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36,474karma·14,804submissions·March 8, 2009
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Bootstrapped <https://www.coinfabrik.com> in 2014 and https://www.nektra.com in 2003.
- CoinFabrik: Web3, R&D in decentralization, and security audits. Blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Algorand, etc) and language agnostic (Solidity, Rust, etc)
- Nektra: security, application virtualization, reverse engineering, Windows system internals
- BitVMX <https://bitvmx.org/>: BitVMX framework provides the foundations to run any CPU on Bitcoin, with a focus to run a fully-compliant RISC-V processor programmable using a standard compilation toolchain.
Blogging at https://blog.coinfabrik.com @coinfabrik, https://blog.nektra.com @nektra, and https://blog.databigbang.com @databigbang
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"Most Chinese policymakers don’t believe A.I. superintelligence is arriving any time soon. Instead, the Chinese strategy is about advancing a government-directed strategy referred to as “A.I.+” t…
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I assume that once LLMs are trained with large [synthetic] information about 3D Clifford algebras it will work better.
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Tim Burton's Pinocchio was cancelled, but reading this, I can imagine this could have been his director's cut.
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> Pix is certainly great, but locally only, Pix is no local as a user, you can use it without a CPF: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053527 >.…
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Countries don't mechanically convert inputs into development. There are many examples of countries with large capital inflows and/or strong capabilities that still fail to become strong econ…
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No, for example Argentinian tourists use Belo[1] for paying in Brazil. No need for credit cards. [1] https://www.belo.app/en-us/ar/ …
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I'd expect the bigger shift to be toward secure-by-construction building blocks: less custom code that needs to be audited from scratch, and more hardened or verified components where common bug …
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I imagine again a worldwide search for the cheapest labor. Mechanical Turk on steroids.
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Privacy and privilege (e.g. attorney/client) are different things, but I'd be curious about the edge cases here: can a personal journal become privileged or protected?
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Looking at the price of this and other calculators, I wonder if there's a market for "dumb calculators" analogous to dumb terminals: a device with the calculator form factor, keyboard, …
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The most revealing detail is the PR plan. It shows the machinery behind the public persona: legal strategy, media appearances, ideological repositioning, and "radical honesty" all treated as…
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We are living in interesting times: there are now zillions of messiahs, not just one. More seriously, this take seems to ignore something important: Apple Silicon is already very good at running local…