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by abalone 8y ago
Disliking short sellers is not the same as intent to defraud the public. Every CEO dislikes short sellers. Intent to commit fraud is absolutely the hardest part of this to prove.
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by abalone 8y ago
I'm saying the idea of just making a misstatement doesn’t necessarily rise to the level of fraud. You have to do something with intentionality. Oops, I mean I didn't say that. The head of the San Francisco SEC office did.
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by abalone 8y ago
I have been using scienter and intentionality interchangeably. I think it is you who is throwing around fancy-sounding terms like "legal interpretation" without really knowing what they mean. Again, every CEO dislikes short seller
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by abalone 8y ago
You inserted "intent". That is the key question, not whether he dislikes short sellers. Every CEO dislikes short sellers, and nearly every CEO makes "material misstatements" now and then. What separates that from fraud i
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by abalone 8y ago
If you're implying they secretly disabled iMessage encryption for the China locale: No Friggin Way. That would be discovered and publicized instantly.
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by abalone 8y ago
> He clearly wanted to pump up the stock price and screw short sellers (he threw lots of indicators in the public space), and his statement was clearly and knowingly false. There was no secured funding. No this is not textbook at all.
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by abalone 8y ago
Nah, it's clear Musk hates short sellers. That's not the issue. Nor is his desire to hurt them. The question is whether he had scienter when misstating the finality of the deal he was negotiating.
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by abalone 8y ago
This is a massive oversimplification. Musk may be in peril but this is not as cut-and-dried a case of fraud like you make it seem. Consider this recent comment from the SEC: “When you talk about fraud,” [Jina Choi of the SEC] answered, “yo
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by abalone 8y ago
Also several of the iCloud services are E2E encrypted and designed to withstand adversarial clouds. They talked about it at Blackhat.[1] Doesn't help things like mail or photos, of course, but it is extremely notable in the China conte
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by abalone 8y ago
Very often conservatives will tell "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" stories that worked for them. But there are literally tens of millions of people in Pakistan who cannot even afford the plane tickets yet along the other cos
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by abalone 8y ago
That is actually a very popular opinion, and also very poorly informed. Your reasoning is entirely anecdotal and a trivial exercise in confirmation bias. Here's one article (among many) exploring why "Seattle's homeless popul
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by abalone 8y ago
> Yes, one could prewarm N instances by sending N parallel requests every 5 minutes. Uhh.. you’re just speculating here right? I seriously doubt Lambda spins up a whole new container for every single “parallel” request in a short burst
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by abalone 8y ago
Two things. 1- It's amazing that Java has the fastest cold start time! Faster than Nodejs.[1] That's exactly the opposite of what I've heard before. 2- I am so tired of hearing about cold start times for dormant apps as if th
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by abalone 8y ago
Doesn't link to the study. Why is there no mention of taxis? Clearly if people are ridesharing instead of taking public transit, that's less efficient. But ridesharing is vastly more efficient than how it used to be with taxi hail
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by abalone 8y ago
Levine’s stuff is great but this one conflates strictness with complexity . You could have simple regulation which is harsh on banks.
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by abalone 8y ago
There’s just no way failing to catch 100% of malware in the App Store review process constitutes criminal liability. The TOS you agree to explicitly absolve Apple of liability, and it’s an unreasonable expectation as well. It’s the safest s
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by abalone 8y ago
> This is terrible but blaming WhatsApp is misplaced. If it wasn't WhatsApp, it would have been another service. I feel this is a worthwhile piece. It spends considerable time exploring the issues of end-to-end encryption and enha
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by abalone 8y ago
> Apple clearly states in the press and in advertising that the app store is the only way to get apps that are assured to be safe. Citation or it didn't happen. No way Apple has "assured" anyone that the app stores are 1
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by abalone 8y ago
That a misconfigured Singaporian banking site is the worst example in the world anyone can come up with is perfect evidence that the apoplectic reactions are unwarranted, like so many over the history of changes like this in our industry. A
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by abalone 8y ago
Are you ok, man? Peering through the pseudo-intellectual smokescreen the only thing approaching a concrete example of a problem is the claim that this UI change "breaks DNS", which is trivially false. No real world examples are ci
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by abalone 8y ago
> I'm noticing despite the invocation of vague concepts of progress and usability... you haven't articulated any particular case for how this represents either. I literally began my comment by citing this: ‘As an ISP, we ofte
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by abalone 8y ago
I agree with the first sentence. MacOS has hidden extensions for... ever? And MacOS is generally considered the easiest to use and most secure desktop OS. So there you go.
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by abalone 8y ago
I appreciate your effort but I have to say, none of those are would remotely constitute usability improvements for the average user. Your proposals all involve increasing the complexity of the information presented to the user. This has b
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by abalone 8y ago
You begin by criticizing those who would over-generalize, and then proceed to over-generalize by complaining about some SSL stuff. Again this is "the principle of it all" argumentation that doesn't cite any actual concrete re
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by abalone 8y ago
If this is the worst example anyone can come up with, debugging a misconfigured site while relying exclusively on screenshots of beautified URLs, then I think it proves my point. There will always be tradeoffs in advancing usability. This i
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by abalone 8y ago
Again you are shamelessly arguing "the principle of it all" without actual real world examples of problems.. Cite some real problems and we can have a more productive discussion. It doesn't help to falsely equate hiding &quot
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by abalone 8y ago
And how does this break SNI? It's just a UI change.
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by abalone 8y ago
The comment you are responding to (mine) literally cites this answer: "As an ISP, we often have to go to great lengths to teach users that 'www.domain.com' and 'domain.com' are two different domains" It takes o
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by abalone 8y ago
> What exactly is the usability improvement from hiding part of the domain name? Quite simply the www subdomain is confusing and unnecessary. See comment from the ISP admin I cited re: user training. > Maybe we should be hiding &qu
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by abalone 8y ago
FWIW the Chromium agrees that 2 and 3 are bugs and will fix them.[1] 1 is by design though. Remember that they are only partially hidden; when you focus on the address bar it reveals the true address. [1] https://bugs.chromium.or

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