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by px43 4y ago
You can't outlaw stupid. It would be nice if things like this that were obviously "anti-competitive" were treated as such though. Maybe a nice exception for bypassing anti-competitive DRM carved out specifically in the DMCA,
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by px43 4y ago
I have not read the paper, but for some high level context, it's written by a team of researchers at DeepMind, and was presented at NeurIPS, so I'm going to go out on a limb and give the authors the benefit of the doubt that they
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by px43 4y ago
> With that being said, the US already spends more on public healthcare than Canada does That's because it's mostly all going to predatory insurance and drug companies rather than to doctors and other medical professionals. Uni
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by px43 4y ago
He did basically run the Manhattan Project for searching for ideal curves, brute forcing millions of them and testing their properties, out of which came Curve25519, which is pretty much the curve used by anyone who knows what they're
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by px43 4y ago
From the article: > His software converted a one-way “hash function” (one that takes an input string of arbitrary length and compresses it into a finite, usually shorter, string; the function has many uses in cryptography) into a private
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by px43 4y ago
Web3 has a storage layer, a messaging layer, and an execution layer. Most popular Web3 apps use Ethereum for execution, IPFS for storage, and some custom websocket garbage for messaging, but there are many viable Web3 stacks out there that
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by px43 4y ago
Exchange listings, which is the topic of the article, and is mentioned by the person I responded to, are specifically a centralized finance thing (CeFi). Every DeFi exchange I know of allows anyone to list any token at any time. That's
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by px43 4y ago
That's not how order books work. New tokens don't get listed at some pre-determined price. People who buy up tokens in pre-sales are allowed to move their tokens onto exchanges, and list them for sale for whatever price they want.
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by px43 4y ago
Before I put any of my PII or payment data into any system, I'm going to be damn sure to do my due diligence and ensure that they are adhering to some basic security guidelines. As someone who has these skills, I feel obliged to perfor
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by px43 4y ago
Like others said, hashcat. Doing pentest/red team stuff, you quite often stumble across password hashes that can do some pretty cool stuff if you can crack them. Did you know that if you're on a Windows network, random machines al
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by px43 4y ago
Olive oil is transparent with a slightly green tint right? That seems even weirder.
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by px43 4y ago
I've got a covid baby, born June 2020. We're lucky enough that she was able to start school at 3 months old, and since then basically every adult she's interacted with (excluding us parents, but including grandparents) has be
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by px43 4y ago
I know of two colors for olives, shiny black and bright green. I never quite understood which of those two colors are meant by "olive skin", but if I met anyone with skin of either color it would be a first for me. Maybe there&#x2
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by px43 4y ago
Dopamine fasting is great. Many cultures across the world have been doing it for thousands of years.
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by px43 4y ago
Woah, this happened almost two years ago and somehow I missed this. I need to get more active on Matrix again.
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by px43 4y ago
Do you think it's more than 5%? Maybe it is, but it seems like every place that offers GPU rental services (Amazon, Vast, etc) they are being used almost exclusively for machine learning applications. The rate they can be rented out is
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by px43 4y ago
It's useful for the millions of people who participate every day in the trillion+ dollar cryptocurrency economy, but sure, continue to claim that anything that doesn't directly benefit you personally must be "useless". L
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by px43 4y ago
It was supposed to be quicker, and automatic, to prevent the collapse, but it's a relatively new system and still under manual control. In theory some set of humans have been tasked with slowly buying more and more UST to build up conf
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by px43 4y ago
You can't root or re-flash all Windows devices either. It's an open platform, so of course there are a ton of bad actors in the space who are going to add their own garbage and try to prevent people from removing it, but if you bu
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by px43 4y ago
I've been a massive fan of Moxie's work for maybe 15 years or so now, and have had the pleasure of chatting with him in person a few times, and most of what he says is solid gold. I even agree with most of the points he's m
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by px43 4y ago
Microsoft bought it, removed the encryption and decentralization, and started piping conversations directly to the NSA.
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by px43 4y ago
Of course, it's P2P with cryptographic incentives for running nodes. That's the entire point.
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by px43 4y ago
> I thought crypto was all about cutting out the middlemen? No, there are hundreds of great use cases for cryptocurrency. The idea that every currency should do everything is ridiculous. Tether was specifically designed to be a tool for
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by px43 4y ago
What a crazy thing to say. Do the konami dance on Android to set your device to developer mode, and it literally gives you a root shell on a Linux system with a completely open source OS that you can tweak, complile, and reflash yourself. T
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by px43 4y ago
Yes, the price would go down, but there's no way to fully deplete the backing assets as there is with UST/LUNA. Unless iFinex literally says "lol we took all your money and won't be doing any more Tether redemptions&quot
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by px43 4y ago
People who actually hold DAI don't experience liquidation risks. It's the people who create the Collateralized Loan Deposits (CDPs) who are taking that risk, and in exchange, are given DAI. Also, technically the value of UST was
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by px43 4y ago
It's still unclear who initiated the original attack which set this whole thing off, but whoever did that likely took home billions exactly because they understood how this system works. From the looks of it, there were at least two di
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by px43 4y ago
DISCLAIMER: Never hold Tether, for obvious reasons That said, Tether can't pop the way LUNA/UST did. UST was basically propped up by the value of LUNA such that when the UST peg is lost, more LUNA gets printed to buy back the diff
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by px43 4y ago
Crypto.com is a heavily regulated entity.
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by px43 4y ago
DAI works fine. Over-collateralization with a looming threat of liquidation has proven to be resilient against all imaginable forms of market turbulence. It still leans heavily on oracles that are basically run by humans, so there is risk

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