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by robcohen 5y ago
Just thought I'd point out that I have a standing PR with privacytools from late 2019 and it never went anywhere, even though I was careful to ensure everything was done correctly. https://github.com/privacytools/p
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by robcohen 5y ago
> fixing the root of the problem The issue I have with this line of thinking is that you are assuming this is fixable at all. What are you going to do, place a police station on every farm to market road in America? Another way of puttin
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by robcohen 5y ago
Offensive Security certs are worthwhile, so is GIAC if you can get your employer to pay for them. Other than that, having a CISSP is useful for some employment (but effectively meaningless) and having a few networking certs from either Cisc
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by robcohen 5y ago
I mean, just because one thing is preferable to another doesn’t mean that both are good. Hitting yourself in the head with a smaller rock is preferably to hitting yourself with a larger rock. I’m not a doctor or a nutritionist, but it appea
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by robcohen 5y ago
Countless doesn’t seem totally accurate. Last I checked the FBI census a few years back showed 318 deaths over a year due to long guns in the United States. That includes shotgun, rifle, and scary “assault” weapons. Handguns on the other ha
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by robcohen 6y ago
We did this to ourselves by not making our systems Sybil resistant or DoS resistant. Bitcoin solves this problem by requiring a fee to submit a transaction to the ledger (Denial of Service). lightning does this by requiring you to select wh
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by robcohen 6y ago
The RGB protocol is one attempt to allow tokens on Bitcoin -> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/rgb-smart-cont... Another idea is Discreet Log Contracts https://suredbits.com/bl
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by robcohen 6y ago
Under US law it is illegal to use localbitcoins. It’s a violation of money transmitter laws. https://kelman.law/blog/money-transmitter-licensing-for-u-s-...
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by robcohen 6y ago
Citation needed, last time I looked into this, the internet could handle 8mb blocks before a significant number of nodes %4 percent wouldn't be able to mint blocks in time. What's the current research show?
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by robcohen 6y ago
My advice is to stay as a software engineer, and slowly move towards secure software development. 98% of the security world is complete and utter bullshit, and no one is interested in actually securing anything. Ever wonder why EVERY bank h
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by robcohen 6y ago
Every time the Democratic Party get some power they immediately pivot to gun control which is the ONE major issue outside abortion that motivates the other side to vote. It’s like they can’t help shooting themselves in the foot. Last I chec
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by robcohen 6y ago
I'm biased, having previously worked on Cardano, but the multi asset work going on right now is very competitive against what Ethereum can offer. https://ambcrypto.com/cardanos-mary-hard-fork-to-offer-nativ...
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by robcohen 6y ago
Get really good noise canceling headphones, then get an external microphone. Don’t try to combine them. For extra points, use your phone as a webcam.
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by robcohen 6y ago
Well the true genius of Eth was making choosing the fork the default option. So no, there isn't evidence that the community intended to accept the fork.
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by robcohen 6y ago
Pain tolerance. You can increase your pain tolerance by pushing yourself physically and by doing martial arts. This decreases your aversion to pain and your risk tolerance increases. I find this compounds over time, and even if you take lon
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by robcohen 6y ago
I've been watching this project for awhile with great interest - https://spectrum-os.org/
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by robcohen 6y ago
It is incredibly onerous to try to be a digital nomad these days and not break the law. I've lived in 4 states this past year. As remote work is further normalized, how is this situation going to resolve itself?
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by robcohen 6y ago
it is pretty impressive, but the lag really kills games for me.
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by robcohen 6y ago
I've been following crypto since 2012 (I work in the industry on an alternative cryptocurrency). I completely agree that this is the primary issue that Bitcoin and Ethereum have. Lightning and other second layer scaling solutions show
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by robcohen 6y ago
I would agree if California was a shall-issue state for CCW, but it's a may-issue state. Essentially it's arbitrarily up to the sheriffs department if you can get a CCW. Personally, I chose to live in shall-issue states.
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by robcohen 6y ago
This is great. Anyone have any similar repositories?
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by robcohen 6y ago
Have you seen how much a lightning transaction costs?
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by robcohen 6y ago
Blockchain usage right now is minimal, largely due to the fact that for most use cases it’s too expensive (the cost is high, confirmation time is long). For most use cases, Ethereum is too expensive and the blocks are too full, the same is
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by robcohen 7y ago
This blog post fails to mention anything about alternative consensus mechanisms to Proof of Work (PoW). Proof of Work requires the energy expenditure of a small country. Proof of Stake requires far far less power, negligible amounts of powe
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by robcohen 7y ago
I would agree with you if there were evidence to support your claim, but there is not. Actually there is evidence to the contrary. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-9... The truth is fiber
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by robcohen 7y ago
Yikes. I have had the misfortune of working in places where explaining the benefits of basic technologies lands on deaf ears. This happens a lot with regard to infosec (requiring 2FA, enforcing password manager use). Quite honestly just do
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by robcohen 7y ago
Most of the coins do not have merit, but there are PoS coins that are legit. PoS will likely result in more decentralization, not less. Cardano is aiming for 1000 stakepools, which is far more than the 5 or so pools that exist in bitcoin ri
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by robcohen 7y ago
Hopefully some of the PoS coins can help with this, we’ll see.
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Because it's hard. Also technical debt moving from Eth 1 to 2 makes it harder. My guess is another blockchain will execute PoS better because it won't have tech debt.
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by robcohen 7y ago
I'm impressed. Not one single person mentions blockchain seriously in this thread. I think micropayments are going to take off in a tremendous way. This will enable new applications and disrupt the advertising and content creation syst

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