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by kanzure 10y ago
Launchpad build process for bitcoind is not the same as the gitian build process. My recommendation is specific to Bitcoin Core, although I have not evaluated the security of other PPAs on launchpad...
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Yes, deterministic debian is a good idea and we should make that happen.
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Unfortunately, none of the Bitcoin developers are currently aware of any "insider info" at all. This was force-pushed by a single individual who has not been communicating with anyone about this alert.
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by kanzure 10y ago
Do not use "the bitcoin PPA". Launchpad compiles this on their own infrastructure outside of the gitian build process. If, for some insane reason, if you must use "the bitcoin PPA", always check hashes, always verify the
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by kanzure 10y ago
So far, none of the others I have pinged about this has any info as to its veracity or background. Unlike most contributions to bitcoin.org, this one was pushed to the master branch without a corresponding pull request (a mechanism used to
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by kanzure 10y ago
see also: "Ultimate physical limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3.pdf "Limits on fundamental limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3821
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by kanzure 10y ago
I thought I had read a very similar idea in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010745/ but on closer inspection I see that it's referencing that same author...
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by kanzure 10y ago
> Right now those huge torrents have as few as 4 seeders Any ideas on fixing this? I've tried offering her storage, bandwidth, or physical delivery of hard drives, but so far no bites (specifically, outright refusal).
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by kanzure 10y ago
This keyboard fits in my pocket: http://www.amazon.com/ZAGG-FOLZKFLEXSLV-Zagg-ZAGGkeys-FLEX/d... otherwise, I'll often use a "wifi keyboard" app: https://play.google.com/store/apps&#
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by kanzure 10y ago
> This iterative improvement by AI rating of genomes could be sped up by creating sperm and ova directly from embryo stem cells. This way we don't need to wait for a generation to pass to have the kids become parents. You don't
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by kanzure 10y ago
Sorry to hear about your somewhat negative experience at the hackathon. I was there hoping to explain bitcoin things to folks, I co-hosted the bitcoin 101 session on Saturday but maybe you missed that? Catch me at the event and I can answer
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by kanzure 10y ago
> any of the mirror sites uploaded all 50M papers as a torrent yes... but their bandwidth (seeding) is atrocious. Send help.
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by kanzure 10y ago
> the whole collection of papers through torrents yes, although their bandwidth is horrible
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by kanzure 11y ago
> Instead of trying to understand the proprietary encryption/decryption, just run the decryption code without understanding it. When I have encountered this sort of problem in the past, I would drop the encryption module into anothe
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by kanzure 11y ago
> Imagine waking up every morning with 50 new arxiv papers uploaded that night. Others in this thread propose RSS and aggregation of abstracts as a solution. My proposal is to have reviews of literature, and then just read the reviews in
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by kanzure 11y ago
> Zero-conf is fundamentally broken. Yep. Double-spending zero-conf transactions can work as long as you are using a payment channel (where the other side is receiving each transaction). That's how the "payment channel" co
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by kanzure 11y ago
Yeah, I expect sneakernet to work pretty well. A few weeks is way better than nothing. Also, you don't need to use an active internet connection to make reliable zero-confirmation transactions (see lightning network, although it's
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by kanzure 11y ago
> "why would I use Bitcoin when I can use existing payment methods?" Bitcoin can be used for other reasons beyond payment system transactions; for example, a bunch of coins are stored in cold wallets, as a physical store of val
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by kanzure 11y ago
That's... not what the consensus seems to be. How is it that those "historically important forums" have been talking about block size increases for so long if they are being "censored" on this topic....? Maybe they
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by kanzure 11y ago
Well, bitcoin IRC or bitcoin slack- http://slack.bitcoincore.org/ which has an IRC bridge to freenode (read-only), plus read-write slack channels.
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by kanzure 11y ago
libgen scimag collection is not included in their torrents, nor usenet downloads, etc. Could someone ask them to fix this? thanks edit: oh http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
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by kanzure 11y ago
Hmm, this could be a good way to use postgresql during unit tests for python applications, as a cheap alternative to sqlite://:memory: and ramdisks. Cleanup is just container management task stuff, instead of adding postgresql pac
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PDFparanoia: Remove watermarks (IP address, name, ..) from academic papers(github.com)
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by kanzure 11y ago
they don't distribute scihub data in their torrents, it's a separate data set :(
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by kanzure 11y ago
> an effort by some of the "ebookers" to plant proxies in various universities' networks that would perform much the same function Yep they did that, it's called ezproxy. https://github.com/kanzure&#x2
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> We are only interested in the information that is specific to the individual. Not necessarily; there's a lot of value to be had in the non-specific information, too.
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by kanzure 11y ago
Here's some stuff on zerocash: Zerocash: Decentralized anonymous payments from Bitcoin: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Zerocash:%20Decentra... Zerocoin: anonymous, distributed e-cash from bitcoi
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by kanzure 11y ago
> Building an NN and hoping its brain-like structure will start to think is like building a flapping machine and hoping its bird-like structure will start to fly. But... you're replying in a comment thread that has explicitly stated
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by kanzure 11y ago
> You act as if the current version is some how pure w/o any hard forks having occurred Every "version" is pure w.r.t its current rules. Hard-forking is something that impacts a new chain. The old chain still exists even a
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by kanzure 11y ago
> rapidly coalescing around an effort to increase the maximum allowed blocksize to 2MB as soon as possible I have a small nitpick to offer. Any hard-forking change is one for a new network and a new chain, by the very definition of hard-

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