jerry1979

That sounds like you might want to look into digital signatures.

Out of curiosity, where are people going?

Not sure where buildkit is at these days, but k8s should have reproducible builds.

This is horrifying. From your perspective, what's the hook that gets a person to hand over the money? Is it to make return on investment, or is it because they think the scammer loves them, or some other reason?

I'm confused. Do you mean a patent that patents 'patent trolling'?

Is it Dekker?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578243.Field_Guide_to_Hu...

> You can't go back to the way things were.

> type in anything, and somehow it will read your mind

I think we can go back to the way things were, which had nothing to do with mind reading. In the past, you could type in word, and google would offer 10 million results, and you could page through each of them. That was very powerful, and google does not do that today.

I'm very curious to see how this investigation plays out, especially considering the debt situation here in the US. It appears (according to tether's audit reports) that tether went from about 64 billion in treasuries mid-2023 to about 92 billion mid-2024. That's 27 billion in demand for treasuries over that one year period which (if my math and research is correct) is about 3% of all treasury demand for roughly that time period.

It does appear that tether holds short-term maturity treasuries, and I don't know how that fits into the larger demand picture.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/63oJePOHqIvrcnXWMP...

https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/6h4YWqZOXbwtBaPtYg...

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...

I love that the graphs are in grayscale.

The director of the George Orwell foundation appeared in the article and seemed interested in the archive.

Here's a mathy explanation of its use in the real world (for peer to peer communications): https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/blob/master/doc/el...

But taking drugs also affects physiological things such as breathing, heart rate, salivation, sweat, etc. All of those things are tied to physical material that starts outside the body that our physical bodies manage thanks to evolutionary selection. We manage oxygen with breathing/heart rate, water for salivation and sweat, etc. The fact that the physical body and evolution also manage consciousness should probably be evidence that consciousness exists outside the body just like oxygen and water.

The other side of this argument is that the world is not getting off oil. We will need the oil if we want to get every nation up to a Euro/US standard of living.

You may want to have a look at how they do Extended Keys over in bitcoin: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/keys/hd-wallets/extend...

This can also be detected by using the NetGuard firewall which acts as a vpn. Even in full lockdown mode, some kinds of newwork traffic gets through.

If you are worried about users holding the DAO hostage by not signing cooperatively, you might want to check out ROAST which is basically FROST done in rounds in such a way that you can withstand some malicious participants.

Interesting, it looks like it relies on a fraud detection scheme. Have you considered pairing Chaumian ecash with your reputation system?

Do you have recommendations/other channels with experts like this?

Your repo is very helpful. Really great comments. It's too bad that I'm so busy. The Nix sirens are certainly calling, but I'll have to plug my ears for now.

Since you are evangelizing a little bit, I have a question about nix. I'm a debian user, and I see debian as a base layer. It takes care of security updates and miscellaneous system configurations so I don't have to. In a way, it shifts under my feet, and I like that because those shifts are necessary for security and progress. How are you able to use nix in a way that allows those shifts to silently occur while at the same time maintain full control over your system's configuration? I imagine there must be some kind of tension between fully specifying what you want vs allowing experts to take care of configurations as they see fit.

Thanks!

Do you have more info on how linux has bad security culture?

FYI, an MSR got green lit recently: https://fortune.com/2023/12/13/nuclear-reactor-approval-molt...

It looks like people recently got permission in the United States to build an MSR: https://fortune.com/2023/12/13/nuclear-reactor-approval-molt...

I have not seen any evidence that solar+wind will provide a proper base load of electricity, and it looks like MSR and its variants will give people the electricity they need.

I have head that molten salt is much safer but also more expensive. Would there be a reason not to go with molten salt?

People talked about this on HN earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751

The short end of it is something like: serendipity = work + telling people about the work

Which emacs python packages are your favorite to work with?

> she proposes effectively would be an expansion of the US Digital Service (which the author spearheaded) into something that approximates the British civil service

This sounds like a very brave proposal.

Pivot tables are amazing to hand off to competent users to let them poke around at their data, but sometimes I would not want them to swap rows and columns because it would wreck some calculation I was doing. So, I used some vba to lock down the certain functionality. I think this page has some of the techniques I used: https://spreadsheetplanet.com/lock-pivot-table-excel/

Wikipedia has some insight into this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

My impression is that demographers have thought we would plateau around 9 or so billion.

This doesn't really explain the PNW social freeze in places like Bellingham tho.