mountainboy

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by mountainboy 3y ago
Interesting, so then which path(s) does git display when running git-log on this?
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by mountainboy 3y ago
blind signatures are nice and verifiably unlinkable but digital bearer certificates require a trusted central "mint" to issue and reissue them. This central point of failure can and inevitably will... fail, as Chaum's compan
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by mountainboy 3y ago
See also: blog post: https://neptune.cash/blog/mutator-sets/ technical paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1208.pdf
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Tech talk: Mutator Sets offer new approach to scalable, layer 1 privacy [video](youtube.com)
3 points by mountainboy 3y ago|2 comments
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by mountainboy 3y ago
This talk was given at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 23 by the architect and lead cryptographer of the Neptune.cash project.
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by mountainboy 3y ago
I stopped clicking on twitter (yeah, X, whatever) links after they started requiring login to view tweets/threads. I have an old account I could use, but simply don't feel the need to bother. If they want to alienate readers, so
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by mountainboy 3y ago
1. there is a an electromagnetic connection between the sun and the earth. 2. lightning is constantly equalizing voltage from space to earth. 3. earthquakes are probably caused by electrical imbalances, not the reverse. 4. most everyone h
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by mountainboy 3y ago
1. there is a an electromagnetic connection between the sun and the earth. 2. lightning is constantly equalizing voltage from space to earth. 3. earthquakes are probably caused by electrical imbalances, not the reverse. 4. most everyone h
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by mountainboy 4y ago
> SOAP, from the XML era. Don't forget XML-RPC :-)
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by mountainboy 4y ago
quote from article: "The Ford engine ran until its spark plugs gave out a few years ago and a newly installed fuel cell—quieter and more efficient—has not yet been hooked into the village grid. Bourakébougou is dark, waiting for a hydr
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by mountainboy 4y ago
wow, an entire article and no link to the actual decrypted texts, way to go Guardian.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
the sungazing community has been aware of this for decades, if not centuries, millenia.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
I migrated from OS/2 directly to linux.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
The commenter prefixed with "kindly" which is about the same thing as saying "please". This makes it not imperative, but a request.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
the bigger question is: who would pay for such studies? big pharma? government lobbied by big pharma? universities given grants from government lobbied by big pharma? actually though, the soviets did do serious research into the scienc
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by mountainboy 4y ago
afaict, "time" is simply a measure of matter in motion... ie resonant frequency or how long it takes a liquid to flow x distance. Thus, time is just a mental construct, not a "dimension", and "time travel" is
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by mountainboy 4y ago
that sounds cool. did you get it working? Stirling engines are quite tricky to get right, as I understand it. And that sounds like you'd need a good sized one, not a toy.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
NI-FE (nickel-iron) are pretty good batteries that basically never die. terribly expensive though, and comparatively low power density.
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by mountainboy 4y ago
I blame government zoning laws. These prevent entrepreneurs from opening restaurants and markets near to where people live. In a truly entrepreneurial society, anyone can operate a small business open to the public right out of their house
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by mountainboy 4y ago
hypothesis: the great filter is simply an adequate understanding of physics. The galaxy (and beyond?) is happily chattering away using physics we do not understand. We are a pre-contact tribe in the jungle completely unaware of the "r
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by mountainboy 4y ago
This goes to the age old debate between vitalists and materialists. In other words, does conciousness/spirit precede and shape matter, or does matter precede and shape conciousness/spirit? Modern/western science is pretty fir
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by mountainboy 4y ago
thx for this!
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by mountainboy 4y ago
a cheap consumer RF meter detects "high" levels of RF from 5+ feet away, at least on the 4 or 5 random units I've tried. So the faraday cage doesn't seem to be doing its job in full.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
"The sky is blue". Ok, we pretty well agree on that. But do I perceive "blue" in the same way that you do? We'll never know. Regardless, people are not using the term "misinformation" in that way. The
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by mountainboy 5y ago
freedom of speech.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
One cannot even define "misinformation" in a fair way. The entire concept is anathema to a sane, rational person. No one has a monopoly on the truth. No one is omniscient. No one actually knows how life works, or the fundamenta
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by mountainboy 5y ago
umm, no. just no. fungibility means that two units are interchangeable/equivalent. Legality doesn't enter into it. anything that makes unit A perceptibly different from unit B can cause humans to value unit A more less than B. S
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by mountainboy 5y ago
alcohol in the fuel tank?
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by mountainboy 5y ago
oh yeah, that personal liberty is so dangerous. gotta be wary about that.
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by mountainboy 5y ago
great insights about social fabric ruptures! so true.

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