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by svennek 5y ago
Do you also check your grocery stores preparedness for fire for the same reason? Or your local banks preparedness for robbery? Hopefully not. In business all decisions are made based on a risk tradeoff. Like people it never has enough mone
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by svennek 5y ago
Btw I am not speaking of a FAANG company, but one that has a tiny web presence..
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by svennek 5y ago
All data they process are required by law, but they have to collate a dozen systems manually and the legal department has to go thru everything and block out data the customer is not allowed to see (also by law)... No all companies are evil
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by svennek 5y ago
Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (tha
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by svennek 5y ago
Now, they just need to make really, really advanced research and in the future release the most advanced ratio: 20:15 And people would love it... For realz, I long after a taller monitor... It might just because I grew up with a 4:3 but I t
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by svennek 5y ago
Or it may just be, that anyone (currently) caring about >256 bits of symmetric key is likely not knowledgeable enough to avoid snake-oil salesmen (usually are annoying, but in crypto are outright dangerous). Is there any well-defined, we
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by svennek 5y ago
Well, the basics are "evergreens". The list you put up is close (today it is more like: motherboard, cpu,cpu-cooler, ram, storage, psu, case). No-one really uses separate soundcards anymore (in the very old days, you also had cont
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by svennek 5y ago
I do feel it to some (small) degree.. I.e. my two main linux instances (laptop + desktop) feels like "home", other instances does not. Some tools (postgres, python, linux) feels like an old well-used glove and safe, others not.. S
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by svennek 5y ago
Some safes I have seen have insanely long keys, like 20 cm of "trunk"... I wonder if that is the reason ...
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by svennek 5y ago
A cartel is a group of bad actors working together with full, but hidden coordination....
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by svennek 5y ago
You are right, we disagree about what PoS means... I believe I use it in the original meaning from around 2010, but I might be mistaken. I do fail to see how the current use of the term PoS guarantees anything against a cartel of bad actors
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by svennek 5y ago
Obviously it doesn't, and I might be seriously wrong, but.... But would said unfortunate person have access to a passport and are they allowed to leave their authoritarian country? Do they have anywhere to legally go, where they have t
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by svennek 5y ago
Maybe it is the other way around. I live in an old and free democracy in Scandinavia (in the EU) and actually believe in my government's mostly pure motives. Our laws are solid and confiscation is unheard of outside of criminal activit
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by svennek 5y ago
Your answer reads like a marketing blurb and only tells about the goal (on which we agree) and not the mechanism (where we disagree). I tried reading a few of the coins you mentioned and all of them were witness ("validator") base
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by svennek 5y ago
That is almost 630 watts per person (250 million people, 24*365 hours per year)... That seems like a lot... As a north european techie spending power on quite a few always on things (respberry pis, a nas, a router, wifi, ps5 etc)- but also
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by svennek 5y ago
How the duck do they give placebo without their knowledge? Do they fill the room with (real) pink elephants and spinning, spirally patterns and (real) talking animals, so that people think they hallucinate? I do recognize placebo effects ex
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by svennek 5y ago
Hello fellow scandinavian. Well, it is the same in my country (Denmark), we have retsinformation.dk (litterally "information of the law"), but that does not hinder a corrupt state from altering "history" as they see fit.
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by svennek 5y ago
So cloneable cryptocoins is a thing? Where do I sign up wink . IMHO cloneablitiy IS the problem, PoW is just a (very, very unfortunate) solution to that. PoS (stake as in possession, not pledging) is IMHO inherently impossible, so PoW is
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by svennek 5y ago
Oh, it works as a distributed ledger (that is already proven). I just fail to see how it is better than so many other alternatives on a case-by-case basis... mostly on efficiency... And just because I don't believe in the idea itself,
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by svennek 5y ago
Tell that to the the people of the ex-DDR, the North Korea and REALLY targeted individuals.. Sadly there exists no sure way to secure you belongings if the other party is sufficiently motivated to strip you of them (or your life).. You ca
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by svennek 5y ago
Last I looked the so-called proof-of-stake was more a system where somebody put up a stake to be witnesses (in lack of a better word). When I say proof of stake, I mean it in the way of "proof of possession"
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by svennek 5y ago
Sure it oversimplified (most opinions that are somewhat transferable are). I agree with the hope for a better stewardship, but as all people end up moving cryptocurrencies in and out of the "old" financial system (creditcards, swi
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by svennek 5y ago
Until you end up in jail... sadly. That is my point. If your country is "sufficiently bad" bitcoin will not (and cannot) help you in the long run.
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by svennek 5y ago
Actually I agree with you that a "blockchain of law" would be great.. But that could also be done just by putting all law on somewhere public like github... Or by having a block chain with a hard limit of 10 khashes/second pe
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by svennek 5y ago
I actually belong more to camp three than the "no/scam" camp... But I do lean towards no real purpose, that cannot be better (i.e. more efficiently) done otherwise...
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by svennek 5y ago
All kind of trade depends on value and value depends (mostly) on scarcity. In the real world cloning money (historically precious metals) is really really hard (and btw. much easier with paper money that the metals that have a basket of phy
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by svennek 5y ago
How do you see bitcoin fit into that axis, i.e. how does bitcoin help the unfortunate (that is VERY late to the "game") ? That might disprove my "nothing interesting to discus.
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by svennek 5y ago
I think the renewable energy is the real straw-man. What about the non-recycable waste after "renewable" energy. Windmills have steel coated by epoxy wings, those cannot be recycled. Solar panels is also ready for the trash-heap a
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by svennek 5y ago
IMHO because it depends on uncloneability of digital assets.. Which I believe is not possible. The whole thing that makes cryptocurrencies work now is the un-cloneability of the amount of work done (which is why the 51% problem exists in th
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by svennek 5y ago
I think basically because there is nothing interesting left to discus. One camp (where I am in) basically believes it is an environmental disaster, unsuitable for its stated purpose and most likely as scam by the "whales" manipula

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