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by zby 11y ago
Someone always has to take the risks - when working for a company it is the company owners that take it. On average they probably are well compensated for it - but surely they must be more stressed. Or maybe when you are above some level yo
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by zby 11y ago
Maybe 'a job' is something that fitted a particular phase of our civilisation development and it just will fade away? A hunter gatherer (I bring this as my example - because as a species we spent most of our time in that phase) wo
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by zby 11y ago
This is a good argument - but I don't entirely buy it - because a system like that does not need to lead the investigations, but can also be an additional source of information. A very powerful one - if the police is already investigat
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by zby 11y ago
It is probably more useful for blackmail than in prevention - this is a good point. But it is far from obvious that it is ineffective in the letter case. If you believe that it is obvious - then please explain. There is also another case wh
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by zby 11y ago
I don't think this inefficiency will be permanent. This surveillance is a new thing, the tools are not yet used to their full potential. It will take time before many police officers understand all the possibilities and use the tools e
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by zby 11y ago
OK when do we restart the software liability discussion? http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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by zby 11y ago
It is mentioned in the article that GCHQ has a tool for changing the results of online polls.
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by zby 11y ago
http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt - some more technical analysis on what can be done Another interesting site here is http://citizenlab.org/ and the idea of 'distributed security' th
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by zby 11y ago
Look up Pirate Party.
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by zby 11y ago
monbiot.com/2014/10/14/falling-apart/ is an interesting link - it is about about how we become more and more lonely. By the way if the problem is that we are lonely - than all community solution like musicians relyi
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by zby 11y ago
'determine' does not mean 'change' - does it?
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by zby 11y ago
I think I covered that under the 'cargo cult' part. Bitcoin is a true breakthrough, it does what after CAP theorem seemed impossible, and this is why it is so interesting and popular. They want this popularity - so they use the na
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by zby 11y ago
Security is always about economy - it is after all about incentives and disincentives. Bitcoin makes this explicite with the mining process and the currency. Now it seems that some financial companies like the idea of a fully decentralized
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by zby 11y ago
They do that because nobody demands that they don't.
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by zby 11y ago
That looks like a political problem. Maybe the state should fund security for its citizens - maybe we need some new kind of institutions to do this.
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by zby 11y ago
Why do you think that politics is irrational? Because people don't bother to inform themselves what is really good for them and vote irrationally? This is rational behaviour actually - the expected value of their vote is so minimal tha
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by zby 11y ago
And also it would require more people in on the conspiracy.
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by zby 11y ago
This is just the beginning - the problem we are facing are the digital personal assistants. They are like servants - but their loyalty is first to the corporation that runs the server not to the user. This is where the really rich data will
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by zby 11y ago
So inflows (their amounts) are public (i.e taxable), but outflows are not? Interesting claim.
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by zby 11y ago
What would be intereting is to feed it The Hacking Team emails https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/
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by zby 11y ago
Hmm - so what would be a title that would not be a 'half-truth'? There is only so much space in the title - you cannot load it with all available information. The article itself goes in much detail about what you describe shortly
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by zby 11y ago
"Our hypothesis is that it arises because finance tends to favour relatively low productivity industries as such industries usually own assets that are relatively easy to pledge as collateral." My alternative hypothesis would be b
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by zby 11y ago
The weak point in all of this is the definition of IQ - since there is no obvious one the motivated researchers can manipulate it to have more or less difference in both value and variation between the sexes (or other groups).
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by zby 11y ago
They are illegal - because it is impossible to limit the participants to just betting on the outcome instead of trying actively to get the outcome. Imagine for example a prediction market for Obama dying this year - if the price is big enou
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by zby 11y ago
I don't see how this hype game you describe would be characteristic of private sales more than of public offerings. It is the mechanism that drives all bubbles. In fact root of the often criticized short termism of publicly traded comp
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by zby 11y ago
In private sales people take big chunks and have incentives to investigate the companies deeply - much of the public market is about small chunks where people don't do as deep investigations, because it would cost them more than the po
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by zby 11y ago
"it would be trivial for someone to make this stuff if they wanted" - it gets hard to consistently fake it when you have so many documents. Wikipedia says it is thousands - anyone has more precise stats?
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by zby 11y ago
That is natural selection - evolution can happen without natural selection.
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by zby 11y ago
Organisms evolve through natural selection - culture evolves in a different way. Memes might be similar in some ways to genes - but there is no natural selection of cultures.
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by zby 11y ago
compare and contrast this with Tim O’Reilly essay proposing Algorithmic Regulation http://beyondtransparency.org/chapters/part-5/open-data-and-...

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