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by silotis 7y ago
It's also possible for a state to suborn a registrar to publish a fraudulent record so that the state can get a DV cert issued by the CA of its choosing. This leaves the WebPKI in no better shape than DNSSEC + CT when it comes to state
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by silotis 7y ago
Verizon may have price matched Google, but Verizon fiber service is only available to a small fraction of the country. The cable companies, which have a much larger footprint than Verizon's fiber, have mostly limited price cuts to mark
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by silotis 8y ago
It's different because the private company didn't issue the securities itself. The equivalent for a private company would be creating $3 trillion in bonds, "selling" the bonds to itself, then claiming to have $3 trillion
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by silotis 8y ago
I'm well aware that the money was dumped into the general fund and spent on other things. That doesn't change the fact that the money is gone, so saying that the trust fund has $3 trillion doesn't really help with SS's f
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by silotis 8y ago
The SS trust fund is an accounting fiction. The vast majority of it is held as treasury securities and the cash has long since been spent. Thus the federal government has offsetting liabilities for all of those assets. Once SS starts spendi
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by silotis 8y ago
Without PoW the crypto you describe does nothing to stop the TTP from re-writing history. The TTP can just re-generate the chain starting from the block they wish to re-write. With both a private blockchain and a signed transaction log you
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by silotis 8y ago
And a private blockchain does?
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by silotis 8y ago
A blockchain is not a particularly good solution for auditability though. A simple signed transaction log does the job just as well with much less complexity and overhead. Neither approach solves the privacy issue.
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by silotis 8y ago
The interest rate on TARP loans was well below market, so even though the banks did pay some interest it was still a sweetheart deal. Anyways, TARP was dwarfed by Quantitative Easing. The FED printed around $1.8 trillion to buy distressed a
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by silotis 8y ago
Serial/Parallel have commonly accepted technical meanings in the context of data interfaces which aren't necessarily intuitive. Parallel refers to taking a raw bit stream and sending N bits at a time down N wires to a receiver who
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by silotis 8y ago
I suspect the dual AES units are a side effect of Zen having two 128-bit SIMD units. The AES instructions use the SIMD registers so naturally the AES implementation is integrated into the SIMD unit. Presumably it was easier to duplicate the
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by silotis 8y ago
The FDA's drug approval criteria are extremely strict. Ask anyone who works in pharma and they can probably name at least a couple of drugs which showed great promise but got axed by the FDA on dubious grounds. A classic example is Asp
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by silotis 8y ago
I've also thought of this. With the plentiful availability of storage and bandwidth we have today, there is little technical reason why public resolvers and privacy minded individuals couldn't download and cache zone files in bulk
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by silotis 8y ago
Based on personal experience temperature monitoring on Coffee Lake worked just fine with 4.14. I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a breaking change in Intel's interface for this since at least Sandy Bridge.
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by silotis 8y ago
Clipper cards work on SamTrans buses too.
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by silotis 8y ago
I'm much more familiar with Bittorrent than IPFS, but as I understand it IPFS treats each object as its own swarm. This is quite the opposite of having a single global swarm. In Bittorrent terms it's as if each piece and the torre
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by silotis 8y ago
> My liberal friends in San Francisco hold the opposite mindset, they want everyone housed, working or otherwise, even if it's done in their own neighborhood. That may be true for your friends, but the revealed preference of SF resi
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by silotis 9y ago
Go initially billed itself as a language for systems programming, but that claim was quickly retracted when it turned out that Go's creators had a different notion of systems programming than everyone else.
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by silotis 9y ago
Doing a little back-of-the-envelope math, a 1080p image has a total of 1920x1080x3 = 6,220,800 subpixels. That means each subpixel needs to have less than 0.00004 bits of entropy for there to be less than 256 bits in a single image. Surely
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by silotis 9y ago
This was my first thought as well. I would love to see the reaction from the pro-spin-bit camp if Google announced that Chrome will never set the spin bit.
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by silotis 9y ago
> SQLite databases have a binary format which is known to change periodically. An attempt to read a SQLite file in 100 years would have to know the exact version of the file, and be able to reach back through history to find that version
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by silotis 9y ago
The direction a stock moves after an earnings announcement has nothing to do with how good the earnings are in absolute terms. What matters is where they ended up relative to what the market was expecting. If AMD announced a 300% increase i
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by silotis 9y ago
Last I checked, LineageOS for the Nexus 5 is still vulnerable to CVE-2017-9417 (Broadpwn). LineageOS might work for keeping the userspace up-to-date, but their kernels are still largely dependent on the upstream vendors. If the problem is i
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by silotis 9y ago
A rather important bit from the Wikipedia page to keep in mind when reading that quote: "His account was largely sourced from a 1797 work by Johann Beckmann titled A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins.[11] In fact, Beckman
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by silotis 9y ago
> the applications that they value, appear to operate perfectly well in a NATed environment The key word here is "appear". There are two main factors which maintain this appearance: 1. Any technology which does not play well wi
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by silotis 9y ago
Right now the most common x86 CPU which implements the SHA instructions is AMD's Ryzen. The only available Intel CPU which supports them is Goldmont, the latest generation of Atom CPU. It seems likely that Cannon Lake and possibly Coff
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by silotis 9y ago
SHA256 was chosen over SHA512 because the two most popular 64-bit ISAs (x86-64 and ARMv8) both define instruction extensions to provide hardware acceleration of SHA256. Hardware support makes SHA256 much faster than SHA512 in software, eve
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by silotis 9y ago
Currently no bittorrent clients support it. This is still just a draft. I've only just started working on an implementation for libtorrent, it will be quite a while before it is production ready.
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by silotis 9y ago
There's only so much the kernel can do to protect userspace from itself. When you have an interface which returns an explicitly extensible data structure, you have to assume userspace is going to at least ignore extended data it does n
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by silotis 9y ago
I would advise against implementing a custom cache for piece data. Caching file data in-app is counterproductive because it wastes memory duplicating data which the OS already holds in its page cache. Instead memory mapped I/O should b

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