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- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 day ago:
I’m sure, yes. If you submit to a public mempool, you have no guarantees that your two transactions will land on either side of the target transaction in the same block (They likely won’t). You need to leverage conditional transactions with MEV so you guarantee the miner will select and position your transactions where you need them. In this case, before and after the target transaction.
Check out the Ethereum Foundation’s page on MEV for more info.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 day ago:
Because it’s not the public mempool. It’s a private MEV mempool that people pay to add their transactions to for special priority or conditional inclusion. For instance, asshole profiteers can use it to sandwich attack traders to siphon off “market inefficiencies” or some people just want immediate front of the line inclusion in the next block.
Presumably they exploited something in this MEV system (completely unrelated to the Ethereum protocol) that allowed them to see the pool and they shouldn’t have. Wish I knew more but everything I read was incredibly vague and misleading.
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 1 day ago:
While highly abused, internships are narrowly defined by law as educational and not the same as volunteering. I’ve also never heard of high schools requiring them. Usually a requirement for some college/uni degrees.
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 1 day ago:
At some point workers need to stand up to themselves.
But really, everyone gets some blame. The “employers”, the workers, and the government that allows this kind of things to be legal.
- Comment on Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server 2 days ago:
Surely competition will make advertising better for consumers!
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 2 days ago:
Frustratingly vague for a Slashdot write-up.
“These brothers allegedly committed a first-of-its-kind manipulation of the Ethereum blockchain by fraudulently gaining access to pending transactions, altering the movement of the electronic currency, and ultimately stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency from their victims,” said Special Agent in Charge Thomas Fattorusso of the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) New York Field Office.
Good to know the prosecutors have an understanding of what they’re prosecuting… Not even a single mention of MEV in the DoJ press release.
- Comment on in search for a YouTube alternative to upload my video 2 days ago:
Streamable is decent and has no cruft.
- Comment on Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches 4 days ago:
Damn, wonder why ULA is up for sale. Boeing and Lockheed don’t want to play together anymore?
- Comment on Stand Up Comedy - A place for stand-up comedy videos, gifs (with audio,) news, and discussion. 1 week ago:
!standupcomedy@lemmy.world
- Comment on What if all the lightning on Earth struck the same place at once? 1 week ago:
Had no idea this YT channel existed. Pretty cool.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 week ago:
Might be a valid argument if China didn’t play currency games.
Also, the protectionist in me wants American heavy industry to continue to exist.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 week ago:
I think most proponents/engineers got distracted by number go up and forgot about the decentralization of the Web part. The little bits that are good about it just can’t seem to figure out the UX problem.
- Comment on "Severe geomagnetic storm" may hit Earth today: Everything you need to know 1 week ago:
Melanoman is here!
- Comment on Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide 1 week ago:
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- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 1 week ago:
The sound of an awoken brood looking to fuck is maddening and inescapable. I absolutely dread experiencing that again.
- Comment on It’s not impossible for someone to have heard about assguard, looked it up, and then realized it’s “Asgard”. 1 week ago:
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
Not sure I agree that it’s dystopian. Imagine how much less waste there would be. People with less crowded storage/garages/houses with less junk they use rarely. Like, I have this scroll saw I’ve used for like one project. Why the fuck do I own this thing?
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 week ago:
If buying things from pieces of shit means we should get fucked by them, then all we would do is get fucked by pieces of shit.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 1 week ago:
That one (assuming it’s the same as your memory) was basically just a concave dome and you wore like socks. This seems pretty different.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 2 weeks ago:
This is the only explanation that spans parties and ideologies. Loosing this foothold would be detrimental to regional military and diplomatic influence.
- Comment on A sign of late stage capitalism? 2 weeks ago:
Less of a sign of late stage capitalism and more of a sign of Cthulhu’s return.
- Comment on If you take care of your parents or other elderly, how are you preparing to age gracefully? 2 weeks ago:
I’m mostly hoping I can figure out suicide before dementia. That’s no way to go out.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 2 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?
I’d consider signed agreements as part of the “being deployed” process but yeah, I haven’t been able to find evidence of any currently active deployments. I wouldn’t call it a “moonshot” though when there’s so many in the works is all.
Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that’s (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 2 weeks ago:
I first learned about it with this project in Butte, Montana, which is in development. They also have a page describing a deployment in Saskatchewan. I don’t know if this was completed yet but it’s been in progress for years. There’s also a lot of other planned deployments I’m finding.
I thought I saw some active deployment on the east coast last time I looked into this but haven’t been able to immediately find an example. Either way, it’s at least in progress, has regulatory backing, and is not just imaginary.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a moonshot at all. Checkout these eVinci microcreactors by Westinghouse. They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the country. They’re modular too so you just add more to scale. Pretty wild.
- Comment on This Texas veterinarian helped crack the mystery of bird flu in cows 2 weeks ago:
Sure kind of sounding like this is inevitable.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but imagine how much better air travel would be if you could just play with dogs the whole time.
- Comment on Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine 2 weeks ago:
Their first privacy iteration was that they people looking at your naked body would be hiding in some back room and would indicate to the gate agents there was something to look for. I still kind of assume that’s the case (article doesn’t go into it). Seems like it would be more accurate than software.
- Comment on CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences 3 weeks ago:
It’s the music industry. Probably 50% lawyers.