betterunix2

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by betterunix2 4y ago
"SGX is hard because it's trying to preserve the open nature of the platform" Except that was an afterthought. Originally only whitelisted developers were allowed to use SGX at all, back when DRM was the only use-case they h
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by betterunix2 4y ago
There is already a blacklisting/revocation system for leaked SGX keys -- which failed completely when it was put to the test, after researchers tried publishing some keys they extracted on Twitter. However, it depends on Intel becomin
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by betterunix2 4y ago
I'm taking bets on how long before the next generation is completely broken as well. It is only a matter of time, and the timeline is likely short.
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by betterunix2 4y ago
Except that the security model on the server side is broken as there is no way for Intel to know that a key is compromised and thus revoke it; at least for the DRM use-case sharing cracked keys on forums is common. Why would an attacker ev
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by betterunix2 4y ago
BGP is the de facto routing protocol of the Internet. The basic problem that it solves is computing and distributing routes between independently operated networks. It is actually a pretty ramshackle protocol (among other things it usuall
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Have you ever dealt with an estate, or a disputed estate? I have, and I can tell you that technical processes would probably not accomplish very much. I have seen people go to court over whether or not a person was mentally competent when
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by betterunix2 5y ago
They do not know, but they also do not need to know. Technically they are not limiting resolution, they are limiting throughput on their network; the streaming service will reduce the resolution to avoid long lag/loading times for use
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Yes in my experience.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Do people commonly think types are a solution to most or all problems? Other than correctness I am not sure what software engineering problems a type system actually solves, and the rest of the debate is about the expressiveness of the typ
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by betterunix2 5y ago
For Jews the Christian position is even more bizarre. Why did God wait for the Second Temple to be destroyed to send Jesus? Why not right before the First Temple was destroyed? Why did it take decades after the death of Jesus for the tem
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Rabbinic Jews do not claim to practice Second Temple Judaism, they claim to practice a religious tradition that followed from the pharisee sect that existed during the Second Temple period. Orthodox Jewish scholars will openly tell you e
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"It seems that it has evolved as a reaction against Christianity" Citation needed. Pretty much all secular scholarship I have ever seen on this topic has concluded that both rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity were reactions
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by betterunix2 5y ago
If that is true, why would Jesus have taught his disciples the spiritual value of ritual bathing and ritual foot washing?
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by betterunix2 5y ago
You can also wash someone's feet if you want to, but don't make it a matter of spiritual, ritual cleanliness as Jesus did . You can also take a bath if you want to, but don't make it a matter of spiritual, ritual cleanliness
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Christianity already has enormous appeal, it is literally the most widely practiced religion in the world. I never said Christians are against hand washing, I said that Jesus taught his disciples, who lived before Christianity was a rel
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Well, did Jesus tell his follows that they should not be hypocrites who wash their hands because they blindly follow traditions and that they should instead wash their hands because it is good for their health? No, he simply taught them no
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Except that Jesus taught his disciples not to wash their hands before eating -- a basic hygenic practice that people of his time certainly understood. However valuable his moral teachings may have been, Jesus is not exactly an authority on
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"distributed group of participants to take it upon themselves to temporarily and physically enforce" Do you think I should risk my life to enforce your property rights? I have two kids and I want to watch them grow up, I can&#x27
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by betterunix2 5y ago
The people in charge of enforcement would become a de facto government. What distinguishes a government from any other organization is the monopoly on violence (more precisely, the monopoly on deciding when and how violent measures can be
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by betterunix2 5y ago
They can use the mortgage as collateral for their own loans, and I am not really sure how that is any different...
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I am skeptical of the claim that real estate generally appreciates over time, at least in real terms (inflation-adjusted). Yes that has been the trend for a long time and especially in popular areas, but there is no reason to think the tre
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by betterunix2 5y ago
People sometimes take out a home equity loan, which is kind of like going in reverse with mortgage payments -- you are going more in debt, using the equity in you built up with previous mortgage payments. If the value of your home increa
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Is the prepayment risk really much different from a callable commercial bond? Call protection is not universal in commercial or even agency bonds.
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Your citation is full of errors and fallacies. More efficient mining rigs is basically irrelevant, because Bitcoin miners have no incentive to reduce energy consumption while computing the same number of hashes; it is to compute more hashe
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Except that we do not have an alternative to jet airplanes that moves hundreds of times more passengers while emitting less carbon. We do have such an alternative to Bitcoin, in fact it predates Bitcoin by decades and is far more popular
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by betterunix2 5y ago
Regarding cryptocurrency and solar power, the argument has some gaping holes in it. The premise is that solar (and wind) does not have the constant generation rate that fossil fuels or nuclear plants provide, so by having miners going onli
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by betterunix2 5y ago
It is easy to forget that the Fed was already tightening monetary policy over a period of years prior to the COVID crash, and only loosened policy in response to the economic impact of COVID. The Fed has historically not been shy about tri
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by betterunix2 5y ago
I would agree...except that mining operations are literally keeping carbon-emitting power plants online and even bringing already-shutdown plants back online to power mining. NFTs by and large still depend on these energy-inefficient min
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by betterunix2 5y ago
A meaningless comparison as the mainstream financial system processes far more transactions over a given period of time, and it is nearly certain that on a per-transaction basis Bitcoin consumes more energy. Moreover, the incentive for fin
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by betterunix2 5y ago
"Capture by value" is meaningless since an object could itself contain references. Combined with the fact that lambdas can have side effects (there is no way to avoid this in C++) it is actually possible for a lambda to wind up o

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