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by nehan 9d ago
"While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models." I think they should be able to unravel whether or not any sessions by Tristan or Levent went into the
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Bitcoin sidechain Liquid hacked for ~4k BTC(nehanarula.org)
7 points by nehan 10d ago|1 comments
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by nehan 5mo ago
excellent point! I agree.
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Bitcoin and Quantum Computing: A Roadmap(nehanarula.org)
4 points by nehan 5mo ago|2 comments
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by nehan 5mo ago
I can't think of heuristics available on the Bitcoin P2P network that would be helpful for this, but I'm curious if you have any in mind.
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by nehan 5mo ago
Sorry I wasn't clear there. Because most of the short-depth is controlled by centralized exchanges, there's a risk you won't be able to actualize your short (withdraw, either in crypto or to a bank account), even if it's
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by nehan 5mo ago
The point is you can't distinguish transactions that are from an "attacker" when the underlying signature scheme is broken. The Bitcoin P2P network has some metrics to disconnect from nodes that might be trying to DoS you,
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by nehan 5mo ago
Also, LetsEncrypt is very cool! Thanks for working on it.
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by nehan 5mo ago
This work is important, and I'm looking forward to forming an opinion on it. Maybe a future post! For those who are interested, this is what I'm aware of: - Tim Ruffing proved that Taproot's commitment scheme was quantum-resi
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by nehan 5mo ago
two things: 1) Short markets in Bitcoin don't have unlimited depth, and the centralized ones are KYC'd so there's some risk there 2) What if it doesn't tank the price? One thing people have suggested is just burning al
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Bitcoin and quantum computing(nehanarula.org)
170 points by nehan 5mo ago|138 comments
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The Technology Underlying Stablecoins(nehanarula.org)
3 points by nehan 5y ago|0 comments
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by nehan 5y ago
This isn't a proposal for a US CBDC. It's research on technical tradeoffs that might need to be addressed in a hypothetical CBDC.
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MIT DCI and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Collaborate on Digital Cash(medium.com)
8 points by nehan 6y ago|0 comments
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Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA(medium.com)
138 points by nehan 9y ago|68 comments
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CSAIL PhD Students Do a Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
2 points by nehan 12y ago|0 comments
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by nehan 12y ago
No. In serializable mode it simply appears that one thing is happening at a time. You can touch unrelated data concurrently with no performance impact.
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by nehan 12y ago
serializability != one giant lock around your database. concurrency and serializability go together great. it's only if transactions actually read/write or write/write the same data that they are done one at a time (and ev
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MIT McGovern Institute Star Trek Seasons Greetings(mcgovern.mit.edu)
2 points by nehan 12y ago|0 comments
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by nehan 12y ago
re: materialized views -- you can kind of fake them in PostgreSQL by creating a view, populating it, and then defining triggers on insert, delete, and updates to your source tables.
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by nehan 12y ago
This -- you have to realize there are two different versions of you. You1 is ambitious and smart and wants to do awesome things. You1 should think things through, actually plan things out, and write things down. At a detailed level! You2
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Silent Technical Privilege(pgbovine.net)
2 points by nehan 13y ago|0 comments
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by nehan 14y ago
All the lecture notes will be put online, and you are welcome to clone the code and do the labs. If your code passes the tests reliably, you would have gotten full credit.
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by nehan 14y ago
I don't think you could do this without actually solving the labs the way we wanted you to.
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by nehan 14y ago
I'm the TA for the class. The first lab was intended to get students up to speed with go; the rest of the labs are significantly harder. That said, the labs are completely new, so we're not exactly sure how hard they will be for students.
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Who Really Owns Your Phone?(transientneha.blogspot.com)
2 points by nehan 14y ago|0 comments
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by nehan 14y ago
Challenging social norms just for the sake of challenging them is not something to be lauded. You would be taken more seriously if you provided a well-reasoned response based on facts rather than throwing out opinions like "for every woman
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by nehan 14y ago
thanks for the attribution!
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by nehan 15y ago
Which is why I limited my response to the situation at your company. I could hypothesize on why you don't feel uncomfortable in the other situations you described, but really it's your own personal experience, and there's no reason to assum
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by nehan 15y ago
The lower bound for women is essentially zero, especially when considered in the context of an entire career (i believe a women could conceivably only be away from work for six weeks). Do you really think six weeks accounts for the differe

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