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by mhluongo 3y ago
You have that issue without cryptocurrencies as well, you'd just be relying on the kindness of users rather than crypto incentives. You always need a way to hold nodes accountable in a system like this, or it'll be rife with manip
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by mhluongo 3y ago
There was malware in the Snap store! This could've just as easily been a password manager and wiped out the guy's bank account.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Clearly you didn't RTFA. This mistake was on Canonical / is due to a lack of vetting in the Ubuntu app store.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Not sure anyone in the space believes that. Rather, a common belief is that over a long time horizon, the debasement of USD will hurt buying power, and that BTC and friends will benefit from that. Not such an oddball belief if you look at
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by mhluongo 3y ago
You're getting down voted for sounding partisan I suspect, but regardless of the politics, you're absolutely right. That bill was a huge change across the US tax system.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Creatine and other supplements Probably should default to "I don't know why someone would do that, but they probably have a good reason I can't think of" when we're discussing taking away their liberty.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Filecoin, the thing funding IPFS, certainly does :)
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by mhluongo 3y ago
> Why do people love inventing new middlemen to take a cut? FTFY. Remember many on this site are partially responsible for the ad-ridden web and a proliferation of all sorts of spyware. OTOH, we wouldn't skewer someone for charging
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Common example of recusal is CEO comp when the CEO is on the board.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Same thing. Parent comment doesn't make much sense though!
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Kind of! But that state can also be a proof that a transition function is correct, rather than eg raw application state. Look into Mina or Zcash to better understand what I mean. Off-chain clients (eg, wallets in Zcash) keep the application
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by mhluongo 3y ago
It's not true on any blockchain — Ethereum requires validators to actually run smart contract code, for example. On-chain verification is the ideal though. On-chain computation is incredibly expensive and wasteful.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Both Dune [0] and Nansen [1] in the cryptocurrency data analytics space have high monthly price points. Note that Nansen still has a "Contact Sales" button with a $2k / month price — I imagine this follows the "always
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by mhluongo 3y ago
ZK cryptography is still relevant today, regardless of how you feel about cryptocurrencies. I don't think cryptographers believe it's a "make believe concept", at least not the ones I know.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
So is 90/10.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
It also says "federated". Assuming that's actually the case, and that servers talk to eachother
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Oh, in our case we're talking about local encryption at rest... resilient in case a phone is lost or physically compromised. > Sure, but when someone says "your data is encrypted" usually that means it's going to a cl
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by mhluongo 3y ago
In states like Texas...? Like the article mentions, this data is sensitive and prosecutors are going after it. If your phone is in custody and doesn't have a strong passphrase, or uses touch ID... not great. I agree open source and loc
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by mhluongo 3y ago
A few of my tech guy friends have given this knee-jerk response. However... Flo isn't. Clue isn't. Most apps women actually use aren't. HealthKit is cool, but we need apps that aren't sending data home *and* that solve c
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Even worse than Facebook chats... the most popular period tracking apps can be mass surveilled, and at least one has been fined by the FTC for selling menstrual data. My partner, a menstrual health advocate, decided to do something about it
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Needs a (2022)
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Why? They have a fixed budget after all.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
> Presumably the people who are actually any good at this are off running their own businesses etc. Some of the good coaches are multi-exit former CEOs. They use coaching as a way to angel invest and still be involved in early companies.
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by mhluongo 3y ago
> people who get coaching maybe just don't talk about it openly? Ding ding ding. I'm sure there are plenty of scammers and generic self help people, but a good exec coach is invaluable. You can get help and feedback on things a
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by mhluongo 3y ago
"Buy the rumor, sell the news"
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by mhluongo 3y ago
El Salvador is a clear counter example. I can certainly imagine why a country with a history of poorly managing their own currency (and that for whatever reason doesn't want to be aligned to USD) might choose to use a more "neutra
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Is a public company not working of the exchange it's traded on is fraudulent? No — it can still offer governance rights and potentially dividends. Does gold not work if the exchange it's traded on is fraudulent? No, it can still b
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Bitcoin is working. Ethereum is working. In what world do you think that "Bitcoin working" implies all centralized bad actors are washed out? All middleman are toast? This stuff takes time, and the existence of middlemen doesn&#x2
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by mhluongo 3y ago
Eh, the FDIC is $250k per account, and total coverage in the fund is pretty small. I'd think we'd stop making blanket statements like this after seeing a couple large bank failures back-to-back in the US. If there are more, we won
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by mhluongo 3y ago
How are laws and the will of the people enforced? Typically via fines or jail time... both of which are backed by violence.

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