Peter Todd
Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech')
PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04, [email protected]
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Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border
Under a new ‘Zero Tolerance’ US border policy, 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults between 19 April and 31 May in an attempt to deter further illegal crossings. The pitilessness of such a policy was bound to provoke outrage, and...
The War on Tesla, Musk, and the Fight for the Future
Upfront: If you think that anything is justified against a person simply because that person is wealthy, this is not an article for you. If you think it’s okay to lie, mislead, or otherwise attack a person simply because of their financial status,...
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Peter Todd
There's lessons to be learned for Bircoin here.
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The SAFT Is a Symptom of Regulatory Uncertainty
The SAFT framework, despite its limitations, is a reasonable path forward for token issuers given the ambiguity of current laws, writes Jerry Brito.
Platform Moats – Julien Genestoux
Your superior technology does not matter as much as you think.
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Photosynthetic efficiency - Wikipedia
Peter Todd
@bitstein @Mbr_89 @orionwl Even most agricultural plants are fairly inefficient at turning sunlight into calories, with efficiencies ranging from 0.25% to 0.5%: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynt… Lots of energy gets wasted on things like growing roots that could be replaced with better technology.
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Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together
The president's 'unofficial filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
The Lifespan of a Lie – Trust Issues
It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the…
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Peter Todd
TIL the famous Standford Prison Experiment was a unreplicatable fraud: medium.com/s/trustissues/…
and the Milgram experiment had severe errors that mean the actual torture compliance rate was probably much lower than reported: psmag.com/social-justice…
Hopeful for humanity really.
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Did Stanley Milgram's Famous Obedience Experiments Prove Anything?
Stanley Milgram's test subjects were not the only ones misled by his famous experiments on obedience.
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Peter Todd
TIL the famous Standford Prison Experiment was a unreplicatable fraud: medium.com/s/trustissues/…
and the Milgram experiment had severe errors that mean the actual torture compliance rate was probably much lower than reported: psmag.com/social-justice…
Hopeful for humanity really.
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Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world’s knowledge computable
Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.
Peter Todd
@waxwing__ E.g. a 1% inflation tax over 500 years is a 144x increase. With Bitcoin's coin supply numbers 64-bit integers can handle that, but you'd be close to running out of precision after another 500 years.
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Segwit2x Post Mortem: Divorce of Crypto-Austrians and Crypto-Keynesians
The scaling battle that’s been raging in the Bitcoin ecosystem the past 3 years is finally over. The entire Bitcoin network has spoken and…
Peter Todd
Silly article: a technically competent Keynesian would also recognize that the 2x plan of raising blocksize indefinitely to meet demand will destroy Bitcoin's value as uncensorable money.
That debate has little, if anything, to do with economics.
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opentimestamps/foxglove
Contribute to foxglove development by creating an account on GitHub.
Can you believe California has same-day laundry and shower limits? No, you can't.
Right-wing blogs have spread bogus claims that Californians are fleeing the state because of new water restriction laws.
Peter Todd
@BraveTheWorld See sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-co…
or the bill itself: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
'As the blog Zero Hedge put it, “it’s now against the law to do laundry and shower on the same day in the Sunshine State,” and they’re not exaggerating.' is simply bullshit.
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Bill Text - AB-1668 Water management planning.
Peter Todd
@BraveTheWorld See sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-co…
or the bill itself: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…
'As the blog Zero Hedge put it, “it’s now against the law to do laundry and shower on the same day in the Sunshine State,” and they’re not exaggerating.' is simply bullshit.
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Soldier, charged with driving on drugs, appears to have been tweeting from stolen military vehicle
Virginia National Guard Soldier Joshua Philip Yabut was arrested after he allegedly stole a M577 armored personnel carrier from Fort Pickett Tuesday evening and drove it 60 miles to downtown Richmond while police were in pursuit.
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Peter Todd
Interesting... So it turns out that @movrcx actually may have worked at Langley from 2014 to 2017 on offensive cyber security. I had talked to him towards the end of that; IIRC he gave no impression he had worked for the feds.
Was (kinda) disrupting Tor.
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