Richard Carback

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We take privacy for granted

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I wrote a MSc. thesis about mempools, threshold decryption and VDFs btw https://blog.bbjubjub.fr/thesis.pdf

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Half a year on from my final and most hated blog post, have things changed? Unfortunately not, crypto remains among the most morally bankrupt industries, and far and away the worst I've personally participated in. Most people in this industry are perpetually in denial, with negligible effort to change things for a better culture. Yes, vile degeneracy has been temporarily muted relative to March 2024, but this is only because the shitcoins are down 99% since then. I see no evidence that any lesson has been learned, and the same pandemonium is very likely to repeat. Obviously, I still highly respect the 0.1% of this industry that's actually net positive for humanity, and needless to say, all of this is just my personal opinion. I still hope, one day, at least some of the remaining 99.9% of the industry will share those values.

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This resonates, I had hoped scams would die out as early as before the pandemic but at this point it’s resentment with only a glimmer of hope. The scams suck up all the air (and funds) from the folks trying to build.

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Any precedent set here will be used against other platforms. We should be extremely uncomfortable about this situation. We are violating the long-standing principle of going after the criminals and not the mediums they use. You can pretend that Signal/WhatsApp is somehow incapable of modifying their client to add monitoring, but they are definitely capable of monitoring usage and just choose not to record that metadata. Geopolitically this is an unprecedented, massive propaganda win for Russia. As they continue to suppress freedom at home, they can now credibly say they’re fighting to free him. Make no mistake, Telegram is harmful. They do not care about free speech or privacy for their users. Their business model exploits access to your messages. Just because a fascist regime enjoys special access does not mean you should join in the facism. It is as simple as “two wrongs do not make a right.”

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Assuming accurate reporting, we all need to condemn the recent arrest of Telegram’s #PavelDurov in France regardless of how you feel about him or Telegram. Refusing to moderate other’s speech is not terrorism. It is not conspiracy to commit a crime. Pavel’s arrest is a stain on the central fraternity between France and the US in supposedly being the world’s defenders of free speech and liberty. France is continuing an unfortunate tradition our governments have of ignoring our values whenever it is convenient. This is both wrong and short sighted. While I understand the “Telegram is not E2EE and gives full access to Russia” sentiment (e.g., https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/ ), I believe this is an L take. In this context, it is saying if you are capable of moderating then you should be required to do so per government orders.

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This crowdstrike crisis feels like a "we fired the guy who managed the tool/process that would have prevented this" situation 🤦‍♂️ My ❤️ goes out to all the IT folks out there dealing with this.

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436023-multiple-nations-enact-mysterious-export-controls-on-quantum-computers/ They’re starting to freak out, as they should

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The hackathon was 🔥

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A lot of these are my takeaways as well - there were a fair number of folks in suits from said institutions at the hackathon participating to learn My fav from one of them was a market simulator game using the Monte Carlo sim and formulas for you to bet where it might go next 😂

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Thanks to all who came by and said hi to my team and I at Consensus this year. We had a blast and are stoked to haven taken home the win for the sui track! https://youtu.be/x-OcnymwbOM?feature=shared https://github.com/Consensus-Hold-Em

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A Discipline of Programming - he's got a few more than that and they are all good - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1013817.Edsger_W_Dijkstra

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Not papers, but also: Djikstras algorithms books, the Anderson security engineering book, and John Carmack are also essential. There was a kotaku article about the doom3 source thats enlightening as to why: https://kotaku.com/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code-5975610

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Most foundational was Claude Shannon's Theory of Communications: https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf As a programmer specifically the Hoare paper on CSP: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359585

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What research paper has had the biggest impact on your career as a programmer?

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You can download the sound of the green line turning at Arlington and set it as your ringtone via this guys profile: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3GoWyDuhXa/?igsh=MWEyM3R3Z3BtYWt1Mg== His other stuff is hilarious as well.

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Hi All 👋 , I am here because of @erikudahl over at the boston DAO. I am a cryptographer that focuses on privacy preserving cryptography and cryptographically secured voting & governance systems. Happy to be here!

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