solotronics

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by solotronics 6y ago
Always funny to read articles like this from people who refuse to get it. Related! A nice list of all the articles claiming bitcoin is dead and why. https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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by solotronics 6y ago
What if a lawyer hired by a company is the person initiating the registration? Company -> hires lawyer to register Company2 -> Company2 -> hires lawyer to register Company3 -> etc.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Maybe the answer is a push model vs pull model for money? Cryptographically secure money has its own new set of problems, but at least someone can't "pull" any amount of money from you with nothing but an account number.
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by solotronics 6y ago
A lot (most?) of main street traders never even transfer their coins out of the exchange so I'm not sure if increased KYC when transferring would even make much impact.
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by solotronics 6y ago
BitTorrent and Bitcoin both use a peer-to-peer model to distribute the data and find concensus, if they can't stop movie pirating how would they stop bitcoin? A bitcoin transaction is just data. Yes the onramp and offramp might become
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by solotronics 6y ago
As opposed to what exactly? We currently live in a world of finite resources. Eventually the laws of thermodynamics will apply as we live in a physical system. Say you had a note that corresponded to having a hamburger. As long as the note
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by solotronics 6y ago
I am not sure the percentage (99%+?) but most people don't grok how money actually works, they consider it something like water or air which is looked at as a given instead of something which was created according to an engineered syst
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by solotronics 6y ago
How do we measure the development of production quantum computing and it's effect on cracking hash algorithms and other cryptography? Is this even a valid concern?
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by solotronics 6y ago
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmat
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by solotronics 6y ago
A good key rotation scheme and separate API keys for different purposes. Precommit automated checks for secrets.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Actually it's pretty funny and shows the Sisyphean task that central banks have of promoting productivity and growth when their only tool is printing. If you can loan billions of dollars for nearly no cost why not put it into something
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by solotronics 6y ago
Even if the stock prices goes to zero they have a billion dollars worth of bitcoin...
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by solotronics 6y ago
This is not true in my experience. It's a valuable and recognized certificate, but most large cloud and enterprise are multivendor and the Cisco certs are interchangeable with the Juniper certs and others. It's just helpful as a m
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by solotronics 6y ago
This is a really good interview by Michael Saylor who was an early investor in FANG companies on what his thinking was for investing his companies reserve cash of $400mil in Bitcoin https://youtu.be/Cg10yYZjK94 His conclusi
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by solotronics 6y ago
I write software because I have always liked computers and always spent all my free time figuring out coding, linux, networking, and hacking in general. I don't expect to become the next Zuckerberg and I think that's the equivalen
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by solotronics 6y ago
This is a pretty good resource! https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Calculus/Book%3A_Cal...
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by solotronics 6y ago
It's kind of a pain in the ass but a solution is to set these devices all in their own L2/L3 network segment with separate routing (via a different VPN) out to public.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Wow, I had no idea this was a thing.
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by solotronics 6y ago
I also needed to run docker commands from within a container (Jenkins container executing docker cmds on the host it's running on). I don't know how common this is but I had the same use case.
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by solotronics 6y ago
nervous laughing
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by solotronics 6y ago
Core networks of cloud providers (FANG) are made up of many aggregated or multipath 100G/400G.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Taiwan did everything they could to lead chip fab so the US would find them geopolitically valuable. It's not a coincidence this scenario came about.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Just look at AMD vs Intel right now for the leading CPUs. AMD pulled ahead of Intel by a margin of 20% IPC. Intel has been having trouble keeping up in their latest process for failure rates etc.
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by solotronics 6y ago
This reminds me of systems engineering and designing around recovering from inevitable failures.
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by solotronics 6y ago
https://youtu.be/a-zaAie8UZs Joel Salatin has been doing no-till, no fertilizer farming at scale for years and his videos are really eye opening on what is possible. As a layman with a small home garden I do not have the ex
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by solotronics 6y ago
Or you could instead own a Toyota/Lexus that needs basically nothing except oil over 200k miles. Mine have been indestructible.
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by solotronics 6y ago
Supposedly 25% are unbanked or underbanked in the US. It probably varies highly on how you measure underbanked. I always thought this is what the target is for with the Libra cryptocurrency.
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by solotronics 6y ago
I wonder why everyone is downplaying the moral and technical hazard of having a single entity controlling all the issuance and payments in a country? At least right now if some bank sucks I can take my money elsewhere.
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by solotronics 6y ago
The "purpose" is to be able to trade one coin for another without having a trusted intermediary such as an exchange or escrow.
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by solotronics 6y ago
possibly when you are depending on transactions being verified on two different chains but one can do child pays for parent or can be overwritten on a smaller blockchain you could end up with a "blockchain race condition"

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