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rwiggum··on The Cloud Computer
retirement is covered by social security healthcare by insurance (offered by the state if you can't afford it yourself)

homes, etc is true though and we just need to build more inventory IMO. but there are tons of areas with affordable homes, they just aren't near the big cities like NYC or SF or LA

rwiggum··on You Don't Need UUID
all of cryptocurrency relies on sha256 the fact that the space is huge, and just ignores collisions. seems to work fine.
rwiggum··on Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
This is actually what they're building. They publish ZK proofs over the biometric data instead of publishing the biometric data itself.
rwiggum··on Bard now open to use
it's honestly terrible. ask it "write 10 sentences that end in the word apple" and watch it flail.
rwiggum··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
incorrect. RL = reality labs. the VR and metaverse stuff.
rwiggum··on Deno 1.25
Yes, easily. We do this for the JS runtime at litprotocol.com
rwiggum··on GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
Free speech is free speech though. Either it's free or it's not free. You are arguing for "not free". I am not a fan of that ideology. This isn't shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. This is restricting access to speech (code) simply because the gov doesn't approve of what the code does.
rwiggum··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
i dunno what makes you think that. the iphone 13 mini was released alongside the other iphone 13's and is the latest gen. all signs point to apple releasing a mini version of the next iphone, too.
rwiggum··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
They already brought this back as an option you can set.
rwiggum··on Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management via RFC 8555 (ACME)
Can you say more about this or point to a source? I'm very curious to learn more about this!
rwiggum··on Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
since smart contracts are turing complete, you could easily write a "dead mans switch" contract that requires check in, say, every 30 days.

the contract could be written such that if two or more checkins in a row are missed, then the assets can be withdrawn by any authorized users.

rwiggum··on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
The rotary dpad thing is worse than a touchscreen IMO. instead of just touching the thing you care about, now you have to scroll around to find it, which is very dangerous when driving
rwiggum··on Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years
No, model Y performance is about 4-6 weeks in USA at least
rwiggum··on All Bitcoin private keys are on this website
This is false
rwiggum··on Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland
That's not how it works. If the defi contracts collapse, the borrowers get margin called. The borrowers must overcollateralize quite a bit, usually 1.5x or 2x what they are borrowing. You could argue that the sell order will fall through in the case of a total market collapse. But the market has fallen 90% in the past and this has not happened.
rwiggum··on Comma Three Devkit
"automatic cruise control" is free and comes with every Tesla. It is not $10k. It is what they call "autopilot" and is free. "Full self driving" is what is $10k and includes automatic navigation on highways when using "automatic cruise control"
rwiggum··on Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
USDC is audited monthly https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency
rwiggum··on I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”
It's all open source. You can see the contracts yourself, or read an audit that someone else created. The beauty is that you don't have to trust them, because you can see exactly what can possibly happen with your money by looking at the code.
rwiggum··on Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS
Check out Ceramic
rwiggum··on “It's a truck full of traffic lights”
It's not smooth though. Once traffic starts again, Eyesight accelerates hard and then brakes hard when it get up to the car, because it's using cruise control and trying get up to speed and there is a minimum speed (25mph? maybe 10mph? i forget) to set the cruise control.
rwiggum··on Google suffers from a digital petro curse
You are correct, but, have you used Stadia at all? I have and frankly it's clear that Google is not investing in it. Even with a great internet connection, the rendering on the server side is often laggy, pixelated, blurred, and stutters. It definitely appears that they are not running the games on big enough machines or are oversharing machines or something. I tried playing 3 different games over this past weekend and all 3 were unplayable. When the user experience is that poor, the writing is on the wall.
rwiggum··on Quest for Hollywood fame splits Redditors at heart of market frenzy
They did mention it. Did you read the article? From the article:

> When reached on their new Twitter account, the top moderators said they wanted to strike a movie deal, but were planning to give any proceeds to charity.

“Them trying to make it look like we are cash grabbing is so dishonest,” the moderators wrote.

rwiggum··on In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops
They SWATted her for allegedly using an emergency broadcast system to say that the numbers were wrong.

This comment is not an endorsement of said actions, just a pedantic correction.

rwiggum··on Mmhmm
I like webcamoid but it has memory leaks on mac. I have 64gb so I only discovered this when using it for a production use case where it was open for over an hour. It was not fun scrambling to restart it every hour while live.
rwiggum··on Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings
It doesn't work. Not everyone has symptoms.
rwiggum··on Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
I can say from personal experience that they can detect farts, but only really stinky ones.
rwiggum··on Coinbase Card
With proper BTC usage, you never reuse an address. It's perfect forward secrecy.
rwiggum··on Coinbase Card
This is how: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
rwiggum··on Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority
>But how does that square with the 52-week staggered release bit?

It's random, but distributed over 52 weeks because the hash function has psuedo-random output. It's quite clever, IMO. That's what "Determined by hash(name) % 52" means. You want to register "meow" today? Well, then check if hash("meow") % 52 <= currentWeekIndex

That's my understanding, but I haven't actually read any docs.

rwiggum··on “We already store data. In a database. It works well”
"Blockchain Wikipedia" exists and the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, was involved for a while. It's called Everipedia and it uses the EOS blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia
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