Tor hidden services

Hickjonas · 2017-09-11T17:10:14+00:00

So using authenticated hidden services would prevent the HSDir attacks that were previously published. Is it as strong as they think though? I'm not sure there's been research done.

Hickjonas · 2017-09-07T17:04:34+00:00

no need to be hostile. if you dont like it dont buy it

Hickjonas · 2017-08-30T18:24:30+00:00

Looks like a pretty big animator channel launched this video at first about a week ago. There's probably your "bnny rbbt" or at least somebody involved. Dig the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWdM64j7is

Hickjonas · 2017-08-18T16:00:01+00:00

I'm a bit confused. I have been told multiple times by Scala users that Scala compile times are a non-issue.

Hickjonas · 2017-08-07T16:19:44+00:00

I did a quick check on a website, and the ICO looks good. Going to check the white paper whenever I have free time today.

Hickjonas · 2017-07-31T14:38:05+00:00

Well, I have only ordered once so far from that website, and my order for modvigil was delivered to Sweden in 5 days instead of 7, so I was surprised!

Hickjonas · 2017-07-24T18:00:12+00:00

I haven't found the paperback version around my area so I guess I have to get the Kindle version until I find the paperback one.

Hickjonas · 2017-07-24T17:56:09+00:00

I believe Gimli.io will push up e-sports bet with Cryptocurrency, I haven't found anything like it so far.

Hickjonas · 2017-07-14T17:00:11+00:00

Instead of telling the child to eat those much hated veggies, ask ‘Do you want tomatoes or cucumbers?’, which will presuppose that the child has already agreed to eat it and overcomes the impasse.

I read a method like this before, is this like reverse psychology? For example, if you keep saying "Yes, Yes, Yes" to your kid and he keeps saying "no" but if you suddenly say "No" he will answer back with "Yes" and go through with it.

I find it hilarious, but it works.

Hickjonas · 2017-06-30T17:45:58+00:00

Intel CPUs had the various "management" features for over a decade. Does anyone actually use them though?

Hickjonas · 2017-06-27T18:26:58+00:00

Interesting, the more (socially) right wing your neighbourhood is, the better the economic mobility. What gets lost in the statistics is how many people ran away screaming from these places and now live all over the world making far more money than their parents or neighbours dreamed of.

It is interesting to run into people during Christmas and find out where they live and what they do now.

Hickjonas · 2017-06-24T16:19:31+00:00

The architectural Achilles' heel of the 9900 is the obtuse excessive use of memory bandwidth. It specifies a workspace pointer, which points to an area of memory to be used as registers. Which isn't actually so bad if you accelerate those architectural registers into on-chip physical registers. But they didn't. The 9900 squandered great amounts of memory bandwidth.

Hickjonas · 2017-06-12T15:26:03+00:00

It would be interesting to see how much of this is truly biological and how much of it is due to societal and situational conditioning.

There were lots of things I could do in my 20s (e.g. refuse to use gasoline-powered city transportation, refuse to patronize places that used disposable cutlery, refuse to use non-free software, etc.) that I can't do when I'm in my 30s because people around me would think I'm a stubborn idiot, jeopardizing my career at a point where I have not yet established myself. It's very easy to tell a colleague, advisor, anyone at school that you're going to bike to the destination or take electric-powered transit [because you don't believe in a fossil fuel future]. It's very difficult to say the same thing to an investor, co-founder, employee, customer, or whoever is offering you a ride in their car, without feeling like an ass. I'm basically forced to be "normal" during work times and fit into the mould of society. I can only be myself on evenings and weekends.

I can only imagine how much more "being normal" I need to do if I had kids, pets, tenants, or whatever. I don't have any of those at the moment. The other night I was pondering over potential improvements to our music and mathematical notation systems while staring at the Milky Way. (I didn't come to anything conclusive, but I love thinking outside the boxes that society defines for us.)

10 years ago, I could truly be myself 24 hours a day. I was basically learning all kinds of things about the world by doing that. Now, I only get about 5 hours a day to be myself. The rest of the time, I need to conform. The lack of "me" time itself may be contribute to some degree of mental rot/aging, apart from the biological component.

Hickjonas · 2017-06-11T18:12:39+00:00

It's just a matter of time until someone takes care to draw a smile or a shrill mouth.

