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by solveit 5y ago
You're not exactly being charitable to the person you're arguing against, but taking your slippery slope at face value, we already have a generation of adults who basically grew up with unfettered access to online porn, and sensat
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by solveit 5y ago
What did it say?
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes, at every startup I was in, the stats nerds were in fact well-known to tell the nontechnical people and even the devs that what they were doing wasn't going to work, or rather that we didn't have good evidence that it would wo
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by solveit 5y ago
The article is not heavy on details, but it sounds like they spoofed a Coinbase notification while the victim was on the legit Coinbase website, so the most likely possibility is that the machine was compromised.
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by solveit 5y ago
I see a bunch of people who spent a lot of time and effort for collective well-being at personal cost. This is a textbook coordination problem.
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by solveit 5y ago
What is there to explain? User fell for phishing attack and granted attacker access to their Coinbase acount. Your question was whether you could liquidate thousands of bitcoin without being noticed. The answer to that depends on who you&#x
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by solveit 5y ago
I mean, intelligence is also luck. And (as much as people hate this), so is conscientiousness. At some point we have to acknowledge that dividing things into luck and not-luck is incoherent, and that we should use more useful axes.
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by solveit 5y ago
Indeed, the corresponding numbers for congress would suggest that there is overwhelming popular support for skewering congress!
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by solveit 5y ago
People have a human right to not die of massive blunt trauma but skydiving is still legal.
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by solveit 5y ago
I would like to see a citation for point #2.
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by solveit 5y ago
Probably minimum wage of some suitably populous city or state. Why in the world would the mode be relevant though?
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by solveit 5y ago
"Maybe Lenin and Stalin had their reasons" is not a take I expected to see on HN today, but that's the lifecycle of all successful intellectually-oriented discussion forums I guess.
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by solveit 5y ago
Somehow I suspect you're not being very charitable towards your friends. Would they describe their own thought processes as > somehow, serving the rich for $12/hr will lead to them becoming "one of them."
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by solveit 5y ago
Do the taxis still actually come? Then quality is miles ahead of what it used to be.
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by solveit 5y ago
You got me curious, so from Wikipedia: > Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York, on May 14, 1984,[9] the son of psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg.[10] He and his three sisters (Arielle, bus
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by solveit 5y ago
> I think you can make an argument that 10 billion humans are more likely to wipe us all out than 10 million I think that argument is weak. Geopolitical instability is probably the main threat to us[1], and I think that would be much wor
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by solveit 5y ago
I was going to say something about how you needed to know what DNS is to know how URLs work and how all this is easily teachable at the high school level, but I realized I'm just out of touch. Amend my comment to say that the previous
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by solveit 5y ago
The 11% is the early odds. The investments were made up front when everyone was driven by FOMO, and 11% went to scams. After reality ensues is now, and if everyone were choosing to invest now, the number would be 0%[1], not 11%. [1] With
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by solveit 5y ago
I would also "settle" for picking the people I like. Also, pretty sure that you have to be at least somewhat narcissistic to think that you should be president, and somewhat sociopathic to actually succeed.
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by solveit 5y ago
Your 79% figure is misleading because counting number of scams unweighted by size is meaningless. To quote your source: > In relatively direct contrast, looking at our classifications as a percentage of the US dollars raised to-date (~$1
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by solveit 5y ago
To a first approximation, school can't teach anything. Most of your high school class don't remember what DNS is.
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by solveit 5y ago
Being wary of the guy, sure. But it's a terrible response in general. The correct response is to take the site down ! Monitoring IP addresses? Really? First, it's trivial to just use a different IP address. Second, even if you co
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by solveit 5y ago
We do. It's called an election. What you want is credentialing requirements for voting.
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by solveit 5y ago
Nick Clegg? Nick Clegg of the libdems went to facebook??
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes but he only has to make it so that there are dozens of people who might plausibly be Satoshi. Which, as far as a decade of scrutiny could uncover, he managed to do.
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by solveit 5y ago
Can you name a company in, say, the top 50 largest companies by market cap that isn't run by scumbags? The intent of the question is to divine whether you think Coinbase in particular is a problem, or whether you have a problem with bi
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by solveit 5y ago
> Why do customers need to do this when Facebook messed up, and had to learn about this, and look into performance, from a source other than Facebook? Have you bought anything from anyone ever...?
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by solveit 5y ago
Also, he was right. People shouldn't have sent Zuck their private info even if Zuck were a saint, because there was no way they could have known Zuckerberg was a saint.
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by solveit 5y ago
If I may stretch the truth a little to rant, at this point the only systems that have any hope of being merit-based are opaque.
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by solveit 5y ago
Or a 0.15% probability of becoming 10x bigger. For things like this, essentially all the expected value is in the very long tail. I won't be buying shares any time soon, but more power to those who do.

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