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"SGX is hard because it's trying to preserve the open nature of the platform" Except that was an afterthought. Originally only whitelisted developers were allowed to use SGX at all…

There is already a blacklisting/revocation system for leaked SGX keys -- which failed completely when it was put to the test, after researchers tried publishing some keys they extr…

I'm taking bets on how long before the next generation is completely broken as well. It is only a matter of time, and the timeline is likely short.

Except that the security model on the server side is broken as there is no way for Intel to know that a key is compromised and thus revoke it; at least for the DRM use-case sharing…

BGP is the de facto routing protocol of the Internet. The basic problem that it solves is computing and distributing routes between independently operated networks. It is actually …

Have you ever dealt with an estate, or a disputed estate? I have, and I can tell you that technical processes would probably not accomplish very much. I have seen people go to cour…

They do not know, but they also do not need to know. Technically they are not limiting resolution, they are limiting throughput on their network; the streaming service will reduce …

Yes in my experience.

Do people commonly think types are a solution to most or all problems? Other than correctness I am not sure what software engineering problems a type system actually solves, and th…

For Jews the Christian position is even more bizarre. Why did God wait for the Second Temple to be destroyed to send Jesus? Why not right before the First Temple was destroyed? Why…

Rabbinic Jews do not claim to practice Second Temple Judaism, they claim to practice a religious tradition that followed from the pharisee sect that existed during the Second Templ…

"It seems that it has evolved as a reaction against Christianity" Citation needed. Pretty much all secular scholarship I have ever seen on this topic has concluded that both rabbin…

If that is true, why would Jesus have taught his disciples the spiritual value of ritual bathing and ritual foot washing?

You can also wash someone's feet if you want to, but don't make it a matter of spiritual, ritual cleanliness as Jesus did . You can also take a bath if you want to, but don't make …

Christianity already has enormous appeal, it is literally the most widely practiced religion in the world. I never said Christians are against hand washing, I said that Jesus taugh…

Well, did Jesus tell his follows that they should not be hypocrites who wash their hands because they blindly follow traditions and that they should instead wash their hands becaus…

Except that Jesus taught his disciples not to wash their hands before eating -- a basic hygenic practice that people of his time certainly understood. However valuable his moral te…

"distributed group of participants to take it upon themselves to temporarily and physically enforce" Do you think I should risk my life to enforce your property rights? I have two …

The people in charge of enforcement would become a de facto government. What distinguishes a government from any other organization is the monopoly on violence (more precisely, the…

They can use the mortgage as collateral for their own loans, and I am not really sure how that is any different...

I am skeptical of the claim that real estate generally appreciates over time, at least in real terms (inflation-adjusted). Yes that has been the trend for a long time and especiall…

People sometimes take out a home equity loan, which is kind of like going in reverse with mortgage payments -- you are going more in debt, using the equity in you built up with pre…

Is the prepayment risk really much different from a callable commercial bond? Call protection is not universal in commercial or even agency bonds.

Your citation is full of errors and fallacies. More efficient mining rigs is basically irrelevant, because Bitcoin miners have no incentive to reduce energy consumption while compu…

Except that we do not have an alternative to jet airplanes that moves hundreds of times more passengers while emitting less carbon. We do have such an alternative to Bitcoin, in fa…