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by rdl 4y ago
This is great research and if anything understates the case for alarm; Bitcoin is one of the more-decentralized projects, and PoW generally has some incentives for diverse hosting (if not network layer). PoS systems often end up on AWS spe
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Are blockchains decentralized?(blog.trailofbits.com)
151 points by rdl 4y ago|174 comments
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by rdl 4y ago
Wirecutter has gone way downhill since NYT bought them, too. :( The only review source I trust is https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm/videos
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by rdl 4y ago
I've done JFK-OPO on TAP on a 321LR a few times; it's 2-2 staggered 1-1 in Business and quite nice. ( https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/tap-air-portugal-a321lr-bus... )
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by rdl 4y ago
The NYT hit piece referenced in the article was fairly milquetoast: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-... If it's accurate (big IF for NYT), there is plenty I'd person
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by rdl 4y ago
The article was https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/technology/kraken-crypto-... -- it was pretty milquetoast.
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by rdl 4y ago
Celsius specifically; they were offering an income return for holding crypto (during a period of crypto appreciation), and the income was nice but ultimately not worth the principal risk. It was a long enough running business, with track re
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by rdl 4y ago
I kept a lot of money on them in 2021; was nice getting $1-2k/wk in "free money". I knew the risks, and have worked in the industry since before it was an industry, so no excuses. I pulled all my money from them (except $600
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by rdl 4y ago
Not an attorney, not a tax attorney, not your attorney, but US persons are required to report bank accounts they hold globally under both FBAR and FATCA, and signatory authority on business accounts is also a thing. Additionally, controlle
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by rdl 4y ago
That is one of my favorite sci fi novels!
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by rdl 4y ago
Is this a case of politics, like science, proceeds one funeral at a time? Did the 1970s anti-nuclear people age out of the party leadership and membership so this could get revisited?
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by rdl 4y ago
0 EUR 2nd class (presumably fairly crowded) and ~market priced 1st (and potentially a car or two of 2nd at normal 2nd fares) might be an interesting experiment.
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My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test(mattbell.us)
265 points by rdl 4y ago|137 comments
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by rdl 4y ago
An entity with a single purpose (accounting to issue no more of X tokens than they have Y tokens in another account) has a vastly easier challenge (both directly, and from audit/controls perspective) than a more-powerful entity with lo
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by rdl 4y ago
I thought most of these proposals were around doing device-local analysis and reporting (I suppose specific clients might not, but if they can mandate this at the device level, and make it default on iOS and Android, they're going to g
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by rdl 4y ago
I'd definitely like our immigration system to be better executed even under the current overall goals; the arbitrary/capricious CBP officer at the border seems pretty bad. Most of H1B could be fixed if we could get rid of Wipro&#x
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by rdl 4y ago
It still is relatively better to do pharma in PR than many other industries in PR, since it has an established workforce and a bunch of facilities, and there are PR-specific tax breaks under IRC 933 (just no longer 936). There's establ
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Security via collaboration: Building more secure future w Confidential Computing(cloud.google.com)
1 points by rdl 4y ago|0 comments
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by rdl 4y ago
ACLU membership and staff have always been fairly left, but they were impressively focused on (IMO) the most important civil rights as rights through their work at ACLU, and largely kept their personal politics out of that. A "mission
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by rdl 4y ago
Infrastructure sucks relatively to almost everywhere else in the US (better than other territories, probably better than parts of Alaska). Legal system is really bad (bad hybrid of old Spanish law, 1950s American law, and nearly a century o
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by rdl 4y ago
Yes, but the context of this post was emergency systems which are purely chemical. For routine operations on e.g. a submarine, https://www.naval-technology.com/contractors/materials/atmos... As other people have m
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by rdl 4y ago
Most interesting part for me was the basically continuous education aspect for everyone on board, as well as the very frequent drills. I guess a combination of keeping people educated/trained and avoiding idleness in such an environm
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by rdl 4y ago
I don't see where it claims that. They point out that piped air is one option (which is basically continuous open circuit in these settings; exhausting to outside.). The alternative is oxygen cylinders mounted on the chamber (or insid
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by rdl 4y ago
Yeah -- soda lime, etc. e.g. https://minearc.com/remove-co-co2-in-refuge-chamber-chemical...
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by rdl 4y ago
Assuming this is about being a US citizen and doing this: Option B: Move to Puerto Rico, run your company from here, do Act 60, zero capital gains tax. It's challenging to build a successful billion-dollar-exit company in PR, though.
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by rdl 4y ago
They don't even need to be on the same axis (although probably not really orthogonal in practice). Async on-site work is entirely possible -- if you're working in a high-security place, or where the physical infrastructure is the
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by rdl 4y ago
It's the easily available financing (secured against bankruptcy) which has enabled the cost spiral; eliminating this would start to put pressure on university prices. This would cause them to be somewhat cost conscious in certain areas
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by rdl 4y ago
I'd rather just make student debt "regular" debt, i.e. dischargeable through bankruptcy. Maybe secured by the actual diploma, so you can't claim to be a graduate if you default on the debt, but you'd obviously have
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by rdl 4y ago
LOL. I had to drop out of (MIT, not BU, but w/e) due to not being able to get financial aid (even though I think it was technically during the "we will give you as much financial aid as you need to attend" era), due to parent
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by rdl 4y ago
Is there a decent overview of commercial adoption of Matrix? i.e. what are the top 10 biggest companies using Matrix, and is there a vehicle by which they could pay for some security audits and bug bounties above and beyond the Matrix foun

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