sebgan

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by sebgan 4mo ago
No immediate questions, but happy to have some great weekend reading. A quick pass through finds one of the best and clearest explainers I've seen. Thanks for this and all the materials you produce.
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by sebgan 6mo ago
This is conveniently suspect, no? “Drift migrated its Security Council on March 27 to a new 2-of-5 threshold with zero timelock. That eliminated the delay that would have allowed detection before admin actions took effect.” This was after
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by sebgan 1y ago
I was going to say that’s two minutes I won’t get back (and I won’t) but, ya know, schadenfreude.
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by sebgan 1y ago
Journalistic integrity (or not) arguments aside, that this happened with such an expensive piece of equipment is disappointing. Reminds me of Deal of the Century; “you ever heard of rain??!”
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Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
137 points by sebgan 1y ago|32 comments
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Interesting Look at Algorithmic vs. Floor Trading(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
1 points by sebgan 2y ago|1 comments
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by sebgan 2y ago
Suspension of floor trading (ie real humans) leads to higher spreads and larger pricing errors for treated stocks relative to control stocks.
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by sebgan 2y ago
True, and we considered that. But there are benefits to a smart phone that we also wanted them to have, just not all the time, and it should be easier to make a smart phone dumb than the other way around.
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by sebgan 2y ago
We got phones for our kids primarily to keep in touch when they are away, especially when they have after school sports, at work (yes, even at 14 they can have gainful employment opportunities like reffing soccer). It would be great if the
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by sebgan 2y ago
Also a link to the Great American Worm Wall https://youtu.be/Olj8arvfYj4
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Safe curves for Elliptic Curve Cryptography [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
84 points by sebgan 2y ago|70 comments
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VMware giving away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro free for personal use(theregister.com)
2 points by sebgan 2y ago|0 comments
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CABForum seeks to require CAs to implement MPIC(lists.cabforum.org)
2 points by sebgan 2y ago|0 comments