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541.
by 21 8y ago
Someone who wants to steal crypto for example. Being able to inject a crypto stealer in a major distribution surely motivates a lot of people to try.
542.
by 21 8y ago
You're German. Do you think that the reunification was a mistake? It cost the west side a trillion.
543.
by 21 8y ago
Maybe, but at the same time, a bigger country is always better. Splitting Italy into two would be worse long term for both halfs. You have the same talk in US, that California and New York pay all the taxes and carry on their back other &qu
544.
by 21 8y ago
Getting hacked, even if you were negligent, is not yet really a crime. Insider trading is.
545.
by 21 8y ago
You lack imagination. If Facebook offers Coinbase tomorrow 100 billion dollars, they won't sell?
546.
by 21 8y ago
Like cigarette bans?
547.
by 21 8y ago
The article explains it very well why: > "To prevent a dangerous increase in the proportion of Jews, I know at present only one way, which is at the same time straightforward and effective,” wrote A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s presi
548.
by 21 8y ago
People are always shocked at the stupid mistakes that big criminal masterminds make. Like the Silk Road guy, "how could he possibly ask on stack overflow using his real name". And so on. There are ten thousands different mistakes
549.
by 21 8y ago
There was serious talk about introducing this in civil planes too: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304791204576402...
550.
by 21 8y ago
Not an expert, but in military planes there are systems which kick in exactly when the plane is outside it's normal regime. Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZGL7RQBVw
551.
by 21 8y ago
https://twitter.com/dgwbirch/status/1010606861740101632
552.
by 21 8y ago
> What possible benefit could there be to storing my secrets in a public blockchain rather than private storage? I only see downsides. This is why you are poor. You wrap this in an ICO and easily make a million dollars.
553.
by 21 8y ago
I've been following bitcoin since 2012 and that is also my observation. It was always dollar is worthless and bitcoin is going to replace it, and drugs and assassination markets will run in the open fueled by bitcoin, no taxes will be
554.
by 21 8y ago
A funny related comic: https://mrcihandemir.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/wp-14894873...
555.
by 21 8y ago
Anyone watched the recent cluster-fuck that was internet sleuths solving the murder of XXXTentacion?
556.
by 21 8y ago
Since at least half of US seems to want to abolish immigration control, has any software developer considered illegally crossing from Mexico, or just overstaying a tourist visa? What would happen? Do software companies hire illegal migrants
557.
by 21 8y ago
Interesting thought in the article: > If the crew goes rogue, the people back on Earth might have no idea. Some degree of eavesdropping on the crew might be necessary.
558.
by 21 8y ago
Ok, let's go with that. How many of your friends would associate with the drug economy? Would you tell your employer that your are associated with that? And I'm talking about dealing drugs, not about smoking a joint which is socia
559.
by 21 8y ago
Let's assume that the axiom is true, and despite bitcoin being declared illegal by all jurisdictions, people still use it. What do you think it's market cap will be? What number of people will willingly use an illegal good with ha
560.
by 21 8y ago
Quote from the article: > You can load in tons and tons of demographic data, and it’s disturbing when you see percent black in a zip code and percent Hispanic in a zip code be more important than borrower debt-to-income ratio when you ru
561.
by 21 8y ago
https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2017/12/29/future-fintech... I do remember it being longer, they mention this is an except, maybe I've read the original which I can't find now.
562.
by 21 8y ago
To the designers at Apple any sort of hole is like a disease that needs to be fix.
563.
by 21 8y ago
Because anything put on a screen makes it look like shit to me. I didn't pay that much money on a top of the line phone only to make it look like a low-end one. I don't understand people with screen protectors. Unless they plan on
564.
by 21 8y ago
There was another article recently which argued that because there is a strong correlation between race and default rates, if you apply machine learning to a dataset, the algorithm will find a way to extract what is basically a proxy for th
565.
by 21 8y ago
Without full disk encryption with key/password a login is not that much more secure than automatic login.
566.
by 21 8y ago
All the professionals use the S&P 500 index. The Dow Jones index is used only by the popular non-financial press.
567.
by 21 8y ago
At some point the rocket is out of water.
568.
by 21 8y ago
It's still better to delete the message than to leave it there "because you can't guarantee it 100% either way". Defense in depth.
569.
by 21 8y ago
I think I have the same problem. I used to be very good at google-fu, but now I can't find anything any more. The neural networks just reinterpret my carefully designed keywords and return back the popular results that I try to filter
570.
by 21 8y ago
In the picture from the article I see what is basically a lot of swamp around Facebook. If they were allowed to build let's say 10 20 story buildings there would be no need to evict current renters.

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