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by seebetter 6y ago
Also 58 now is not the same as 58 30 years ago. The state and change of culture and technology is quite different. I consider age like time an illusion. There’s biological considerations but I reject all the age cliches and sayings. Defy la
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by seebetter 6y ago
The tech who installed my Starry Internet said that they were going to offer Starlink next year in rural areas. Maybe he was confused but he was reasonably knowledgeable. We were specifically talking about Elon, Starlink and rural Internet
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by seebetter 6y ago
I know one person who runs tens of thousands of dollars via Venmo and other apps selling weed and hard drugs in SF. Of course, in SF I doubt they even have a law against selling drugs. Bad news travels fast, so there's lots of crimina
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by seebetter 6y ago
Porn sucks vs reality. And the general attitude that it is normal and healthy is probably wrong. The future of intimacy is human.
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by seebetter 6y ago
For drugs you must mean Venmo or Cash App, where orders of magnitude greater numbers of drugs are ordered.
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by seebetter 6y ago
I'm pretty sure he just had access to X.com, plus it's a cool domain. Is it really a strange fascination? I suppose it is if you follow the Dark Journalist's X series on Youtube. Some great mythical modern tales of fantasti
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by seebetter 6y ago
This is analogous to suggesting Elon should had skipped Zip2 and X.com/Paypal and went direct to building rockets. Ideally the lucky few who make a ton of cash on easy software apps etc should be using that capital to risk solving hard
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by seebetter 6y ago
We really need to define "many people". I try to avoid comments and papers like you referenced. They essentially represent the worst case scenario -- it's in the air, unkillable, easy to catch, victims never recover, you ma
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by seebetter 6y ago
It’s amazing that one company could control the hardware and universal functions like texting in such a restrictive hyper-capitalistic way. “You can write apps for our hardware but all your purchases we take 30%...” imagine Microsoft trying
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by seebetter 6y ago
“Mona Lisa was married to a slave trader” —- wasn’t exactly what I was thinking. How about the modern press where the elite members have ‘Au Pairs’ or underpay both legal citizens & undocumented workers to take care of their homes? The
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by seebetter 6y ago
> One in five North American-based corporations on the CNBC Global CFO Council says Chinese companies have stolen their intellectual property within the last year. In all, 7 of the 23 companies surveyed say that Chinese firms have stolen
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by seebetter 6y ago
>That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to a
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by seebetter 6y ago
As someone who sold Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins, and have 4 friends in federal prison (or detention), plus friends with millions in tainted BitCoin, this is not true. Almost all illegal bitcoin stolen by hackers and ransomware is cashed out in
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by seebetter 6y ago
It's called fraud. Or an aggressive business model that is fair only to the top 10% of customers who are not concerned with spending $250 per month in effective charges to have a wireless handheld computer with 4G.
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by seebetter 6y ago
Cue Inferior Construction. "A low level enforcement employee used unauthorized tools to locate our suspect. He has been reprimanded. However, once we surveilled the suspect we had the evidence to prove he was guilty unrelated to any p
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by seebetter 6y ago
It seems difficult to understand what caused the spike. I didn't even know bars were open. It seems hard to believe opening the bars was the primary cause. It also seems amazing that despite the nighttime protests/riots in Portl
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by seebetter 6y ago
That's analogous to saying, "For better or worse, you can look at Robinhood's stock price as an options contract on future insider trading." It's meaningless unless you consider wild west financial speculation and
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by seebetter 6y ago
Trade based money laundering is like 100x cryptocurrencies.
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by seebetter 6y ago
Something like 95%+ of bitcoin is related to financial speculation, investing, DeFi etc etc. An order of magnitude of more drugs are sold on Cash App and Venmo -- which is why they're in rap songs. As for large scale hacking, extortio
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by seebetter 6y ago
I asked my oncologists and urologists the same question, and they all gave me the same scripted answer. No one knew if vitamins could help my cancer. No one knew if I could affect my IGF1 levels by diet ("I don't know but I doub
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by seebetter 6y ago
I wonder how much the American TikTok app is based on Musical.ly? 50%? More or less?
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by seebetter 6y ago
The only one I know is- https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html
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by seebetter 6y ago
I've met Kevin Mayer and have two friends (one a roommate) who worked closely with him. There are some people who operate in life like an automaton or an NPC. They're completely ambivalent to principles so everything is relative
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by seebetter 6y ago
Yes I was skeptical too. Just saying what he told me.
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by seebetter 6y ago
If your real name is discernible from your HN profile, and you own a car, I could likely get your license plate. If you live in a big city, I could search your license plate and find locations where you were. Alternatively, I could find y
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by seebetter 6y ago
“Only the mastermind is guilty. Everyone else are just inconsequential actors. No one lied, they just made mistakes. Yes I’m involved in Internet crime antics but I’m innocent.”
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by seebetter 6y ago
Why can't a person open a bank account? I mean, I can't because I sold some bitcoin via Bank of America 4-years ago. Someone stole my info, I reported it as fraud and BoA reported me for fraud -- and all my bank accounts closed.
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by seebetter 6y ago
It's rather amazing he listed his own name for EthosCapital.org. A poorly orchestrated attempt at a crime against knowledge.
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by seebetter 6y ago
They should make Twitter cost $1 per month (non prepaid card) and have the default setting to block all verified users.
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by seebetter 6y ago
I asked him about 30 questions on how the system worked and what he was doing. He said Starry Internet was going to MARKET a service with Starlink / SpaceX. He wasn't talking about using Air Fibers in rural areas -- he said sate

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