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It also acts as a pseudo-internet archive. The original images may not be easily found on the internet anymore, but Pinterest still has them scraped with broken clickthrough links. Which can be both useful and maddening.

If you talk to any security expert they will tell you just how much harder being blue team is than red. The situation really is one sided. Everything is hackable especially given essentially unlimited resources and the blessing of a government.

The United States doesn’t seem to be playing victim to me. It’s just that the hacks are publicized. Sure, we are offensive as well, just as every first world country is. But we’re also a big target without much enforced secrecy (comparatively.)

The concepts proposed by the NYT have some pretty bad implications. A national cyberdefense where all the traffic is being examined? Do they really see nothing wrong with that? Not that I really think it would work, anyways.

People in security and “cyber” positions know and acknowledge everything the NYT is calling on them to. The fact that politicians sit on TV and play the blame game really isn’t indicative of the playing field. It’s pretty much their job to make the optics look good, not represent the truth.

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I’m curious how the XRP network itself is dealing with it. There are a lot of Ripple gateways, like Bitstamp, with long issued IOUs accessible in the Ripple network. Since one can find a route to swap for XRP it’s sort of an exchange, and not one that knows whether you’re in the US or not in some cases, until you go to cash out. But that means they’re still facilitating trade of a potential SEC violating security to US citizens in the meantime, perhaps. Or are all these exchanges closing their gateways too? Defaulting on IOUs? Probably hasn’t happened yet but that would really signal the end of XRP. Guessing it’s going to get worse for Ripple.

All generalizations will be overly broad, but for the most part most people should not be rolling their own. Some will be fine, but they usually know they know enough to ignore the “rule”.

Even that’s changing. For example, DJI produces very nice and polished products.

Should the celebs worry? Probably not. Should the company worry? Yes, they’ll have a name for that surgeon who leaks your medical documents and doesn’t really care enough to pay to keep your privacy. There are other good surgeons out there, probably right next door. Customers will be more likely to choose someone else.

People are confused then, perhaps Brave needs to make its marketing clearer. It was born from cryptocurrency, to give utility to BAT. The entire goal is to monetize your attention to profit from ads and the mechanism is their cryptocurrency. The “other crap they’re adding” is the entire purpose - adblocking is truly secondary to popularizing BAT.

It’s just money. You can come back from any loss. Breathe and find a way to accept it and move on. Reflect later on how you can do better in the future.

XRP was entirely based on compliance and corporate control. It represents the bet that banks will subvert real distributed currencies like Bitcoin. Of course, that strength to control and promote the network made them extra vulnerable to the same regulations they sought to comply with. It’s not surprising to me that they faced devaluation and a SEC investigation. After all, the founders and company held massive quantities of XRP and would promote their holdings through business deals. They made all the decisions and put themselves in the position to be targeted. That’s a security, no doubt about it.

In any case you probably know a lot more about the financial system and cryptocurrency and therefore can make better decisions in the future.

As for current holdings, no idea but I’d guess there will be a small bounce back of people testing recovery before another drop. I’d try to exit then, personally. But if the money matters very much to you and you were over invested it might be best to play it safe and cut your losses while you can. Exchanges are likely to delist it so they aren’t peddling an unregistered security.

Isn’t this kind of the point of Brave? I don’t buy into BAT but Brave has always been a tool to popularize BAT. Why are these people using Brave?

Without going into the details too much, the person held the founders (us) responsible for their financial loss. They made some anonymous death threats online first but we didn’t take it very seriously.

I’m sure judges and politicians are at higher risk of retribution, no doubt about it. I only argue we’re not immune as engineers and tech founders. Someone who’s deeply disturbed can direct their blame on anyone remotely involved in their life.

I had a disgruntled ex-customer show up at my place when a startup went under. It wasn’t violent but certainly felt like it could have been. You don’t need to be working on secret deadly software for powerful entities.

Is a $500 anything really a flex for execs? They could be wearing an Audemars Piguet and I wouldn’t think anything of it.

While I do appreciate my AirPods, especially for noise cancelation/pass-through modes, the possibility of dropping them or having them fall out while running does weigh on me.

I still love wired headphones too, especially because I never have to think about charging. I run the wire under my hoodie so there’s no issues with it snagging.

People in this thread seem to be justifying it since the film industry reportedly does more testing. I don’t know if I really believe it’s better (actors take flights and likely don’t wear masks for filming, lots of catered food, tests aren’t perfect by any means, etc.), let’s assume that it is.

The point still stands that it’s unfair. If the film industry is able to get a pass to operate by meeting some standard then that should be formalized and extended to these small businesses. Let them decide if it’s viable.

Back room deals and private special exceptions are no way to operate.

AFAIK peercoin is recognized as the first PoS cryptocurrency.

It’s true, but hardly limited to this subthread. While I disagree with most of HN about cryptocurrency and economics, the discussions are significantly more considerate and studied than anything I’ve come across in my daily life. Even society’s proclaimed experts seem to have an admittedly limited understanding and predictive capability. At the core, economics are an expression of collective human desire and thus it seems it will never be truly rigorous.

These two have been an inspiration for me and helped revive my interest in software after getting burnt out in industry.

You can work on small, personally interesting things and just live minimally.

I don’t need to stimulate it and in fact can’t seem to turn it off. I guess it’s a blessing but the downside is that it seems much harder for me to commit long term, compared to others, as I get drawn to some new grand idea.

Facebook built it’s business on tracking users. It seems that’s solely their choice, only they reap the rewards and suffer the consequences of that choice. If users are fine with it the impact shouldn’t be horrible. If they aren’t, well, why does Apple or users have any obligation to care about the impact? Why is this a valid complaint?

People treating it as a full time job are suffering because it wasn’t meant to be a full time job. And they are clogging the system because there are often not enough rides for all the drivers. The biggest complaint I hear from drivers is about downtime. They want to be making money while in the car not waiting at the gas station for a rider.

It may seem heartless but I’m not sure whom to blame for the problems that come from treating rideshare as a full time job except the drivers who chose to do that themselves. Despite the gross advertising budget it seems like the gig economy companies were in the right.

Really, the issue is further up. It’s a universal loss of low skill labor. These people should have more real employment opportunities in society. If it was easier to get a basic job with benefits it would be way easier to accept whatever arrangement Uber was offering without legislating them. And Uber would inherently have to treat them more fairly as well.

I’ll add one doesn’t have to be a centrist by any means to choose intellect over tribalism. The “left”, the “right”, and the “none of the above” can all achieve it too if they spend less time on media driven depictions and more on deeply exploring the issues.

Centrists have it easier because they naturally see positive aspects of both sides, and that is exactly what is needed. If one can’t put themselves in the shoes of the other side and find a few strong legitimate and logical reasons they can connect with, then they really don’t understand what they are even fighting. You should be able to argue the other side. The reasons are there, and emotion only serves to blind us to them.

To be fair, they probably can anyways, since the site willingly handed over their keys to Cloudflare, or rely on some Google CDN, host on EC2, etc.

It’s the second or third tier nation state actors that you can really make a difference with.

Every case is different, but the malware authors are often willing to share the decryption tools with Coveware for vetting, even before payment is negotiated for the keys. The hackers have no part in the decryption process.

They could very well have changed something on purpose before encrypting, but they do have a reputation to uphold if they want to keep getting “customers”. At least in the high profile cases, the ransomers do seem to be honest and dependable if they are paid.

The scale of numbers in some Buddhist works such as the Flower Ornament Scripture are unimaginably large (infinities for every infinite item).