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reviseddamage

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reviseddamage··on CEO of Eco alleges that YC-backed Pebble copied its business model, materials
lol
reviseddamage··on Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
Which movie is this quote from? :)
reviseddamage··on This Startup Does Not Exist
some of them are NSFL 0_0
reviseddamage··on How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
I tried to find out the name of the manufacturer of the low-flow oxygen delivery approach recommended by WHO, but couldn't. Anybody else able to figure it out?
reviseddamage··on A Swede who created a $400K Indiegogo-scam
Opportunity, Rationalization and Motivation, but never explicitly Profit.
reviseddamage··on Satoshi Nakamoto made a post after years of silence?
wot
reviseddamage··on Satoshi Nakamoto made a post after years of silence?
What if he's lost the key?
reviseddamage··on Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud
"20-50 of my friends" on every club night?
reviseddamage··on Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform
I am not an engineer. I have great respect for engineers. Engineers, however, generally have views of other professions being easily disrupted wholly by AI. But god forbid, someone suggests that engineers can be taken over by AI, and we all lose our shit. :thinking: lol.
reviseddamage··on RIP the Broccoli Tree
w0t?
reviseddamage··on PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
He doesn't get it. Someone else replied to his comment stating the same thing you did, i think he is selectively blind to the word "Markov", he missed them in the article and in the replies.
reviseddamage··on PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
what's the difference between "There is a similar technique using markov chain. The author don't seem to be aware." AND "There is a similar technique using markov chain! :) "
reviseddamage··on Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory
i bet you're fun at parties.
reviseddamage··on Teller – API for your bank account
>it is the view of some senior bank people that I speak to that PSD2 will make such clauses in banking terms illegal

If that is close to explicitly as you have stated then either 1) The senior bank people you talked to are lying to you 2) the senior bank people you talked to really don't know anything about PSD2 3) They mistated to you how PSD2 changes will affect this 4) You misunderstood what they mentioned about PSD2 changes.

If a bank mentions in its clauses as per PSD2, that only authorized persons/firms are use an API and their acccess, they are authorized to negate any liability if it was given/accessed by an unauthorized party. Banks are required to make API's available (not same as accessible) to any SaaS or other developer as long as it is authorized by the bank.

Rather than relying on hearsay or in conversation on crucial regulatory changes , might I suggest this: https://www.createspace.com/5772402

reviseddamage··on Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
this is the main challenge startups in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia will face when trying to launch financial service alternatives; Fear and distrust of the young and unknown and subservient loyalty to the mature and known.
reviseddamage··on Ask HN: How do i teach my autistic son to code?
Sure, but he prefers blockcraft for some reason.
reviseddamage··on Ask HN: How do i teach my autistic son to code?
>Wait until your son is interested.

What an obvious realization that I hadn't thought about, lol. I guess I could wait, but I am thinking of pushing him (lol) to developing interests for possible occupations that I know that can be reliably done independently where verbal expression of language is not primarily essential, but not manual labor. I can wait too and see if he bites or drop hints to see whether he develops slow interest.

reviseddamage··on Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing
OK, so all third party, nothing proprietary yet, correct?
reviseddamage··on Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing
Hi, for your ecommerce, are you a payment facilitator or do you use a third party partner.
reviseddamage··on Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
I did the read the case, your premise and understanding of what money laundering is, in this case incorrect. When something is illegal it does not have a binary state of technically illegal, and nontechnically illegal. It is or it isn't. Knowing and willingly, aiding and abetting laundering proceeds of crime is considered in the same case of money laundering, whether you stole the cards, or got money for stolen cards you sold, or you helped the guy who got money for the cards he sold, or you helped the guy who helped the guy that got money for the stolen cards he sold.

It's not easy to understand the vague and imprecise world of money laundering because the laws were written to be broad.

This is not the first time stings are carried out, this is also not the first time a prosecution fails at a case that by all indications of the allegation should have been easy to close.

reviseddamage··on Apple Pay Now Accounts for Three-Fourths of U.S. Contactless Payments
>It felt gimmicky, like I was showing off.

the early adopter's tradeoff for all tech i suppose.

reviseddamage··on Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
>Let's say person X has lots of bitcoins (potentially mined from the early days, when it was very easy to obtain). They go and sell it for $30,000, in cash. Let's assume X has the intention to declare the gains in their upcoming tax returns.

it's not what's happening here. i haven't seen where that was implied either.

>it seems that in this case they were trying to entice the guy with stolen credit cards. As that didn't work, they tried switching to money laundering.

no, they didn't entice him stolen credit cards, they, undercover, purported the sale of bitcoins/cash to him for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of the crime ( stolen credit card). Therefore, if he engaged in that sale knowingly, he willingly engaged in the laundering of proceeds of crime, i.e: money laundering. What they were weak or unable to demonstrate substantially was that his transactions thus far before the sting, were largely derived in the operations of aiding and abetting the laundering of the proceeds of crime.

reviseddamage··on Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
:) thanks, careless typing. it is in fact anti-money laundering.
reviseddamage··on Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
If they had reported you to the feds through the BSA e-filer system, you would never know. It is a federal violation to inform the party on which you have made a report. Just because you haven't received knock on the door does not mean you haven't been reported.
reviseddamage··on Bitcoin’s not money, judge rules as she tosses money-laundering charge
>He engaged in nothing resembling money laundering

I happen to know what money laundering is, being a certified money laundering specialist (CAMS) and all, and what he allegedly engaged in was money laundering. However, the judge was being completely fair in her statement as the prosecution did a lot of flippity flop and kept switching back the defendant's position from what is a business and a payment instrument seller. This was a relatively easy case to win for the prosecution, but pretty astounding as to how a very ill prepared prosecution and well prepared defense can go a long way.

reviseddamage··on Show HN: Hacking airplane headphones
it's not sad, it's cautionary. It's impressive to me, but it's also incredibly difficult to keep hacking and doing cool stuff from inside prison.
reviseddamage··on Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
committing felony. it's a github pun meta isn't it.
reviseddamage··on Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project
pretty convinced from what data? source please? thanks!
reviseddamage··on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple
What I get from BH signal: Well I don't have to worry and put AAPL into retirement portfolio, although probably means no longer salacious enough for shorts or immediate growth investors.
reviseddamage··on Theranos Executive to Depart Amid Regulatory Probes
I can't imagine the stress that Holmes goes through on a constant basis. There is the usual startup founder stress, but this feels like another level.
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