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The article talks about being “receipt free” as a required feature of any electronic voting system. Fine. But by that standard, in a world where someone can bring their phone or AI…

Event better is his response to the comment. > I was looking for a job during working on this and absolutely got some disappointing rejections, and one was because of my lack of sk…

I don’t think you have deferred resolving the dilemma—you have firmly decided the question in favor of your product and the LLMs you are using!

This feels like a ghost of the internet of the 1990s. This writeup deserves its own website, something with minimal CSS, where you'll discover a bunch of family snapshots and party…

Sure.

Exactly. I often wish GitHub had a messaging capability, for these same reasons.

Ok, what is it that he is after?

> Not sure how one can design a system robust to these two threats. The US at various time has had a system robust to these threats. A prerequisite has been an educated and well-in…

> If we move all crypto to purpose-made hardware, someone could just start trying to target the messages to/from the crypto system. This is one of the technical advantages of a blo…

> Where possible try utilizing HSMs, yubikeys, secure enclaves - any specialized hardware that has been hardened to protect key material. Are there any circumstances where this har…

In general, this usually results in front-end logic being very tightly coupled with back-end logic. In some of the examples given, you even have database access in the same line th…

Can you explain how user accounts and signups work? Can anyone run a user account service hosting accounts and performing account authentication? Or is that centralized?

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#stablecoin-finance

It’s happening right now.

In 1980 packet switching had existed for 20 years already. The public Internet wouldn’t emerge for more than a decade after that—and it would take yet another 20 years for the true…

In any other industry he would have switched to a company that was better run.

> The coupon sites are usually of doubtful quality because .... Basically all affiliate networks forbid it. I wasn’t aware of this, and I’m not sure I understand why this would be …

Somehow the human brain by default conflates the concepts of "being prestigious" and "having integrity". It's difficult to fight this cognitive bias that, I think, we all carry—but…

Did you read the document you linked to? "...the Court concludes that Ripple’s Programmatic Sales of XRP did not constitute the offer and sale of investment contracts" It is not on…