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by yata69420 3y ago
This is pretty obviously the reasonable take. > A security is a contract, not just anything that people trade around in a speculative way. The scary thing IMO is that I think if you had enough big money trading bottlecaps or baseball car
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by yata69420 3y ago
Yes, you need to use `ykman` to set a PIN. This also allows some services (really only Microsoft Accounts right now) to use "passwordless". The idea is you register 2 or 3 passwordless keys on important accounts. Keep one in the
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by yata69420 3y ago
Open source. I recently started getting back into submitting patches and hanging out on irc/matrix/discord. I think a lot of the advice like "join the church" or "do an activity" are lost on chronically online
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by yata69420 3y ago
I've been a customer since 2016 and they've been excellent. They also recently added wireguard support which is nice. Reddit has a big comparison table if you're curious: https://old.reddit.com/r/VPN&#x2
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by yata69420 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfentanil wasn't banned in China until 2017. I think the origin of what's now being blamed on "fentanyl" is the real risk that even the smallest inhalation of imprope
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by yata69420 3y ago
100% agree. Also I bucket "free" into "data harvesting", "actually gratis", or "libre".
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by yata69420 3y ago
I haven't ever actually bought Windows, so I wasn't aware the discrepancy would be that crazy. I just assumed it was a reputation/escrow problem as there's no shipping information and no way to validate who used the key
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by yata69420 3y ago
> Not if people just swap NFT accounts and sell their keys+accounts in their entirety. There's a cost to doing this. Usually as an escrow fee paid to ebay or g2a or wherever you're selling keys. As long as the NFT transfer fe
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by yata69420 3y ago
I think you've got it, so I'm not sure why you don't understand the value of NFTs. It's entirely about economics. In the case of Windows keys, if Microsoft issued them as an NFT, then the only way to get a valid one wou
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by yata69420 3y ago
> What's stopping from people from sharing accounts? I guess if the ScalperAccount has a dedicated wallet that only has one asset, and that wallet's private key is sold, sure. Of course, there would be no guarantee that you&#
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by yata69420 3y ago
I use all those types of cryptography too, but NFTs provide additional features. The special thing about NFTs is that they're securely transferable on a public ledger, which isn't really the case with client certificates or ssh ke
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by yata69420 3y ago
The JPEG-flipping profile picture culture may be dead, but the technology works. NFTs are great if you need cryptographic proof of ownership. I believe this actually has a ton of unexplored utility, even though people now associate "N
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by yata69420 3y ago
Ah, so I'm only allowed to do cryptography if I have a "legitimate use case". I've heard that before. Also, nice list of people who did cryptography wrong. I guess there's more innovation to do. To be clear, I thi
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by yata69420 3y ago
> Who is arguing to ban cryptography? > Regulation in the crypto industry means that crypto tokens are securities So cryptography is fine, unless it's part of a network that you don't like, used to secure a ledger that you d
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by yata69420 3y ago
> regulators will go through crypto with a fine tooth comb I'm not sure if you're aware, but "crypto" isn't some company that will be regulated. It's math being done on computer networks. What you're p
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by yata69420 3y ago
> This is where the future is headed, not crypto. Well, sure, your business interests will win if you ban competition. If crypto is useless, it will die organically. If crypto is useful, it will thrive. Why does the government always ne
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by yata69420 4y ago
Clever and great writeup.
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by yata69420 4y ago
The benefit is that it keeps a huge graph of all dependencies, so everything from the toolchain through your application can be built with hashing and caching. Sort of like make, but decentralized and based on hashed file contents. Once yo
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by yata69420 4y ago
Every time I see one of these frame.work posts, it looks like they're doing so much right. I can't wait to buy into their ecosystem. How long until 120hz+ displays?
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by yata69420 4y ago
Cash is already effectively gone in a lot of situations.
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by yata69420 4y ago
> Widespread privacy in crypto == end of civilisation. This sounds ridiculous but logically one has to follow the other in a few very short steps. That does sound ridiculous. What are the steps?
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by yata69420 4y ago
Related, the Launch Control XL is pretty much the only sensibly priced and well built box of knobs, sliders, and buttons.
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by yata69420 4y ago
I thought we had previously sorted out that money is speech?
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by yata69420 4y ago
Vitalik came out as a TC user earlier: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/155692560223356928... He apparently used it to donate to Ukraine.
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by yata69420 4y ago
I was in favor of aggressive lockdowns at the time, but I live in a part of the US that proudly does not lockdown or wear masks. I think we had 2 weeks of total "lockdown" when people were legitimately scared. We haven't ha
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by yata69420 4y ago
Even as recently as the late 90s or early 2000s, I think most people would have concurred that a degree represented some amount of training and skills, earned with some amount of legitimacy, from most institutions. I don't think that&#
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by yata69420 4y ago
Yes, eventually, and we will need programs for people in their 40s+ who have been cared for by their now deceased families. I suspect you're going to need hot pockets, video games, cots, showers, and they'll do ok. Maybe by then
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by yata69420 4y ago
American here, but this seems like a problem only for working class Japanese? And this study seems to be looking for a "solution"? I can't imagine that anyone would care if you're rich and isolated.
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by yata69420 4y ago
> If parents kick them out then they'll be forced to sink or swim. If you've ever lived in or near a US city, the "sink" outcome is actually quite common. > Better to learn how to live in society sooner than later.
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by yata69420 4y ago
Also, you can be personally and criminally liable for a lot more than the average job. I'll pass on any job that requires you to swear an oath.

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