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Also 58 now is not the same as 58 30 years ago.

The state and change of culture and technology is quite different.

I consider age like time an illusion. There’s biological considerations but I reject all the age cliches and sayings. Defy labels, limitations, distorted reminders — focus on living.

The tech who installed my Starry Internet said that they were going to offer Starlink next year in rural areas. Maybe he was confused but he was reasonably knowledgeable.

We were specifically talking about Elon, Starlink and rural Internet. Obviously Starry is a completely unrelated company.

I know one person who runs tens of thousands of dollars via Venmo and other apps selling weed and hard drugs in SF. Of course, in SF I doubt they even have a law against selling drugs.

Bad news travels fast, so there's lots of criminal subgroups. Bitcoin and crypto are dwarfed by financial speculation and DeFi.

Porn sucks vs reality. And the general attitude that it is normal and healthy is probably wrong. The future of intimacy is human.

For drugs you must mean Venmo or Cash App, where orders of magnitude greater numbers of drugs are ordered.

I'm pretty sure he just had access to X.com, plus it's a cool domain. Is it really a strange fascination?

I suppose it is if you follow the Dark Journalist's X series on Youtube. Some great mythical modern tales of fantastical (but untrue) possibilities.

This is analogous to suggesting Elon should had skipped Zip2 and X.com/Paypal and went direct to building rockets.

Ideally the lucky few who make a ton of cash on easy software apps etc should be using that capital to risk solving hard problems and developing new sciences and technologies.

We really need to define "many people". I try to avoid comments and papers like you referenced. They essentially represent the worst case scenario -- it's in the air, unkillable, easy to catch, victims never recover, you may have no symptoms but permanent damage, it makes sane people go crazy etc etc.

How about -- what's the max viral load one can sustain for it not to pass the 1st layer immune system? Is there really a 1st and 2nd layer? Can I resist it without getting antibodies? How much more effective is a KN95 / N95 mask in terms of viral load vs the others?

And why don't we have more high powered venting fans and permanent outside events and require building to open their windows or remove their walls in climates where that'd work?

It’s amazing that one company could control the hardware and universal functions like texting in such a restrictive hyper-capitalistic way.

“You can write apps for our hardware but all your purchases we take 30%...” imagine Microsoft trying this tactic in the 1990s.

“Mona Lisa was married to a slave trader” —- wasn’t exactly what I was thinking. How about the modern press where the elite members have ‘Au Pairs’ or underpay both legal citizens & undocumented workers to take care of their homes? There are even true indentured servants in the US and all around the world.

Yet let’s ‘contextualize’ the darkness of the Renaissance.

> One in five North American-based corporations on the CNBC Global CFO Council says Chinese companies have stolen their intellectual property within the last year. In all, 7 of the 23 companies surveyed say that Chinese firms have stolen from them over the past decade.

I don’t see this as a minimized fact.

>That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes...

Thomas Jefferson wanted to invade Canada because of the Union Jack flag flying over North America.

We are a government based on natural rights. Part of our responsibility is to defend Western Civilization. It's dangerous to say that China bans US companies for merely failing to censor content. It is the US that is defending innate human rights -- we shouldn't diminish them.

We shouldn't even do business with Saudi Arabia nor China at any level. Then we could build a world based on broader principles.

Working with corrupt authoritarian governments and propping them up to create new markets is just a financial strategy of the US business class. It's why the world is so conflicted and unstable. The US supports any foreign power as long as they help the US. That's fundamentally wrong.

As someone who sold Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins, and have 4 friends in federal prison (or detention), plus friends with millions in tainted BitCoin, this is not true.

Almost all illegal bitcoin stolen by hackers and ransomware is cashed out in countries with limited or no AML/KYC.

It's called fraud.

Or an aggressive business model that is fair only to the top 10% of customers who are not concerned with spending $250 per month in effective charges to have a wireless handheld computer with 4G.

Cue Inferior Construction.

"A low level enforcement employee used unauthorized tools to locate our suspect. He has been reprimanded. However, once we surveilled the suspect we had the evidence to prove he was guilty unrelated to any prior cause. Case closed."

Mistakes were made but lies were never told.

It seems difficult to understand what caused the spike. I didn't even know bars were open. It seems hard to believe opening the bars was the primary cause.

It also seems amazing that despite the nighttime protests/riots in Portland, that there's basically no cases there.

LA seems mostly the same the last 4-months except early on. There's now 100s of people on the street on the weekend eating outside like it's Europe. I've unfortunately been outside everyday since the pandemic started.

That's analogous to saying, "For better or worse, you can look at Robinhood's stock price as an options contract on future insider trading." It's meaningless unless you consider wild west financial speculation and traders as criminal activity.

Trade based money laundering is like 100x cryptocurrencies.

Something like 95%+ of bitcoin is related to financial speculation, investing, DeFi etc etc.

An order of magnitude of more drugs are sold on Cash App and Venmo -- which is why they're in rap songs. As for large scale hacking, extortion and ransom, yes bitcoin is used but it is increasing difficult to cash out in a large way.

I asked my oncologists and urologists the same question, and they all gave me the same scripted answer. No one knew if vitamins could help my cancer. No one knew if I could affect my IGF1 levels by diet ("I don't know but I doubt that.").

After this, I worked closely with several surgeons and realized how non-curious most doctors/surgeons are.

We create systems and then train individuals to operate within those systemically flawed organizations. The medical industry is incredibly complicated due to each link in the chain collecting their often exorbitant fees.

I wonder how much the American TikTok app is based on Musical.ly? 50%? More or less?

The only one I know is-

https://www.irbsearch.com/vehicle-sightings.html

I've met Kevin Mayer and have two friends (one a roommate) who worked closely with him. There are some people who operate in life like an automaton or an NPC. They're completely ambivalent to principles so everything is relative. It's easy to justify leaving Disney as their COO to go work for a Chinese controlled company -- all you have to do is -want- to rationalize it.

Yes I was skeptical too. Just saying what he told me.

If your real name is discernible from your HN profile, and you own a car, I could likely get your license plate. If you live in a big city, I could search your license plate and find locations where you were. Alternatively, I could find your address, then search for license plates that drove near your house. It's not a perfect system but it has millions of records. And there must be other correlated databases that I don't know about.

The only things we can do is use fake/different numbers at stores, use prepaid or business debit cards and have burner iPhones and rooted Androids. Register your license plate in corporations names, and don't put your utilities in your real name. If we just decorrelate the data, and falsify it, then we could have a chance.

“Only the mastermind is guilty. Everyone else are just inconsequential actors. No one lied, they just made mistakes. Yes I’m involved in Internet crime antics but I’m innocent.”

Why can't a person open a bank account?

I mean, I can't because I sold some bitcoin via Bank of America 4-years ago. Someone stole my info, I reported it as fraud and BoA reported me for fraud -- and all my bank accounts closed. And they refuse to fix it.

It's rather amazing he listed his own name for EthosCapital.org. A poorly orchestrated attempt at a crime against knowledge.

They should make Twitter cost $1 per month (non prepaid card) and have the default setting to block all verified users.

I asked him about 30 questions on how the system worked and what he was doing. He said Starry Internet was going to MARKET a service with Starlink / SpaceX. He wasn't talking about using Air Fibers in rural areas -- he said satellites. Maybe he was mistaken but I was not.