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Swift Crypto 6 years ago

That allows them to avoid the problem, but why introduce the problem in the first place? Why not use something that is intended to be used as a crypto library?

Swift Crypto 6 years ago

Why was BoringSSL chosen as the backend? According to Google,

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/

Why is a 1.5° maximum a target that should be aimed for? William Nordhaus says a 3.5° maximum is the optimal target. His models show that a 3.5° maximum would result in a net benefit of 30 trillion whereas a 2.5° maximum would be a detriment of 50 trillion[1]. That is to say the reduction in damage would be far less than the cost of implementing such a policy. The cost for a 1.5° maximum target would be even more severe.

[1]W. Nordhaus, “Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 333–360, Aug. 2018, doi: 10.1257/pol.20170046.

edit: This comment is currently sitting at -2. If you think a 1.5° target is optimal, you should explain why you think so rather than just down voting this post. The paper I linked to is by William Nordhaus who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2018 for his work related to the economics of climate change.

AGPL License 6 years ago

IMO, the goal of open source licenses is to encourage more usage of open source. If AGPL is preventing companies from using it, then it is accomplishing the opposite.

The transactions are public but the reasons for them are not. Usually ransomware victims don't publicize the fact that they were attacked. Even if they do, they additionally don't publish in which transaction they transferred the ransom. There isn't a practical to determine whether a specific transaction that a wallet received was from ransomware.

Don't pawn shops hold items because they are essentially lending money with the item as collateral. They don't sell the items right away because the person that sold them to the pawn shop has the right to repay the loan and reclaim the item within a certain period of time.

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