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Without a valid certificate, any ISP MITM attacks would be obvious

In the short term, flexible power production like coal generation gets used to satisfy grid demand during situations with abnormally high power requirements. It has the benefit of …

Harpoon guns are designed to do exactly that.

> What about the crops they destroy because they would be less profitable? To clarify this point specifically, food self sufficiency is considered a national security issue. Consid…

To put it in terms HN might understand: For moderators, the switch from being able to use third party clients to being forced to use the official reddit client would be like a prog…

Merkle trees! You (simplified) hash the data at the leaves of the tree, merge adjacent leaves (concatenation for example), and hash the new leaves, until you're left with just the …

Is residential water use really the problem? Relative to agricultural use of water in California, residential water use is a drop in the bucket. Agricultural use of water on its ow…

Why use a mixer at all? The technology is fundamentally centralized/trust-based, and even assuming a perfectly trustworthy mixer, vulnerable to many forms of analysis (the list of …

I'm reminded of this scene from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In theory, the goal of the airdrop is to create new users, but in practice the airdrop receivers just cash out th…

Solar and wind are nice, but they don't solve the base load problem. They aren't consistent enough to operate as base load on a power grid. They are certainly convenient for mainta…

I've been hearing the same line about nuclear plants taking decades to be built for decades, as if its a valid dismissal. As the saying goes, the best time to plant a tree was a de…

> "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic..." The decision for the first quote you used was ove…

The dataset for hashed credit card numbers is small enough that it can be easily represented in a static lookup table, or brute forced.

Transformers: More than meets the eye

Given that the 8.6% return is contingent on those funds being loaned out to third parties in a manner that involves risk (like margin trading), I am highly skeptical of their abili…

At 8.6% APY, would you say you believe you have a sub-8.6% chance of the funds disappearing in a given year? Considering that it would take over a decade to return the original cap…

With the amount of money printing being done globally, and interest rates breaking the zero bound, I am not surprised that investment goods have risen in price. Inflating the monet…

The piece you are missing is called the Key Image. The key image can be thought of as a fingerprint/hash (one way function) of the true spender, and is always produced when the tru…

> just 9000 btc For context, that is nearly half of a billion dollars worth, it is hardly a small amount. Try selling half a billion dollars of anything on short notice and you'll …

The Federal Reserve is a private company.

The 1970s seem to be a place where many different indicators diverge. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

> That still trades off density for speed It does not. RAID-0 has no duplication, it acts effectively like your independent arms. No density tradeoff, just speed.