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by qqii 5y ago
I'd argue that false data doesn't achieve this, it just confuses everything. Using an analogy in programming terms, it would be like `job_title <- Maybe "NULL"` whereas they really ment `job_title <- Nothing`.
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by qqii 5y ago
Exactly, or expulge and refuse to provide job titles? That begs the question, why do they provide this information to third parties anyway?
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by qqii 5y ago
If it is for secrecy then why not delete the information and inform those who ask they do not hold such information? The issue was the discrepancy when a third party tried to verify, and I'm sure third parties would quickly learn to wo
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by qqii 5y ago
There is a follow up, where he get another popup: https://nitter.42l.fr/linusgsebastian/status/148185562555858...
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by qqii 5y ago
> Challenge: How would you go about writing a function that reverses a string while leaving symbols encoded as sequences of code points intact? Can you do it from scratch? Is there a package available in your language that can do it for
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by qqii 5y ago
From the threat it looks like Linus' threat model for git is simply different from the common use today. Of course a judgement under a different threat model would make it seem like a bad tradeoff!
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by qqii 5y ago
There's no reason you cannot construct a token that can be frozen and reversed - USDT (other issues as side) being an example. Accounts as we know them don't have to be at the level of public address-private key but rather a smar
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by qqii 5y ago
Thank you.
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by qqii 5y ago
Also, taking the website name literally leads to a very boring time. If we define translatable as having a surjection between languages then many commenters have shown examples of even the most difficult to translate phrases explained in a
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by qqii 5y ago
I find it very strange that this HN thread is full of people taking the website name hyper literally. The about page mentions that this is a UI for the subreddit of the same name, which is focused on "Post quirky and niche words/p
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by qqii 5y ago
Having seen the English translations for my native tongue a lot of these translations are only surface level and quite lossy. Even if the mapping between languages is surjective, certain ideas and phrases are difficult to translate whilst m
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by qqii 5y ago
Having checked my own language I'd describe the list not as being unable to translated outright, but of susinct ideas that are not normally expressed in English. A literal or detailed and contextful translation does not express the sam
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by qqii 5y ago
I recently found the "New to you" category bubble that's solved this issue for me. I don't know how they sort the categories but I've only found the "New to you" at the start or end of the list.
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by qqii 5y ago
It's not very discoverable but the category bubbles includes one called "New to you". I've only seen it right at the start or end of the list.
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by qqii 5y ago
> Are there charges or fee associated with coin mining? > Norton Crypto is included as part of Norton 360 subscriptions. However, there are coin mining fees as well as transaction costs to transfer Ethereum. > The coin mining fee i
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by qqii 5y ago
Using a bloom filter as a distributed hash means you're edging quite close to a blockchain, the only question your schema now has is consensus - how is work examined for trustworthiness? What prevents network spam? I haven't puzzl
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by qqii 5y ago
> Whether that claim can be meaningfully sold on to someone else is outside the scope of this discussion. The issue of sidestepping future interactions is that such a schema has no meaning. If I go a step further and stipulate that the t
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by qqii 5y ago
As it stands, yes. For such a difficult problem it is not suprising NFTs don't provide any mechanisms against this. Unlike previously, if you do find an older copy on a blockchain you're given stronger guarentees that it actuall
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by qqii 5y ago
As long as twitter can act as a trusted third party, tweets are a completely valid ledger as shown by Keybase. Blockchains simply reduce the power and trust required in the third party by offering a different set of tradeoffs.
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by qqii 5y ago
This is true, except there would at least be a record on some blockchain where the artwork was first proven to exist via a hash. This is at least stronger proof against the artist and for the buyer. As it stands this isn't very valuabl
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by qqii 5y ago
Of course! The blockchain is only decentralised compared to a centralised service such as Sotheby's and doesn't remove the third party entirely. The thing is unless you restrict the requirements of the artwork and the transactio
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by qqii 5y ago
A signature is simply that, a signature. It doesn't guarantee uniqueness and doesn't prevent you copying it any number of times. An identity + timestamping mechanism would guarantee uniqueness of ownership, and a blockchain perfor
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by qqii 5y ago
The other major difference is their use of Paxos USD, a stablecoin that's tied to the dollar.
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by qqii 5y ago
What was the result? I've seen comments on /r/datahorder and the like claiming some honoured the RMA without the enclosure whilst others had success returning it to the enclosure.
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by qqii 5y ago
My go to for this information is https://diskprices.com/ , which supports multiple countries and provides a couple more useful columns.
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by qqii 5y ago
Wow, that looks amazing! Especially being implemented in pure bash!
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by qqii 5y ago
At the moment the cost of sending mail doesn't scale with the amount of mail you send. After spinning up a mail server the difference in cost between sending 1,000 and 10,000 emails is trivial.
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by qqii 5y ago
Yes, this is a very old idea that resurfaced when javascript based crypto miners as an alternative to advertising became infamous.
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by qqii 5y ago
Doesn't webauthn have the same issue? If you think your logging in, but you're actually on a phishing site you'll have given the attacker a response they can forward onto the real webserver?
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by qqii 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't WebAuthn with hardware tokens still be vulnerable to MITM phishing attacks? Ones where the attacker sets up a convincingly fake website and forwards the signature to the actual server?

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