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It's her analysis about money supply, yield, inflation.
"Tether must offer public disclosures, by category, of the assets backing tethers, including disclosure of any loans or receivables to or from affiliated entities. The companies will also provide greater transparency and mandatory reporting regarding the use of non-bank “payment processors” or other entities used to transmit client funds."
So from now on Tether must be backed 1:1 and provide transparency. This should severely limit the risk of Tether blowing up the crypto ecosystem.
I think the former is to be expected while the latter is not.
As an aside.. say the NSA finds out some great industrial espionage info.. how do they actually give the information to the correct US companies? Drop a USB stick in front of the CEOs door?
Real vision[0] has some really good content. It's not super easily digestable for someone not in professional finance but I think finance is just too complicated to simplify and not lose a lot of nuance. I'm trying to learn and have to look up a lot of stuff but it has been fun. I think they have 1 month trial for $1. I recommend Raoul Pal's recent video "The Unfolding" as a starting point.
I also think Macro Voices[1] podcasts are very solid. Again not very easy content but experts in various fields help to make sense of the bigger picture. You can choose a bit depending on what you're interested in (gold, bitcoin, bonds etc).
It's worth noting that NOBODY knows what is really going to happen, all you can do is try to get informed opinions and set probabilities. If you're looking for investment advice trying to time the market or sectors, I would stop looking. The uncertainty does not favour amateurs in my opinion.
1) First appreciate that you are in a GREAT position, 99,999999999% of people do not have your options.
2) Absolutely quit. Your life is short, making the most of it is not being bored to tears.
3) Do not get a job immediately, you need to figure out what you want to do so you don't get stuck in a boring position again. The way to do this in my opinion is to get stimulus you would not normally get. Travel, try out completely new technologies, learn a weird hobby, try going to a silent retreat for a few days, climb a mountain etc.
It sounds like you still like to code so you need to figure out what motivates you. Is it working for yourself? Do you just need a different work/life balance? Do you need to try and help save the world?
4) Find something new to do, you won't be certain the new "job" is for you but that's fine. Don't be afraid to try out new stuff, eventually you will find something you enjoy.
Interesting that a deal like this can be made. Presumably Cellebrite cannot guarantee that their tech will work even a month from now. I suppose if there ever was an incentive for them to up their hacking efforts this is it.
Does this make us all more secure since Apple will be more likely to patch the vulnerabilities and so more secretive organisations may also lose access.. or less secure since much more research will go into hacking devices?
- Leave Windows Defender alone (no hassle anymore)
- Set UAC to lowest level (Too annoying to leave on high)
- Use Firefox and always update
- Use Umatrix and Ublock Origin
- Use Bitlocker and Truecrypt/Veracrypt for especially sensitive stuff
- Use Keepass for passwords - Never run any file you don't know what is outside of a VM
Speaking to the variance of the game: "Eventually you will run worse than you ever thought possible"
Poker teaches, contrary to most business literature, to not be results oriented. It is the decision not the result that matters. "You can do everything right and still lose".
1) Developers who don't challenge mine or customer decisions and then complain afterwards that what we did was stupid and he had known better all along.
2) Related: Developers who answer every question with "no" or "that's impossible" even though with a slight variation it would be possible or attaining the goal would be possible in another way he knows about.
It works both ways. If you wear something that resembles a uniform people will assume you work there (and might not believe you don't). You can use that for getting into places you shouldn't be.. or get harassed by entitled customers
Judging by the stories he should not be taken seriously and the media should ignore anything he says (which they won't because his claims are good click-bait).
Worm (https://parahumans.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/)
A Practical Guide to Evil (https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/)
Both of these have active communities on Reddit also. I really think web serials are underrated compared to "real" books.
I think both situations would be interesting to be honest. Have an unrestricted AI and a restricted AI - using ML they would probably develop vastly different ways of playing.
One of the OpenAI guys mentioned that they could potentially use the same technique in real life applications like surgery. Surgery is not "just" run on a computer it has a physical component too. Is that really the next step or was he just throwing out a random example people could understand?
In my experience you couldn't be more wrong.
HN has an almost hostile reaction to anyone who says using machine learning in practice is easy. Maybe it is just a question of different definitions.
Of course developing new algorithms and coding everything from scratch is difficult but using machine learning for predictive analytics does not have to be that hard and can create a massive amount of business value.
It does not match my definition of A.I:
"UNU enables groups of online users to think together as a unified emergent intelligence -- a "brain of brains" that can express itself as a singular entity. Touted to as the world's first "hive mind," the UNU platform has had over 60,000 human participants in swarming sessions this year, together answering over 250,000 questions."
Also I would reasonably expect some of those 250.000 questions to beat the odds and get answered right.
[1] https://www.upswingpoker.com/ [2] https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpoker
Have you done any beta testing on actual users?
I think there is an opportunity here if you make a compelling product.
As an aside I am finding it really difficult to delete my iCloud account, in fact it seems that is impossible.
About 15 years ago some kids got punished for explaining how to download mp3 files so it is very likely that these guys will also get some sort of punishment.
The reason for them pleading guilty, I'd imagine, is because whether or not they did it is not hard to prove.
The law itself is pretty scary although never really used as far as I know. The Danish version of MPAA has largely given up on suing private citizens and I had hoped they would stop completely since Netflix et al. are gaining ground. This is an unfortunate development.
As a side note, according to a specialist lawyer, it is questionable whether or not it is actually illegal to stream pirated content since the user does not download anything to save locally [1]. Although maybe you could argue that since you are sharing it with others while you watch that is a crime.
[1] Danish: http://www.computerworld.dk/art/234666/it-advokat-derfor-er-...
It's the single biggest form I have ever seen. Storing this information along side "information about workers’ sexual partners, drug and alcohol abuse, debts, gambling compulsions, marital troubles, and any criminal activity." seems insane. The arrogance required to think this is a good idea blows my mind.
I think this is the most interesting part. Watson seems to work WITH you rather than for you.
Presently it appears to work very well as an inspiration and suggests things that are so far out you would never come up with them yourself. An example is the radish, cod, ginger, olives, tomato and green onions pizza.
I would've loved a bit more focus on what other people thought though. I got the impression that the writer was a bit biased to love the dishes before he tried them.