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This guy knows he's in trouble for what he's done and decides to rewrite history to make himself out to be a "good criminal". Re-framed bragging about his criminal exploits and hilarious (in his mind) escapes from detection ensue.

Frame it as ISP "conditioning" or as "criminal attack", fact of the matter is he committed crimes and now he's feeling the heat so he's putting out re-framed confessions to get the jump on his accusers and try to save his skin.

Then again, people can be more complicated than I give them credit for, and he might actually be a good hacker. It has happened before. I don't know. Let the investigators find out the truth. We have no reason to trust him.

>I believe that one of the most universal determinants of happiness is the length of your commute.

The unemployed must be immeasurably happy.

> Honestly, the 4.5 hours of sleep each day really makes me question the veracity of the story, or at least if it's somehow exaggerated.

It's true.

I've met people who slept 3 hours a night regularly to make ends meet. They seem and act normal until you try to have a conversation with them or ask them to do something outside their routine or that requires thought.

You'd be surprised how much of human social and work behavior comes automatically. You can sleepwalk through modern life and never have to wake up.

They were even capable of getting passing grades in university. Even some kinds of learning come mechanically.

The real estate free market is in need of regulation and enforcement.

In other words, the police are trying to create crime so they can justify their investigations.

In my view, having the tech is what's wrong, because then it will be inevitably misused by the ruling classes to potentially catastrophic effect.

You effectively can't trust the regulators of something so potentially disruptive of the balance of power.

You could have asked me what I meant.

I stand corrected.

I can't edit or remove my comment because Hacker News believes they know better than me if I should have the ability to edit or remove my own comments.

Super servants.

In Blade Runner, Replicants were not robots. They were genetically modified human beings designed to make them perfect slaves.

I don't expect perfection, but I expect an attempt at forcibly modifying people to make them healthier and satisfied in an increasingly unhealthier society.

No need to reform society if you can change human nature.

Because it could be forced on them.

We can't argue with your feelings.

What the BBC doesn't say is that this is an important step towards eventually being able to genetically modify healthy, adult people.

It's a trojan horse, and the clever thing about it is that there are valid medical reasons for it.

I have some friends who are parents. They sometimes loan their (very young) kid a tablet to keep him distracted while they're busy. It keeps him from causing problems for himself.

The kid goes to Youtube and only watches vacuum-cleaning videos. For hours.

He also believes every TV is (or should ideally be) touchscreen interactable. He likes boping the people on the news. He thinks they're puppets.

He's a healthy, normal kid. What I'm trying to express is that we don't know how normal kids react to Youtube and its effect on them. It can be surprising.

Lone paper on arxiv without any arguments but just "predictions" from "current trends".

Get real. This is just futurology. Knowingly deceptive article trying to set what people talk about.

One can also argue that the comments in response to the different phrasings of the same news de-escalated from "this is very serious" to your comment's "this is actually not news."

There are always contrarians, and in this case the comment-section contrarians ended up amusingly contradicting themselves.

Articles on social media detailing how to combat social media addiction or "the crisis of attention" or whatever clickbait title is the latest way that social media is capturing our attention.

"Heart-wrenching" doesn't convince minds in Hacker News.

Don't use computers for anything you want to keep private.

Maybe he's the last one desperate enough to defy death for it? But it's possible that they just lied or are wrong.

Maybe we should call it anarcho-markets?

But then they'd spoil!

Correlation is not causation.

"Intellectual-yet-idiot" is remarkably like the phrase "educated stupid" from Time Cube fame.

Right now, no. It's in a bubble. But in the long-term there are people in Wall Street who look at it that way -- which is part of the reason why Bitcoin Futures are coming.

Being able to short Bitcoin should keep the value more in line with reality -- even if people eager to short might lose money as bubbles sometimes go for longer than they reasonably should.

You're probably right about Bitcoin not being fixable as a currency, and I say probably because I almost never speak in absolute terms. There are alternative cryptocurrencies that stand a chance of working out; the idea is mainstream now.

To me, it's a parable about the danger of following a pseudo-philosopher with no academic credibility and whose relevant oeuvre is fictional literature and not reading what Adam "Greed Is Good" Smith actually wrote about free markets AKA unregulated capitalism, which was that an economical system of people acting in their self-interest ends up promoting a greater economical and moral good for everyone but only as long as there are significant safeguards against abuse, but that's just my opinion.

It's not Wall Street's fault or whatever boogie man's fault that the Bitcoin tech doesn't actually work as some idealistic libertarian creator imagined it would; the fault is in Bitcoin's design itself. Even if the price wasn't fluctuating like crazy it simply doesn't work well as a currency due to technical limitations (eg, the time and cost it takes to process a transaction in the real world has always been impractical), but it shows promise as something that holds value (like gold).

The Outline creates articles with pureed facts written in a carefully standardized "no-nonsense", language-as-spoken-today linguistic style for mass consumption that are often deceptive, political or just technically wrong. Don't trust it.

Since you worded that as a challenge... by maliciously modifying the CAD files that will be fed to the 3D printer.

...or by building an otherwise identical object that manipulates flaws in how the Wi-fi reads the signals and then replacing the original object with the malicious one.

People should read the article before commenting but they rarely do.

Have a free upvote anyway.

Upvoted because it's free and feels nice.