sennight

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by sennight 3y ago
Ah, yeah I'm familiar with it - a PoW scheme, where the work is memory cell wear. I feel for anyone who missed the incredibly short period of time where bitcoin gpu mining pools were anything but distributed space heaters... but I don&
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by sennight 3y ago
> There are proof systems that are not truly Proof of Work and are also not Proof of Stake. Got any examples in mind? Because the only stuff that I can think of besides the two are convoluted Rube Goldberg methods of concealing what is a
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by sennight 3y ago
It has been a long time since I last debated this stuff, so it is funny to see the same talking points from 10 years ago. 1) PoW is the only way that is actually decentralized. If you want decentralized power over the currency - PoS will ne
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by sennight 3y ago
Well you definitely have a very abnormal way of coming to it. I've encountered people who came to it for the pure love of technology - but they usually gravitate towards one of the shitcoins because they actually harbor a bit of greed
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by sennight 3y ago
Is the Mozilla Foundation still a politically active sideshow? That is what made me switch, I could put up with the performance gap - I couldn't put up with their plugin moderation and activities in the whole "combating disinforma
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by sennight 3y ago
Huh, everything about what you said seems off to me. How did you anonymously fund your account at Mt Gox? Because I only remember them taking bank wires. I don't remember them ever having any kind of payment provider that would have ac
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by sennight 3y ago
> Crypto has become a very polarizing topic with people... Certain people. I was involved from the beginning, and most of the OGs just shrug at the present day noise - the convert zeal being long exhausted by all the complaints about how
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by sennight 3y ago
I'd take malice over stupidity - because at least it can be anticipated. If you were being charged with a crime you didn't commit, would you prefer that half the jury believe in ghosts and flying saucers - or a smaller fraction ju
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by sennight 3y ago
... and this is why it is disconcerting that anyone else has any amount of influence in your life under a democracy. Half of everyone has a below average IQ, and many of those on the other side of the curve are just awful.
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by sennight 3y ago
Delusion on whose part? That was an explicitly stated objective. It has been a long known and well documented fact that Ukraine has an abundance of neo-nazis, a magnitude like nowhere else. So much so that the ADL had to run interference wi
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by sennight 3y ago
> ...Russians planned a few weeks to take. According to who? Are you intentionally demonstrating how silly pro-Ukrainian propaganda is? Russia made the objectives very clear from the beginning: demilitarization and denazification. I don&
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by sennight 3y ago
You think it would be profitable to source a spec similar screen, market it, backdoor it, exfiltrate in a detection evasive manner what started out as a 3.5MB wide data stream... and build out the infrastructure to receive hundreds of thous
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by sennight 3y ago
I would also love for you to bring to market a price competitive replacement screen that is somehow backdoored. I don't know why you think that would be profitable at all, but I welcome the price pressure.
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by sennight 3y ago
You are forgetting about the phased nulling. Military GPS has been including jammer detection in the firmware for a long time. I remember my handheld unit constantly annoying me anytime the IED jammer (which was waaaay more than 1 watt of r
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by sennight 3y ago
This has been a solved problem for a very long time. The nice thing about GPS satellites is that you know where they should be, and where they shouldn't, so long as your RTC is properly set and you've got a compass. A GPS Digital
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by sennight 3y ago
Continuing that analogy, in the case where a sky facing directional antenna is being used: the pilot is crouched under a sewer grate, shining a light at the soles of your feet, as you stare up into the night sky. If you are pumping enough p
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by sennight 3y ago
As I said, it is only a putdown if you presuppose that everyone is expected to already know the thing. So I'd agree with you if I was responding to someone like Phil Zimmermann - but that isn't the case here (I'm pretty sure)
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by sennight 3y ago
That isn't a "swipe", that is an opinion earnestly stated - the only way it could be considered a swipe is if you take for granted people being well versed in the goings on of the early cipherpunk mailing list. I make no such
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by sennight 3y ago
No, your comment is pretty easy to understand, I just categorically disagree with it - as your prescribed fix hasn't shown any success in living memory. Now compare that to the tangible hardening of the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments than
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by sennight 3y ago
I'm not so sure about that, you don't seem to be aware of the fact that there is an incredibly long list of examples demonstrating that governments and corporations will regularly violate the law if they have the technical means t
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by sennight 3y ago
I've got no beef with anyone who wants to fruitlessly attempt to convince governments and corporations to act against their own interests, just don't frame it in such a way as to preclude actually productive solutions. Also, don&#
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by sennight 3y ago
It isn't in the government's interest, or the interest of corporate leadership, to undo the present state. The government relies on the centralized and all too obliging collection of non-government interests in order to circumvent
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by sennight 3y ago
"Its smart home energy management platform integrates a cloud-based battery management system..." Yeah... no thanks.
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by sennight 3y ago
And the answer remains the same: a redefinition of what constitutes the standard of living is far more likely than "economic collapse"... it is already happening.
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by sennight 3y ago
"Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen. Any ideas on when your predicted outcomes will kick in?"
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by sennight 3y ago
Spoiler alert, true. >>> ...shift the consensus position for an acceptable standard of living... >> Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen. > ...recently have COVID concentration camp
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by sennight 3y ago
> Well, here we are in Australia, 115+ years on and this is still yet to happen. Didn't you guys recently have COVID concentration camps? You might wanna rethink that position. > Any ideas on when your predicted outcomes will kic
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by sennight 3y ago
> ...ultimately workers that set that standard, as they are doing now, by fighting for it. Until it becomes a union shop, then it is the union organizers setting the standard - sitting between those in a position to pay and those seeking
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by sennight 3y ago
> If a company still has to hire a warm body to do that job, those employees are automatically not useless. If a company doesn't hire that warm body to breakdown cardboard boxes or drag around dust mops, then it is useless. Remember
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by sennight 3y ago
> ...but cannot afford to pay them a living wage then that business should close. There is actually a solution for that not involving burdensome regulation: capitalism. Crap business models get outcompeted. > They're just exploit

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