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wyck··on Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com
Translation: Like ever other MSM outlet we want to control the narrative, even on our sub-par and typically worthless articles.

There is a reason why Gavin McInnes left.

wyck··on AWS announces new region in Canada
Its mentioned on the wiki page , and several trade magazines about servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauharnois,_Quebec It's on the dam's land and about 300 meters from the actual dam itself.
wyck··on Web Fundamentals
Web Push Notifications are Google Fundamentals when using Firebase. A more appropriate title.
wyck··on AWS announces new region in Canada
OVH is actually located right inside a hydro dam about 15 minutes away from the city: http://www.hydroquebec.com/visit/monteregie/beauharnois.html
wyck··on Logojoy: AI-powered logo creator
Imagine your in the cleaning business and you focus all your efforts into making the most light weight durable broom in the world and one day you wake up and realise the guy with the wooden broom has all the actual business.

In this case some developers actual go further down the tool rabbit hole and start building tools that build tools..and they wonder why they fail.

wyck··on Statistician calls for audit to address election hacking fears
There is a language switcher in the footer no login required.
wyck··on Black therapist was shot by Florida police while helping a person with autism
I have no idea how police are trained but it seems situational awareness and decision making is something they should spend more time on.
wyck··on Quebec passes law to regulate Uber
I talk about Uber all the time when I'm in a taxi in Montreal, to be honest it's really not fair for them. Why should they have to pay a expensive regulation licenses, maintenance check-ups on the books, past several tests including knowing your driving area streets/history/etc, have ATM machine in the car with paper print out's, regulated machine for travel to cost ratio, yet an Uber driver can circumvent all this?

The real fear for cab drivers seem to be self driving cars even more than Uber.

wyck··on Quebec passes law to regulate Uber
I don't think there is a basis for this. Taxi's are very regulated in Quebec, the taxi drivers themselves do the intimidating via their union and on the streets. The reality is that they have to pay large licenses, regular inspection fees, past several tests , have ATM machines in the car, etc, while the uber drivers don't.

If you want to see mob involvement related to cars you want to look at the towing industry, but generally they stick to the money, which is construction.

wyck··on The DAO is effectively on hold to decide whether flaws exist and how to fix them
"Kind of" is the understatement of the year when you consider the amount of money involved and how stupid this idea actually is.
wyck··on Ethereum’s $150M DAO Opens as Researchers Call for a Halt
Haven't you heard they are going to destroy airbndb because they invented a self install lock app, people will be rushing to the stores to install these locks because it solves so many lock related issues, it's more expesive then what's already on the market, it's a great signal to local regulations that your illegally renting your house, and as a bonus they do zero marketing, it's all win.
wyck··on Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
More likely Coinbase just started accepting ethereum trades because bitcoin is stalling and 2-3 other strong platforms(aka competitors) already offer it.

His basic point was related to bitcoin being not great "beyond store of value and speculation.", and how etherium is magically going to avoid that with killer apps.... sure...that is bubble speak for solving problems that don't actually exist.

wyck··on Why do we have allergies?
They should do some research on tree pollen and why my body thinks trees are trying to kill me.
wyck··on Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge
Important context to see both sides, certainly a questionable liability they knew about, I guess he worked so hard they felt it was a risk worth taking, which brings their judgement into question.

The fact that all this drama is being publicly aired and used as a weapon does not put Zero Hedge in a good light, it's almost like Bloomberg baited them into this defensive posture.

wyck··on Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
I will be the mature one here in hopes you understand the problem with the "bitcoin" attitude.

If you want bitcoin to succeed talk about the technology and adoption, this is a complex enough topic in of itself with many real issues. The success of bitcoin depends on this 100%.

If you want to talk about economic saviorism cut the bullshit, it has a nagtive effect on bitcoin. Putting people down you don't know is a sure sign of immaturity that will get you no where and you have exemplified what is wrong with the bitcoin community 2x in this very thread.

wyck··on Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
This is why many bitcoin proponents comes across as naive, broad political statements bordering on false beliefs come across as juvenile and in many cases fanatic.

