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by ricksharp 9y ago
No, I meant that something I do only matters if it has permanent consequence. If, no matter what I do, every atom I have ever encountered is doomed to be scattered across empty space, then any effort of my part is without long-term effect.
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Ah, yeah I see what you mean. If one argues that the level of observed complexity cannot come from randomness alone and therefore must have been created by an external actor, then how does the external actor have sufficient complexity to cr
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by ricksharp 9y ago
What do you think of the point made in this video about the mathematical improbability of making a single protein by chance? https://youtu.be/W1_KEVaCyaA I've always heard people just assume it would happen given enoug
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by ricksharp 9y ago
A good example of special pleading would be saying: - Nothing can exist that wasn't made - Except the universe: it wasn't made --- If one says "the universe just is" one cannot claim logical superiority to the statement
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Well, I didn't say anything about the quality of set (E), only that it makes sense to consider the possibility of it, especially when there is an apparent contradiction in the (U only) set. I agree that specific beliefs about the Etern
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by ricksharp 9y ago
(I apologize for the long post. I hope it is thought provoking nonetheless.) I think it is useful to consider the difference between "Who made this?" and "How was this made?" As a coder, when I see a program that achieve
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Automated Blood Scanner Concept (Feedback Welcome)(ricklove.github.io)
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by ricksharp 9y ago
The public/private keys could be changed periodically. Old private keys could be deleted. Once lost, access to the messages they decrypt would be permanently lost (no searching of message history).
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Yes, if you lose your private key, it is gone forever. Otherwise there is no security. (Backup options would depend on the use case.) Yes, payment is a separate issue. It would be assumed that there is value in having this system available
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Thanks! This is an excellent list of potential issues. "What are you going to use to actually encrypt messages? You don't want to directly use the public key primitives to do this." I'm not sure what you mean by this. Co
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Public keys are open, they can be distributed any way (they could be published to a hosted directory a shared wherever). Only the device that owns the private key could decrypt the message. In fact encrypted messages could be stored publica
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by ricksharp 9y ago
Can someone correct me if I am wrong, but it seems relatively easy to make an encrypted peer-to-peer messaging system. I mean, simply use a public/private encryption algorithm that has proven to be highly secure: - Share your public ke