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by anf 9y ago
Or the coin-holders. Folks who invest their money and then get scammed by folks who hide behind donations tend to put their money somewhere else next time. Short term win for some kids can mean a long term loss for everyone. Look past your
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by anf 9y ago
So the same people who could potentially be victims of fraud will now be recovering their investment from school children. Keeping it classy, crypto.
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by anf 9y ago
> I know what they trained on because it's been reported on. What reason do you have to think their data set consisted of only what has been reported? How do you know anything about the models they used?
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by anf 9y ago
How do you know what CA trained on, or what's possible? Do you have qualifications in ML?
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by anf 9y ago
> It's arguable whether they should be allowed to keep those insights, but there's no privacy risk there really. So if Google has distilled someone's emails over the years into "closeted homosexual with a deeply repre
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by anf 9y ago
Billions of USD in digital coins they themselves created, right? So this $29M came from the shareholders, or from the coin-holders?
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by anf 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(company)#Funding Are they profitable? How can this kind of thing be justified to shareholders?
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by anf 9y ago
Right. I was commenting on the former, not the latter. Per the other example — haven't heard of Bret's story, but if your career is "ruined" by showing up on a day anyone decides whites aren't welcome, seems safe to
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by anf 9y ago
A Premium Enterprise support Platinum Plan for $500/mo can be a big seller and allegedly the minimum expense report you can file in some large orgs [1]. 1. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-sa
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by anf 9y ago
If you don't want things you post screen-shot-ed and re-pasted, don't post them on the internet under your real name?
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by anf 10y ago
Sounds like "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" syndrome [1] :-) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgEvjW1Pq4I
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by anf 10y ago
Can you clarify? I thought "nation state" was a fancy way of saying "country". Does it have a more specific meaning? Edit: wikipedia to the rescue! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state#United_K
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by anf 10y ago
> Some authors fear that technology will result in a radical concentration of wealth, the like of which we have never seen… while a few people will be super wealthy, all of us will slowly starve. Except that fewer people than ever in his
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by anf 10y ago
Oy, give it a break. Not everything is about this election, and you can't just blame the internet for it. Yes, the internet allows people to be mis-informed if they don't care for being informed. Still, not being connected at all
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by anf 10y ago
It happens to IT professionals, as well. "Shit, I just gotta get this done, let's do it like this and re-evaluate later". Look at the $10k bounties on hackerone.com -- many bugs are clearly from people who are not operating a
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by anf 10y ago
In other words "not end-to-end, but encrypted on all hops for most messages". Is there any evidence of email being intercepted by anyone who would wish to do anyone harm that isn't a public adversary of western intelligence?
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by anf 10y ago
> Computer security is a black hole that will consume ever increasing amounts of money, memory, and cpu cycles, forever. What a waste. That is defeatist and false. Computer security done intelligently can raise the cost of an attack abov
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by anf 10y ago
All of these sounds like surmountable engineering challenges that one should have weighed when evaluating the data layer. "You don't own your data" is downright false -- you own it, you just don't host it. But do you eve
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by anf 10y ago
What are the legit reasons? Isn't it just reading and writing files to the Dropbox folder?
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by anf 10y ago
Couldn't satellites do this during the cold war? What's different?
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by anf 10y ago
Doesn't that depend what the representatives then do? Also, what about federal judges? None of those are democratically elected, and they get to interpret all the laws in ways that have great consequence. Hence, America's governme
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by anf 10y ago
Even if "coup" is the wrong word for it doesn't mean it was all kosher: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/30/major-new-brazil-events-...
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by anf 10y ago
How so?
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by anf 10y ago
That's because the NSA does a lot more thorough background checks and has a nation-centered mission, while Google hires people relatively unchecked and of all nationalities and all over the world.
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by anf 10y ago
For the purposes of an article like this, I don't think technical prowess would be very useful. He's providing an opinion informed by speaking with a variety of people with clearance speaking freely about their work. That's p
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by anf 10y ago
What qualifies someone to be "of note"?
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by anf 10y ago
How so? I'm sure he revealed exactly as much as he intended to by his surroundings. He's not exactly leaking classified info, just contributing a personal opinion.
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by anf 10y ago
Backwards compatibility is one thing, but maintaining access logs is a bit different.
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by anf 10y ago
I think turning the listener's stomach was very much the point. Not only did someone actually get murdered, but the criminal trial that followed it was horribly mis-managed on multiple fronts. The horror of an insane murderer is one th
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by anf 10y ago
Stop the crocodile tears. It doesn't matter if you're polite. You're engaging in the worst kind of rumor and FUD spreading possible, and you deserve to be down-voted for it. There are a million ways to talk about something wi

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