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Not everyone is a visionary builder. Often you really do just want 5 data points on whether A feels more right or B, or if there is some C you have not considered.
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Asking "do you agree with my opinion X" feels good in the moment: the other person is more likely to agree, as agreeing feels good. Asking "what do you think" without pre-supplying your take is riskier. But it's worth it, because you get more information, which is far more valuable than feeling good in the moment.
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To be fair, I think this depends on your priorities. I came at AA first and firemost from a "make multisig and social recovery and BLS wallets more viable" perspective, others focused more on paymasters.
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Protocol core devs are and have been super busy the last 1-3 years on the merge, EIP-4844, and client code firefighting. Were AA an EIP like verkle trees, I really do expect enshrinement would take almost as long, and we would not have been able to kick off an ecosystem for years longer.
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errr that sounds like the sort of bad pun that Justin Sun would make if he was in my place?
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I hear people wanted less serious content and more memes so I figured I might as well start with a bad pun more appropriate to 2016. Q: What seat number does Vitalik have on a plane? A:
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People who think AA is "just meta-transactions" are really underestimating the amount of deep thought that went into ERC-4337.
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Yoav talking about AA at EthSingapore. Really important discussion on why AA is NOT "just meta-transactions", and why the extra steps that ERC-4337 takes compared to more naive approaches are necessary if you care about decentralization.
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yeah I added all kinds of hardening to the account itself, and to various other apps
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I am for most things; I don't think that was an option at the time that I last changed my twitter settings.
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Anyway, glad to be on farcaster, where my account recovery can be controlled by a good wholesome ethereum address :)
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I don't remember when I *added* the number; my guess is that it was required to sign up for twitter blue.
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Main learning re twitter was: > A phone number is sufficient to password reset a Twitter account even if not used as 2FA. Can completely remove phone from Twitter. I had seen the "phone numbers are insecure, don't authenticate with them" advice before, but did not realize this
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Finally got back my T-mobile account (yes, it was a sim swap, meaning that someone socially-engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number).
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Same reason humans are. The gradient descent style of learning is not good at generating the kinds of highly structured algorithms that are needed to do arithmetic.
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Actually more Asians than Americans; Americans seem to have less interest in learning any new language at all.
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Work with Ameen Soleimani, Fabian Schär, Matthias Nadler and Jacob Illum on privacy and proof-of-innocence: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364
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I don't think the "public ledger" was ever about everyone's actions being public? As far as I can tell it was always about (i) the system of rules being transparent, so "the fed" can't inflate (ii) the ability to prove individual actions if you want to, whether for a single payment or to make your entire org open-book
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Huh, my experience is the exact opposite. In some Latin American countries, lots of people barely speak English, whereas France doesn't have that problem.
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