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This is not an advertisement. I would never consider someone talking about a Discord bot to be talking about an official bot released from Discord. It is incredibly common for users to write bots on these platforms.

The counter point to this is DARPA and the dearth of private research going on currently.

I have a rough enough idea of how much image hosting costs. If they want to charge more than a dollar per month I will write a competitor.

There are multiple chip (Intel, TSMC) fabs under development in Arizona.

Retailers stopped stocking when things shut down. An example is rental car companies selling off parts of their fleets. Now that things are opening back, they are anticipating demand and attempting to meet it.

I've seen an argument that we have reached the end of benefit from being the global reserve currency and that the US dollar should weaken to balance out trade. We have been a net importer (of goods) for so long, the upper class has reaped the benefits of cheaper goods while the manufacturing class has lost their jobs. China moved away from feeding the system by ceasing US bond purchases and starting the Belt and Road initiative. It seems like we're there and I'm pretty excited about a domestic manufacturing capability.

Combining this with low interest rates, a ton of money is exiting the bond market looking for yield. A lot of it is flowing to stocks, decreasing earnings. Overall, I believe it means greater investment availability. It's really the perfect storm for a very prosperous time in the US (expansion!).

That's pretty interesting. I wonder how an increase in domestic spending balances against all the printing we did during COVID. It decreases demand for foreign currencies (for foreign purchases) which would strengthen the dollar relatively. I guess it really depends on the magnitude of the trend on how much it will offset the increase in supply.

Yea, it's streaming so there are some debugging sessions in there, but the information is gold.

Fuzz week shows how to make make a snapshot / resettable jitting hypervisor.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkhUfcCXvqHsOy2VUxuoAf...

The form of those assets absolutely matters. Bonds right now? Bad idea. Cash when we hit the inflation part of the long term debt cycle? Also bad idea.

Consider academia. I have a very similar opinion to you about interesting work (less so about meaningful). I was working at Google doing web development even though I have a security specialty, everyday was like pulling teeth. It is just not worth it and I'm not sure it is sustainable for me. Academia has always been appealing because you dictate research direction. I ended up going from part time, to 80% time, to full time over a year and a half for a small company. My work here is mostly interesting and I'm happier than I've been anywhere else.

Based around what economy though? Towns need an industry. Many are just remnants of old mining towns. A lot where the hospital is the largest employer are surviving on elderly health care. I think that's the biggest challenge to spawning a city out in nowhere.

There is a ton of money exiting the bond market looking for yield, this is driving up stocks reducing earnings. Probably a lot of people exiting their previous investments looking for places to park their cash. I'm in this boat.

First quote isn't exact, so I'm not sure what you're addressing.

If you buy properties not for self use, you can hold them indefinitely and have an income stream. If you buy a share of a company and hold it indefinitely you can have an income stream. There is no equivalent in cryptocurrencies. You buy it and hope you can sell at a later date for a higher price.

Investing versus speculation.

Comparing cryptocurrency to real estate is laughable. With real estate you have either a place to live, reducing a real world expense (rent), or an income producing property. No matter how much you dress up cryptocurrencies as stocks, by using terms like market cap, you are not buying a share of an income producing asset. You're speculating on a digital collectible. You can speculate on real estate and stocks, but you can also invest in them.

I switched to Firefox for container tabs a few years ago and love it.

Close but not quite right. Money service business licensing will cost you a few hundred thousand to get for all states. [1] Second, there is a loophole at the federal MSB level at least where you can be a seller of prepaid access. That makes your life a lot easier, you just need to list all your "partner" businesses and keep amounts reasonable (sub 1k iirc).

I've looked into this thoroughly and even applied to YC on the idea. It's the right solution for micro transactions in my opinion. Just very regulation heavy and finding a partner bank is hard.

1. https://www.grimeslawaz.com/home/technology-and-licensing/mo...

Agree with everything except the implications about Belt and Road. This was actually strategically clever by China. In 2012 they stopped purchasing (as much) US debt which stopped feeding our reserve currency system. Being a reserve currency requires a country to run persistent trade deficits, not the most sustainable but when everyone takes the inflow of USD and buys bonds, it feeds the USD back into the system allowing it to go on. China bucked this trend and instead started putting their money to work in Africa. This undermines the USD's position petty well.

It is just where we are in the long term debt cycle. The US dollar will devalue in the next decade, but we aren't facing a collapse or anything. We are out of monetary tools (interest rates near zero) to stave off deflation, so we will turn to fiscal tools (printing money). This is a good thing as it will make the US more competitive on exports. We may lose our global reserve currency status but that is not a sustainable position, so it is somewhat inevitable.

The US is still one of the most desirable places for foreign talent. I hope we maintain that position. That creates demand for US resources and provides the people currently here with a comfortable retirement. China is not so welcoming to foreigners, nor is it very desirable given the pollution.

Google also makes an OS which he provides content for, so Google should make sure that relationship is sustainable for him.

>By the same logic, I should be able to walk into a store and just take anything I want because I'm using it to make items I sell "for donations". Obviously, that's ridiculous.

No, this is nothing like literal theft.

As someone who has a hard time not optimizing every dollar, I'm ill equipped to answer this question. I would not.

This sounds like a good approach because it removes the possibility for consumer credit. In my opinion, you should only borrow money to make a profit on it.

I'm always surprised of the opposite when I see malware operations get busted with 8 figures of profit. Should have stopped at 7 figures and no one would notice.

Why aren't their map screenshots cluttered with business markers? Can I turn this off?

Rad, I was looking at ST3 last time I was doing it.

This is the route that I took as well. I dropped out, realized I needed a GED to start community college, realized I needed to be 18 to get a GED, then took the CHSPE and everything worked out.

I've been using Sublime since 2013 or 2014. I absolutely love it and feel a little guilty getting so many years of usage out of it on a single license. My only request is ARM builds so I can run it on a Pi.

No worries, I get them confused all the time. Very similar places.

I have a harder time wrapping my head around this after your comment. I get that police are there to protect corporate profits, so it makes sense in that way. The IP stance though, is this precedent that if you are a large corporation, the game laws you make are then enforceable in the real world?

It does really blow my mind that makers of software that people buy and run on their own machines are going to get locked in a cage because they were undermining a game's design.

I've actually had some respect for China's treatment of intellectual property, as I believe a looser IP policy allows for faster innovation in society. This is just enforcing corporate interests though, it's not the world I want to see and it's going to take some very talented developers and reverse engineers out of the job market.

Regarding 2fa - For TOTP there is a Linux command line tool called oathtool. For SMS, set up Twilio. For U2F you can emulate a device with an ECDSA library.

For CSRF you'll want browser automation, like Chrome Headless. Alternatively, you can load a page and extract a token from the DOM in a normal scraper.

>To be honest it feels like vested interests are keeping it that way: professionals want to keep the tools manual so they can charge by the hour;

As a security professional, get out of here with that non-sense. You've run into a challenging problem and still think there is some conspiracy. What we do is highly technical and often customer specific (e.g. automate 2fa due to some weird requirement rather than the customer disabling it for the test account). There is no market in automating a lot of this work, packaging it in a nodejs library for you to use, and writing docs.