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Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Verizon chief privacy officer Karen Zacharia and both the current and former CEOs of Equifax on how to protect consumers against major data breaches.

That has got to be some kind of joke.

Why would they ask the former leaders of two companies (Yahoo and Equifax) who have experienced perhaps the largest data breaches of all time... "how to protect consumers against major data breaches?"

That is ridiculous.

They should have asked the current head of security from each company instead.

However there are now other exchange betting options, with at least some degree of liquidity - Betdaq, Smarkets and Matchbook for example.

That's good to know.

But do they impose the same sort of "60% winners tax" that betfair does? Or anything close to that?

Because if so, I wouldn't even bother signing up.

I don't need to gamble that badly!

That's the scam.

They get you hooked thinking they are only taking 5% or whatever it was... and from pretty much everybody who bets there, they do only take 5%.

But all of the "smart money" gets taxed at 60% when they inevitably take all of the losers money who only paid 5%.

So in essence, they are doing exactly as you suggested... "they're just taking a cut of the action." But it's a 65% cut!

I used to use the betfair platform until it they blocked themselves from being viewed in Canada for some strange reason right after they were purchased by ladbrokes I believe it was.

Anyways, after playing with them for a few years, I was horrified to learn about their 60% tax on consistent winners that they have dubbed a "premium charge".

Found some sort of edge to exploit and reap profits?

Betfair doesn't even care to talk to you to ask you what you are doing, they will just charge you 60% of your winnings once you go over a certain limit. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jun/29/betfair-premiu...

it's killed far fewer people so far.

Sitting curled up in a chair for hours straight staring into a phone is killing you a lot quicker than you might think.

I'm guessing they'll be charging big bucks for the higher quality versions now that they're world-renowned photographs.

That was achieved by placing the scrubber directly on the coal plant's exhaust stack.

The class of people that can pay $40 for an uber ride home right to their door is entirely different from the class of people who would wait 15 minutes out in the elements to pay $2 for a ride that would take them within a 10 minute walk of their home.

I don't really consider myself an uber or a bus person... I drive myself around most of the time and just choose not to drink too much when I am out.

But I have never shared an uber with anybody who I regularly take public transit with.

And i have never shared a public transit ride with anybody who I regularly share an uber ride home with.

All I am getting at is I do not believe that Uber is stealing away too many people from the bus system at least where I reside.

Source? I can't find a single mention of UPC codes and the Midtown Yacht Club online. [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?dcr=0&q="Midtown+Yacht+Club"+u...

The right answer to those failures should never be murder.

The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.

amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states

You're amazed that most Americans do not resort to murder when the legal system fails them?

That's why we have appeals courts. To appeal decisions by judges that you believe have failed you.

Where do you come from if you don't mind my asking?

By targeting recent visitors to a subreddit... they are essentially no longer targeting anyone.

I rarely browse the reddit homepage, but I know that most redditors do.

And what's on the homepage that most everybody who looks at it clicks through to? Any and every random subreddit you could think of.

I have seen /r/bitcoin on the homepage recently.

I have seen /r/security on the homepage recently.

I have seen /r/rtlsdr on the homepage recently.

That's ridiculous.

If I want to advertise a SDR to the "rtlsdr" crowd, I do not want to pay for impressions for every single user on reddit who has just recently viewed /r/rtlsdr because they had a quirky post which resonated with people.

Not much sun in the middle of a hurricane.

You’re so hyped for this project and confident that it will succeed that you start thinking about the future: “how will I scale my application for the millions of users it will have?”

That's one of my side project vices!

Every time I write a new login database... I wonder if I should make the ID a MEDIUMINT or INT.

Would you say that switching to Gimp added to your professional toolset, or enabled you to do anything that you weren't able to before?

It has for me.

I can download and work on GIMP virtually anywhere on the planet on virtually any computer for absolutely free.

That is not possible with Adobe Anything.

Care to elaborate?

I don't know a ton about Zcash or Monero, I only know that Zcash advertises and actually produces truly anonymous transactions (that the founders can unmask, or so I have read).

Is Monero anonymous as well? For every transaction? Or only specific ones (like Zcash).

