The total market cap of etherium is $52B so $20M is about.2%. (1/5th of 1% in case the '.' is hard to see) of all etherium in circulation.
There's about $1.6T US dollars in circulation, so as a percentage of total money in circulation that $20M etherium heist is the equivalent of a $6B USD heist.
Admittedly an odd way of looking at it but it's hard to imagine somebody making off with $6B due to something as mundane as an RPC vulnerability.
Facebook doesn't anticipate finding "additional instances of misuse of user data". They've already found it and have no way to hide it. They're just figuring out how to announce with minimal impact.
If they hadn't found it or had found it and thought they could hide it they would keep their mouths shut on the issue.
I don't think they're evil but only because I don't think that word has any real meaning.
I think many are led by a psychopath or have a one actively moving up the ranks on their way to the top. The promotion structure of most corporations, not unlike feudal Europe, actively selects for psychopaths.
Nah, I think it's just because this particular new generation has shit taste in music vs my generation, oddly enough the generation previous to mine also had shit taste in music.
Brian is usually pretty good for insight but this reads like a 'no shit' kind of observation he made to his in laws over dinner.
Even on sites that require info for registration I simply lie, always have. For info other than shipping address it's not relevant to whatever transaction we're undertaking so I see no reason to provide them with any valid info, for security questions it's easy enough to jot down actual security questions so I can remember the answer in the future (usually in keepass notes).
I do get a kick out of random websites wishing my honey pot gmail account happy birthday at random times of the year.
I had a Facebook account a while back simply for the random forums that required Facebook authentication for comments. About 2 years ago they nuked the account because they couldn't map it to a human being, which was kind of the point.
Or even 30 years ago... well ray tracing was anyway. Real time ray tracing was a topic in '87 much like the holo deck on ST:NG was; a, "won't it be cool when ?", kind of topic.
It's been a long time coming and it's still not quite here as posters further up have laid out, but it's getting closer.
Except one is extrapolation from direct measurement and the other is, in your words, a 'short leap of imagination' which I think is being very generous about how long a leap it is.
The electric universe isn't a theory, it's a random hodge podge of assertions with no predictive powers. It's not science, it's barely mythology.
I think if you read up a bit more about Gerald Pollack you'll see that the folks who are co-opting his work are other crackpots extrapolating from his book and work to make bizarre claims about magic water which he never made.
The problem isn't a lack of rigor in dismissing bizarre claims, it's a lack of rigor in the claims themselves.
Lastly there is no such thing as 'settled science'. All science is in flux but some models have sufficiently precise predictive powers that attempts to replace it with some new approach will be met with skepticism. The areas you cite (with the exception of Pollack) don't even bother to make predictions, they're just folks jumping up and down yammering 'acknowledge my theory, acknowledge my theory'.
If only there was some way to search the internet for information. I'd envision some web portal thingy where you type in a string and it searches for you, if such a thing existed in might pop up pages from say 2012 that were relevant at the time, though maybe it's possible that the same people who had the foresight to change his birth certificate had the same foresight to plant the story in case they needed it.
That article describes the Facebook app his campaign used. Romney had one too.
Again the difference is the app made it painfully clear that it wasn't a quiz or a chance to win a free pony, it was to support his campaign. I don't have a Facebook page, never will so at some level I don't really give a shit, but false equivalences are false equivalences regardless.
In Obama's case Facebook users went to Obama's re-election page and were asked if they'd like to provide information. So yes they're the same in that the campaigns used Facebook data but one asked permission in a context that made it painfully obvious what it was for and the other didn't ask permission and there was no obvious link to it's purpose until years later.
For starters one might assume that the Democrats would avoid running the least electable candidate they could find. But maybe not, both parties seem to have lost their damn minds.
I got news for you sparky. If you think Facebook and Google were being unfair for taking down certain forms of speech wait until ISPs block that same speech from all sources due to social pressure.
When multiple sitting senators don't count as confirmation there is no longer any such thing as confirmation. Any and everything can be discounted as 'they're lying'.
Exactly. Neither the US Dollar nor bitcoin are actually based on anything of worth.
The dollar's valuation is based on the fairly simple premise that the US economy in the near future will look an awful lot like today's. It has a lot of mass and doesn't move fast so it tends to be stable.
Bitcoin's valuation appears to be based on the premise that it went up yesterday so it will probably go up tomorrow. Folks buy, the price goes up in response and folks slap each other on the back congratulating themselves on their powers of prediction. At some point it's valuation will be based on: it went down today it must go down tomorrow at which point folks will panic.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition on articles involving space but the Electric Universe Brigade is very predictable.
It's a tough problem but I suspect one that is solvable with $10B USD,.leaving them a fair amount of net profit for whatever they want.
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/....
The first thing I wondered was what percentage of the currency is that.
According to this site: https://etherscan.io/stat/supp...
The total market cap of etherium is $52B so $20M is about .2%. (1/5th of 1% in case the '.' is hard to see) of all etherium in circulation.
There's about $1.6T US dollars in circulation, so as a percentage of total money in circulation that $20M etherium heist is the equivalent of a $6B USD heist.
Admittedly an odd way of looking at it but it's hard to imagine somebody making off with $6B due to something as mundane as an RPC vulnerability.
