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cryptoquickon Go 1.20 Cryptography

Ristretto adds complexity over just using secp256k1, which also has very good Rust support, is quite fast and well-optimized, compiles to WASM, and supports ECDSA, ECDH, and Schnorr key aggregation, so it's quite full-featured.

cryptoquickon Petrichor

Funny timing that this particular topic made it to HN. From the recently-released Season 4 of The Dragon Prince, this is one of the reasons Claudia is so infatuated with Terry, an Earthblood elf.

cryptoquickon In Argentina, inflation is a way of life

If you're interested in saving in Bitcoín, Strike recently expanded to supporting Argentina, and they have low fees.

cryptoquickon It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff

If the unit cost is higher than the maximum a manufacturer or retailer can charge, it won't be produced at all. This results in a market failure, similar to the one China's experiencing with their energy market, where the price of coal is 4x what it was earlier this year.

cryptoquickon Bitcoin is a Ponzi

These figures aren't adjusted for Delta-V, or inflation, but here are some dollar figures for asteroid and lunar sample return missions:

Hayabusa, 2005 - $100 billion dollars per kg

Hayabusa 2, 2019 - $33.3 billion dollars per kg

OSIRIS-REx - 2020 - $491.7 million per kg

Chang'e - 2020 - $104 million per kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6aCg5InzY&t=170s

Seems to be trending downward... Who knows if it'll be enough.

I was curious if a similar downward trend existed for solar panels...

"In 1956, solar panels cost roughly $300 per watt. By 1975, that figure had dropped to just over $100 a watt. Today, a solar panel can cost as little as $0.50 a watt."

https://news.energysage.com/the-history-and-invention-of-sol...

So, that's a factor of 600 to get to present costs. Gold currently costs $56,500 per kg. So, $33,900,000/kg. So, who knows where we could be in 50-70 years. Plenty of time to switch the entire global economy to Bitcoin, I suppose!

cryptoquickon The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021

...same

cryptoquickon Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say

Some RO systems include an alkalinization / re-mineralization stage. I use this one: https://www.expresswater.com/pages/ro-alkaline-uv

cryptoquickon Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater

> "Builders still have to clear their inventories of having purchased higher-priced lumber. It takes a while to clear the system," Lee said. "Yes, lumber prices from the mills came down dramatically over the summer, but that's unfortunately taken a while to reach the rest of the industry and consumers."

> Lee said when it comes to new home construction, pricing is being complicated by ongoing pandemic-related supply chain challenges. While difficulties related to lumber have eased, home builders are still dealing with delivery delays and price inflation on everything from plumbing and electrical products to kitchen cabinetry.

> "It doesn't compare to the three to five times price increases we saw with lumber, but I'd say on average, we're seeing 10 per cent increases on everything, including the kitchen sink," Lee said. "And we are still seeing delays on closings, just because of an inability to get products and materials."

Meanwhile... August 27th, 2021:

> "...households, businesses and market participants also believe that current high inflation readings are likely to prove transitory," Powell said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/why-fed-chair-powell-still-...

Sigh.

Nobody believes that, Jerome. Nobody really believes that.

cryptoquickon AMule 2.3.3

Agreed, I wish we'd have gone down that road. How is it more efficient for my signals to go a thousand miles away and back just to talk to my neighbor across the street?

I've often thought, the web isn't designed for efficiency, it's designed for scale. Scale around big tech giants, to concentrate wealth, exploit gray areas, and magnify harm.

I used to love JavaScript, but when I look at what it's become, I'm glad I left it. We weren't doing the world any favors by contributing to a massive body of casual execution of untrusted code.

The web was a mistake, but I think the internet, good old TCP/IP, still has a few tricks up its sleeve for us yet.

cryptoquickon A Screeching Voice of the Minority

The argument those points are supporting, as the article explains, this is an ineffective way to fight CP, but it's being done anyway, and can be used for nefarious purposes.

Could a government not have a different level of interest in law enforcement over CP vs, say, political material that undermines government authority?

cryptoquickon I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

Proton is already pretty good. I expect it to get better. I've been daily-driving Arch on both a custom-built PC and a ThinkPad for 3 years and I haven't looked back, not even for games.

cryptoquickon The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

A powerful piece...

