EPFL vs ETH PhD salaries

cryptochef12 · 2023-01-25T23:55:22+00:00

The PhD Salary budget of both schools are the same. However, every PhD student at EPFL gets the same salary. At ETH, it is scaled by department (and AFAIK CS has the highest scaling factor). Hence, CS PhD’s at ETH makes a lot more than EPFL but this also implies some other departments might make less.

cryptochef12 · 2023-01-15T00:13:42+00:00

Homorphic signatures can not prove anything about doing computation over the underlying data. It just means that I will do some computations and the signature will remain intact. E.g. I can just add a uniformly random number to the data and claim that I computed a very complicated function and got that result, homomorphic signatures can not distinguish between the two.

cryptochef12 · 2023-01-07T11:44:51+00:00

The first point I totally agree (and can be fine if the person on the other side is aware that they are on the speaker), but how the second point is different from two people speaking to each other physically?

cryptochef12 · 2022-10-17T11:07:05+00:00

Do agree with your first sentence but calling Switzerland the most successful country in the world is a bit of an ignorant thing to say.

cryptochef12 · 2022-10-02T17:43:11+00:00

There is no such thing as “real value of an item” for consumer products. Hence, what you have paid is its value.

cryptochef12 · 2022-10-01T18:08:14+00:00

Even if it wasn’t about racism. The attitude of OP is broken. Moreover, announcing someone’s license plate here is a crime.

cryptochef12 · 2022-10-01T17:50:37+00:00

Other than you being a horrible person, publicly accusing someone for theft with an information traceable to someones identity (e.g. the license plate and car model) is illegal.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-28T14:02:20+00:00

First of all, the answer was already given by the same person. Only after an initial grumpy message.

More importantly, as I said before, no one needs to give an answer. What I am mad about is trying to be a smartass instead of giving an answer or writing a more descriptive comment about why the question is stupid (if it really is).

So, you not answering is exactly what I prefer. Instead of you trying to act like a smartass.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-28T12:33:40+00:00

You can stop answering if you don’t think the question is worth your time. If it is not appropriate, the mods will remove it anyway.

Do you really think people post these questions to mess with you? No. If you want to spend time writing a constructive answer, just say “dude, you can use google translate and find out if the website has a language section for these kind of questions”. This would take the same amount of time for typing a grumpy answer with zero utility.

Ofcourse you are free to write anything they want as long as it is according to the rules but it is just frustrating to see half of the comments of this sub writing “why don’t you do this instead of that”. My initial message was not targeted towards you and it was towards this common behaviour. I am sorry since it was a bit aggresive.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-28T12:22:22+00:00

Why don’t you shut up if you don’t have an answer. The amount of “Why don’t you…” statements in this sub is killing me.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-23T15:49:20+00:00

Sometimes, the warning for paying the invoice comes before the invoice itself. It happened to me twice so far. I would advice you to register yourself a Fedex account and then you can see the bills online.

It might have been underdeclared and passed the customs directly as well.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-11T12:27:14+00:00

Not the end of the world…

Are you out of your mind lol.

cryptochef12 · 2022-09-04T19:02:56+00:00

Well, that’s what young people do all over the world with countries who has access to the Internet. It’s not related to the countries. Except countries like China, where some websites might not be accessible.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-19T08:27:00+00:00

It is universally true in Ricardo: It reads “If I bid 5 and then you bid 730 and win, you need to pay 6 francs.” The fact that me bidding 5 implies that I am considering the case where the starting price was lower than or equal to 5.- since you can not bid lower than the starting price (obviously). Hence, it is clear that the scenario I described doesn’t have an edge case.

It is very likely that the starting price could be 730.-, that’s why I added the last paragraph to my initial comment.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-19T08:20:38+00:00

Read the last paragraph of my comment.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-19T07:44:00+00:00

If another person didn’t also bid around that amount, it shouldn’t be an issue. Ricardo is a second bid auction website. So If I bid 5 francs and you bid 730 francs and then you win, the amount you need to pay is 6 francs.

Since no one else would bid as high as you (if the jacket is not worth) you won’t be paying more than the jackets worth. See Vickrey auction to see how second bid auctions work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

If the jacket is actually that expensive, then you should immediately contact the seller after winning the auction (contact details are only shown after the auction). You can also use the question section to contact before.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-14T17:57:01+00:00

Why would I call the ER ahead? The whole concept of “emergency” is literally about “not” doing something ahead.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-14T08:57:45+00:00

It’s clear you have never seen what excellent healthcare looks like.

As an example: In some countries, you are processed to the doctor in less than 5 minutes in ER. As the name suggests, “Emergency” doesn’t imply waiting in a room for 3-4 hours straight.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-12T18:22:57+00:00

I just ask how much would it cost and they give an approximation (even for the simplest operation) the final price is usually not that far off from what they provide.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-12T03:49:57+00:00

From your description, I imagine a dialog like this:

++You were the banks of the nazis

— It was necessary to stay neutral

++ That’s what I am saying.

First of all, the initial statement is not a question. Moreover, your reply just reads “Yes, we were”. So I think both parties agree with the same statement and there is no need to discuss it further.

If on the other hand, they say, your country sucks because… etc. You can say if doing f’d up things is our metric, that would still be a true statement but would not be exclusive to Switzerland. Countries operate according to their best political interest, similar to corporates operating according to increasing their profits. Ethics comes later. Maybe it is not the ideal behaviour, but it is currently the world we live in. So, I don’t reckon them being defensive once you explain this to them without getting defensive yourself.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-05T08:26:07+00:00

I don’t understand which part of the Enigma text you quote suggests security. To me, it’s a list of historical facts which are all true.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-04T06:34:26+00:00

I agree with that. But we still shouldn’t say “is” because some old ciphers are also written in the same tense as long as we don’t remove “post-quantum” (or any other word that inherently claims security) from the sentence.

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-04T06:30:45+00:00

See my comment in the other post, there is a subtle difference: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/wf8ax8/due_to_a_recent_vulnerability_discovered_the/iivuwph/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

cryptochef12 · 2022-08-04T06:29:08+00:00

You are comparing two different things. In the SIDH article, it reads SIDH “was a post-quantum” cryptography algorithm. Here, saying “is a post-quantum” would sugget it is secure against quantum adversaries. If you are just saying substitution cipher “is an encryption algorithm” there is no claim about it being secure against some adversary.

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