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bmulcahy··on Check Out These Self-Soldering Sleeves from World War II
So, a weld instead of solder!
bmulcahy··on Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older
One would have to assume that it's a combination of both.
bmulcahy··on Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment
One way of understanding the previous comment in light of what you've said is: the third-party doctrine is so obviously wrong it's sickening.
bmulcahy··on Did you already break the Elliptic Curve, Satoshi, you there?
My money's on Hal Finney.
bmulcahy··on Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim
No. Instead, I'm going to be excellent to my fellow people. I'm not going to sink to their level.
bmulcahy··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
Somewhere, the NFL is quickly checking its shoes...
bmulcahy··on Books fatal to their authors (1895)
Investigative journalism, I'd wager.
bmulcahy··on Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle
It's no more ironic than a basketball player who just increased his score by putting a ball through a hoop trying to prevent his opponent from doing the same.
bmulcahy··on Henry Kissinger Has Died
Why not?
bmulcahy··on Volkswagen tracking firm sued for refusing to find stolen SUV with kidnapped boy
No, it's great! That way when something terrible happens, it's not VW's fault.
bmulcahy··on It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. -Former VP of HR at Microsoft
I think you've made a mistake. Their comment was not meant to be understood literally. Their intended meaning was obvious to me.
bmulcahy··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
>What are the new revenue channels that will pay for all that extra staff (and considering it’s USPS, their pensions)?

The federal government, unlike most other entities, does not need to match new revenue to new spending. It can and does create new money for any spending it deems worth it.

Funding basic banking for all through the USPS is worth it.

bmulcahy··on Why we don’t generate elliptic curves every day
>but because the mechanism by which they were generated would result in whole large classes of broken curves that academic cryptography and mathematics would have caught by now

Might such discoveries by academics be forcibly suppressed by government agencies?

bmulcahy··on "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4
I absolutely loved the ending of _Fall_. I literally sat in my truck with tears streaming down my face for five minutes. To each their own, I suppose.
bmulcahy··on Five Eyes Campaign Against Encryption Threatens Democracy
We need a public lobby.
bmulcahy··on What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]
I vote Hal Finney.
bmulcahy··on Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
Do you remember the name of the post card service? Sounds neat!
bmulcahy··on The NSA Invented Bitcoin?
>One would expect that we’d all know who Satoshi was by now, unless Satoshi was a state-sponsored collective effort.

Or, if the creator died of ALS.