kittywav

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by kittywav 5y ago
Yes, but a "smart contract" is not a (legal) contract: it's just a fancy name for "a software program that runs on a blockchain". Thus, "smart contracts" behave like software programs (what happens is what
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by kittywav 5y ago
https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=europe If you don't want to follow the rules (against anti-competitive practices) of a certain set of countries, perhaps you shouldn't have offices
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by kittywav 5y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying. But, when the price of ignoring the problem for the consumer is "disappointment", rather than "bankrupcy", it still seems to me that it is not consumers that sh
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by kittywav 5y ago
> I don't disagree with anything specific that you said, but the reliance on "reasonable" means that you don't get a trivial guarantee about the lack of a short period from the structure itself. I'm using "r
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by kittywav 5y ago
> Assuming its a permutation and you output the whole thing. I'm assuming the state-mixing function is a permutation (i.e. the counter affects the whole state in a reversible way), but it is not required that the whole state is outp
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by kittywav 5y ago
> You can ban sandwich shops in your city, and there wont be a viable model for sandwich shops. No one banned sandwich shops (or paywalled newspapers) in this context, though. The problem is that some "sandwich shops" wants to
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by kittywav 5y ago
It's a recent anti-pattern they added. Possible solution: replace the "twitter.com" portion of the URL by "nitter.net" and you won't be nagged by things like that.
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by kittywav 5y ago
Just a small comment: you can do things to ensure that the period of a PRNG is longer than a certain lower bound for any input seed. For example, if you make the state-mixing function depend on a 64-bit counter, you'll ensure that th
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by kittywav 5y ago
I mean... I empathize with your feeling. I'm not telling you how I think things should be, but more about how things are, in practice. In practice , algorithms are not copyrighteable, but specific implementations of algorithms ar
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by kittywav 5y ago
> 2+2=4 is not copyrightable. "2+2=4" is a computer program as much as "Hello world" is a literary work: you need to use better strawmen. > I’d further that any program in a CS101 textbook is equally uncopyrightabl
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by kittywav 5y ago
Computer programs are as copyrightable as literary works, and generally are counted as such within the context of copyright (see https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/295166 ). Please point out where it is determined th
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by kittywav 5y ago
They generally do open source their crypto systems (at least the algorithms themselves), given that that is practically a requirement for any crypto system to be adopted in a widespread way (no one who is serious about security is goi
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by kittywav 5y ago
Note that no one is complaining about them locking-out "new identities" (which could be easy to create), but about them locking-out "old identities that have paid thousands of dollars to them" (which are not as easy to c
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by kittywav 5y ago
Seems like the person in question re-invented "NNLS chroma" or "Harmonic Pitch Class Profiles", which are often used for automatic chord transcription and related tasks. See, for example: http://isophonics.net