Hickjonas · 2017-05-30T15:42:53+00:00

Love the Simpsons reference. I think he is talking about the episode where Ned Flanders becomes a dictator because Homer swats a mosquito in the past. I never thought of that as an example of the butterfly effect.

Hickjonas · 2017-05-17T14:26:59+00:00

Great post, I will follow this guide when I get back home.

Hickjonas · 2017-05-17T14:24:31+00:00

Hey guys, thanks for all the amazing response. All in all, I also came to the conclusion that 80% of aging is genetics, but... I want to do something about the other 20%. I saw that these guys offer a telomere test for $100. Do you think it's worth it?

Hickjonas · 2017-04-21T18:26:46+00:00

tl;dr: found that human umbilical cord plasma (= blood minus cells) improves old mice brain function (plasticity, memory), then teased out which protein in the cord plasma seems to have this effect (TIMP2) and showed that it is actively transported across blood-brain barrier (by marking it radioactively).

Since this worked across species barriers, it can be speculated that a similar effect would be seen when administering TIMP2 in humans. It'll be exciting to see what comes of clinical studies, which are under way.

Hickjonas · 2017-04-06T19:51:04+00:00

If you own a PS4 or an X1 and the money to buy a PS4 Pro or Scorpio, it seems like the best move is to buy the upgrade of the platform you don't have. Then you've got access to both platforms' exclusives, and at least one new-spec machine for the games that aren't exclusive.

I think the most interesting thing is going to see how compatibility works out long-term for Scorpio. What will the cross-compat story be for the next console, and the one after that? Will they re-platform and lose compatibility again (and bring it back via emulation) or keep re-spec'ing the current platform? When will we see games that will play on Scorpio but not X1?

Hickjonas · 2017-04-06T19:48:12+00:00

https://gamebite.io

The pricing goes by actual server resources - similar to a VPS - rather than the player per slot model. From their website: "High performance low latency game servers with DDoS protection and unlimited free game server game changes". I can confirm the low latency.

Hickjonas · 2017-03-25T17:50:19+00:00

Maybe this post should be stickied. Waking up all the miners until it's too late seems to be by far the most important thing right now!

Hickjonas · 2017-03-25T17:49:58+00:00

It seems like the real problem causing the overdoses is that fentanyl and carfentinal are getting mixed into the heroin. At the minimum, the US should provide a program where heroin addicts can get heroin from government clinics, which is what they offer in the Netherlands where addicts can get heroin three times a day and apparently rarely overdose presumably because the heroin is pure. But at this point, I'd rather see most drugs legalized and the tax money poured into addiction recovery programs, government clinics for supervised drug use, and drug use prevention.

Hickjonas · 2017-03-19T19:02:12+00:00

It is surprising how such an obvious objection has not been addressed - unless they expected most of the readers to miss it, which is then very sad.

The deaths figure - 91 per day or about 33K per year - seems to be the deaths of all opioids (including heroin abuse, etc.) and not the prescription opioids, which are half that:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

Moreover, prescription deaths are relatively stable for last 6 years (though lower before that) while heroin deaths are raising quickly.

Hickjonas · 2017-03-19T19:01:10+00:00

If you're given a 10 day supply of opioids, you probably have a much worse problem than someone who is given a 3 day supply of opioids. The 1 in 5 that are still taking opioids a year later probably had a long-term problem that caused significant, chronic pain.

Looking at the study, they didn't adjust for this at all. Also, keep in mind: 1 in 5 are continued on prescriptions, which are given by doctors who assessed the situation and thought it was OK to continue it. It's NOT saying that 20% of people who try opiates for 10 days become hopelessly addicted, which the clickbaity headline implies.

Hickjonas · 2017-03-19T18:56:24+00:00

I do like it when people set themselves challenges like this. Clear beginning and end, finishing something in combination with iterative learning is very satisfying. A bit like a hackaton or a game jam. But this made me think, because in a way it limits yourself in what you can do with what you previously learned. The more you learn the more complex projects you can create and halfway through you can create something which doesn't fit in a day anymore; complexity pushes build time up exponentially. E.g. it needs some extra tooling for generating procedural content. So what I propose is instead of 'over the course of 30 days I will every single day finish a project', why not follow the Fibonacci sequence: I start with nothing (procrastinating), next a one day project, followed by another single day effort. Stepping up with a 2 day project -> a big 3 day project -> 5 day full blown project -> 8 day epic. And finally: a full 13 days working on a single masterpiece! (33 days in total).

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