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davidbhayeson Ripple co-founder fifth richest person in US, rivaling Zuckerberg

How is this anything but a bubble? I'm a bit of a Luddite on the whole area of cryptocoins, but I literally first heard of Ripple three days ago. I can't fathom how the entire corpus to them could be more valuable than whatever portion of FB Zuckerberg owns.

davidbhayeson WordPress 4.8.1 still vulnerable to Host Header Attack

A less inflamed take on the topic I found illuminating: https://pagely.com/blog/2017/05/exploitbox-unauthorized-pass...

davidbhayeson Is LambdaConf for Conservative Christians, Too?

CONTEXT: Linked post is from Feb 29, 2016. Before the recent tumult about LamdaConf announcing their intention to host a speaker who is also a "fascist", and "slavery apologist." (Post explaining their logic there is: http://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-inclusion .)

Not sure why it's being posted now.

davidbhayeson U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died

…you seem to have missed the joke…