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by m3ta 10y ago
https://shakespeareillustration.org/ -- in case you don't want to brute force the correct order of link-clicks to find the original source.
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by m3ta 10y ago
I don't understand the assertion made regarding blockchains/digital signatures supposedly increasing accuracy or trust in IoT sensor-reading reliability. Also, how do you respond to the inevitable criticism that advertising your s
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by m3ta 10y ago
I use flux maxed out all day with orange-tinted glasses.
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by m3ta 10y ago
This may be one of the biggest reasons Instagram was purchased by Facebook. It's a hedge against Facebook's potential to go the way of AOL and MySpace.
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by m3ta 10y ago
Your friend's site and this article suffer the same basic problem: blockchain technology is really only effective at solving these problems: 1. Timestamp validity is of utmost importance (proof-of-existence). 2. Transactions are being
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by m3ta 10y ago
I don't understand how HN so easily handwaves away these enormous problems with "basic income". What do you do when the currency becomes completely worthless?
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by m3ta 10y ago
They claim to have secure end-to-end encryption. In fact, I would say using wire.com is better than Signal because Signal does not make any guarantee of anonymity. With the wire desktop app you can take steps to anonymize your connection to
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by m3ta 10y ago
I must have missed that. I don't understand what the point of your blog post is, in this case. You understand why PGP is needed and how it's important, how to use it correctly, etc, yet you "give up" on it because no one
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by m3ta 10y ago
You're right, long-term identity keys are bad. Long-term identity keys are not a concept mandated by PGP, they are a result of how people use PGP or how PGP is implemented in a third party app. No part of PGP requires you to use a key
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by m3ta 10y ago
It seems the author is using the phrase "do not fluctuate" to explain wind supply prices in the same way most people think, or assume, the value of the dollar does not fluctuate. Everything fluctuates, but some things are less pro
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by m3ta 10y ago
There isn't a lot to unpack in this article. Most is set-up; explaining how connected he is to a community that is enthusiastic about PGP yet doesn't apply secure operations in practice. Then there is the main complaint: > I ha
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by m3ta 10y ago
That is a similar but separate problem. It is admittedly a larger problem in particular for bitcoin and other currency systems with fixed supply.
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by m3ta 10y ago
The block reward is 12.5 BTC now, it is not 25 BTC any more. Also Cryptsy ended up failing and is no longer functional. This article is outdated.
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by m3ta 10y ago
Bitcoins can be split and divided up to 8 decimal points. You can own 0.00000001 BTC. Additionally, the software could be forked to allow division of BTC to a more granular amount than 0.00000001, meaning if all but 1 BTC were lost the enti
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by m3ta 10y ago
This is correct. I should have been more clear in my original comment. That is my mistake.
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by m3ta 10y ago
Perhaps. Dying very easily is sometimes a good thing for a species from an evolutionary standpoint.
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by m3ta 10y ago
That is not "all the DRM they need". Files split up into "randomly named 100mb chunks" does not make them safe from would-be pirates with a penchant for reverse engineering.
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by m3ta 10y ago
> - Signed Transactions (TLS based authentication trades security & audibility for speed) I think you meant "auditability". How are "Signed Transactions" an upgrade from TLS 1.2? How is TLS trading security for sp
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by m3ta 10y ago
Blockchain decentralization doesn't imply a market-based solution. Bitcoin's market value perpetuates its ledger but that market isn't necessarily involved in every blockchain app. Furthermore, to achieve true "1 person
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by m3ta 10y ago
"Failure is not an option" is not even in the same reality as "sitting on our ass". It is exactly the opposite.
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by m3ta 10y ago
That is the million BTC question. Bitcoin, on its own, could "change the world". Other blockchain apps could be influential even if the network/reach of Bitcoin stays at its current level. It's unclear which implementati
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by m3ta 10y ago
You can say "I understand biology" without saying "I understand the biology of humans". You can say "I understand blockchain" without saying "I understand the bitcoin blockchain".
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by m3ta 10y ago
The innovation behind a blockchain-based system isn't the ledger or the distributed nature of the thing. It's the incentive structure behind proof-of-work that gives Bitcoins their value. The non-zero value of the bitcoin network
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by m3ta 10y ago
Neither the title of this thread nor the article linked touch on this subject.
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by m3ta 10y ago
The reality is also that the quality of users' search results is directly correlated to the skill of the searcher and consequently the quality of their searching process. Our two statements are not mutually exclusive.
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by m3ta 10y ago
I've developed on a MacBook Pro for the last 5 years in vim and I have never touched the escape key or any of the F keys, ever. If you're using vim and reaching for the escape key you are doing it wrong imho. Rebind esc to somethi
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by m3ta 10y ago
I think Google's personalization of search is good for filtering out noise in most day-to-day searching. If an individual finds personalization of search to be a barrier to finding diversified news, they could always use incognito and
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by m3ta 10y ago
Merkel seems to be conflating the issue of search engine algorithms with social network algorithms. Search engine algorithms do their best to find what you are probably looking for -- it is a self-selecting filter bubble and they are workin
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HYPR raises $3M to help enterprises deploy biometric security(techcrunch.com)
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by m3ta 10y ago
I think OP used "they're" instead of "their". Read the sentence again with that in mind and it makes sense.

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