mountainboy

Interesting, so then which path(s) does git display when running git-log on this?

blind signatures are nice and verifiably unlinkable but digital bearer certificates require a trusted central "mint" to issue and reissue them. This central point of failure can and inevitably will... fail, as Chaum's company (Digicash) did. And it can also inflate the currency without anyone knowing.

Bitcoin was the result of cypherpunks going back to the drawing board to create a decentralized solution. Unfortunately bitcoin sacrificed unlinkability for decentralization. Modern "privacy" cryptocurrencies utilizing zero-knowledge proofs are advancing the state-of-the-art in terms of having both properties.

A decentralized DBC "mint" is theoretically possible. However there are two more downsides to blind signature approach: (1) auditing is impossible because there is no history so detecting if mint-node(s) have colluded to cheat or catching an inflation bug is unsolved problem. (2) Arbitrary amounts are not supported so it is necessary to create fixed denomination "notes", which then add size and complexity to every transaction.

source: been there, done that. bought the t-shirt.

See also:

blog post: https://neptune.cash/blog/mutator-sets/

technical paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1208.pdf

This talk was given at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 23 by the architect and lead cryptographer of the Neptune.cash project.

I stopped clicking on twitter (yeah, X, whatever) links after they started requiring login to view tweets/threads. I have an old account I could use, but simply don't feel the need to bother. If they want to alienate readers, so be it.

1. there is a an electromagnetic connection between the sun and the earth. 2. lightning is constantly equalizing voltage from space to earth. 3. earthquakes are probably caused by electrical imbalances, not the reverse. 4. most everyone here probably will deny 1..3 above and downvote me to oblivion. 5. read Christian Birkeland's biography. Or Hannes Alfven. then come back.

1. there is a an electromagnetic connection between the sun and the earth. 2. lightning is constantly equalizing voltage from space to earth. 3. earthquakes are probably caused by electrical imbalances, not the reverse. 4. most everyone here probably will deny 1..3 above. 5. read Christian Birkeland's biography. Or Hannes Alfven. then come back.

SOAP, from the XML era.

Don't forget XML-RPC :-)

quote from article: "The Ford engine ran until its spark plugs gave out a few years ago and a newly installed fuel cell—quieter and more efficient—has not yet been hooked into the village grid. Bourakébougou is dark, waiting for a hydrogen future to arrive."

They couldn't replace a few spark plugs?

wow, an entire article and no link to the actual decrypted texts, way to go Guardian.

the sungazing community has been aware of this for decades, if not centuries, millenia.

I migrated from OS/2 directly to linux.

The commenter prefixed with "kindly" which is about the same thing as saying "please". This makes it not imperative, but a request.

the bigger question is: who would pay for such studies?

big pharma? government lobbied by big pharma? universities given grants from government lobbied by big pharma?

actually though, the soviets did do serious research into the science/benefits of fasting. Too bad it never really made it to the west.

Watch the video: "The Science of Fasting" for an overview.

afaict, "time" is simply a measure of matter in motion... ie resonant frequency or how long it takes a liquid to flow x distance. Thus, time is just a mental construct, not a "dimension", and "time travel" is not possible. There is only "now".

that sounds cool. did you get it working?

Stirling engines are quite tricky to get right, as I understand it. And that sounds like you'd need a good sized one, not a toy.

NI-FE (nickel-iron) are pretty good batteries that basically never die. terribly expensive though, and comparatively low power density.

I blame government zoning laws. These prevent entrepreneurs from opening restaurants and markets near to where people live.

In a truly entrepreneurial society, anyone can operate a small business open to the public right out of their house. Not so in the US states/counties I've ever been to.

hypothesis: the great filter is simply an adequate understanding of physics. The galaxy (and beyond?) is happily chattering away using physics we do not understand. We are a pre-contact tribe in the jungle completely unaware of the "radio" signals passing all around us. Once we understand the principles, we can build such a radio and participate.

This goes to the age old debate between vitalists and materialists.

In other words, does conciousness/spirit precede and shape matter, or does matter precede and shape conciousness/spirit?

Modern/western science is pretty firmly entrenched in a materialist view. Although it seems more are questioning that these days.

Personally I think that the brain is probably closer to a radio than a CPU. In other words, it is the bridge that enables our ethereal spirit/conciousness to experience and interact with the material world.

Just as hackernews does not exist in my laptop, neither does my "self" exist in my brain. Rather my laptop and my brain are each providing a terminal to a remote realm.

No amount of examining and dissecting my computer will reveal the code that runs hackernews, youtube, google, etc. It would be foolish to suggest it.

Yet that is exactly what neurologists try to do... with predictably miserable results.

thx for this!

a cheap consumer RF meter detects "high" levels of RF from 5+ feet away, at least on the 4 or 5 random units I've tried. So the faraday cage doesn't seem to be doing its job in full.

"The sky is blue". Ok, we pretty well agree on that. But do I perceive "blue" in the same way that you do? We'll never know.

Regardless, people are not using the term "misinformation" in that way. They are using it for phenomena we cannot all readily observe for ourselves, and for which there is a claimed, but not actual consensus.

800 years ago it was "misinformation" to claim that the Earth orbited the Sun. Today it is "misinformation" to claim that germ theory is incorrect or that vaccines are not always "safe".

But the people using and spreading the "misinformation" meme are human and have imperfect knowledge just like everyone else. Indeed, they seem closed-minded and intolerant of others' opinions. For me, if a person uses that term, it is a clear signal that the person is wedded to a particular worldview and it is pointless to even engage them in conversation on the topic in question.

freedom of speech.

One cannot even define "misinformation" in a fair way. The entire concept is anathema to a sane, rational person.

No one has a monopoly on the truth. No one is omniscient. No one actually knows how life works, or the fundamental nature of the universe.

So how can any of us presume to define for everyone else what is true or not?

The most we can do is have our personal understanding and beliefs. This makes all information subjective. In the eye of the beholder.

To think otherwise is megalomaniac insanity.

umm, no. just no.

fungibility means that two units are interchangeable/equivalent. Legality doesn't enter into it.

anything that makes unit A perceptibly different from unit B can cause humans to value unit A more less than B.

Some units may be perceived as "better" than average and carry a premium. Others may be perceived as "bad" or "tainted" and trade at a discount.

Such differences are generally considered undesirable in a money.

alcohol in the fuel tank?

oh yeah, that personal liberty is so dangerous. gotta be wary about that.

great insights about social fabric ruptures! so true.

The pandemic public policy reaction has deepened an epidemic of loneliness.

ftfy.