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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/keeks; my proof: https://keybase.io/keeks/sigs/ePuEG0zjXsmzYwJcbqbJe7jD0td8YcrPgN4hBev76z8 ]
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Keeeeeeeks··on Ethereum Foundation Releases Alpha Casper Proof of Stake Testnet
Wouldn't it be cheaper for him to just wait for his new ID to arrive so he can get verified?
Keeeeeeeks··on Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It’s Time to Ask Why
I see your point, but practically speaking they can give tech company is money and still stop women from driving. It seems like they take the profits from trade and give it to terrorists, so we should probably brainstorm other solutions and not create dead ends with pseudo-platitudes
Keeeeeeeks··on Archaeologists Uncover How Egyptians Built the Great Pyramid of Giza
> Egyptologist Mark Lehner, an associate of Harvard's Semitic Museum, is beginning to fashion an answer. He has found the city of the pyramid builders. They were not slaves.

Idk man, seems like the article does claim that the builders weren't slaves.

Also, given the way trophic pyramids work, feeding crops to a cow and feeding the cow to people results in a loss of energy compared to feeding the people plants. By that, I mean it's more expensive to raise a cow and use it to feed 10 people than it would be to give those 10 people crops.

Keeeeeeeks··on Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners
According to ComputerGuru's post below, TPB is switching from ads to coin mining in the background.

Without disclosure/client choice it could slow down someone's computer and and be portrayed as malicious ("If they can mine potentially valuable coins while I'm on the site, what else could they be doing while serving my browser content?")

Keeeeeeeks··on From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
Along these lines, I think it was an attempt to not piss off potential donors.

"I donate a quarter million a year and you give it to a black who killed her own son? Guess Yale could use a new building with my name on it"

Still though, the US needs to have a good hard look at de-monetizing the prison industrial complex, humanizing post-incarcerated people, and disassembling the economic incentives to use the 13th amendment for disenfranchisement.

Keeeeeeeks··on Show HN: GameOfCoins.de – Virtual Cryptocurrency Trading
Neat project; I'm starting to think that most of these sites, and services that gamify crypto-speculating are training models around user behavior/mimicking trades.

Also, it threw a 500 internal server error after linking Twitter

Keeeeeeeks··on Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money
One could say the same of lobbying, but there's still a funnel from lobbying straight into government/private sector (and vice versa, depending on who you ask).

Whether you like it or not, entertainers produce goods or entertainment-related services within an economy. That's the definition of an industry.

Keeeeeeeks··on Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
This is embarrassing at this point; a credit authority printing dividends is too busy placating shareholders to even pretend to give a shit about the data of the people who _involuntarily_ have their PII stored on their platform.

Whoever files a class action should make a motion such that anyone can purge their PII from a credit authority that's experienced a public hack such that their PII was exposed, or some other sort of incentive for these too-big-to-improve companies to do their job

Keeeeeeeks··on Entering PII into Equifax Site May Waive Right to Class-Action Lawsuit
Apparently, if you wish to opt-out of the arbitration clause, you have to send them a hand-written letter? While TrustedID is a company of Equifax, I'm not 100% certain that opt-outs to the arbitration clause for Equifax mean you also opt-out of TrustedID arbitration.

http://www.equifax.com/terms/

> Right to Opt-Out of this Arbitration Provision. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE ARBITRATION PROVISION, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE YOURSELF. Opting out of the arbitration provision will have no adverse effect on your relationship with Equifax or the delivery of Products to You by Equifax. In order to exclude Yourself from the arbitration provision, You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You first accept this Agreement on the Site (for Products purchased from Equifax on the Site). If You purchased Your Product other than on the Site, and thus this Agreement was mailed, emailed or otherwise delivered to You, then You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You receive this Agreement. To be effective, timely written notice of opt out must be delivered to Equifax Consumer Services LLC, Attn.: Arbitration Opt-Out, P.O. Box 105496, Atlanta, GA 30348, and must include Your name, address, and Equifax User ID, as well as a clear statement that You do not wish to resolve disputes with Equifax through arbitration. If You have previously notified Equifax that You wish to opt-out of arbitration, You are not required to do so again. Any opt-out request postmarked after the opt-out deadline or that fails to satisfy the other requirements above will not be valid, and You must pursue your Claim in arbitration or small claims court.

Keeeeeeeks··on Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF DISCOURSE
This totally makes sense for Google. You charge back a purchase, and you've set a precedent about your relationship with them. Regardless of the circumstance, something about your account was shaky enough to lead to a chargeback. In your purported case, it was a brother in law accidentally disputing it.

You know how many people make apps/IAPs and charge back? A lot of people, so they can't go through every single case, ban one person but not another, and have inconsistent policies. Otherwise, the people who get banned see posts from people who CBed and didn't get banned, and they wave the exceptions in the face of Google. You're basically asking for a workaround to a fraud-related shutdown.

Once you issue a chargeback on a merchant, it's like pissing in their bed or cheating with a girlfriend: you can apologize and never do it again, but it breaks the trust, sometimes irrevocably. They don't owe you shit, as they already paid the bank $25 and Visa/MC about $8 per chargeback.

Even if you paid them back, they have no idea if you'll continue to pay back the CB fees with stolen cards until you either give up, or make enough IAP money to run off.

SFYL

Keeeeeeeks··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Not sure if anyone else suggested this, but people should file complaints to the CFPB about this:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

Not just about the hack, but the fact that their "check to see if you were affected by our shit" sites include a ToS that waives your right to participate in a class-action lawsuit.

https://trustedidpremier.com/static/privacy-policy

Keeeeeeeks··on Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
So, everyone above the age of 16 that wasn't a naturalized citizen/resident? I feel like most of them would have credit scores.
Keeeeeeeks··on A black market where people pay for Instagram verification
I'd say it's like celebrities advertising products all the time, and then being exposed to updates through social media under the implied context that it's relatively candid time.

