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www.sfgate.com 4y ago

Google IPO Raises 1.2B, $85 a share

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www.cnn.com 6y ago

China reportedly bans foreign technology in its government and public offices

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techcrunch.com 7y ago

Snapchat Game Platform

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cloud.google.com 8y ago

Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Coinbase Insolvent?

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blogs.wsj.com 8y ago

Etsy moving to GCP

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mobile.twitter.com 8y ago

AWS managed kubernetes (EKS)

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Do you analyze your AWS Bill?

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www.theinformation.com 9y ago

How AWS Stacks Up Against Rivals on Downtime

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amp.timeinc.net 9y ago

App dynamics bought by Cisco for 3.7B

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blog.google 9y ago

Order an Uber Through Google Maps

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iotworm.eyalro.net 9y ago

IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction

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www.fallen.io 11y ago

Amazing WW2 HTML5 Canvas Visualization

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yahoo-tech.tumblr.com 11y ago

MS Clippy appears when you follow Yahoo tech on Tumblr

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: How much to work at HP

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isthereanearthquakenearme.herokuapp.com 11y ago

2 beers + 2 hours + fear of earthquakes = this

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colinbookman.com 12y ago

MicIO – HTML5 to MicroController Communication through a headphone jack

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colinbookman.com 12y ago

A better way to write AMD Declerations

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Apple's Website Ad Placement - Why?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What's more important, theory or practical knowledge

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colinbookman.com 13y ago

Algorithm to Reduce Millions of Network Alarms to Thousands

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Wouldn't the obvious fix be elimination of 1031b exchange, capital gains on all house appreciation, and only allowing 1 active federally backed mortgage at a time (with some consideration for allowing a purchase of a new place & selling the old place).

Am I the only one who redacts info, prints it out, then scans it back in? Or redacts, then takes a screenshot before sending out?

For some reason I just never trust the PDF tool (or human error on my end) actually redacting the info, even if I were to do a print to PDF.

Is it illegal to sell your artwork at an auction, and a criminal happens to be the one to buy it? I honestly don't know.

is the onus on an artist or on an "auction house" to vet buyers. If post sale it turns out the money was fraudulent, does the artist need to pay it back?

In crypto terms. You the artist simply put a NFT up for auction at OpenSea. You the scammer happened to purchase the artwork on OpenSea. However KYC is not well enforced, enabling for money laundering between the two wallets.

If he instead started to draw NFTs, and sell it from his KYC account to his dirty wallet, could he still be convicted? What if only one out of every 100 NFTs his dirty wallet purchased was from his KYC account?

Or what if he decided to create his own crypto-currency and it just so happened that his dirty wallet was an early investor of ETH to his fund.

Seems like he could have done more to distance himself.

Zoom charges a $/user/month. Companies pre-covid had video conferencing platforms. Zoom did a lot of shifting of existing spend from business on Webex & Hangouts/Meet to its platform.

Even if Zoom's average usage per paid user goes down post-pandemic, it's revenue will remain constant and could still grow as new employees are hired and new companies switch over.

that cloth masks have much more limited effectiveness than initially assumed

I recall multiple studies early on stating cloth masks were not effective and should be avoided if you have access to surgical or n95 masks.

My impression is that the (US) government didn't want to nuisance this discussion as it'd only open further criticism of mask mandates.

Would it? If the laser is able to focus on the rocket for multiple seconds. Then it'd just need to pack a fraction of that energy over a sustained duration. Which sounds reasonable.

Government "Strength" could offer zero down no interest loans for converting SFH to triplexes and duplexes. Government "Strength" could fund large scale public commuter rail projects to cheaper, more rural areas. Government "Strength" could inject cash to build lots of housing, similar to what we did with the national highways.

There's much the federal government could do to alleviate the situation.

I get the impression history is repeating itself. Are we repeating the same events that lead up to ww2? It feels a tad too similar for comfort.

It's saddening that our government hasn't treated housing becoming un-affordable as a national risk. Somehow we can spend trillions on bailing out businesses and corporations yet we can't muster the strength to build additional housing?

Is not the rise in housing cost the single largest contributor to many of our problems?

Say you have controll of wallet A that's clean and never used, and wallet B that has 30M of dirty crypto.

You 1. mint a NFT with wallet A. Then 2. Sell the NFT to wallet B. You then deposit the proceeds into coinbase as its legitimate earnings on your NFT artwork.

If you want to get creative you can do multiple buy and sells between a collection of wallets to reduce suspicions.

The web is fairly decentralized though. Google could go down and the web would still operate. Amazon could go down, and the web would still operate.

Yes there's a few centralized components still such-as DNS, but even that is heavily cached and distributed in nature.

Blockchain could aid in replacing BGP & DNS allowing for a better web. But web3 is just as centralized as our current web, if not more centralized. For example, abracadabra money get's current crypto prices from a "price oracle" which is a consortium of 16 parties who state what they feel the price should be. I wouldn't call that "Decentralized"

Furthermore, why brute-force crack crypto when you can inject code using the log4j exploit which transmits the private keys.

Sure log4j might have been recently patched, but it's not unrealistic to think that a nation-state has access to similar exploits.

Well, Vimeo does allow downloading the original video. When I think YouTube I think of a Video Social Media network. Similar to how I don't expect to download the original picture on Instagram, Snap, or Facebook.

Where-as Vimeo is closer to a video hosting service.