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Too little too late.

Since arresting young males should be a goal in itself, I wonder why the stated target of 100% is never reached? Sounds like bureaucratic inefficiency and inertia ...

In simplified terms, an object is just a hashtable pointing to a parent hashtable. Now the question becomes: Is it better to embed another hashtable inside the hashtable ('has') or…

Over fifty years? The person you marry is going to change. All of this is a total non-issue in other cultures. Outside the pathological situations in the West, you can just focus o…

I think that Susanne really "gets it". You could build a platform and abide by all reasonable and also silly regulations across the 200+ jurisdictions around the world, or else jus…

That is difficult to say, because I am a man too. I may also not be able to decode what women from a traditional environment really think about mainstream western men. There's one …

This is how 80% of the world thinks about marriage. This is also how people in the West thought about marriage only a few decades ago. In other words, it is the normal way of think…

Take her around the world--nice and, not so nice places; then decide if you still want to get married. I think that this is the wrong approach. Anybody is suitable for marriage, on…

People are always compatible, if they have to. That is why rampant marriage failure is a cultural problem, not an individual one. Therefore, if you just avoid to pick someone from …

I do not believe that marrying the "wrong person" is fundamentally that common. The problem is rather that it could be simple and easy to divorce someone for the inevitable quirks …

Distributed signing is useful in other contexts too. It does not always have to be bitcoin-related ...

It has always been like that. Women have never "fallen in love" with men who are not sufficiently socially successful. There is nothing new under the sun in that respect. But then …

Enlisting more cores in order to get something done faster, you know, by splitting the work is indeed a serious pain. I recently wanted to get lpsolve to split an integer branch-an…

Trust that I have implemented no back doors. Yes, you are right. This entire NSA thing is bad business for American companies. Even an erstwhile global darling such as Google suffe…

It does not even matter that "the majority of Tor users are using it for nefarious purposes". Any attempt at intimidation will work out exactly the other way around. Doing anything…

The NSA strategy of spying on everyone only works when most people are not aware of it. The surprise element is now gone. They can undoubtedly already see the effect of the recent …

It would be enough to attack the machine holding the decrypted bitcoin key in order to steal the money. So, you still have that dreaded single point of failure problem there. The s…

Unfortunately, multisig forces you to use the blockchain. There are use cases where you don't want that. SSS, on the other hand, seems too complex to feed back through the ECDSA si…

Uber is actually a good example of how existing regulations can be a formidable barrier to startups; or even any kind of innovation. You are not just free to offer a new product or…

They may not have a choice. I can perfectly well see why they erect barriers and put large obstacles in front of people trying to cross their borders. The problem is rather that st…

I personally think that companies should avoid asking anybody to physically come over. Working or even partnering up remotely is perfectly possible.

To some extent, you may still need to be physically present in the US/Silicon Valley in order to join in on some of the startup fun. However, it is often possible to do that withou…

A method to explode a bitcoin private key with SSS into multiple secret parts and use them to collaboratively sign transactions has unfortunately not yet been discovered. What exis…