legutierr

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by legutierr 8mo ago
The article talks about being “receipt free” as a required feature of any electronic voting system. Fine. But by that standard, in a world where someone can bring their phone or AI glasses into the voting booth to record the whole voting pr
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by legutierr 2y ago
Event better is his response to the comment. > I was looking for a job during working on this and absolutely got some disappointing rejections, and one was because of my lack of skillset on things like this in a big tech company's i
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by legutierr 2y ago
I don’t think you have deferred resolving the dilemma—you have firmly decided the question in favor of your product and the LLMs you are using!
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by legutierr 2y ago
This feels like a ghost of the internet of the 1990s. This writeup deserves its own website, something with minimal CSS, where you'll discover a bunch of family snapshots and party photos if you click around.
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by legutierr 2y ago
Sure.
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by legutierr 2y ago
Exactly. I often wish GitHub had a messaging capability, for these same reasons.
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by legutierr 2y ago
Ok, what is it that he is after?
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by legutierr 2y ago
> Not sure how one can design a system robust to these two threats. The US at various time has had a system robust to these threats. A prerequisite has been an educated and well-informed electorate with at least a large majority committ
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by legutierr 2y ago
> If we move all crypto to purpose-made hardware, someone could just start trying to target the messages to/from the crypto system. This is one of the technical advantages of a blockchain-based system. As long as the keys are protec
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by legutierr 2y ago
> Where possible try utilizing HSMs, yubikeys, secure enclaves - any specialized hardware that has been hardened to protect key material. Are there any circumstances where this hardware is accessible in the browser? As I understand, it i
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by legutierr 2y ago
In general, this usually results in front-end logic being very tightly coupled with back-end logic. In some of the examples given, you even have database access in the same line that is generating the HTML document. https://gith
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by legutierr 3y ago
Can you explain how user accounts and signups work? Can anyone run a user account service hosting accounts and performing account authentication? Or is that centralized?
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by legutierr 3y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#stablecoin-finance
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by legutierr 3y ago
It’s happening right now.
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by legutierr 3y ago
In 1980 packet switching had existed for 20 years already. The public Internet wouldn’t emerge for more than a decade after that—and it would take yet another 20 years for the true power of packet-switched networks to be realized, in the fo
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by legutierr 3y ago
In any other industry he would have switched to a company that was better run.
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by legutierr 3y ago
> The coupon sites are usually of doubtful quality because .... Basically all affiliate networks forbid it. I wasn’t aware of this, and I’m not sure I understand why this would be the case. Do you have any more information about this?
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by legutierr 3y ago
Somehow the human brain by default conflates the concepts of "being prestigious" and "having integrity". It's difficult to fight this cognitive bias that, I think, we all carry—but we must.
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by legutierr 3y ago
Did you read the document you linked to? "...the Court concludes that Ripple’s Programmatic Sales of XRP did not constitute the offer and sale of investment contracts" It is not only third party sales that were deemed not to be in
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by legutierr 3y ago
I am quite aware of what the document says. It's just that it hasn't been updated since April 2019, and today more clarity is needed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38414770
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by legutierr 3y ago
The SEC's public mission also includes maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation. Both would be well served by an explanation as to how the SEC distinguishes between security tokens and non-s
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by legutierr 3y ago
When do facts stop being novel? There are hundreds of millions of crypto users worldwide, and more than a trillion dollars in value at stake. Cryptocurrencies have been around for more than a decade, and only in the past few years has the
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by legutierr 3y ago
By answering in the form of a question you seem to be implying that the answer is obvious. But the judge in the SEC v. Ripple case found that exchange-traded XRP tokens are not securities; even if you think she is wrong, the fact that she
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by legutierr 3y ago
OK, so how, under this definition, does Ethereum qualify as a security? XRP?
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by legutierr 3y ago
> Here you go: "A security is a fungible, negotiable financial instrument that represents some type of financial value" Is that your own definition? Luckily, the SEC is constrained by laws passed by Congress and by Supreme Cou
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by legutierr 3y ago
> The SEC's position is simple: the same rules apply to crypto as to other financial products. If you only reference the SEC's own press releases, you are going to miss the nuance here. The SEC on its own doesn't get to de
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by legutierr 3y ago
Would such a burst travel through the body of a planet? If not, perhaps only half of the galaxy’s life would be wiped out.
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by legutierr 3y ago
> How many other money transmitters (that are not registered securities exchanges or banks) have 'tokens for sale' like Kraken? Quite a few. In fact, all of the major centralized exchanges operating in the US are authorized to
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by legutierr 3y ago
You seem to be conflating “segregating customer funds” and “having enough assets to cover customer obligations.” Both banks and money transmitters (including Kraken) need to maintain sufficient assets to cover customer obligations. The dif
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by legutierr 3y ago
What is a loan but an investment? What is government debt? What are mortgage backed securities? The investments that banks can make are restricted, but it is not inaccurate to call them investments.

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