"You can now get secure email anonymously"

How exactly... by paying with Bitcoin?

And this is coming from a security-conscious company?

Unless I mined the Bitcoins myself, and never spent the remaining 12.45 BTC that I mined (after presumably spending 0.05 BTC on protonmail)... it is far from "Anonymous".

If they started accepting Zcash, however...

They had been involved with this story from the beginning.

Which story are you referring to, the camel farmer getting a visa?

if you knew half of the capabilities on display in a warzone, you'd shit your pants

Please, do tell!

Police dismissed the [bomb] as the work of “boys or pranksters.”

My father tells me stories about how he witnessed people openly and actively "recruiting terrorists" in public in San Francisco in the 1970s.

He said they were just standing around with signs and pamphlets, calling out and trying to get you to sign up to their terrorist campaign.

Just as the religious zealots you see on the streets today that are mostly ignored.

The world has really changed, and fast.

I'm curious as to what exactly excites you about Big Brother being everywhere?

Indeed, the cryptocurrency is currently trading at $461, meaning it's worth about 18% of bitcoin's current price of $2,568, in an already-open futures market.

This statement needs a lot of asterisks added to it imho.

BCC has been trading at $600K USD volume in the past 24 hours [0] compared to Bitcoin's trading volume topping over $600M USD in the same time period.

BCC futures have only been trading on a single, unpopular exchange, that does not allow withdrawal of the coins being traded until only after the fork takes place.

If you can send them BCC to trade before the fork, I fail to see why you can only cash out after the fork.

I'm all for Bigger Blocks, but claiming that BCC has 18% support of the community based on that single price valuation is extremely misleading imho.

From a volume standpoint, I would argue that it has less than 1% support of the community at large.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

A lot of companies really do own you and your life while you're with them.

That's why I choose not to work for one personally.

So all Kim Jong-Nam had to do to survive was walk into a washroom and wipe his face clean with soap and water?

I understood every single joke on that list except this one:

A man goes into a shop and asks "You don't have any meat?". "No," replies the sales lady. "We don't have any fish. It's the store across the street that doesn't have any meat."

I just don't get it at all... is it just a bad joke?

I understand that stores ran out of products in that situation, but if you just had to walk across to street to get what you were after, that doesn't really seem like a joke at the expense of the communist government.

Wow... talk about a first mover advantage...

Best case scenario, according to the graphs in the article, is if "Low Carbon Policies" come into effect to disrupt the oil industry as quickly as possible... we will still be consuming 50 million barrels of oil per day in the year 2060.

Our definitions of "over confident assholes" may differ, perhaps? :)

Absolutely however I do agree with you. If a young developer doesn't integrate into a team role immediately, that's no reason to not hire him.

A lot of great developers are so great because they've spent years alone with their computers just cranking out code. So the best ones won't have the greatest social skills.

But if the kid's still having trouble integrating into their team role after their 6 month probationary period, for example, I personally wouldn't vouch for them any longer.

With respect, this doesn't tell us what to do if we run into a hugely over-confident asshole.

Fire them, if you can. Before they poison your entire talent pool with negativity.

Which is great!

I only mentioned it because the original title read something along the lines of "4 x 8 foot CNC available for purchase for under $500".

All this talk about being kind (or staying calm) in tense situations reminds me of this video I caught on reddit last year. [0]

There is a dash-cam filming the inside cockpit of a plane when the pilot abruptly finds himself in one of those "death spirals" or "flat spins".

The pilot doesn't say a word.

He immediately reverts to his training, rights the plane, glides it towards the ground, and only grunts a bit when he crash-lands.

I found that absolutely amazing. To have that level of poise when you are literally facing death is unbelievable.

It is very similar to the simple advice given in the linked blog post.

Staying calm in difficult situations is the most efficient course of action.

Stressing out, raising your voice, yelling about things, or blaming others isn't going to do a damned thing when your plane is literally spinning out of control and going to kill you in a few minutes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbS-oHi9ro

But what if they're a hugely over-confident asshole?

Then they have absolutely no business working on a team effort.

They never should have been hired in the first place.