Stay with the facts and reality, a.k.a. the technology, statements like the above create a toxic environment in which the bitcoin community currently finds itself deeply mired in.

wyck··on Fuck mandrill here's how you move to Amazon SES and pay 1/8 of the price
You might like this tweet, https://twitter.com/shawnroos/status/702764554816778240/phot...
wyck··on OpenBazaar is Open for Business
Well here ya go,

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Server/issues/240

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Server/issues/202

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Server/issues/164

The server would need to be re-written for native support since it uses UDP, but I think it might be possible using a 3rd party like onioncat.

wyck··on OpenBazaar is Open for Business
Except it works on UDP and not TCP.. TOR does not work on UDP, there are things besides http that exist on the internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
wyck··on OpenBazaar is Open for Business
This is wrong, anyone using openbazaar for darknet reasons will be instantly caught because openbazaar does not support TOR or annonymity in any form.

The goal of the developers is simply a marketplace client, which seems misguided.

wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
Honestly that is becoming more clear and I might have jumped the gun in my initial comment.

It went viral very fast, I think it would have been a great idea to say that each "regional' media representative would be disclosing more info within the next couple of weeks.. on the website!

And if some important info was not disclosed regionally there would also be a follow up, because right now you have to admit.. not many Western names are showing up if any ( don't mention Cameron and the others since this was already exposed pre-leak).

wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
I'm not critiquing the website, it looks great to be honest. It's comes across a little odd when you target just a small amount of people, it almost seems like a sales pitch.

The journalists need to be more transparent about the data and why these individuals were picked first, and how the data release is going to work.

I hope for your sake you don't have to vectorize everyone mentioned in the data.

wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
At least they were transparent to exactly why the information was filtered. Credibility is certainly a good point but 100 people are going to have issue with sifting through terabytes of data.
wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
I'm referencing the fact that some leaks you get the whole enchilada and it's up to you or the media to sift though.

In the case it's a leak which is being funnelled by the reporters.

Maybe this is because of legal reasons, I have no idea, but would it not be better they just dumped the whole data set onto the web?

wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
Your missing the point, it's clear they this leak is planned and not someone just uploading a bunch of files.

People don't seem to understand what I mean by the above^.

The question is would it not be better to dump the entire data set to the public, instead of it being funnelled by reporters?

wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
The heads up was given a long time ago, you won't find their names in the leak, it's kinda funny Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is being outed, I guess he didn't get the memo on account of his recent actions.
wyck··on Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
Panama just passed compliance with FATF (February 2016) and it's a message that their political leader/law firm owner/world's largest money launderer (his name is in the OP's title) is no longer open for business after decades of being the go-to place for hidden $$$.

http://www.fatf-gafi.org/countries/#Panama

"The FATF recognised that Algeria, Angola and Panama have made significant progress in improving their regimes to combat money laundering and terrorist financing and will therefore no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process."

Also let's not forgot about the CIA's asset Noriega and decades of money laundering which started all this, including recently trying to wipe cloud data off a Nevada company logs. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...

tl;dr - This is a multi-state G20 planned leak and not the work of some moral insider or hacker, the money laundering world is becoming a difficult place for outsiders. Real leaks don't have fancy websites with responsive vectorized portraits and a full on content /social media structure.

wyck··on Researcher links mass extinctions to 'Planet X'
"So you think there's a chance" - Niburu

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm

wyck··on Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process
You can't automate exceptions and mistakes, which is what most companies spend a lot of time with. Also the industry has decades of proprietary crap build into it.

This is certainly one area the tech sector can tackle (maybe with smart contracts) but it's years away and requires a lot of effort in the financial space.

wyck··on Mozilla founder unveils Bitcoin-based micropayments system for users, publishers
Well to be frank, they will know why they failed but it's not very relevant to anything else.

If you miss a target it doesn't mean you learn how to make the target better.

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