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by nokcha 9y ago
>Providing work to the government without the government paying for it is illegal. The Anti-Deficiency Act only prohibits "voluntary" services, not "gratuitous" services. Prior to the passage of the law, it was not u
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>Did Telegram just officially say that their token will go up from $0.80 to $50? Or is Facebook allowing scammers to create fake official pages? The latter. See https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news&#x
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One solution is to formulate the contract so that guessers submit a hash of (guess, nonce). The contract records each submission. A few blocks after the submission deadline, Alice reveals the correct answer. Then submitters of correct gu
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>Are forward secrecy guarantees made by TLS valid in a post-quantum world? No, forward secrecy doesn't apply if the underlying public-key cryptography gets broken (such as by a quantum computer).
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>BCH received in the fork should be treated like the receipt of free money Why is that? Another way of looking at it is that the value of your existing bitcoin holdings got split between two competing chains. In a rational market, valu
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>It's trivial to distinguish between the two.... One goes by the name Bitcoin or Bitcoin Classic, and the other by the name Bitcoin Cash. My comment about distinguishing was not about Bitcoin Cash, but about the following counterfac
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Consider the following counterfactual: What if Bitcoin Cash had become accepted as the "true" Bitcoin and the original Bitcoin's market cap plummeted to near zero? Then you would treat it as a long-term capital gain if you s
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>Take a look at their success with e-voting How do you know that it was successful? I'd say that, in order to be successful, an election must ensure that (1) the votes are accurately counted and (2) the voters aren't bribed or
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>There is literally no point to a “centralised blockchain”. Sure there is! E.g., in the SSL Certificate Transparency system, each CA maintains a certificate log that is essentially a blockchain. And even in the context of cryptocurrenc
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>has the solution y = 1/(1-x) 1/(1-t), not 1/(1-x), right?
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I don't know what diet daeken followed, but the Lancet article described the diet in the study as follows: "Weight loss was induced with a total diet replacement phase using a low energy formula diet (825–853 kcal/day; 59% ca
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>Certainly inciting violence, advocating genocide, or ... do not fall under the auspice of an unalienable and foundational right. Abstract advocacy of illegal violence (as distinguished from inciting imminent illegal violence) is constit
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>bulk food items, also usually marked "not for resale." If you're referring to items marked "Not labeled for individual sale", that means literally that the items do not have the legally required labels (e.g., nu
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>One of my favorite restaurants, Sweetgreen, no longer accepts cash Is that a prepay restaurant? If the restaurant lets you pay after you finish eating, then by law (31 U.S. Code § 5103), cash is legal tender for settling your debt. Ho
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I'd argue that any backdoored encryption (which renders the plaintext accessible to the government and to any other entity with access to the backdoor key) is inherently irresponsible. It introduces a single point of failure that will
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Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies use elliptic-curve cryptography (in particular, ECDSA) instead of RSA. So this flaw is not applicable to Bitcoin. (One reason for Bitcoin using ECDSA instead of RSA is that ECDSA keys are significan
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If a function was not designed to be reentrant, then merely sending money to a malicious third-party contract can break the function's intended preconditions and result in a vulnerability. This is exactly what happened with the DAO ex
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There have been attempts to do so. One ongoing project that looks promising is CheckedC: https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc/releases/download&#x2
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Thank you, that cleared up my misunderstanding.
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>It is possible, with some proper insight and approaches, to sort general datastructures in linear time on modern computing hardware. The speed limit of sort is O(n) with some extra constant cost (often accrued by allocation). There is a
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> If the problem is a misspelled or out of scope identifier, the parser should should still be able to parse the program That's not necessarily true for all languages. For example, in C, "(e1)&e2" is parsed differentl
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Generally, only content-based restrictions on speech are subject to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment, whereas "time, place, and manner" restrictions (e.g., noise ordinances) are more tolerated. Additionally, commercial ad
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Falsely yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is illegal because the First Amendment has exceptions for lying (i.e., asserting an objective falsehood with intent to deceive).
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With a versioning file system, it should be possible to save without overwriting locked blocks. The only time you'd need to flip the switch would be to free up disk space by irreversibly deleting files or old versions of files.
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>When you call for violence against non-combatants you're breaking the law in every single western country. That's not entirely true. Abstract advocacy of illegal violence is protected speech under Brandenburg v. Ohio , 395 U
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Vaccines are not 100% effective. A small percentage of those vaccinated do not develop immunity.
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A key difference is that malware and other attacks to commit banking fraud is discoverable after the fact. In contrast, election fraud (such as malware on a voter's local system flipping the user's vote) is not discoverable, due
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>Is that worse than drinking liquefied shit? Yes, or more precisely, wastewater treatment plants can neutralize most fecal-borne pathogens, but they are unable to neutralize prions, the infectious agent behind transmissible spongiform en
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>It's not limiting free speech unless the government is asking for or compelling it. The First Amendment applies only to the government, but the principle of freedom of speech is broader. Large corporations, especially those that e
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These experiments provide evidence against local hidden variables. The experiments are silent about theories that involve non-local hidden variables. The act of measuring one particle of an entangled pair instantly affects the other p

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