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kushti··on Ethereum Is a Planetary Scale Computer–For Gambling
"recently advising people to stop submitting new dapps because the system is already overwhelmed" - very interesting claim, can you provide a source please?
kushti··on Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags foreign ties
Still, the discrimination is illegal and violates human rights (also, modern societies do not have a notion of collective responsibility).
kushti··on Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
I dunno how to handle this situation for those who are unlucky to live under US war-criminal regime. For others, I would like to propose to consider the following:

- convert your USD savings into other assets (e.g. EUR)

- sell US-related stocks

- boycott US-produced goods and services if there are replacements

kushti··on 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
How many homeless people in the US are dying per day under such conditions?
kushti··on Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
These days most of American media stories about China, Russia etc are probable fakes. Only mass boycott of Western MSMs can fix the situation with these terrible weapons of psyops and propaganda.
kushti··on US asks allies to drop Huawei
American regime is truly terrible. I boycott all the American for years, and wonder how many people are doing the same in 2018.
kushti··on Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era
Then you need to provide a credible source which provides an explanation why FR was a revolution and other is not, not a Stalin's article from 1918 you provided which is not about that at all. Left-leaning historians often define (a real) revolution as a change in ruling class, based on that definition both FR and OR were the very real revolutions (one was about passing power to bourgeois class, another about passing power to the working class), but if you are using other definitions, please provide them.
kushti··on Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era
"Though most of the memorials were built from the 1960s through the 1980s, the most abstract designs harken back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks promised to empower workers and take the reins from the Tsarist bourgeois." - the propaganda language of the article is illiterate as there were two revolutions in Russian Empire in 1917, Tsarist regime was overthrown by February Revolution and bolsheviks overthrew bourgeois regime in October revolution, thus talking about "Tsarist bourgeois" vs bolsheviks is simply not literate.
kushti··on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Was Targeted by Russian Trolls, Study Says
Russian trolls ate my breakfast.
kushti··on Russian spies detained in The Hague were planning cyber break-in at Swiss lab
"truth is practically used against your own system of values" - if truth is against the system of "values", the problem is in the system, not the truth.
kushti··on Russian spies detained in The Hague were planning cyber break-in at Swiss lab
Your "logic", basically "choose your side and believe without questioning" is not appropriate for any more or less educated person, I need to say.
kushti··on Russian spies detained in The Hague were planning cyber break-in at Swiss lab
I simply can not find source in the original Swiss article. The most relevant part of the article is:

The Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) confirms on request that the Swiss authorities are aware of "the case of the Russian spies who were discovered in the Hague and then taken away". NDB communications chief Isabelle Graber also writes: "The NDB has actively participated in this operation, together with its Dutch and British partners." This has contributed to the "prevention of illegal actions against a critical Swiss infrastructure".

How's that related to the two guys detained in Netherlands? I mean, the accusation of them being targeted Swiss lab?

How can I be sure this is not a sensationalist fantasy of a journo?

It would be good to publish the full report from NDB.

kushti··on Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Alphabet Inc helped pro-American terrorists in Syria https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12166#efmAMoAbj . Only a tribunal will show hopefully how many people were affected by this.
kushti··on Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?
If the question about business life, leaving an SV-based company. Otherwise, marrying and having children.
kushti··on I Was a Russian Facebook Troll Named Martha
"Russian" + "Facebook" in the title sounds like something about political content, while there's nothing in the article about that.
kushti··on North and South Korea reportedly set to announce official end to war
This is a good movement,and lets hope that sanctions on the people enforced by authoritarian psychopathic Western regimes will be lifted up. The only known way (historically) to liberalization is through making people richer through trade,not enforcing them to be alone with poverty and populists.
kushti··on Facebook Will Cut Off Access to Third Party Data for Ad Targeting
The very core principle of any public corporation is to show positive metrics to its shareholders during board meetings.
kushti··on Google shuts YouTube channel implicated in Kremlin political propaganda ops
What are you talking about? Do you have credible links?
kushti··on Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
Doing Qora code analysis few years ago, I found that not all the fields of a block are signed (made an issue, still open https://github.com/razakal/Qora/issues/14), and also found some probable DoS vectors. I think many second- and third-tier cryptocurrencies are technically garbage.
kushti··on A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15
The problem would be still to maintain the UTXO set. Fortunately, by using a two-party dynamic authenticated data structure, it is possible to have only miners(and also powerful full nodes willing to hold full-state, like block explorers etc) to store the whole set, while others can check proofs of set transformations included into blocks, storing just 32 bytes. For details, see introduction to the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/994 (and blockchain processing benchmark graph, 2nd half of pg. 14)
kushti··on Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
But others didn't start with "Do No Evil" motto (transformed now into "Do the Right Thing").
kushti··on Woman Banned from US After Border Agent Finds Proof of Drug Use on Phone
From the text, the gender is totally irrelevant to the issue, but this is the first word in the title.
kushti··on Woman Banned from US After Border Agent Finds Proof of Drug Use on Phone
Why such an accent on the gender? I see no any relevance of the gender in regards with article contents.
kushti··on API to detect toxic comments
"Genocide is good" = 13% toxicity, "Genocide is bad" = 87% toxicity

Pure garbage.

kushti··on The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley
You dont' get the comparison at all. And btw, Bay Area is full of drugsters, not to say that the country is losing the war in Afghanistan, as well as couple of other wars.
kushti··on The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is like USSR in 70s-80s: you can say anything, but for saying things not in the party's line you would be expelled from a higher social class.
kushti··on The Kremlin Is Suddenly Obsessed with Cryptocurrencies Due to the Magnitsky Act
It means low quality of the article, at least.
kushti··on The Kremlin Is Suddenly Obsessed with Cryptocurrencies Due to the Magnitsky Act
Incredibly yellow writing from a journo not competent in both cryptocurrencies and Russian politics (LDPR is a far right party? LOL)
kushti··on The Hunting of the SNARK – Zero-Knowledge Proofs Introduction
How can I compile my scheme? What are the tools available? (doc for libsnark is not very good I need to say)
kushti··on Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverless Trucks
But also computeres are easily being possessed by WannaCry and other malicious activities. It is pretty sad that all the praising of AI doesn't take into account the adversarial nature of the World.
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