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by gitfan86 5y ago
The awkward piece is that copyright laws are enforceable. You don't own a picture unless you own the copyright. Eventually someone will buy an NFT, get it verified by Twitter and then have it taken down because they don't own the
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by gitfan86 5y ago
They also do a lot of reselling. They will pitch some sort of cyber security upgrade to their client and after the client signs they will ask Akamai to onboard that client
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by gitfan86 5y ago
As someone who grew up poor, but is now not poor, this is what I want for my kids. Taking on projects that they find interesting and challenging, and sharing it with the world. I will be very sad if my kids end up doing nothing with their l
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by gitfan86 5y ago
This is generally called an existential crisis.[1] Being rich and privileged can actually cause this to happen. If you are poor you really don't have the time and energy to worry about the meaning of life because you are focused on not
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by gitfan86 5y ago
"profiteering". Are you suggesting that most people don't think that businesses that use public assets like the sky shouldn't be able to make a profit? Airlines, Airports, Cell Phone companies that use public radio waves
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by gitfan86 5y ago
And you are asking people in rural areas to give up cheap/fast internet access without compensating them for that loss.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
So are bugs and birds and planes and dust particles and uneven temperature gradients, that all have to be corrected for already when you use ground based telescopes.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
You don't reach the top levels of government and media by having real world experiences. You get to top levels by playing the networking and politics game.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
FTA: "30% to 50% of the exposures around twilight" So the rest of the night it is collecting data. Sounds like ground based detection will work just fine even with more satellites in orbit.
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If only someone was trying to build a spaceship company that could launch massive payloads everyday.
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The whole point of SpaceX is to make the cost of payload to orbit 1000x cheaper. At that point you can build a much better monitoring system that isn't dealing with the atmosphere.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
Because air seems clear people don't realize that using a telescope from sea level is like adding a layer of ice to your windshield while driving.
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The ironic thing would be if we detected a large asteroid and had no way of deflecting it in time because we had shutdown SpaceX in an attempt to better find smaller asteroids.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
I'm advising people at the executive level. They do not care about the details of hashing PII, they want to know how likely it is that they will be targeted and how likely that attack is to succeed. And the fact is that an insurance co
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by gitfan86 5y ago
People generally don't understand how vast the difference is. The pro crypto narrative has pushed the idea that "Blockchain is more secure" because "it cannot be edited" when in reality that feature makes it much mo
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by gitfan86 5y ago
I am a cyber security consultant for startups. The first thing that I communicate is that just by not being in crypto you have drastically lowered your risk profile. Attackers care a lot about what they can get to if they are able to breach
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by gitfan86 5y ago
No one should be suggesting that 100% of crypto is a scam and that there will never be anything useful in the crypto space. Vitalik seems the be operating with best of intentions and IMO the threat of decentralized money has already effecte
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by gitfan86 5y ago
As an employee I continued to run into people assuming I should be available from 9-5 and that I should take a similar number of vacation days as the rest of the team. It seems like there was always some resentment toward the guy who leaves
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The alternative is that you can download the autonomous software and start using without any network connectivity. But what happens when JD discovers a problem with the software? How do they force you to upgrade your software? What happens
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Fraud means that you lied for personal gain. There is more evidence of her lying directly to investors than to patients.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
BTC is used for bypassing government controls (drugs, money laundering, currency export controls, remittance) There will most likely be demand for that in the future. I'm not saying anyone should invest in crypto, I'm just saying
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by gitfan86 5y ago
Right, and public ledgers, digital money, smart contracts will be used by the people in the future, but BTC and ETH prices are as important as WebVan/Pets.com stock prices for that to happen.
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by gitfan86 5y ago
It is exactly the same situation as the Dot Com bubble. Enormous amounts of money and hype are being poured into a new promising technology. So you end up with people convincing themselves that WebVan and Pets.com will be the future of groc
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by gitfan86 5y ago
HN isn't being criticized for being wrong, but for being too critical and too partisan. That kind of proves that there is no substance behind Web3, other than a hype train, saying that the technology will be useful someday. "get i
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by gitfan86 5y ago
So what you are suggesting is that the bank has full root privileges to change credentials associated with an account. What is the point of having a decentralized database if the bank can change ownership of accounts as they see fit?
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This was the crypto pitch for several years except it was for supply chain. "You can't hack the database!!" that didn't work out either because it doesn't stop someone from putting incorrect data into a database reg
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The two-sided market is the big deal here. Imagine that you are a bank or online market place. What are you going to do when one of your top customers shows up and says that they lost their account keys? Are you going to explain that losing
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You may want to look up how often these "quite sophisticated and nuanced theories" are accurate. https://www.economist.com/economic-and-financial-indicators/...
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No money doesn't have positive cashflow, that is why it is a stupid investment.
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Yes, I agree, this can go on forever. "DeFi", "web3", and then something else

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