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In 2008, Goldman Sachs had their M&A department come in as usual, working on deals all day. They didn't close a single deal in over a year. (This is hearsay, btw)

So with that being the only anecdotal data point I have, the emails won't stop until the recruiters become fewer.

This study is just showing the infection in the neuron can/may/does precede it’s appearance in the serum.

That's pretty interesting, what does this mean for anything. Like does it change how tests should work? vaccines? any mitigation measure?

Ipfs is decent enough or better with free pinning services

This may be related to the relatively lax response of western governments as compared to the 'full out riot control' approach China takes

Narrator: its not

There are some other comments here on it

Okay this is some amusing and problematic cognitive dissonance.

The West gets attacked because of its military occupations in Mesopotamia. That is the criteria for Jihad. Any random teenage edgelord that happens to be Muslim can always take the pedantic “its my duty” approach at any time. The vast majority do not, any slight provocation from then on encourages that sentiment. China’s approach avoids this because they have no military occupation of traditionally muslim lands. That approach has worked better for China’s national security while operating in islamic areas, they invest and have been masterful at it. The Western/US approach never factored in its own national security, or any attempt at understanding Islam, and its been a disaster for its people and a boon to its defense contractors. The key point is that its never been about “rising up on behalf of all muslims being oppressed” its always been about “excising a cancer from traditionally islamic lands”. And that makes inaction towards Xinjiang and the plight of the Uighurs make way more sense, than the fundamentally rocky assumption that action from some unspecified Muslim people is expected to occur.

Secondly, some Uighars have already done the terror attacks within China, over “small things”. Long before the massive dragnet and crackdown. This is where China’s identity politics come into play, that some other commenters have pointed out. China’s domestic stance and behavior isn't really about Muslims, its about “territorial unity” with an undercurrent of ethnic discrimination. But ultimately the Uighers are on their own, and East Turkistan isn't going to be a thing.

I mean she probably doesn’t think about it that way, she’s probably never stepped back and noticed “we dont have the technology to either protect children or find CSAM” she probably never thought that and said “but I dont care!” and she definitely never thought “because it fulfills the totalitarian prophecy of The Order! >hissss<”

its not about bribery, its about being led on by the nearest grifter because everyone actually working on technology isnt in the same circles as the politicians

Foundation is a great way to do that because you can swap the board/trustees out for other natural persons indefinitely

And the bylaws can force this too

you mean you’re not going to send $10 to the Red Cross after the next earthquake in a developing nation?

donations aren’t limited, they are capped via a %

the salt is called via a $

different political things, but the salt cap was a punitive thing purely for you to have resentment about where you live, it’s interesting that instead you got resentment for non profits

republicans want you to have resentment at high tax states run by democrats, so that you consider regime change in that state

Okay, so incubation period?

He used some form of MEV shielding but not clear in which way (like if it went straight to miners) but its improbable that the transactions he formed would have been able to be frontrun

This is only slightly different than what goes on in the stock market

But yield farmers and high value targets should open insurance policies

And the insurance pool participants should also be wary ha

He used some kind of MEV shielding thing. But I'm not sure if it went directly to miners or did something else.

yeah its strange. one of his addresses was funded previously by a Tornado Cash balance as well

oh well, he slipped up and is now probably a fugitive since he keeps using his court "frozen" funds.

Another thing to note is that all the quotes from Medjedovic are directly to a journalist (at Bloomberg, the article was there a few days ago), which leads me to think there are intentional omissions towards the journalist. It is new that this level of detail is reported about happenings in the crypto space, from traditionally and previously non-crypto publications. It had usually been confined to "broad market selloff, here's a bunch of hot takes from our gloomy college friends on how it goes to zero!" instead of "specific incident within a crypto community, here's what happened". Medjedovic on the other hand is only seen as taking advantage of situations, such as a journalist that is perhaps merely enthused by the crypto asset economy at a publication that needs someone looking at it, but maybe not well versed in it or having editors that would notice either.

I look for things that are immediately applicable to me.

A tangential example is to think about how Amazon Basics (household items) took over without any advertising (maybe shopping placement was privileged inside Amazon platforms though). It solved people's problems that were being dismissed as too basic to solve.

When I think about workflow adjustments, its usually one thing I'm looking for. If the solution has some other cool things about then, now I'm getting somewhat exposed to them too.

If its not immediately applicable, I'm not really prioritizing it.

