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by kanzure 9y ago
another treatment https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
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by kanzure 9y ago
I wouldn't go as far as to compare the minds behind ICOs to the people involved on LKML. The linux kernel developers that have jumped ship from LKML to bitcoin can be found on the bitcoin-dev mailing list: https://lists.linu
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by kanzure 9y ago
recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14924002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14812445 https://news.yc
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by kanzure 9y ago
builds that take longer than 2 seconds
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by kanzure 9y ago
see "eclipse attack" https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/263.pdf and https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bandwidth&btnG=&hl=en&a...
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by kanzure 9y ago
Migrating Debian to nix might be possible, if that was desirable. You could have a compatibility layer for a while, and once everything is using the compatibility layer (in about 200 decades?), you deprecate the old package management detai
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by kanzure 9y ago
> because that suggests you can tell that a block is a "forked block" the moment it's created, but you can't. Invalid blocks are invalid, that's one way to tell. Run the bitcoin protocol rules and you'll get
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by kanzure 9y ago
Here's some "lore" around proof-of-work and why it must burn external resources: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
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by kanzure 9y ago
> Are we even looking for life at much different scales of size or time? Yes, see: http://www.xenology.info/Xeno.htm
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by kanzure 9y ago
> Where do they get off telling customers they can't withdraw an asset for five months? When they say it will take them time to implement, it's an honest statement. They literally have to implement software, do lots of code rev
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by kanzure 9y ago
Well, low-aging phenotypes (and genotypes) have already been discovered in the population. Doesn't make you invincible, of course. How mild of a guarantee are you looking for, again?
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by kanzure 9y ago
I think most of this money would be better spent focused on reducing the cost of life extension research, like essential tooling, not spelunking through combinatorial search space for drugs. Granted, this is more of an engineering approach,
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by kanzure 9y ago
Strange to not cite the origin of the confidential transactions scheme. an early writeup: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-confi
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by kanzure 9y ago
> And if so, what about watermarking? years ago i recommended to scihub that they should use https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia but they weren't too concerned.
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by kanzure 9y ago
Perhaps I am up too late and don't completely understand where your question is coming from... but there's a lot of hope available in biology because DNA is one of the most successfully widely deployed technologies of the last 4 b
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by kanzure 9y ago
Yes, it's exactly like that. .... Eliezer leaned back in his chair. "Mr. Musk, what can I do for you?". The two engaged in a blissful staredown as their eyes locked. After several overbearing teary-eyed moments, Elon replied
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by kanzure 9y ago
Many things in biology could be construed to be pointers if you squint hard enough--- promoters, transcription factors, all sorts of far-reaching regulation-effecting small molecules and proteins and variations of DNA/RNA molecules. Is
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by kanzure 9y ago
here's a TODO list i made for possibly interesting genome editing targets: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/genetic-modifications/ Many of these have low demonstrated correlation or significance so don't just blind
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by kanzure 9y ago
> Sounds like definitely adversarial behavior to me, not "borderline". They have the opportunity to write secure opt-out (on-by-default) replay protection-- like by choosing a new address prefix (etc)--, and they choose not to.
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by kanzure 9y ago
> those [privacy] tools should exist and be legal I made a comment recently about why bitcoin developers think that privacy and fungibility is important: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14678032 http://di
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by kanzure 9y ago
After a conference once, Aubrey sat down with me at whatever bar we were at, and he told me that one of the dirty little secrets about the field of aging research is that nobody really reads that many papers. I laughed it off, I thought he
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by kanzure 9y ago
> Or am I misinterpreting how it works? I had mentioned specifically post-fork coinbase output taint; if it's tainted, there's no way to replay, that's in fact one of the proposed replay protection mechanisms (unfortunatel
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by kanzure 9y ago
agreed about igem, i worked on a list of one-sentence summaries of all the previous igem projects: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna/projects/#igem-2014
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by kanzure 9y ago
Well dude, I have some funding for crazy gene therapy projects, so let me know if you want to work on things that matter. But it's all somewhat outside of academia, so it doesn't really appeal to everyone. Some very high-level bac
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by kanzure 9y ago
> The only people who get screwed are the main chain people, and NOT the BCC chain supporters/users. Sounds like definitely adversarial behavior to me, not "borderline". They have the opportunity to write secure opt-out (o
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by kanzure 9y ago
Replacing organs (for now) is a task that often involves immunosuppression. Perhaps it will be possible to work around this with techniques like gene therapy + xenotransplantation: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts&#x2F
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by kanzure 9y ago
> Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity. Don't let the grinders get in the way of
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by kanzure 9y ago
nah just skip the NFC/RFID stuff and go straight to actual research projects http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/implants/ I think wireless power induction should be one of the minimum requirement
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by kanzure 9y ago
previous discussions about the vulnerability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14817557 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825437
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by kanzure 9y ago
ok clarified with you later that i meant xpcom bindings not keyboard bindings :)

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