michwill

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Curve.fi is hiring Python (Vyper) dev and QA (py.test). Math knowledge is and+(curve.fi)
1 points by michwill 6y ago
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by michwill 7y ago
What I really look forward with BECs (although simple atomic interferometers based on ultracold atoms would do, too) is super-sensitive magnetic field detection. One can detect magnetic fields from a shielded laptop, even many meters away,
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by michwill 7y ago
> you mostly can’t buy stuff with it Sometimes I cannot buy legitimate stuff without them. Just today, I bought some books for which US credit/debit cards refused to work. And I see that every week. > you can’t pay taxes with the
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by michwill 7y ago
Sorry, but this looks like a completely uneducated opinion. There were many attempts to create virtual money which cannot be shit down, and all of them dated before Bitcoin failed due to government intervention. Bitcoin solved that, and the
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by michwill 8y ago
Well, this doesn't look right to me. Imagine that the moon is actually a filter at the path of the sunlight. Sun's temperature is 6000 K. Moon's surface is pretty black: it reflects only 12% of the light. So, effective temper
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by michwill 8y ago
Meanwhile, Elon Musk acquired more than 50% of the space launch market (while 5 years ago it was Russia who owned it). Don't troll, buidl!
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by michwill 9y ago
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609756/as-it-t...
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by michwill 9y ago
Reg A+ is indeed easier than an IPO. I've seen some companies doing that, and it's 1 year pushback, to say at least. One year is an insanely long time these days!
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by michwill 9y ago
I don't think you're right. Under this impression, most of cryptocurrencies are securities. However, SEC said, they're not: https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/940487575491497985
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by michwill 9y ago
You're not correct. I think, less than 50% of ICOs are not securities. But the way to prove is exactly this: ask a lawyer
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by michwill 9y ago
All right, but if the coin is inseparable part of the resource, it cannot be a security. There is a thin line here. Imagine a coin securitizing Bitcoin miners ("cloud mining coin"). Yes, that's a security. Now imagine Ethereu
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by michwill 9y ago
There are two things here: * It's not OK to raise 200M with no team and product; * Compliance only creates obstructions, not protection.
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by michwill 9y ago
What's even more surprising is the position of Coinbase: "Given how useful it is for criminals to have financial accounts that are seemingly unconnected to them, I view this feature of the legislation as an important
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US Senate moves to criminalize non-disclosure of cryptocurrency holdings(cointelegraph.com)
5 points by michwill 9y ago|1 comments
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by michwill 9y ago
Oh wow! I didn't ask for the last one, but this is insanely interesting also!
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by michwill 9y ago
I would apply it instead of garbled circuits here https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/591 . Although slower, it feels like TFHE would provide better security against an active adversary. So, at least, simple server-side encryp
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by michwill 9y ago
Yes, I understand. I was thinking about: a) smart contracts controlling something within the encrypted data based on publicly available data; b) encrypted key-value store where you traverse the tree structure based on encrypted query and en
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by michwill 9y ago
That's a seriously cool thing to have in the toolbox! Does it produce only encrypted output, or can it optionally produce unencrypted results also? Can it optionally use public data as an input? Also I am guessing if it could be accele
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by michwill 9y ago
I think so. It is similar to CloudHSM, but you don't have to trust Amazon!
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NuCypher KMS: decentralized key management system for DApps(bitcointalk.org)
4 points by michwill 9y ago|0 comments
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by michwill 9y ago
It basically allows some untrusted party to convert ciphertext which you can decrypt to a ciphertext which someone you granted access to can decrypt. It's like "instead of decrypting my data and encrypting with Bob's public k
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by michwill 9y ago
I think, the biggest latency hit will be from re-encrypting a symmetric key which encrypts messages, once in a while. This will result in occasional delays of ~0.25 ms (that's how much one operation with elliptic curve crypto takes). T
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by michwill 10y ago
Congrats with the launch!
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by michwill 10y ago
Python doesn't force you to use IDEs. There are good command-line tools (and editors such as sublime, vim and emacs can jump to definitions etc). There are "IDE guys" and "text editor guys". You can just determine w
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by michwill 10y ago
Same here. Buying a windows device specifically for the VR toy? No ability to use VR for real work on non-Windows machine (if possible)? No thanks
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by michwill 10y ago
I think, you can't simply push off zero-point fluctuations in vacuum w/o creating particles occasionally. And if you admit you do, you're at level of photon thrusters at best.
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by michwill 10y ago
Oh yeah, I wasn't clear, yes. Not "everything is clear, the case is closed" - that's what I meant
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by michwill 10y ago
Actually it's not as much useful as an engine as it may seem, at least at current parameters. Ion thrusters are pretty good as low-power engines. And it's not clear that emdrive is better than that even if it works. Maybe with pow
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by michwill 10y ago
The trick is that this is not a closed discussion. The thrust was suspiciously repeated in many experiments, and question is whether it's some fundamental flaw with experiments, or it is real. I guess, the more info is available to the
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by michwill 10y ago
Interesting what are the fundamental reasons for the thrust. It's certainly not throwing photons. Hypotheses: * Flawed study. It actually throws something (like, cavity material slowly ablating) or repels of Eddy currents in surroundin

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