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Picking up a copy for the girlfriend. Thanks 🙏
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They probably think the same of us tbh
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Yes, coordination based crypto implementing Robin Hanson like thought experiments is something I’d love to see more of: prediction markets, impact markets, etc.
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I just won $5 to be healthy fuck yeah
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congratulations to last week’s challenge winners: 🥇 vasanthi 🥈 @kuririn 🥉 @jeffzh4ng 🎉🥳🎊
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gm farcaster
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If I apply for a Farcaster job I'll make sure to answer with HATEOAS sir
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If you concur, realize that cats on browsers happened in 1995, whereas the first analog computers were started in 1930's. Take Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer for example. The epitome is Babbage's Difference Engine which took too long and eventually funding was dropped.
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A second line of thinking I enjoy is for one to actually realize how long it took to get the Netscape moment, which is arguably when computing reached PMF. Harry Nyquist, a physicist at Bell Labs working on transmitting pictures by wire in 1918 called "telephotography" !
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*If* decentralized money and social media takes off, and someone in the 30th century studies the 2000's and 2100's, don't you think building protocols which reach the money and human layer would be more complicated than anything prior? Everything is inherently political.
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The computer and internet was more difficult than the telephone. You're implementing a reprogrammable Turing Machine via von Neumann architecture, and building a reliable communications network.
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The telephone was more difficult than the telegraph. Conveying sound required more control, feedback, and modulation. The overton window had to be convinced to remember phone numbers.
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The telegraph was more difficult than the semaphore. It required repeaters and circuits rather than simple fire.
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Cross posting from the bird app. Here are some thoughts on the future of protocols for decentralized money and social:
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Congrats young blood. Make sure you get out as well 🤝
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Looks like those would be ISAAC and Fortuna.
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welcome sir
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Maybe they capture some subset of Twitter's graph that wants to flee from Elon. But are they going to offer any net new 0->1 capabilities over the old paradigm?
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I think I'm going to implement MT19937, RC4, and ChaCha20, and then attack the first two. Currently wondering if I should do more with stream ciphers, or just move on to studying block ciphers (DES/AES).
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Any cryptographers here on farcaster paying attention to any of the new stream ciphers from eSTREAM's call in 2004-2008?
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