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by big_youth 1mo ago
Our founding fathers addressed this: "What country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
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by big_youth 4mo ago
Rolex just launched a integrated bracelet model and Royal Oaks have been popular with celebrities for decades, that style is probably here to stay.
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by big_youth 4mo ago
They didn't really become a global power until recently. Even during my youth in the 2000's it was 'China is rising', 75 years ago they were extremely poor, mostly agrarian and recovering from decades of war and revoluti
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by big_youth 5mo ago
Record temp in austin is 112, and that was during that 2011 heat wave.
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by big_youth 5mo ago
The Resnicks: https://perfectunion.us/how-this-billionaire-couple-stole-ca... .
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by big_youth 5mo ago
debugging code. I had some issue so I create a plan to root cause that would run the code, change some functions or variables and run again until we get a confirmed answer. I just work up to that very workflow this morning. I ran last night
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by big_youth 5mo ago
I worked for Coinbase. Brian won't even speak more to this to the company. He led by twitter post. I was there for 4 years (thanks to a great manager) but Brian was one of the worst leaders I've ever experienced.
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by big_youth 7mo ago
How would cyber/AI security survive in a world where AI can do software development? I'm not a LLM bull but I am a security engineer and it's already very good, I don't see how this field could possibly continue if it ad
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by big_youth 8mo ago
They are both true? Between the ultra rich and the elderly there are scraps for everyone else.
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by big_youth 8mo ago
They did something, how else could the son flex watches worth 6 figures.
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by big_youth 8mo ago
Kids in the 90's would have had long fruitful careers making much more than the median american for relatively easy and stable work.
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by big_youth 9mo ago
That markets been slaughtered for a while. Pretty much every big tech company has built up strong internal security teams and automated as much as possible. Look up what happened to NCC Group post Matasano acquisitions, I joined within a ye
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by big_youth 9mo ago
Yes and Yes. I was suprised walking around the DefCon CTF room lat year and half the screens were AI chats of some sort.
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by big_youth 10mo ago
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by big_youth 10mo ago
> TikTok is an American company with American employees All tiktok code is written by ByteDance engineers in china. Context for the non-beleivers. I work on the TikTok USDS team.
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by big_youth 1y ago
I'm sorry but I'm big into crypto and have never seen a contract like that deployed in the wild. And I actually use crypto for payments more than most people. I used some just last week to buy a replica rolex from a chinese dealer
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by big_youth 1y ago
Current Oracle CEO Safra Catz lives in Palm Beach and is a frequent visitor to Mar-a-lago. She is actually a big Israel supporter, visiting and donating money often.
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by big_youth 1y ago
> I thought this was common knowledge on HN? Just as an aside but I would never say this, this is why people hate security teams. I'm a security 'expert' with 15+ years in the industry including speaking at DEFCON, Blackha
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by big_youth 2y ago
> If you spend more time proving your optimization of a cryptographic algorithm is not vulnerable to timing attacks than you do writing the code, I don't think any of my observations here are going to be useful to you. I am not a so
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by big_youth 2y ago
>We’ve been getting far too much money, for far too long. In normal office jobs, it takes a lifetime of sacrifices to get to higher pay grade. I don't understand this mindset. We should all support our working class brothers to get
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by big_youth 3y ago
The devs can change anything, it's just software. As long as miners, which are extremely centralized, agree it's the new chain. I was a part of the bitcointalk forums in 2010 when the dev team created a soft fork that modified the
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by big_youth 3y ago
Let me get this right, your argument is that miners are better than manufacturing or smelting? So that's how mining is beneficial to the energy grid. You bitcoin clowns are really on something. Did you read a single article. Bitcoin mi
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by big_youth 3y ago
Why not hire Americans? I went to a no name state school with a large CS class. Sure we're not MIT/Stanford quality (well many where) but plenty of talent to go around. Whether they want to work for your wages is the real issues.
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by big_youth 3y ago
Bitcoin mining benefiting the energy grid is an absurd statement. I live in Texas and the bitcoin mines are messing up our grid by making energy more expensive during heatwaves and freezes and when shutdown we have to pay them! https:&#x2F
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by big_youth 4y ago
> 1. They hack computers not code. Their normal plan is to steal keys by compromising users and computers. This is in contrast to the normal "hack" that works by finding and exploiting bugs in code. I'm just a 'regula
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by big_youth 4y ago
I'm no economist but my understanding is that even though we are printing money like MMT advocates, we are not implementing any of the policy decisions to combat inflation. Namely large tax increases on ultra rich. Since we've sta
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by big_youth 5y ago
Depends, a non technical friend of mine asked me about polygon because their favorite artist was mining NFT's. The coinbase -> metamask -> mint process was less than .25cents
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by big_youth 5y ago
>At Google scale this becomes very costly They made $24 billion in profit in Q4 alone.[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/technology/google-alphabe...
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by big_youth 5y ago
Blockchain analytics are a big sector. Companies like Coinbase and Binance have spent billions acquiring blockchain analytics firms. Additionally, I think there is big money in selling blockchain analytics to governments for the money laund
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by big_youth 5y ago
Yes, third generation Native with a house in urban Austin but currently near the Guadalupe Mountains out west. I know reddit isn't representative of the state but both /r/austin and /r/texas have had this conversati

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