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by photon12 4y ago
Here's an open ZK benchmark project that Polygon Miden (their primary STARK product) is a part of: https://github.com/delendum-xyz/zk-benchmarking They are going big on scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge (or mor
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by photon12 4y ago
"Wrong" seems overly absolute, as evidenced by my experience. This is going to impact retention in mission critical, "keep the lights on and keep regulators from levying big fines" adjacent departments. I don't see
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by photon12 4y ago
Especially at AWS where you have bays of people with door desks, it can get very loud and distracting in the office!
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by photon12 4y ago
I had a friend I was helping get settled in Seattle who moved from the small town we both grew up in by sharing rent, it was a voluntary choice. And my roommate had lots more job opportunities than where we grew up and now he's doing r
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by photon12 4y ago
"that its unproductive, lazy, or whatever" If you have bad management, it will be. If you trust your managers to implement remote work and do performance reviews after, you wouldn't need to make a blanket policy. Ultimately,
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by photon12 4y ago
It was optional, you could keep your camera off or not join ever if you wanted. When I was remote, I usually didn't join and just kept in touch on Chime text rooms unless my tasks that day needed a higher level of coordination.
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by photon12 4y ago
When I was at AWS around 2018, well before the pandemic, I worked on a team that was structured as remote first. I spent two days appx in the office a week because I had an easy commute and it was nicer than my two bed apartment I shared wi
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by photon12 4y ago
"Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat, which I believe is only installed as a mini-split" It's not a mini-split.
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by photon12 4y ago
I put in a new Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat heat pump last summer. It got down to 17 Farenheit in Seattle this winter. There are no heat strips or supplementary heating arrangements. The heat pump performed well the entire winter. My energy bills
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by photon12 4y ago
There were MPC experts at the company I was at. We talked a lot about account abstraction design for our stack we were building. I'm not unfamiliar with anything you are suggesting. I'm saying there are classes of users for which
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by photon12 4y ago
One question I have in all of this: are people building and using these apps actually marking all transactions as capital losses or gains? [1] A big thing that stops me from even playing around in these systems is not wanting to deal with t
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by photon12 4y ago
100% of users have to trust the code used to generate random numbers for private keys they care about isn't backdoored. Only a subset of users will be able to do this successfully. There is no safety net or recourse for people who wil
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by photon12 4y ago
If you like making every use of the computer a taxable capital gain or loss, you can "use" the computer for some definition of "use."
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by photon12 4y ago
Zero-knowledge proof generation, for one. Edit, see for example: https://www.zprize.io/prizes/accelerating-ntt-operations-on-...
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by photon12 4y ago
Bringing it up here isn't a distraction, it's central to my main point: the workflow of having a user agent refresh its persistent state is an expected use case, and therefore signal analysis should understand that for some users,
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by photon12 4y ago
I don't understand some of the ways you are using terms e.g. when you say "user agent" it sounds like you mean the User-Agent HTTP header, which is trivial to spoof, but that isn't how I'm using the word user agent,
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by photon12 4y ago
A user agent that refreshes parts of its profile at the end of a session and deletes data, hopefully, should be something a company like Google can pick up on after enough attempts. "We can't expect the nonexistence of a persisten
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by photon12 4y ago
Apple has a very strict browser policy on iOS: you must use either Safari or an Apple approved skin over the same underlying rendering engine. Apple policy is preventing Mozilla/Gecko from being built/distributed for the app store
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by photon12 4y ago
NCC Group is probably the biggest name because they go around Hoovering up companies that are usually above average in the competencies you asked about. And they can attract and retain talent. Trail of Bits is another big name because they
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by photon12 4y ago
Since this is specifically related to accepting payment, one would hope this infrastructure has received adequate security testing as required by PCI standards. In practice, PCI standards compliance is a mess of people selling "point a
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by photon12 4y ago
The events in Tigray alone, once the internet is restored and the full extent of the damage can be assessed and broadcast to the world, alone will probably be enough to give the early 2020s a name. When the worst mass atrocity in a generati
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by photon12 4y ago
I have a friend who lives in an apartment near a major, major artery in Seattle. It's 6 lanes wide looking out from the balcony directly down onto the street. It's what they can afford in a somewhat close commute to work by bus (t
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by photon12 4y ago
Do you want municipalities to be able to hire cops? This is already a tall order for a lot of people.
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by photon12 4y ago
It's a chicken egg problem. Developers use JWTs because it's what they think they know. Companies build libraries to support what developers are using. Security engineers say JWTs are easy to screw up [1]. Newer frameworks offer w
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by photon12 4y ago
This is highly dependent on the area. My family has a background in wheat farming, I grew up in an area with a lot of family wheat farms, and if you are in an area with good soil and the weather is good you can make a lot of money on a whea
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by photon12 4y ago
A model has assumptions, but the space is new enough to where there's going to be uncertainty in any model due to unknown unknowns. So it seems like defining a standard of mandatory reporting of assumptions would be hard.
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by photon12 4y ago
Not that I can share publicly unfortunately.
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by photon12 4y ago
There were funds that did due diligence and built out models of the Luna/Terra/Anchor ecosystem and realized it was unstable. You can talk to the people who built their models and they have lots of fun things to say about the orde
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by photon12 4y ago
There's going to be a question about the expected probability of this across cloud service providers. I've done security work for multiple cloud service providers and know a lot of people in the industry. I'm not really privy
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Digital Signatures on Risc0(github.com)
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