arlcode

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by arlcode 4y ago
Well, someone develops software for nukes, citizen surveillance systems, fraud schemes and technologies for scamming people out of their retirement savings. If you consider mechanical and chemical engineering there are also people who devel
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by arlcode 4y ago
So no one profits from TC financially at all? The people who did deploy the contracts did it out of the goodness of their hearts? that seems..odd.
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by arlcode 4y ago
It seems unlikely that Russia would send any meaningful amount of gas anytime soon. Nord Stream 1 is operating at 10% (with a bunch of nonsense given as reasons) and while they wanted NS2 in the beginning, they are now asking for the sancti
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by arlcode 4y ago
The power of law comes from the ability, to confiscate things, kick in doors and arrest people. Usually there is some social consensus such that most comply anyway most of the time. This is true and always and trumps whatever your software
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by arlcode 4y ago
Interesting. Do you know of any examples of such services that would only be attractive for Chinese customers? I'd guess these would mostly not relate to physical products but services that somehow interact with Chinese bureaucracy?
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by arlcode 4y ago
I sometimes wonder what kind of cultural difficulties Chinese companies face when they start operating in "The west" Perhaps not getting the results they want because they don't phrase issues bluntly enough (pure speculation
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by arlcode 4y ago
Probably not because a) he doesn't operate, market or deploy nmap in most instances. Doesn't consult or gives input at all. b) He doesn't receive fees from using nmap on an ongoing basis c) Nmap doesn't fall under financ
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by arlcode 4y ago
If they did that probably doesn't matter. "I built a bomb I can't disarm" is not a credible defense. It'll be especially nasty if they profited from the service after throwing away the keys and "learning"
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by arlcode 4y ago
At least 2013 put probably for much longer. https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/
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by arlcode 4y ago
Manufacturers carry liabilities for the products the make all the time. That's true for consumer products and even more significant for things like guns. In most places you're a not even allowed to manufacture guns not to speak of
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by arlcode 4y ago
Tornado cash could have (for example) implemented AML or KYC policies to achieve the same without coming under the suspicion of assisting criminals. Given the high data protection requirements warranted by operating a financial service, use
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by arlcode 4y ago
Assuming he had some later money (in the Blockchain) that's maybe "just" a few dozen / hundred million worth. That's plenty money for one person without the liability and the publicity. You can live a life in pure l
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by arlcode 4y ago
As a dev, what would be my motivation to support items from other games in my own game. It seems like I would focus on creating items myself and selling them to players, since I can't profit from them otherwise. Unless there is an afte
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by arlcode 4y ago
Hearing it this way reminds me of parallels to the real world. Each modern military war is also an economic war between the belligerents economies to sustain the fighting. So in a way spending 10$ to shoot a missile and going on "war e
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by arlcode 4y ago
In this case you are technically not even allowed to check it out in most jurisdiction. No license means no rights.
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by arlcode 4y ago
If the costs per ride are higher than the fare, it doesn't matter how many they do. In the end they have to pay for all the maintenance and initial purchase of the vehicle as well even if they manage to put those on the driver's a
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by arlcode 4y ago
Even most people being born richer than him and why happen to have a better relationship with the family wealth don't become billionaires not to speak of the richest person on the planet. So he definitely has some skills in leading bus
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by arlcode 4y ago
Twitter is sueing for specific performance (aka pay up the full price) and argues that Elon's funding by banks is still comitted and must be used to buy Twitter at 54.40 a share. IANAL but this court already did enforce similar contrac
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by arlcode 4y ago
None of my tweets ever got a bot reply. Now that is most likely because they are all about very local topics or things related to my specific field of work. They are also not very popular (a handful of retweets) and mostly cater to people I
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by arlcode 4y ago
Very unlikely for him to deliberately destroy Twitter. Most of the deal is financed by banks and they have a vested interest in Twitter having at least a shot at being more valuable or profitable. He is but it with cash but (mostly) not his
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by arlcode 4y ago
Yes but the argument would (perhaps) be that they didn't actually agree to the implementation (including bugs) but rather to the intended/advertised functionality
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by arlcode 4y ago
Contracts are invalidated all the time. If they do that and if they get hold of the individual (or their assets) the court can force compliance in the usual ways. "I can't access it and never will be able to" is not a believa
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by arlcode 4y ago
Because their loved ones, or peers or Facebook advertisement told them it's safe and a good way to stick it to the man. Usually just depositing money in a bank doesn't get it stolen so the assumption isn't unreasonable. Even
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by arlcode 4y ago
Contracts (smart or not) cannot override the law. I'm not a lawyer but I would be very surprised if courts in most countries would buy this argument. Spelling or grammatical mistakes usually don't invalidate contracts in the real
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by arlcode 4y ago
That is right. For normal people the leverage comes mostly through market forces, consumer protection laws and regulations because then you are leveraging with your whole economy and sovereign power of your country. Not as good as individua
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by arlcode 4y ago
To be fair we don't hear about the lower classes in general. People who wrote the (history) books didn't bother and therefore historians and archeologist have not a lot to go by. Much of their everyday lives has to be pieced toget
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by arlcode 4y ago
I don't know that place either but with our local (very small) hackerspace, it's also the dedicated working space that is a major selling point. I would probably be able to afford most of the tools and machines I use on a regular
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by arlcode 4y ago
And that's why the road to a better software ecosystem is not some hackers smart trick to defeat the system for the moment but very clear rules of what is allowed to be done in the name of security and what isn't A legislative pie
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by arlcode 4y ago
There are tons of rules around these kind of robots in regular work environments for precisely this reason. Usually there need to be either a physical barrier like a cage or a virtual one like a laser waterfall that detects foreign objects
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by arlcode 4y ago
Well that is a possibility. There is a crucial difference. Unlike Google and Apple the German Autos employ a lot of Americans and pay quite some taxes in America (sometimes in structurally weak places). That gives them more leverage than th

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