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by josh2600 6y ago
Punchline: Whatsapp can't go back on their decision for a variety of reasons that are so much bigger than Whatsapp. The revenue pressure from Apple cutting FB ad revenue due to nerfing tracking has forced FB's hand. They have to m
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by josh2600 6y ago
At the root, Ponzi schemes stem from dishonesty, an unwillingness to tell people that your vision did not align with consensus reality. It is a manifestation of imposter syndrome and an unwillingness to align expectations with reality. This
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by josh2600 6y ago
This is a great site. A few pieces of unsolicited feedback from a marketing perspective: * Always have the call to action repeated at the bottom of the page; you did a great job having it above the fold, but I got to the end and had to scro
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by josh2600 6y ago
Avalanche is not the first PoS coin. You could make an argument that the first was Tezos but there are PoS like instruments that predate it significantly.
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Anything that’s settled in dollars or dollar-like synthetic instruments will have KYC/AML.
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Just to be clear, RIM was on top of the world when the iPhone came out, and, if they had been fast pivoting they might still be relevant in the world.
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by josh2600 6y ago
I feel like you're glossing over a bunch of things here. 1) the display on the iphone was gigantic compared to any other device on the market. The fact the iPhone had the battery life it did was amazing. 2) the software on the iphone d
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by josh2600 6y ago
Time will tell if you're right. I do think that what's happening under the hood of the Apple chip is real and is causing more than a few executives in the silicon world to lose sleep. This reminds me of when RIM got their hands on
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by josh2600 6y ago
People think end to end encryption is a magic cure for OpSec. It’s not. All end to end encryption does is protect you from eve spying on conversations between Alice and bob. Nothing prevents Bob from doxing/publishing all of Alice’s me
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by josh2600 6y ago
We use rust for everything at MobileCoin. I like to think of the compiler as fussy, but when you make the compiler happy your code just works. No buffer overflows as long as you don’t use unsafe code, multi-threading by default. The audits
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I guess I’m wondering how Pluton and SGX coexist...
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I would be interested to learn if you have examples of services whose privacy practices you admire more than signal’s.
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https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ This is the relevant blog post.
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Absolutely. You should trust anything as much as you can verify it and no further. I submit that there is no better option right now.
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by josh2600 6y ago
Just chiming in here: it’s almost all about the graph. If you have the graph, the content is almost irrelevant. This is why Signal hiding the graph as best they can, using SGX, is incredibly important work. Say what you want about Secure En
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This is just a monetary incentive problem. It doesn't matter if the voters are random if the reward for fraud is high enough to incentivize bad behavior.
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As always: show us the source code if there's nothing to hide.
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We're a fully Rust shop now (we write code for secure enclaves up to and including implementing a custom malloc from scratch). I actually don't see any reason to learn C anymore unless you are interfacing with older systems or doi
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by josh2600 6y ago
I always say this whenever this comes up, but, the number of duis since Uber has been operating have dropped precipitously. I don’t want to be on California roads late at night without Uber.
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by josh2600 6y ago
Does cardano do on-chain governance? On-chain governance scares me.
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by josh2600 6y ago
I mean you can just read Silvio’s paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01341 My understanding on how the accounts are chosen is that they have a global list of users that have opted in to validate and they pick one person
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by josh2600 6y ago
Yeah the broadcast layer is the part where a lot of the byzantine protocols breakdown IMHO. Broadcast storms are very bad. There's also the whole problem of tombstone-ing a proposed block if it doesn't achieve consensus fast enoug
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by josh2600 6y ago
Technologists need to build tools that are privacy-first.
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Google needs Firefox to exist for anti-trust reasons. If they don’t buy fire fox’s traffic, bing will.
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by josh2600 6y ago
I don't think it's possible for a non-apple/google app to access your address book on iOS or Android without you explicitly giving permission. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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This is basically a question of "should e2ee services allow users to auto-discover/discover each other or not?" Whatsapp just has a plaintext metadata mapping of the global social graph and each user's social graph. Sign
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Notarization is good. Intel calls enclave signing “attestation”, which is clear to me.
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It’s a cool idea but I think it’s hard to imagine how a user would perform this type of messaging transparently. For example, signal doesn’t support bots today or really any kind of unofficial API access so the idea of increasing the number
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by josh2600 6y ago
I am constantly amazed at what caused progress in my life. Sometimes it is working to the bone. More often it is knowing when to press and when to let things breathe. One of the most powerful lessons I’ve internalized in my life is that neg
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by josh2600 6y ago
Having deployed a contract to Ethereum, I can tell you that it is not for the faint of heart for a variety of reasons too numerous to list here. If the VM can change, but the code can't, it's gonna be hard to maintain.

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