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by droffel 3y ago
Don't worry, they backed it up to Google Drive
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by droffel 3y ago
Without a valid certificate, any ISP MITM attacks would be obvious
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by droffel 3y ago
In the short term, flexible power production like coal generation gets used to satisfy grid demand during situations with abnormally high power requirements. It has the benefit of being able to be turned on and off practically instantly. Th
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by droffel 3y ago
Harpoon guns are designed to do exactly that.
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by droffel 3y ago
> What about the crops they destroy because they would be less profitable? To clarify this point specifically, food self sufficiency is considered a national security issue. Consider the situation where a hostile country floods your mark
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by droffel 3y ago
To put it in terms HN might understand: For moderators, the switch from being able to use third party clients to being forced to use the official reddit client would be like a programmer being told their favorite IDE/text editor can no
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by droffel 3y ago
Merkle trees! You (simplified) hash the data at the leaves of the tree, merge adjacent leaves (concatenation for example), and hash the new leaves, until you're left with just the Merkle Root, a single hash representing the entirety of
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by droffel 4y ago
Is residential water use really the problem? Relative to agricultural use of water in California, residential water use is a drop in the bucket. Agricultural use of water on its own exceeds the maximum use of water the state can support lon
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by droffel 4y ago
Why use a mixer at all? The technology is fundamentally centralized/trust-based, and even assuming a perfectly trustworthy mixer, vulnerable to many forms of analysis (the list of which will only grow as time passes). If you want priva
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by droffel 4y ago
I'm reminded of this scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In theory, the goal of the airdrop is to create new users, but in practice the airdrop receivers just cash out their chips and go home. https://youtu.be
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by droffel 4y ago
Solar and wind are nice, but they don't solve the base load problem. They aren't consistent enough to operate as base load on a power grid. They are certainly convenient for maintaining peak load, but without solving the energy st
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by droffel 4y ago
I've been hearing the same line about nuclear plants taking decades to be built for decades, as if its a valid dismissal. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was a decade ago, the second best time is now. We should be sca
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by droffel 4y ago
> "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic..." The decision for the first quote you used was overturned afterward, over 50 years ago now. It&#x
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by droffel 4y ago
The dataset for hashed credit card numbers is small enough that it can be easily represented in a static lookup table, or brute forced.
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by droffel 5y ago
Transformers: More than meets the eye
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by droffel 5y ago
Given that the 8.6% return is contingent on those funds being loaned out to third parties in a manner that involves risk (like margin trading), I am highly skeptical of their ability to not lose your money on the timeline of a decade. The t
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by droffel 5y ago
At 8.6% APY, would you say you believe you have a sub-8.6% chance of the funds disappearing in a given year? Considering that it would take over a decade to return the original capital in value, I feel that the compensation is low relative
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by droffel 5y ago
With the amount of money printing being done globally, and interest rates breaking the zero bound, I am not surprised that investment goods have risen in price. Inflating the monetary supply has a habit of raising prices. The rest of the ec
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by droffel 5y ago
The piece you are missing is called the Key Image. The key image can be thought of as a fingerprint/hash (one way function) of the true spender, and is always produced when the true spender signs the transaction. Signing the transactio
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by droffel 5y ago
> just 9000 btc For context, that is nearly half of a billion dollars worth, it is hardly a small amount. Try selling half a billion dollars of anything on short notice and you'll observe similar market reactions. I think that the f
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by droffel 6y ago
The Federal Reserve is a private company.
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by droffel 6y ago
The 1970s seem to be a place where many different indicators diverge. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by droffel 6y ago
> That still trades off density for speed It does not. RAID-0 has no duplication, it acts effectively like your independent arms. No density tradeoff, just speed.
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by droffel 6y ago
If you've got slow HDDs, the usual solution is to RAID them together. At that point your limiter starts becoming how fast you can slurp data down the line. RAID-0 would sort of emulate what you're talking about here.
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by droffel 6y ago
Check out the RandomX PoW algorithm for Monero. To get around the ASIC resistance issue, they instead targeted a particular component (the CPU) and designed the algorithm around it. It works really well, FPGAs and ASICs seem to have been st
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by droffel 6y ago
If both mining and non-mining nodes must manually (subjectively) adjust their criteria for block acceptance, what impetus is there for the network to stabilize to any sort of objective state?
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by droffel 6y ago
If you distribute a derivative of an illegal number, that derivative has the color of that illegal number. Whether anyone notices is a different question. The moment one of the intermediate steps involved the illegal number, the following s
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by droffel 6y ago
I believe you misunderstood my comment. Numbers who's origins are tainted by an illegal number can be illegal. Numbers who's origins do not have taint from an illegal number are not. It is not the number that is illegal, it is it&
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by droffel 6y ago
Law operates under the assumption that an idea called color exists. Computer scientists, for their job, generally must assume it does not. Color is a sort of Metadata property of something (an object, data), and in this case, the color of t
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by droffel 6y ago
> They are, but... But nothing. In short, the claim of 'scarily accurate' is not true. There may be underlying reasons that their accuracy has issues, but their track record up to this point has been highly inaccurate.

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