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by sonoffett 2y ago
Royal with cheese
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Zeller’s Congruence(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sonoffett 3y ago|0 comments
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Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International(sri.com)
257 points by sonoffett 3y ago|118 comments
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Brocken Spectre(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sonoffett 4y ago|0 comments
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by sonoffett 4y ago
I’ve done it (years ago). 4 managers fired in 8 months. I had to leave so I could do actual work. Seeing these Twitter reports is giving me flashbacks.
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by sonoffett 5y ago
I can't seem to edit my comment, but I'm mistaken. Algorand uses Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) and not VDFs at all.
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by sonoffett 5y ago
As an aside, the algorand layer-1 chain uses VDFs to select a validating set per block, weighting member selection by how much crypto each account owns. They call it Pure Proof of Stake. It definitely reduces the energy consumption and incr
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The Sand-Heap Paradox of Privacy and Influence(m-cacm.acm.org)
3 points by sonoffett 5y ago|0 comments
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by sonoffett 5y ago
Sure. But last I checked nobody had more than one.
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by sonoffett 5y ago
What do you mean by "people with multiple Turing awards"?
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by sonoffett 7y ago
Not exactly what you described, but overviews DoD role in development of internet technologies and SV: https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...
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by sonoffett 7y ago
Best coffee in santa cruz IMO, also have an incredibly popular podcast https://catandcloud.com/pages/podcast . Their sister bakery "companion" has best croissants I've had outside of europe.
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by sonoffett 8y ago
As related material that folks here might appreciate: Andrew Yang’s (founder of Venture for America) recent book “The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future” lays
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by sonoffett 9y ago
You do realize that there are literally people buying coffee in meatspace today using lightning? https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/955870434230132736
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by sonoffett 9y ago
Or asteroid mining
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Company scrip(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sonoffett 9y ago|0 comments
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Semmelweis reflex(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sonoffett 10y ago|0 comments
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by sonoffett 10y ago
Thanks, the question makes more sense now :)
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by sonoffett 10y ago
This sounds like a phone screen--i've never signed an NDA for phone screens or at any stage of the interview process for that matter.
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by sonoffett 10y ago
"how do you count the bits most efficiently?" What does this even mean?
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by sonoffett 10y ago
quicksort is O(n^2) which is definitely not the "best big-O" for sorting.
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by sonoffett 10y ago
TLSNotary is one approach: https://tlsnotary.org , although I'm not certain it provides trusted timestamps.
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by sonoffett 10y ago
Stanford?
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by sonoffett 10y ago
Do you have an example where this has happened? (in Bitcoin that is, not Ethereum).
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by sonoffett 10y ago
I wonder if a Blockchain system would mitigate the feasibility of this kind of attack and make it easier to trace the destination of the stolen funds?
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by sonoffett 10y ago
Beautiful, thank you for sharing your experience.
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by sonoffett 11y ago
> I don't think UAVs are the best option for mass surveillance. I agree for these kinds of UAVs, but ARGUS [1] blimps are probably super effective and worrisome. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS
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by sonoffett 11y ago
I think the consensus protocol is absolutely not under control of 5 maintainers. Convince a few of the miners and exchanges (e.g., f2, ant, bitfury, coinbase, blockchain.info, bitstamp) to actually start running classic and we'll have
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Great examples and analysis. I think the IPv6 analogy is spot on--the fear of IPv4 exhaustion (block size limit), the disdain for NAT as an ugly hack (Segwit, LN).
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Do you honestly believe that the only way to make consensus changes is via pull requests to Bitcoin core? XT and classic certainly have different consensus rules from core once their activated, that's the whole point of their existence

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