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by qnr 13y ago
Oppressive to their own citizens? You are probably right (though US have a higher incarceration rate, still uses capital punishment etc.) But oppressive to the humanity as a whole? US is by far the worst in this regard, just think of Afghan
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by qnr 13y ago
According to tor metrics only 17% of tor endpoints [1] and a similar percentage of relays [2] are in the USA. The kind of monitoring you propose would require a much higher portion of them to be under NSA control. [1] https://met
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by qnr 13y ago
This viewpoint became very popular recently and it strikes me as odd. Does the author always leave his house unlocked because there is a law against theft? "Your" nation state over which you presumably have some degree of politica
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by qnr 13y ago
Well, MtGox monthly volume is over 1 million BTC [1] or $100 million at current prices. I think you should be able to take out at least a few million without raising suspicion In case of SHA2 compromise in particular, generating, say 20% of
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by qnr 13y ago
Indeed, bitcoin is like a cryptography competition with ridiculously huge prize. 1. Break SHA2 -> control bitcoin generation ($2500 each generated block at current prices) 2. Break ECDSA -> unlock any addresses that have ever sent mon
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by qnr 13y ago
The author didn't mention racket. Anyway, since the article is a few months old, I went to github and got the new data (as of today): #20 - Emacs Lisp #24 - Clojure #25 - Racket #35 - Scheme #36 - Common Lisp Interestingly, had PLT Sch