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by smokeyj 10y ago
Sometimes I wonder where everyone's driving to. They're driving physical cars, into a physical office, to work on digital information ? Surely middle management has a better way of keeping tabs on their minions. Cities should giv
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> You could be impeding the investigation into a deadly plot. We have warrants for that. Subpoena Yahoo for specific records. I'm not willing to trade the freedom of an entire country for a single investigation. This isn't an e
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by smokeyj 10y ago
How true is this? Somebody could just take a picture of their ballot (under the threat of violence presumably). Sure they're not supposed to, but at this point we're relying on legislation - where the legislation could say emplo
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by smokeyj 10y ago
Having a bad day? Just need a little attention? I'll talk to you, specialist :)
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>> Put a thousand pre-known keys in a hat, one thousand people draw keys from a hat, the key is activated on the blockchain and points to a user-defined voting wallet. Now you have anonymous cryptographically verifiable voting with do
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by smokeyj 10y ago
He could just verify from another computer since the blockchain is public. Bitcoin wallets already have m of n signature schemes that can require multiple devices to sign before being valid transactions.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
This is only a process for registering an anonymous voting wallet. It could subsequently be used to vote for any ballot.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
> Everything is bundled in tamper evident seals, observed and signed by members of opposing parties, physically escorted by opposing members, etc. I don't see why this level of security couldn't be used to randomly and determin
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by smokeyj 10y ago
But how do you verify that each voter is authorized to vote, and that only one vote was cast? It seems if you involve a digital system you're kicking the trust bucket down the road. The security of a digital systems is "good enoug
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by smokeyj 10y ago
OP was making a principled stance for a more direct democracy. When you argue against a more direct democracy, doesn't that make you scratch your chin and wonder if you really support democracy at all? Do you really support your fellow
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by smokeyj 10y ago
Say I buy two bitcoins, A and B, and combine them into a wallet C. Bitcoin A was purchased for $100 and Bitcoin B was purchased for $1000. If I sell half of wallet C for $500 - can I pick "which" bitcoin was sold? Because dependin
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by smokeyj 10y ago
How long until your ISP requires you have a VPN license and a key they control..
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by smokeyj 10y ago
I haven't seen this.. It definitely changes how I look at Reddit.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
Your arguments are: 1) Decentralized proponents just don't understand human nature 2) Decentralized power structures can't work because the wild west 3) Blockchains are only about making money If this is the best HN could upvote I
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by smokeyj 10y ago
I'd rather own the taxed coin. It's a great model to align the interests of the developers and the coin owners. When new features are introduced by the core team it may result in a fork. The z-cash alts may not fork the exact same
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by smokeyj 10y ago
The whole point of a blockchain is to prevent double spending by untrusted parties. If you have to go to a judge to resolve your transaction then you're kind of missing the point of this entire experiment.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
It almost sounds like you have no credibility on the matter along with a highly critical opinion of Musk.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
Just google it. I'm getting tired of seeing so many low effort comments. I used to come here to be informed..
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by smokeyj 10y ago
But how many enterprise shops hire contract developers, hand them a laptop and cubicle and say be here from 9-5.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
Look up the broken window fallacy. There's no way perpetual warfare is sustainable.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
> LEO and emergency personnel are trained to respond to these situations, and are paid to put their lives on the line. The keyword here is paid. We need more market forces in policing. It needs to be easier to fire bad actors and promote
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by smokeyj 10y ago
At the same time.. Who cares? all these channels could disappear and many cord cutters wouldn't notice. I wouldn't. There's funny pictures online with text captions. That seems to be catching on just fine.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
> The prevailing sentiment on HN is that NSA is more or less spying on behalf of Disney's copyright enforcement corps and the Moral Majority. I'd leave out the moral part. It's too easy to spy on foreign execs, act on insi
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by smokeyj 10y ago
> WebRTC data on by default, no prompt or restrictions, is a mistake. If webrtc just performed the expected behavior seems like it wouldn't be an issue.
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The offices I've been in have desktops, printers, fax machines and phones. So the question remains..
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I'm still not sure what happens in an office that couldn't be done online.
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> asking frantically "do you still remember how regions work?" Any source on this? Sounds like a wild story.
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by smokeyj 10y ago
I'm becoming increasingly skeptical that anyone on the internet is an actual human being. Especially so if this entity decides what I'm reading and why. I want to see the source to ranking algorithms, input sources and moderation
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by smokeyj 10y ago
No we should just use encryption. If you don't think google/fb/Apple aren't all under the same order then please pass the koolaid.
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It's only humorous if you agree with it. Replace the two books with ones you like and you have a formulaic insult. Save it for elsewhere.

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