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I think it has potential, as you explain, it's pretty young at the moment. There is certainly some value in a friend-2-friend credit network and the technology looks good, a lot work has been don…

Exactly, nothing is stopping few individuals from becoming mafia. Eventually a secondary system needs to be established to regulate those guys at gunpoint, then voila, you've got current society.

There are local communities around the world that run their own credit lines for exchange of goods outside of the banking system, so it's not that Offset is enabling something that isn't hap…

This looked initially like a cool idea, then I realized that to trade with someone you have to have a mutual credit line with them, or through someone who already has a credit line. How is this any di…

The approach has a name, it's called "radical honesty". The idea is this: we are often surprised as to how things turn up, yet at the same time, we are not fully engaged with the world …

Smoking is also a natural Pomodoro technique, you take the necessary breaks for smoking so that keeps you going more.

Managed hosting is much more than what DO does, I suppose. They offer services like setting up a Wordpress, emails, nameservers, etc. for people who don't want or don't know how to. You sell…

Impressive, both the instrument (Repro5) and the video. Can't believe the A/B voting results were as if they were random, everybody got about half right/wrong.

It is a combination of the actual and our perception of it IMO. Even if the wave was a square, our ear hair wouldn't pulsate as square because of the inertia. And as such we wouldn't perceiv…

I didn't know this term, thank you for being such a pedant :) knowing the right term makes it easier to find information on the subject.

Maybe you misunderstood what the tool is doing. It is not doing geoip, it is using the latency of pings between your client and some selected servers with known locations, then calculates the center b…

Even if it's one bucket, isn't it still vulnerable to the same attack you describe? If you push the latency to the edge, you'd know how much is yours and how much the bucket's. Eve…

You are right, it is only pinpointing the DNS server of the client, which usually resides in the same city, so you can find where the victim lives. It is inferred from the conversation here though tha…

Yeah, it doesn't work really well :) Work in progress

I mentioned I just started working on it. To try for yourself you'd need to clone and tweak the servers list to find an optimal arrangement for you. The problem as I see it is that jumping contin…

Oh wow, they're actually doing the same thing, triangulating on latency. Hive mind, I guess. I used universities because I figured a)they won't mind, and b)they're more likely to have t…

That's funny, I was just working on a POC like this today[0] - it's accurate most of the time for my location but I haven't tested from other locations. You'd need to tweak the &#x…

A digital signal can't be as "flawed" as an analogue one. The analog synthesizers exploit these flaws to produce richer and more interesting sounds that you just can't get in the d…

Exactly, what I'm trying to explain (although it's not easy as it's not very intuitive), is that we get more interesting sounds by clipping a signal's peaks to square because it is…

That's cool, but it doesn't really explain _why_ the sound becomes more interesting. It has to do with how the sound is played back, in short, there are no "square" waves. Everythi…

You could pass it through a Google Translate, or maybe a couple, then back - correct for minor errors and style has changed (maybe not that much, but enough to scare AI).

This, and seamlessly mirrored in IPFS whenever I'm offline.

Any specific vendors we should be aware of? :)

Exactly, it's a kind of hubris that people seem to claim knowledge about the brain just by observing vague electrical signals from afar. The delusion comes from the fact that we seem to know a lo…

The numbers seem to suggest that it's a simple mechanic - hey just 302 neurons - but a single neuron cell is immensely complex, containing millions of molecules, trillions of atoms that all inter…

Clickbait. According to the article: "There’s no evidence that CAM4 was hacked, or that the database was accessed by malicious actors." but rather: "security review site Safety Detectiv…