how can the US government just ban an app? has this ever happened before in US history? what gives the government the right to tell US citizens what apps they can and can't use? this is some North Korea tier behavior you expect to see from authoritarian governments panicking when they lose control over the narrative
What did the US foreign policy establishment know about Afghanistan and Iraq than you or I do? Last I heard from reliable sources, Iraq had WMD's and were a clear and present danger? Why not just preempt China's nuclear capability too by nuking them?
You assume you have a choice in playing. Most of the supply will never consider listing on multiple marketplaces, because its a massive hassle. $ABNB is up 48% YTD bucking the rest of the market, they have strong financials and are massively profitable. The growth-at-all-costs play DID work, and now you have no choice but to bend the knee. Edge cases like this will never materially affect their business.
Getting yourself banned off of Airbnb for $950 doesn't sound optimal unless you are swearing off short term lodging around the world (outside of hotels) for the foreseeable future. That's one of the negative externalities of capture-the-market VC investing - getting banned on one of these platforms cuts you off from almost the entirety of supply because of how marketplace dynamics work.
Hackernews now advocating for burning books, wow. This is the end result in allowing political ragebait threads instead of focusing on tech and startups.
Isn't this just how survival works? You hunt / till the land / turn the wheel in the factory / deliver food ordered on the internet / X to eat. It's a lot easier now than before, for sure.
In this spirit, I think Tiktok would actually be a tremendously good matchmaker for finding either friends or romantic partners. I think a lot of their recommendation AI actually figures out what you might like ahead of actually showing it to you, by trying to sort you into a cohort of people with very similar tastes. Which is why as a new user its sometimes scary how Tiktok can almost predict what you might like. E.g. people into cars, 30-40 yrs old, rural probably also like DIY.
alot of the exploit wallets are doxxed, e.g. they have an initial deposit into wallet from a centralized crypto exchange like coinbase or FTX that investigators can request info from. its actually pretty hard to get a "clean" wallet, and even if you have one, mixing the crypto back out to fiat is tricky as well. what's worse, all transactions are permanently on the blockchain so if they don't catch you now they can always catch you later.
The most interesting thing about this hack was that most of the money drained was taken by people running copycat transactions of the original exploit to steal tokens held in the bridge contract. No code or solidity knowledge needed, just people (mostly bots) noticing the hack going on and pulling their own share of sometimes millions of USDC and other tokens by just changing one parameter (destination wallet address). Towards the end, hundreds of bots were fighting for miner priority to drain the remaining tokens.
Just because a service isn't overrun with bots already doesn't mean it couldn't be 10x worse to the point where twitter becomes usable if existing mechanism like blocking non-VOIP numbers didn't exist. If they got rid of that constraint I could easily spin up a million bot accounts (captcha bypass is trivial) if I wanted to.
Runescape private servers anyone? There was a whole scene circa 2012 that reverse engineered the Runescape game client, then built up a dev community of people replicating the game's quests, combat system, leveling system, game loop, multiplayer, chat, etc... with backends written in Java. The community got to a point where prebuilt server "bases" competed in adoption and snippets and tutorials were posted with code that implemented certain functionality built on top of server codebases, that you could copy and paste to create your own Runescape server. What got even more interesting was people creating entirely new game content instead of trying to emulate existing Runescape gameplay, using the same game engine and backends.
unironically, yes. in an ideal capitalist system, money should flow to those who can best allocate it, so stupid investors losing $$$ to more savvy investors in financial pvp is the market working as intended.
Brendan Carr is also notably anti Net Neutrality. Reading the screeds of the supposed cypherpunks of hacker news begging the federal government to BAN access to an app by private individuals is hilarious.
that's the thing, they don't break free without some exogenous factor that forces a total reckoning. e.g. China with opium, getting humiliated by western powers in the opium wars. this sort of thing always marks the end of a declining empire. even after the opium wars, it took a century before resurgence. stuff like trafficking drugs in China now are punishable by death, they've learned their lesson for sure.
100%. however, naked or uncovered calls and puts are almost always put past level 4 trading approval. counter to GP's claim, there's no way you can accidentally stumble into trading these.
sounds like you don't understand it either. put options let you sell short a fixed amount of stocks without the unlimited downside. other types of options with unlimited downside are heavily restricted by brokers (b/c of underlying regulation) and not available to the average user without going through trading approval processes where they make the risks very clear.