dougk16

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by dougk16 4y ago
Let's say I sent up a key "foo" to get the value "bar", and I did this again and again. Will either "foo" or "bar" be encrypted to the same ciphertext again and again? Or is there some kind of no
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by dougk16 4y ago
I'm adding to your comment and not trying to argue (unless you want to!): There's no distinction between the public and the government. The government is made up by the public. And corporations are usually first in line anyway. Mu
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by dougk16 4y ago
Really great list. Thank you. Some of these I wasn't even aware of. I've been using Session for about a year. A year ago it definitely had some missed messages and I was about to ditch it but I held strong and haven't experie
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by dougk16 4y ago
Capitalized, yes. It should also have air quotes. "Effective Altruism" is more appropriate in this case.
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by dougk16 4y ago
One solution to this is to become an oracle at your company. Any time someone (namely someone higher in the company who is responsible for your pay) has a question, no matter how many times it's been asked, how recently it's been
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by dougk16 4y ago
For all the bigger companies I've worked with that have infinite war chests and rely heavily on user data and analytics, the question is always why shouldn't a specific metric be tracked, not why should it. Even if they have a
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by dougk16 4y ago
Well, yea. Living things and organizations have incentives. The implication I gleaned from your original comment was that Google's incentive to avoid bad press on HN for its App Store policies is enough that it should use its static an
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by dougk16 4y ago
Google is a vast, schizophrenic organization. They're big enough that they have different teams and internal politics fighting each other all the time. It's not a unified consciousness with consistent incentives. Even if that&#x27
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by dougk16 4y ago
Google does some pretty surprising levels of static analysis of compiled source, particularly surrounding their API usage. There's a few examples I've run into but the first that pops to mind is when they started requiring a yes&#
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by dougk16 4y ago
I dismissed it all very early on but for other reasons. I took one look at the BTC whitepaper way back, saw that every transaction and wallet was completely public, and immediately wrote it off based on that, along with everything to do wit
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by dougk16 4y ago
I would continue easily dismantling your points but you're like a boomer railing against the Internet in the early 90s. It's bad according to your value system so other people shouldn't use it either. You don't understan
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by dougk16 4y ago
Ah c'mon gimme something better to chew on, this argument is cake to dismantle. (1) You don't use Monero to buy breakfast. It's for large money transfers so at least compare it to bank wires. (2) Very few people know about Mo
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by dougk16 4y ago
Monero and other less well-known currencies solve all of that. You can say it's bad or useless for other reasons. But my direct experience with dozens of P2P transfers, outside exchanges, both paying people for products and services an
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by dougk16 4y ago
Money is the goal of the individual Cogs in the machine. Control is the goal of the machine itself, which uses money to incentivize (power) its Cogs. If you're a Big Tech company you essentially have endless free money to leverage comp
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by dougk16 4y ago
Yup. My hypothesis is unambiguously verifiable, and I've verified it to my own satisfaction through my personal experiences. Your hypothesis is not unambiguously verifiable, only statistically so (whatever that means). At least it&#x27
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by dougk16 4y ago
Again, you're assuming they don't have surrogates. This is still an assumption. The miscommunication here is that you think I'm a conspiracy theorist or something, and I think you're naive. But so what? Sure, maybe I&#x2
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by dougk16 4y ago
We're both making the same number of assumptions. The difference is that yours is in the negative and mine is in the positive. Your example about the risk of someone leaking to the press shows we simply live in completely different rea
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by dougk16 4y ago
The even more simpler explanation is that it's both.
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by dougk16 4y ago
Fellow DERO holder I see. ;)
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by dougk16 4y ago
Another possibility is they want to keep eyes off tech that people would go to in droves if they outright banned it. They want to avoid the Streisand effect. Part of that play is indeed making people think it's already backdoored. Ther
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by dougk16 4y ago
They've coded for 10 or 20 years, and now just sit back and design interfaces, write specs, evaluate technologies, mentor juniors, do code review, and of course the ultimate mind blow when you're trying to figure out who to fire:
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by dougk16 4y ago
Very nice! I hope to soon get to the point where I need this. I'm bookmarking this.
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by dougk16 4y ago
Cool idea, I can see how this would be useful once you're dealing with more than a few invoices per month. For those like me that do indeed only send out a few a month, I've found the Numbers app on Mac to have a very nice invoice
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by dougk16 4y ago
Agreed with the vibe of other comments here. It's hard not to come off snobby, and the market won't allow such snobbery forever, but for now the reality is that a senior engineer is interviewing YOU, not the other way around. Anyt
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by dougk16 4y ago
Nice, quick implementation. It's cool that it's all client side. People have pointed out the weaknesses as far as non-crushes brute forcing the answer but still this is interesting. I'll have to digest the implications more.
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by dougk16 5y ago
Your body stores a tremendous amount of energy. For example I've personally fasted for 7 days, no calories in, and know people who have gone a month, no problems. Normal daily routine, exercise, etc. In a way you have even more zip in
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by dougk16 5y ago
Inversion is a complete redefining.
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by dougk16 5y ago
Under extreme socialism, think Orwellian levels, definitions of words are inverted. So the argument would be, if one believes we're already deep into Orwellian territory, that what most people think of as some kind of extreme capitalis
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by dougk16 5y ago
I generally only use private cryptocurrencies with low fees and fast transaction times, like Monero and PirateChain. If I have to use Bitcoin or any other surveillance coin, I am well-versed in "cleaning" my coins, but that's
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by dougk16 5y ago
Is "purchase" some technical definition you're using? I've purchased many goods and services with cryptocurrency these past few years. Used physical silver a lot as well. Even paid rent. Also partially paid a contracting

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