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by ric2b 5y ago
> some distributed medium that can't be edited, like Twitter. It this supposed to be a joke? Twitter is the exact opposite of that. > Then the threat model moves to "do we trust the person with the keys to this twitter accou
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Simplified a final state is when a majority declares it as final not a central entity does that. A majority of what? How do you know if you really have a majority or someone is faking a lot of identities and/or hiding a lot of rea
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by ric2b 5y ago
For Bitcoin the correct one is the one with the most accumulated proof of work that doesn't contain any invalid blocks. For Ethereum 2.0 I believe it's something about asking a friend?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Technologies like payment channels would allow for automatic pay-as-you-go schemes where your Tor client would pay sub-cent amounts for every MB used or whatever. But privacy is indeed a big challenge since we're talking about Tor.
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by ric2b 5y ago
So where's the evidence that this is a common issue with Android?
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by ric2b 5y ago
I think it's proof that people really like the camera, or the battery life, or the calculator app, or etc. Without actually asking people, how are sales numbers proof that buyers care a lot about any specific aspect of the product? And
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by ric2b 5y ago
> and allow them to sideload for everyone. They straight-up would pull out of the app store, block Safari users from the website, and force everyone to sideload a tracker build on day 1. I don't understand how people can come up wit
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by ric2b 5y ago
It was the destination airport, can we stop making up possible reasons about why they couldn't land there? They couldn't because the fighter jets forced them to land at Minsk.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Russia is becoming increasingly irrelevant and powerless. The economy is tiny for it's size and Europe has been reducing its dependence on Russian natural gas. That also makes me worried, because they're a nuclear nation and when
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by ric2b 5y ago
You think Mastodon isn't monitored? What could possibly make you think that?
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by ric2b 5y ago
> But the plane was not forced to land in the first place. It was indirectly forced, if the other options were to either be shot down by entering unauthorized airspace or to land. If it could have returned safely it probably would, but f
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by ric2b 5y ago
And what if after going across the Atlantic other countries also restrict your air travel? I guess then you have 2 options: - Crash into the ocean - Enter unauthorized airspace and be shot down But sure, it was just a "choice".
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by ric2b 5y ago
Probably talking about the Saudis, who were allegedly behind 9/11?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Cool, hello-world is easy, now give me a basic bar chart.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Ok, so what about how many rotations the radiator fan does per mile? The car will overheat and won't reach point B if the fan isn't running, so does it make sense to compare the efficiency of different cars based on how many rpm&#
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by ric2b 5y ago
A Bitcoin node simply doesn't consider BSV blocks to be valid, they break Bitcoin's rules, that's what makes them hard-forks and is not related to this discussion. When there are multiple competing valid chains, with PoW the
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by ric2b 5y ago
> Splits have happened and do happen, there's about 3 or 4 direct Bitcoin forks but they have little use. Social consensus is what ultimately controls which blockchain is viewed as the legitimate one. If you had a node running since
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by ric2b 5y ago
> If I have a private key to my coins, why is someone else allowed to disallow a transfer of them? They are allowed to try, but no single entity can completely block a valid transaction from being confirmed. The legitimate reason they ma
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by ric2b 5y ago
> The Bitcoin network is not this. The Bitcoin network is everyone meeting at a central square, fully able to communicate - all having a full list of all transactions Not at all, you can start right now trying to sync (from scratch) a ne
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by ric2b 5y ago
51% attacks don't destroy anything, they can temporarily censor transactions and have some ability to perform double-spends.
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by ric2b 5y ago
The difference being that anyone can mine, so even if 99% of miners are censoring a transaction, it will still likely be confirmed in a block.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Up 20x since 2018 is not that great?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Dollars are one of the easiest things to buy with Bitcoin, so how is that a problem? I also need water to live my life, but that doesn't make me feel the need to price everything in gallons of water.
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by ric2b 5y ago
What's a BIG selloff? -90% in 2018 wasn't it?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Would you measure a car's efficiency based on how much wiper fluid it uses per mile? The two measures aren't meaningfully linked, so it makes little sense to compute a correlation.
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by ric2b 5y ago
The output also includes security/decentralization. I can handle a lot of transactions on my personal laptop, but how safe would they be?
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by ric2b 5y ago
That protects you in the case of physical theft but not from any other program you run exfiltrating the data.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Blowing your leg up is not the right comparison, this is closer to a lock that breaks your lockpick if you try to pick it. No one is harmed but the tool being used to break in.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Any 0-days they find can be used on already confiscated devices even if they report them and the manufacturer issues a fix, so their business could in theory still work.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Sounds really close to a bank, without being one.

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