Of course, social media can and usually is doctored, but influencer culture definitely takes celebrity product endorsement and plays it out to its logical conclusion.

The dust hasn't quite settled, but everyone using social media to stunt on others does affect the mental health of people who consistently use these platforms. I'd say that it negatively impacts culture because it promotes building these facades and advertising said facades.

Keeeeeeeks··on LIVESTAR decentralized adult streaming platform uses blockchain tech [pdf]
Why are businesses so afraid to name the Boogeyman that is deliberate ("friendly") fraud?

I'm almost certain that a lion's share of cam girl-related chargebacks are jerks who dispute the $200 they sent for personalized nudes and dirty talk during their refractory period.

And card fraud is still possible; the risk is removed from the models, and placed on the exchanges that people use for fiat-to-LiveStar token liquidity.

Also, ICOs see rampant price fluctuations: am I wrong to think that independent models and merchants don't want to see their earnings skyrocket and plummet during one of their sessions? It makes more sense to create a platform for models to accept ETH

Keeeeeeeks··on Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia
Is this just a vehicle for oligarchs to convert their money into crypto?
Keeeeeeeks··on Investor Alert: Public Companies Making ICO-Related Claims
No, I think it's a healthy dose of skepticism. Many applications for blockchain tech are impractical at best, leading to discussions about the ethics and legal implications of selling a token that quacks like a security via irreversible funding rounds.

Most of the big things are either tied around vice or price. If an early adopter (or group of them, depending on your Spoofy theories) decide to manipulate the price enough to pump the price and create floors, they can. I haven't seen a killer app that specifically adds to people's lives in a way that doesn't provide liquidity to human rights violators (backpage, DNMs, kids/adults committing fraud, etc).

Sure, there's Venezuela using and mining Bitcoin because their currency is unusable, but Bitcoin wasn't designed precisely for them.

Shite companies love to prop up their use cases on developing country citizens (Coinbase with their 'African mothers will use us for businesses instead of M-Pesa' ), but the practical matter at hand is that most of these developing countries don't have stable enough internet and crypto-liquidity in a way that's conducive to using crypto on their phones.

Where's the funding round for decentralized Wi-Fi balloons, or a legitimate competitor to M-Pesa? They're about as practical as another decentralized storage platform with minimal commits since the token sale and an ICO that raised a quarter billion based on hype

Keeeeeeeks··on Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator
One can argue that Aragon and similar projects are Build-An-ICO tokens
Keeeeeeeks··on Ask HN: Anyone else scratching their heads about coin offerings?
I also can't use my unrealized crypto-speculative gains to buy in, meaning that only accredited investors get a chance to pump/dump
Keeeeeeeks··on Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
Great point; this happens a lot with YouTube videos, and would definitely get worse with other sorts of media
Keeeeeeeks··on Service Changes for U.S. Customers
According to this video (possibly fake, as the source has been removed), Bitfinex often played cat-and-mouse games with regards to banking partnerships in the US:

https://youtu.be/62cvxPIDBGY

The spoofy and Tether thing does lead to some suspicious stuff as well

Keeeeeeeks··on Update on Bitcoin Cash
How is that not bullshit though? Like, if I were a company that didn't want to take a side, had projects in the pipeline, and didn't want to have to build out infrastructure, extra warnings, and educational content for the speculators that will probably send BCH <-> XBT, I don't see why I can't tell all the BCH enthusiasts that my company won't redeem the BCH, and to send their funds out so that they can redeem the BCH they're entitled to.

It costs a lot of man hours to add infrastructure work for that, and they're setting a precedent that they'll support every single fork that people speculate with.

I personally think this is lazyman bullshit where people harp about how Coinbase being amicable with the feds are bad until they want to file suit lol. People who were knowledgeable enough about the fork but too lazy to learn how to move their Bitcoin out, not have their private keys stolen/lost, and redeem the coins on two chains without fucking up feel entitled to free money that costs Coinbase man hours and technical debt. Despite all ideals about them technically controlling the BCH, they should be able to draft a legal document placing their licensing at stake that asserts they're not claiming customer BCH and get back to answering my limit increase email.

*Disclaimer: I don't work for Coinbase or a Bitcoin company

Keeeeeeeks··on Update on Bitcoin Cash
Question: if Coinbase never claimed the Bitcoin Cash, would there be any grounds for a lawsuit?
Keeeeeeeks··on Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects
He should do something with crypto that's novel/tongue-in-cheek enough for people to want to send him money
Keeeeeeeks··on Open Bazaar – decentralized Bitcoin marketplace
Harm reduction (IRL, safe injection sites) reduces violence.

That way, a registered nurse/healthcare official who has a job/career to lose if someone overdoses. Nothing is stopping a random dealer using a DNM from cutting a batch with fentanyl, and anonymity means they can fake reviews and hide it

Keeeeeeeks··on Learn Ethereum smart contract programming
I think we need an Etudes for Ethereum contract development and best practices; there are like 4 different "make a smart contract that juggles millions of assets on the shutter" tokens and sites, but few that focus on security and how to vigorously remind people that mistakes are worth millions of dollars
Keeeeeeeks··on Learn Ethereum smart contract programming
At this point, people could convert from btc and use any random shitcoin for value transfer, then convert back to USD
Keeeeeeeks··on Ask HN: I have Bitcoin in Coinbase, what should I do before the forks?
Blockchain.info, but not sure how they intend to handle the fork. May be best to set up a personal wallet using the mentioned link
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