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it is very hard to escape the conclusion that israel is doing war crimes when israel's primary mode of domestic communication is 'we are doing war crimes'

this sounds great but is unfortunately incoherent if you think about it just a little bit

fundamentally, the reason sequencers can't be competitive is because the sequencer determines the input to consensus, which everyone has to agree on. there can only be one accepted sequence…

iOS app that edits all your screenshots to display a 2% battery indicator for engagement baiting

me explaining to the team how to recognize protobuf wire tags in the base64 encodings

unpopular opinion, but groth16 is good actually — for the same reason we use ahead-of-time compiled binaries rather than scripts for code that matters — and so we should put more effort into scaling ceremonies to achieve decentralized setups for groth16 proofs

Remember the early days of COVID when it was a right-wing conspiracist opinion to say COVID was going to be a big deal and lib op-Ed writers were penning editorials about how wearing a mask was racist and then everyone switched teams and nobody mentioned it again? Good times.

Wow, this might be the first application en masse of AML/KYC rules being used to deplatform a game AFAIK. I wasn’t sure at first, but taking a look at the full countries and it maps onto the standard set of “risky country” lists from the US/UN perspective. Insane.

amazing things are happening on bitcoin twitter

Senior PowerPoint Engineer He also specifically told the t&s team it was not ok to use account-level behavioral signals, and to only use individual reply/post signals. That particular decision really ties your hands wrt detecting and mitigating spam