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grapesodaaaaaon Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

I hope they do a postmortem

grapesodaaaaaon Looking for a Job Is Tough

This is the way.

grapesodaaaaaon Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price

> Until nation-states fund and invest in the infrastructure, finding your confidence in cryptocurrency with little to no regulation is a massive risk.

There are many arguments against bitcoin, but I have a hard time investing in this one.

A lot of the people investing in bitcoin are doing so specifically to hedge against nation-states. It is decentralized FOSS based on sound mathematics. If this was really a concern, wouldn't people be skeptical of TLS to access your bank? One of the most popular TLS algorithms was written largely by DJB (not a nation-state).

grapesodaaaaaon Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

Data stored in another country: are their reciprocal prosecution agreements with that country?

Raiding AWS: call Amazon, provide subpoena, Amazon can either give access to the account or provide copies of data. This would only allow access to non-customer encrypted data.

I played with encryption schemes and obfuscation pretty heavily for a long time, but at the end of the day companies operate within the legal frameworks of the countries they reside in. If you don’t cooperate, you could end up in jail anyway.

I think the conclusion I’ve come to is that you have to play by the rules. If you don’t like them, is it really worth falling on the sword for a corporate entity?