jtolds

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by jtolds 4y ago
I'm late to add to this conversation, but one of the reasons Storj is open source is so that our customers can audit our code and end-to-end encryption to confirm that no backdoors exist.
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by jtolds 4y ago
Ha thanks!
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by jtolds 4y ago
Hi Jim! For our hosted S3 Gateway (called the Gateway MT), we have more details about how it works on this page: https://www.storj.io/disclosures , in the section titled "Encryption for Gateway MT" The summary is t
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by jtolds 4y ago
Hey! Chief Architect at Storj here. Data on Storj is by default end-to-end encrypted with keys only the data owner controls (with optional support for sharing features). Only the data owner can decide who to share the keys with and who can
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by jtolds 4y ago
This is the companion blog post for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32133394
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by jtolds 4y ago
We just got the blog post accompanying this posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32138111
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Lensm, a Tool for Viewing Disassembly(storj.io)
10 points by jtolds 4y ago|1 comments
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by jtolds 4y ago
Your dryer does actually cause some real portion of attributable human suffering. It's easy to armchair discuss this, but have a look at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
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by jtolds 4y ago
People have talked about Bitcoin as a "battery", where you can use it to absorb excess electricity and then use the Bitcoin you earn to pay for the electricity elsewhere, but that's super dumb because then the energy is being
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Storj – Technical Disclosures(storj.io)
1 points by jtolds 5y ago|0 comments
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We Built an Open Source Drop-In Replacement for gRPC(thenewstack.io)
2 points by jtolds 5y ago|1 comments
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by jtolds 5y ago
I wrote this: https://github.com/jtolio/twitoderm
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Genetic changes could be behind long terms Covid symptoms(jpost.com)
1 points by jtolds 5y ago|0 comments
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by jtolds 5y ago
Whoops, sorry for the late reply, but it's the former.
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DRPC: A full replacement for gRPC in under 3kloc(storj.github.io)
10 points by jtolds 5y ago|2 comments
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by jtolds 5y ago
Hi! CTO of Storj here. This article makes some reasonable points, and it makes some unreasonable ones. First, on the reasonable: absolutely, privacy and security should be layered on top of whatever storage platform you use using your own e
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by jtolds 5y ago
CTO here! There's no cost to eat. We determine the amount of STORJ to transfer given a storage node operator's USD-valued accruals at the time of transfer. All of the book keeping is USD-denominated.
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by jtolds 5y ago
CTO here! We took a lot of inspiration on our latest design from Tahoe LAFS. Big fans. Main difference as I see it is Tahoe isn't as focused on producing a full storage ecosystem (storage node operators, etc), but we do share lots of s
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by jtolds 6y ago
Summary: Hseih and Moretti enormously understated the cost of housing regulation. From https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1379175006387638273 : "Starting with perfect mobility, the second row in Table 4 s
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Hsieh-Moretti on Housing Regulation: A Gracious Admission of Error – Econlib(econlib.org)
2 points by jtolds 6y ago|1 comments
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by jtolds 6y ago
The answer is not yes, and there is clear evidence that cryptocurrencies are cancelled and created democratically. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html ( https://news.ycombinat
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by jtolds 6y ago
It's a bummer because zkRollups and their ilk in particular are flat out amazing new cryptographic constructions, but because they weren't developed by Schneier or Rivest or DJB, the wider programming industry is ignoring them.
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by jtolds 6y ago
I came here to say this exact same thing. There is seriously interesting and useful real work being done under the umbrella term "decentralized finance" or DeFi. It is hard to cut through the noise of get rich quick schemes, but a
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by jtolds 6y ago
This? https://www.experimentalpi.com/PiBoy-DMG--Full-Kit_p_18.html Or this? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/piboy-cm4x-srx-compute-mod...
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by jtolds 6y ago
Okay, you're right to say I shouldn't say "there is no Great Filter!" and I was fast and a bit too punchy with claims. What I want to say is "Nick Bostrom's Great Filter argument is not a cause for fear!"
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by jtolds 6y ago
That's a good summary. Here's another good article about it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-disso... > Imagine we knew God flipped a coin. If it came up heads, He made 10
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by jtolds 6y ago
My summary: the Drake equation takes a bunch of scenarios and multiplies their expected values/average probabilities. But this is a bad way to combine distributions that are not normally distributed (and may look more like bathtub curv
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Dissolving the Fermi Paradox (2018)(arxiv.org)
1 points by jtolds 6y ago|1 comments
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by jtolds 6y ago
The Great Filter isn't a thing! There is no Fermi paradox! The Drake equation is malformed; multiplying expected values is a bad way to combine probability distributions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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by jtolds 6y ago
> A common moral flaw I see in individualist cultures is thinking that "they gave consent" is a good reason to intentionally do something harmful to someone. https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/128

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