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by oleganza 4y ago
Monaco is special in a way that power does not matter there that much and even downforce is not so important, so comparing different cars over that track does not make much sense.
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by oleganza 4y ago
Whenever people bring up Lisp syntax, I like to remind everyone about io language. Its homoiconicity is inspired by Lisp, and almost all good things about Lisp syntax are applied in io, but at the same time it avoids this awkwardness that t
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by oleganza 4y ago
For publicity reasons F1 and Indycar/CART virtually never race on the same tracks. Otherwise people would point fingers and say that US series are slower overall, or top speeds in F1 are not as jaw-dropping as in US. I'd bet FE ha
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by oleganza 5y ago
If you and all your family and friends live in a country with a single currency, no bombs over yours or their heads, no serious inflation and no foreseeble risk of account freezes/closures, ATM restrictions and economic sanctions, then
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by oleganza 5y ago
This has nothing to do with the properties of Go/Rust as languages, but all about organizational structure. Go is supported by Google who can put necessary resources to include a bunch of high-level batteries in the stdlib and keep it
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by oleganza 5y ago
Your example is valid and replies are ill-informed. There is a difference between a "date" and "time interval". Timestamps are good for storing intervals, but if you need to plan something on a _date_, you need to store
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by oleganza 5y ago
Signalling is how mating works which leads to procreation that repeats the same process. If you don't signal your worthiness by winning contests, looking good, showing money, earning respect or in any other meaningful way, you are less
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by oleganza 5y ago
> I get why Apart from purely political/commercial reasons, I don't see why. Sandbox and App Store are mutually exclusive reasons for this situation. Option A: you have good security architecture, so running arbitrary code is s
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by oleganza 5y ago
It is completely backwards. Letting government think that it's an institution that grants rights and tells how to live instead of helping people sort out conflicts while letting everyone decide how to live their lives is a sure way to
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by oleganza 5y ago
I prefer more ECC than less, but as a friend of mine noted, most of the data are JPEGs (or video for that matter) and bit flips there usually go unnoticed because they simply adjust the pixel color slightly. So the chance that 1-in-2048-mil
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by oleganza 5y ago
Well, here comes the type system, so your fancy data structure has zero cost. Rust recently got more support for const generics, so you could encode size bounds right in the types and skip unnecessary checks.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Usually people say "oh, it's just another typical failure of writing in memory-unsafe C", but here's a slightly different angle: why is this common error is not happening under a single abstraction like "data struct
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by oleganza 5y ago
No, you shut down entire industries not because of poor vents in a concert, but because some overly powerful, yet replaceable and hysterical bureaucrats decided to cover their asses (from being eaten by the exact same bureaucrats) with arbi
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by oleganza 5y ago
You decide to frame it as "remove protections", while I frame it "here's thing with different tradeoffs". Did cars arrive on the streets with "protections removed" because they could go faster? Or we just
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by oleganza 5y ago
FYI: nullc is a long-time username of Gregory Maxwell (here on HN, on Reddit and elsewhere too).
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by oleganza 5y ago
"very few places accept BTC directly" is a non-argument. First, we both agree that the market is far from saturated with BTC. When/if it is, then sure many more places will accept BTC. Second, even with USD you are separating
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by oleganza 5y ago
That's an orthogonal issue. There are plenty of non-crypto investment scams (ask your local VC), phishing etc. Some part of the population will always be robbed or scammed, regardless of the name of your country, inflation rate or what
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by oleganza 5y ago
Bitcoin does not have counterparty risk. Your coins remain yours regardless of who else was doing risky bets and went bankrupt. (Provided you hold your own keys.) As for volatility, that's purely a function of holding distribution and
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by oleganza 5y ago
Speaking only for Bitcoin, that's a leverage against state monopoly on money issuance. Regardless of the church you subscribe to (deflationary spiral of death VS austrian hard money libertopia), the fact remains that people: - want to
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by oleganza 5y ago
Myself going from "web designer" to a "zero-knowledge proof cryptographer" (I'm a coauthor of Dalek Bulletproofs implementation, the cleanest API, documentation and fastest ZKP system ever) I'm sad to see crypt
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by oleganza 5y ago
Please don't confuse the breakdowns in specific political groups with overall community. In any realm there are 10-100s of quiet participants for each loud person who takes on some public role and tries to organize things. Enthusiastic
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by oleganza 5y ago
So the server and device securely agree on something like TOTP list (weak keys with expiration date), so intermediate data can be authenticated within those time windows? But if that applies to encryption too, then won't later brutefor
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by oleganza 5y ago
Epsilon stands for a "arbitrarily tiny bit" in calculus.
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by oleganza 5y ago
"Blockchain" became a term when people started riding on Bitcoin hype to push their own scamcoins. So, on one hand there was "there's not just Bitcoin, there's an entire Blockchain Space" theme, but on another
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by oleganza 5y ago
Yes, that's true. Thanks for correcting me.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Captain Obvious suggests that Emo Philips was not joking about throwing anyone off the cliff, but about the very fact that political subdivisions in religions pretend to be about which moral values are more correct, instead of being dirty p
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by oleganza 5y ago
First of all, we are talking about on-device decryption, so there is no difference in terms of security whether people extract a symmetric secret key or an asymmetric secret key. Secondly, yes, asymmetric encryption is slower, so you almost
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by oleganza 5y ago
Surprised to not find a mention of the second law of thermodynamics in the article.
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by oleganza 5y ago
What happens after 6 hours? Let's say I capture all the data from all the sensors and decrypt it with a 24 hr lag. I don't get a real-time info, but i collect all the patterns and whatever long-term data that's accidentally s
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by oleganza 5y ago
Would you mind sharing what protocols you are working on that can benefit from a "lightweight cryptography"? My impression from learning cryptography in the last 8 years is that cryptographic protocols are either exponentially sec

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