giaour

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by giaour 4y ago
> It's likely that something similar will develop in crypto scams. Disagree with your use of the future tense here. NFTs were Nigerian prince emails from the beginning.
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by giaour 4y ago
Given how many hands your average bill has passed through, that sounds extremely unhygienic. I'd rather use a tulip!
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by giaour 4y ago
There were billions of dollars funding work on paid network traffic prioritization in the 90s and early 2000s. Then the whole field was banned in 2005, and it evaporated. The ban was lifted in 2008, then reapplied, then lifted again in 2014
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by giaour 4y ago
> Arbitration at the highest echelons of power is done with weapons True, there is an implicit threat of violence when parties interact at that level. But there is also a hope on both sides that if all the rules are followed, violence wi
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by giaour 4y ago
I was young at the time, but this doesn't match my recollection. Everybody thought businesses whose value was measured in "eyeballs" were scams, but the internet was well established in industry, government, and academia. Yah
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by giaour 4y ago
So it was the world that failed crypto, not the other way around? The purity of your faith is impressive.
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by giaour 4y ago
I believe we're seeing the end of "retail crypto." Just like agricultural futures, crypto will continue to exist but will mostly be known outside of institutional trading as a good way to lose your shirt. As far as underlying
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by giaour 4y ago
Teams at Amazon do their own hiring, so you're not really asking for special treatment there (at least as far as interviewing for team X, Y, or Z). The interviews will be leetcode and behavioral questions, though.
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by giaour 4y ago
> In the conventional financial system, the public sees a slice of that reward through taxation. The same is not true of cryptocurrency, so why use everyone else's tax dollars to regulate it? You should maybe run that past a tax att
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by giaour 4y ago
I work on an open-source project for Microsoft, and I review and merge community PRs all the time. Nobody pays for the product I work on (or for C# or TypeScript, for that matter). The Contributor License Agreement used on all MSFT open sou
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by giaour 4y ago
Do you feel the same way about violent crime? I.e., if a person through their own stupidity or naivete puts themselves in a position where they become a victim of armed robbery/assault/murder/rape, did they get what they dese
552.
by giaour 4y ago
It's one thing to have complex payment instruments where innocent mistakes are reversible. Having them in a world where everything is permanent is another situation entirely.
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by giaour 4y ago
Users might think to themselves, I give my credit card number to all kinds of sites; how is this any different? The internet has kind of conditioned all of us to be OK with passing around complex payment instruments without paying too much
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by giaour 4y ago
You must also report to work daily in a rabbit mask. Welcome to the future.
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by giaour 4y ago
At that point, you're like 95% of the way to reinventing temp agencies.
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by giaour 4y ago
How do you prevent someone from buying a new identity? In the future you describe, there will surely be a market for an internet profile corresponding to a mid-level programmer. If everything is based on task work, a competent developer cou
557.
by giaour 4y ago
Most work today requires some level of exposure to sensitive data of some kind, be it related to business strategy, company financials, or customer data. You're not getting access to that as some anonymous internet rando.
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by giaour 4y ago
That would still introduce an asymmetric work aspect (presuming that Pat's are cheap to verify, difficult to mint, and single use only). Many bot-based attacks in the wild today rely on the fact that it is much cheaper for a client to
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by giaour 4y ago
I don't think you can delete a posting once submitted. You can resubmit. Things end up under /ask if they have text rather than a link.
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Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall(nytimes.com)
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by giaour 4y ago
Pawn shop? Or maybe at a supervillain's lair, where sellers are known to accept briefcases full of gold. Usually you need to convert your gold to a legal tender currency in order to be able to spend it. You normally lose money on the c
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by giaour 4y ago
This probably isn't what you had in mind, but I found working for USDS (on projects for Medicare and CDC, mostly) fulfilling and sometimes exhilarating. Maybe what clicked with you about the CNG org you mentioned was its mission focus
563.
by giaour 4y ago
You need more levels for that. Resellers in the model described by the GP make their money by selling the product, not by recruiting more resellers.
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by giaour 4y ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper to run an emulated DOS box on modern hardware? I can't imagine an old 486 is very energy efficient.
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by giaour 4y ago
He could always temporarily disable location reporting, turn off his phone, or just not take it with him if he didn't want to be tracked during a certain time. There's no equivalent option with AirTags, since they use ambient devi
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by giaour 4y ago
Don't users have to opt in to Find Friends? There also feels like a huge difference between your personal device tracking you and that same device tracking anyone who happens to walk by. The dystopian aspect of AirTags is how they repu
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by giaour 4y ago
Coffeehouses, clubs (the kind Victorian gentlemen spent all day in), workshops for craftsmen
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by giaour 4y ago
I didn't realize that GH owned NPM. Still, I would expect policies on bans to be pretty different between the two given the different roles each org plays in the larger ecosystem. Microsoft has taken some fairly assertive political sta
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by giaour 4y ago
Take notes, even if you know you can remember the details without doing so. You can always search or refer back to your notes when you need to return to a topic, and I find that just opening the appropriate notebook jogs my memory
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by giaour 4y ago
Doesn't the responsibility for banning here lie with NPM? Who cares if this person can publish code to Github? The channel used to exploit trust was NPM, and I'd much rather see someone who engaged in software supply chain sabotag

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