For the privacy-minded Apple users among us (I mean, that's who they marketed to, yeah?), I'd recommend turning off automatic software updates... For as long as it makes sense to. I hope they reverse their decision, but I'm already looking for alternatives. I'm certainly not buying another Apple device, even though I'm about due.

They really lost a lot of fans with this, myself included.

cryptoquickon Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game

Can confirm, played an old Windows copy a year or so ago, it still holds up. Endless Sky doesn't quite have the same magic for me.

cryptoquickon “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

Not sure why. It's a very valid point.

cryptoquickon Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient

Bitcoin is deflationary, Ethereum is not. Even with the changes in EIP 1559, that just introduces instability in supply. ETH 2 introduces inflation, which is what made wealth inequality so bad to begin with. People holding assets that outperformed the money made out better than those who didn't have the capability to do anything with their money as it depreciated in their bank accounts as they wait for the inevitable bills to come.

Bitcoin will take care of fiat money, and Ethereum, too. It's solving for the $1 quadrillion dollar problem, and after a few decades or generations, wealth around the planet will begin to be a little more evenly distributed, since even the Bitcoin billionaires will eventually need to spend their Bitcoin.

cryptoquickon Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness (2016)

I've had 2/8 Seagate IronWolf drives fail on me slightly outside of the first year I had them. I'm using them in a Synology NAS. I've never had such problems with the WD Reds in my last Synology.

cryptoquickon The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

I guess I'm asking a question of crime priority, and whether some crimes are more likely to be punished because a disproportionate amount of policing is put in place towards that sort of crime.

If the same resources that were dedicated to the numerous policing agencies in the US were given to a smaller number of more generalized agencies, those agencies would be allowed to prioritize where their time and resources are best spent protecting the public.

cryptoquickon The USPS is running a 'covert' program to monitor Americans' social media posts

This. This right here. Every word.

I would even go so far as to say, there shouldn't be specific immigration cops, or alcohol, tobacco and firearms cops, since if there were actual crimes committed by immigrants or gun owners, the crimes themselves should be dealt with. To allow cops to go snooping around by widening jurisdictional responsibility, it has a very "pre-crime" aspect to it, which is often subject to prejudice and bias.

cryptoquickon Prions

When you put it that way, it sounds oddly poetic.

cryptoquickon My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

Wouldn't that just be interviewing a candidate based on their capability to prepare for interviews and not actually interviewing for candidates who would be effective at their jobs once hired? Could this be a false assumption that these are correlated, or a decent indicator of one over the other?

cryptoquickon Amp: Vi-like terminal editor written in Rust

Not really into Vi, but thank you for using this name for something better than whatever Google might want to do with it.

cryptoquickon New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets

Filecoin, for one. Long-term data storage is essentially a byproduct of its mining algorithm, much like waste heat from Bitcoin miners.

Also, there's utility in a trustless, predictable, uncorruptible source of scarcity. Meanwhile, the supply of gold is difficult to audit, we have no idea to what extent nation states are manipulating its supply.

The value of a deflationary monetary policy cannot be understated.

cryptoquickon Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust

...served from a Warp server written in Rust...

cryptoquickon Gordon Hall has died

They say the brightest rockstars die the quickest, but are the most beautiful. Rest in peace, it was a life not wasted.

cryptoquickon Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

What, so Google can just go ahead and delete them?

cryptoquickon Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

Crushed :(

cryptoquickon Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

sigh

I'll do it if nobody else will.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/pull/4722

cryptoquickon Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation

Wow, what a toxic person. I think counterculture is an important part of the tech community, and for this to be removed is... Saddening.

cryptoquickon NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts

It not only ended the man's career, it tarnished his legacy. He worked 50 years, and this is what he'll be remembered for. It's really screwed up. The Times really mishandled this one. I hope those involved one day come to regret what they've done. Sometimes... Regret is the best form of karma we can get.

cryptoquickon NYTimes Peru N-Word: My side of the story, in four parts

It's a reaction to fear. In this case, an overreaction. People are afraid to say the wrong thing. People are afraid of having once said a wrong thing, to potentially sully their legacy or impact their career like a ticking time bomb. Or even be peripherally responsible for harboring someone who once said a wrong thing. This social movement towards accountability has created a sense of paranoia and friendly-fire, and it's not healthy for anyone.