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by twox2 5y ago
I think it's an ongoing cycle, but with Bitcoin as time has gone on, the panic phases have been shorter and shorter. I mean just 2 weeks BTC was ~1/2 of what it is today. I do wish it were more clear what drives the price though..
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by twox2 5y ago
Are the recruiters targeting YOU specifically or are they just taking the spray-and-pray approach reaching out to everyone who fits certain keywords?
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by twox2 5y ago
Based on the value of the "item" for example airlines will assign a value to these miles ie (100,000 miles worth $1200) - or something like that. Otherwise, I don't know. I'm not an accountant/cpa, but I know that t
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by twox2 5y ago
Yep, not just stock grants, but anything. For example you find a bug in an airline, and report it and they compensate you as a thank you with 200k airline miles... you now owe income tax on those miles.
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by twox2 5y ago
Crypto is taxed as income. Everything is taxed as income. You are only taxed on gains if you have a cost basis and are trading the tokens, but otherwise if you are compensated via tokens you owe income tax on that whether or not you convert
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by twox2 5y ago
“They are secrets that, once revealed, make the divers not just more effective at their craft, they argue, but more effective, conscious, skillful, and thoughtful as human beings” If you can suspend your initial disbelief and are willing to
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by twox2 5y ago
It's not really baseless. There might not be a high profile "this dude sold a 0day and got arrested" case yet, but there are cases of folks selling software / hardware cracking tools getting indicted. There's also t
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by twox2 5y ago
Selling to agencies doesn't make you less of an arms dealer. It's up to you if you're ok with that or not.
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by twox2 5y ago
If you sell something to someone and they use it to commit a crime, you are culpable if you even had a wiff that it was going to be used for something illegal. So if you're selling 0days on the blackmarket, you can bet your ass they wi
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by twox2 5y ago
Maybe because you don't want to be an arms dealer? Or you don't want to risk prison.
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by twox2 5y ago
I did, but I'm responding to the title, which is the soundbite most folks will digest.
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by twox2 5y ago
Some valid arguments, but in reality web3 is just the web where the backend is something on the blockchain. It makes sense to talk about how to make this experience more secure, but to say the whole thing is a stupid idea doesn't benef
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by twox2 5y ago
Meanwhile Visa buys a CryptoPunk https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/08/23/visa-...
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by twox2 5y ago
Serious question: What positive impact do you feel like you are making on the world?
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by twox2 5y ago
I know, I used to be a tobacco smoker and I want one just as bad after not having had a cig for over a decade... I'm sure it's a nuanced topic, but I'm just relaying what I understand from the clinical perspective. I don&#x27
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by twox2 5y ago
So is heroin, crack, and meth.... at least until it's not.
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by twox2 5y ago
From what I understand, a true addiction is defined by if it's pathological or not, and the thing is no one is out on the street prostituting themselves for coffee, cigarettes, or candy... but they are for crack, heroin, meth, etc.
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by twox2 5y ago
Doesn't the key compromise make it even less of a protocol hack?
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by twox2 5y ago
IMO understanding how cryptocurrency works is a prerequisite, because a lot of the stuff being built in defi are fairly new financial instruments.
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by twox2 5y ago
These aren't protocol level hacks. These hacks exploit logic flaws in the smart contracts.
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by twox2 5y ago
The reason I really like shows like Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman are because they get an amazing variety of high profile guests that don't often do long form interviews / discussions.
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by twox2 5y ago
I don't think kick backs, etc. are usually reported salary.
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by twox2 5y ago
I mean, every hospital director needs at least three vacation homes and two boats right?
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by twox2 5y ago
I went to a legal presentation at Defcon a couple of years back where they said that the government needs a court order / warrant in order to force you to tell them your password, but if you're using biometrics, they can just forc
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by twox2 5y ago
I just posted this, thought it was funny too. It also works if you hold your finger or an object over your eye.
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by twox2 5y ago
This thing gets pretty confused if you close one eye and have the other eye open :)
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by twox2 5y ago
"They" = the federal government. Also, I'm not suggesting that this should happen, I'm just saying that it would be pretty easy to throw a wrench into the crypto machine.
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by twox2 5y ago
That wouldn't be a big hurdle to overcome. They will just outlaw self-custody and make it illegal for you to own your own wallet/private keys without some kind of money license. The institutions will be unaffected if they still wa
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by twox2 5y ago
It's a moving target. The opportunities for kids to get creative and explore are now in emerging technologies, but they are "emerging" only to us old farts. To young people, it's just what's there. I think these thi
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by twox2 5y ago
Well in that case, nothing incentivizes more crime than USD.

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