Sure, let me try again. Let's see, ad hominem? got it. You're a fucking idiot.
I assume you breath via some mechanical assistance since I suspect you're not intelligent enough to do it on your own.
Not sure exactly when the folks decided that advocating for a group was the same as discriminating against that group's complement but they're wrong.
It's entirely possible to advocate for and not be anti-white guy.
Full disclosure, I'm an old white guy.
Facebook doesn't anticipate finding "additional instances of misuse of user data". They've already found it and have no way to hide it. They're just figuring out how to announce with minimal impact.
If they hadn't found it or had found it and thought they could hide it they would keep their mouths shut on the issue.
Lucky you, your'e saving a fortune in rent or mortgage payments.
I don't think they're evil but only because I don't think that word has any real meaning.
I think many are led by a psychopath or have a one actively moving up the ranks on their way to the top. The promotion structure of most corporations, not unlike feudal Europe, actively selects for psychopaths.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
I think the moon is made out of cheese. We should audit NASA while we're at it.
To be fair that may just be one guy who's really obsessed with the video.
Nah, I think it's just because this particular new generation has shit taste in music vs my generation, oddly enough the generation previous to mine also had shit taste in music.
Brian is usually pretty good for insight but this reads like a 'no shit' kind of observation he made to his in laws over dinner.
Even on sites that require info for registration I simply lie, always have. For info other than shipping address it's not relevant to whatever transaction we're undertaking so I see no reason to provide them with any valid info, for security questions it's easy enough to jot down actual security questions so I can remember the answer in the future (usually in keepass notes).
I do get a kick out of random websites wishing my honey pot gmail account happy birthday at random times of the year.
I had a Facebook account a while back simply for the random forums that required Facebook authentication for comments. About 2 years ago they nuked the account because they couldn't map it to a human being, which was kind of the point.
Or even 30 years ago ... well ray tracing was anyway. Real time ray tracing was a topic in '87 much like the holo deck on ST:NG was; a, "won't it be cool when ?", kind of topic.
It's been a long time coming and it's still not quite here as posters further up have laid out, but it's getting closer.
Except one is extrapolation from direct measurement and the other is, in your words, a 'short leap of imagination' which I think is being very generous about how long a leap it is.
The electric universe isn't a theory, it's a random hodge podge of assertions with no predictive powers. It's not science, it's barely mythology.
I think if you read up a bit more about Gerald Pollack you'll see that the folks who are co-opting his work are other crackpots extrapolating from his book and work to make bizarre claims about magic water which he never made.
The problem isn't a lack of rigor in dismissing bizarre claims, it's a lack of rigor in the claims themselves.
Lastly there is no such thing as 'settled science'. All science is in flux but some models have sufficiently precise predictive powers that attempts to replace it with some new approach will be met with skepticism. The areas you cite (with the exception of Pollack) don't even bother to make predictions, they're just folks jumping up and down yammering 'acknowledge my theory, acknowledge my theory'.
If only there was some way to search the internet for information. I'd envision some web portal thingy where you type in a string and it searches for you, if such a thing existed in might pop up pages from say 2012 that were relevant at the time, though maybe it's possible that the same people who had the foresight to change his birth certificate had the same foresight to plant the story in case they needed it.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/...
That article describes the Facebook app his campaign used. Romney had one too.
Again the difference is the app made it painfully clear that it wasn't a quiz or a chance to win a free pony, it was to support his campaign. I don't have a Facebook page, never will so at some level I don't really give a shit, but false equivalences are false equivalences regardless.
Not really no.
In Obama's case Facebook users went to Obama's re-election page and were asked if they'd like to provide information. So yes they're the same in that the campaigns used Facebook data but one asked permission in a context that made it painfully obvious what it was for and the other didn't ask permission and there was no obvious link to it's purpose until years later.
So, yeah, not quite the same thing.
Good example; it doesn't scale so we found an alternative. For instance only about 1/3rd of New Yorkers commute by car.
So the trick is finding the alternative bandwagon and hop on that because bitcoin isn't it.
For starters one might assume that the Democrats would avoid running the least electable candidate they could find. But maybe not, both parties seem to have lost their damn minds.
I got news for you sparky. If you think Facebook and Google were being unfair for taking down certain forms of speech wait until ISPs block that same speech from all sources due to social pressure.
When multiple sitting senators don't count as confirmation there is no longer any such thing as confirmation. Any and everything can be discounted as 'they're lying'.
At 140,000 Lb lift rating they could have put a large sperm whale (130,000 lb) and a bowl of petunias (somewhat less than 10,000 lb) in orbit.
On no not again.
No it isn't, it's exactly as hard. The second you start having thoughts about losing you're dead money. That's kind of the whole point of poker.
I don't think you know what Net Neutrality means.
Exactly.
Neither the US Dollar nor bitcoin are actually based on anything of worth.
The dollar's valuation is based on the fairly simple premise that the US economy in the near future will look an awful lot like today's. It has a lot of mass and doesn't move fast so it tends to be stable.
Bitcoin's valuation appears to be based on the premise that it went up yesterday so it will probably go up tomorrow. Folks buy, the price goes up in response and folks slap each other on the back congratulating themselves on their powers of prediction. At some point it's valuation will be based on: it went down today it must go down tomorrow at which point folks will panic.