my mental state. None of you know whether I am or am not autistic. It's called a spectrum because there's a range. Some people are further out on the spectrum than other
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by josh2600 4y ago
Source: have worked with many smart and not so smart autistic people over the years. Have many friends “neuro atypical” and think I’m probably somewhere on the spectrum (aren’t we all?). Autistic people have what seems like a much higher to
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by josh2600 4y ago
For a long time many social networks were just any employee god mode. Access controls are just not a priority while blitz scaling and then very difficult to patch on after the fact.
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by josh2600 4y ago
I got a lot of mileage out of attending IACR in person. Lots of amazing content there every time. A lot of it is addressable even if you aren't going to do the math.
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by josh2600 4y ago
Let me ask this another way. I know how we determined noise was a good standard and that was talking to a lot of people who had built sophisticated crypto systems and then doing the research ourselves, but that’s only because we had the peo
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by josh2600 4y ago
I see. So maybe what you’re really saying is “why are you writing a system that has cryptographic primitives if you’re not a cryptographer/mathematician?”
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by josh2600 4y ago
Signal’s crypto doesn’t solve all problems (neither does wireguard). For example, we built private information recovery using the first production grade open source implementation of oblivious RAM ( https://mobilecoin.com/ove
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by josh2600 4y ago
I'm just saying, you're speaking as an expert in the field. Let's say you don't want to do design any of that stuff but you need some parts of those systems for the thing you're building. How do you decide what you
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by josh2600 4y ago
I guess this is my point: If you have strong mathematicians and cryptographers, you don't end up using NIST. There are lots of companies who have need for cryptography who don't know who to trust. What should they do in a world wh
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by josh2600 4y ago
Look, my point is that there are lots of companies around the world who can’t afford highly skilled mathematicians and cryptographers on staff. These institutions rely on NIST to help them determine what encryption systems may make sense. I
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by josh2600 4y ago
I just want to say, the problem here is worldwide standards bodies for encryption need to be trustworthy. It is incredibly hard to know what encryption is actually real without a deep mathematics background and even then, a choir of peers m
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by josh2600 4y ago
Just wanted to chime in and hard agree on this. I remember the world where people were trying to build things like kubernetes before it existed. There was a period where enough people had left google post ipo to realize that they needed som
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by josh2600 4y ago
For you.
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by josh2600 4y ago
My father told me that you should never tear yourself down, there are plenty of other people to do that for you. My advice is to listen to the parts of the critic that serve to improve your ability to heal the world (including yourself) and
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by josh2600 4y ago
I think a lot of success in life is actually turning trauma into a motivating force. That doesn't really help to resolve the trauma, but it does create an illusion of safety you can buy into, often helping to provide a space for proces
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by josh2600 4y ago
Is this the earliest recorded manned rocket flight?
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by josh2600 4y ago
Translating poetry is the highest level of translation because of all of the idioms. When someone says "I studied Japanese poetry", they really, really understand Japanese.
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by josh2600 4y ago
Some thoughts: * hardware is hard. * devices that make 126db sustained at low frequencies consume a lot of power (im assuming the author is measuring dba but I know the SB3 puts out a lot of bass so could be dbc). * battery power + wall pow

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