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by ryan-c 3y ago
Yeah, regardless of whether you think bitcoin mining is a waste of electricity, those guys are definitely wasting electricity. The puzzle coins have faster-than-brute-force attacks available as an option.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
The computing power used for bitcoin mining is not general purpose, and cannot be used to crack keys.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment by mistake? None of the accounts in this thread (except one that got flagged to death) are new, and my account is the oldest one in this reply chain.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Where was the EFF when ISPs were null routing everything on Spamhaus's DROP list? https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/
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by ryan-c 3y ago
You seem to have missed that I was referencing Hamlet: > There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
"layman"? You called being trans a "social contagion" in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37291089
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by ryan-c 3y ago
The current consensus amongst medical professionals is that gender dysphoria is not requisite for being trans. This was not the case in the fairly recent past. There is also "gender euphoria" which may be experienced by people who
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by ryan-c 3y ago
No, it is not. See WPATH SOC v8, which mentions in many places that dysphoria "may or may not be present". https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.21... It talks a lot about "
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by ryan-c 3y ago
The optimal regret rate is greater than zero. (regret is the result of "false positives" which are obviously harmful, but "false negatives" are harmful too, probably more so - balance is required)
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by ryan-c 3y ago
The recovery from that particular procedure doesn't seem to be significantly worse than getting a vasectomy, though the infertility is rather more permanent.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
All surgeries have regret rates. Gender affirming surgeries are one of the lowest at 1-2%. Access to such surgeries is already difficult, people almost always have to wait a year or more and have multiple psych evals. I know several people
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Providing good sources requires substantial effort, and doing so seems to have limited, if any, persuasive power. This isn't Wikipedia. If you're genuinely willing to learn you can look things up for yourself. (note that people de
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by ryan-c 3y ago
A supermajority of them, actually.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
That would be an incorrect assumption.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
It's definitely not all of the difference, but it's gotta be some.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I wonder how much of the difference is air conditioning?
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I am not running serious network gear right now due to power, which is ruinously expensive in the UK to the extent that I find myself longing for PG&E's rates in California. Currently having a house remodeled, which I'm puttin
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I'm going to go play chess with a pigeon, it seems like a better use of my time.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing over the sound of that poor load bearing "generally" creaking under the stress of the thread. ;-) Yeah, the "C is the universal ABI" problem is... annoying. Hopefully some
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by ryan-c 3y ago
The only intended implication was "C is generally not appropriate for complex projects". There are, of course, always exceptions.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Editor preference was not intended to be the focus of my comment, it was more me being incredulous that someone would build something in C which necessitated Docker. If someone wants to do that anyway, I am going to be perplexed that C was
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I'm not a he (some other folks used "they" which is fine), but this is otherwise a pretty good interpretation - it absolutely was a dig at C, not elitism. If you're going to learn a bunch of modern tooling and start a gr
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by ryan-c 3y ago
At the risk of being featured in a future episode of "Hacker News reacts to (Dropbox|iPhone)"... ...a Makefile and vim (or emacs, or even nano, I'm not going to judge your kink) are fine. If they are not fine, then C is proba
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by ryan-c 3y ago
> don’t emphasize that it’s the user’s use of such an systen that makes them vulnerable not the foundation of the technique of brainwallets. That's because it is the foundation of the technique that makes them vulnerable. They are
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Other people can ship things you didn't ask for to your home without your consent, or not tell you in advance what shipping company they're using.
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Someone used the passphrase "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" to store 250 BTC. I personally drained it by mistake, then tracked down the owner, via the pool he'd mined it from. I'm
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by ryan-c 3y ago
Did a brainwallet write this?
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by ryan-c 3y ago
I would be interested to see performance stats - I would expect an optimized attack (batch point inversion, large precomputed table to speed up multiplication, not bothering to try to be constant time) to run well over an order of magnitude
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by ryan-c 3y ago
2^32 search space for each set? That seems to imply a little under 2,000 keys per second?
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by ryan-c 3y ago
What sort of rate did you get for computing the hashed public keys?

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