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Very interesting autopsy. But there are many uses for a virtual notary besides those times when "sh#t hits the fan." Open source distributions, for instance, are currently distribu…

Yes, quite possibly, if there is sufficient interest.

Great idea. We'll add this to the to-do list.

A git factoid plugin is a great idea. What exactly is the attestation that you have in mind? You provide the name of a repo plus a tag, and the VN issues a certificate of the hash?…

It's an API-compatible drop in replacement for LevelDB, so anyone else who currently uses LevelDB should be able to switch fairly easily.

This article would have been stronger if it had contained a bit of introspection. Why did it require a UK paper to uncover this operation?

I can answer the opposite question: we intend to keep in sync with upstream. Since HyperLevelDB is a drop-in replacement for LevelDB, it should be fairly easy for LevelDB users to …

Those of you interested in cache conscious algorithm design should check out Anthony LaMarca's thesis from 1996: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lamarca/pubs/lamarca-thesis.... The…

Because each coin transaction entails a 40KB zero knowledge proof. So a Satoshi will require 40*10^8 KB transferred for a 1BTC transaction.

Technically, this is very cool work. But one thing the paper overlooks is divisibility. How does one make change with zerocoin? It appears that the trapdoors allow only a whole coi…

Don't forget that the short squeeze also feeds the runaway price of BTC and props it even higher.

>Bitcoin is the first digital currency to solve the double-spending problem without needing a trusted third party. This is false. Karma was a p2p currency that did this in 2004, 5 …

For the record: not Oakleys, not at a beach, but yes, looking to the side. If we're done picking on looks and personal issues, something I tried to avoid very carefully in the arti…

It's funny what a few days of teaching Operating Systems will do to a man.

Do you know which president I had in mind? I lived through quite a few 8 year terms, and yes, that includes Reagan. If your response is "but everyone knows which president you were…

That kind of language will bring the discussion to an end.

My post ends on this note: Wouldn't it be much better to channel all this energy towards something more productive? Like, say, writing a few thousand lines of Rails or Django or No…

Here's some straight-up satire: Only a relatively small fraction of the population, mostly highly intelligent, and well informed, curious individuals used Reader. Source: https://n…

Agreed, contributing to OSS is much better than rolling one's own from scratch. From the vehemence of the "bring-back-Reader" posts, I assumed that there were absolutely no OSS pro…

>Fuck you Feel free to disregard my opinion and express your disagreement in whatever terms best reflect you as a person.

Thanks, I appreciate this. In your estimate, what percentage of Reader users have, or will, donate to the Internet Archive to perform this archival task? At what percentage level w…

I was indeed a Reader user, but by no means a power-user, so I could very well be unaware of some difficult-to-duplicate parts of Reader that are hidden under the covers. Can you l…