Right, but since they have to pay out sometimes or the ponzi[0] stops as people stop contributing, then this could only rely on the public lack of empathy towards "drug users"

[0] replace "ponzi" with "scheme", "mechanism", or any word you coincidentally apply to financial concepts you happen to respect

If you're being fired

The invite will be titled “Meeting regarding your role at Klarna”.

lol ouch! They should make it a gamble where everyone has a meeting and you don't know what the outcome will be! But since thats even more resource intensive I would much prefer a mass pre-recorded zoom call over that.

I can understand that the former thing has better PR than the latter thing. But I think employed Americans are more adept at the fickle nature of their employment, whereas when the news articles go out about a mass zoom meeting firing, it gets the attention and hot takes from a bunch of more disconnected unemployable Americans and out of the loop people from other developed nations chiming in.

So if the leading cause of death from the 18-45 year old group is opioid overdoses

and since abstinence only education is ineffective

and the culture could be updated to carrying naloxone to prevent said deaths, if people were actually willing to have a conversation that wasn't based on abstinence only

then.... this is a dumb and counterproductive policy? how much of the insurance pool is really affected? ... the narcan is to save your friends if you're there, this is like saying "there's a defibrillator nearby so since you might die, insurance denied" with a difference being that there was a purchase record. if an insurance pool is part of the calculation, would that difference matter? seems like you would need actual evidence instead of guesswork.

The main issue is constructing a valid transaction.

An exploiter conducting a big heist and disappearing never has to prove that they can't do it again, because they're rich immediately.

but they wouldn't necessarily know what to look for or change if its a distinct kind of transaction

which means non-trading transactions would look so different that someone playing with higher gas wouldn't know what to replace in the bytecode within the 15 seconds between blocks

and the user also has the choice of sending directly to a miner just like the MEV people do, to skip the mempool

which is looks like he did (but not sure, just noticed his contract mentions MEV)

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1710f8c91f03d43a51b94fb5db00305cdd...

Yeah good observation. But instead of arbitrarily hashing a algorithm used in consensus to find a block, this would be hammering specifically constructed bytecode at a smart contract’s ABI endpoints to see how many other things get effected.

d) I genuinely believe that Medjedovic should show up in court to test that theory.

The only thing interesting about this case is how incompetent he was, while having his entire brand and identity be based on intellectual superiority. He should have used a virgin address and Tornado cash. He should have not needed to risk any funds for failure, as he should have tested the transaction in a localhost staging environment for free. Him getting doxxed is the only thing that allows this theory to be tested, whether he, or we, believe it was legal, it is now unnecessary liability. Instead, everyone knows who he is, that he's spiraling mentally, a judge in his hometown jurisdiction froze his addresses and the funds within it (which is a legal abstraction that does not freeze the funds but makes it illegal to move them until the order is lifted, in his favor or not). Just piling on the liability.

I think “code is law” is a decent crux of a more fleshed out defense, I think the Canadian attorney for the project founders is grasping but I’m not as familiar with the direction courts go there, I would prefer to see something similar play out in US federal appeals court (which is sadly after the drama of trials court and how opinions calcify throughout). It would be great and beneficial to see a transcript of how the “Sushi flooding” is argued the context of a broad computer access abuse law.

Medjedovic added that he'd taken on “substantial risk” in pursuing this strategy. If he'd failed he would have lost “a pretty large chunk of my portfolio.” (The 3 ETH he stood to lose in fees was worth about $11,000 at the time.)

This is misleading, either intentionally or due to Medjedovic's incompetence.

You can fork the current head of the mainnet blockchain to localhost and try infinite permutations for free to see what the next state of the blockchain will be. And then if you like that state, you can then pay to send the working transaction to the mainnet to make that same state occur, in a sure bet. (nearly sure fire bet as in some cases, someone could replace the mainnet transaction in route, but they wouldn't necessarily know what to look for or change if its a distinct kind of transaction)

Medjedovic either didn't know this, because his skills didn't translate as well as he thinks, or Medjedovic knows this and hasn't come up with a stronger argument to support his actions yet (of which there are plenty) and actually is relying on public sympathy to support his actions.

Either way, there is an opportunity for broader education on how these exploits can be cooked in something akin to a "hyperbolic time chamber" or quantum reality without anyone's knowledge, ready to hop back into our dimension fine tuned and ready to cause maximum effect, all within the ~15 seconds between blocks if necessary, as the state changes per block.

just one square kilometre of seagrass stores nearly twice as much carbon as forests on land at a rate 35 times faster

Time to kill the seagrass meadows

at the moment

The key part of their reaction to their education boogeyman is to squash any attempt at showing how broken its always been

1) No, but with sharding it could happen. Sharding is a scalability solution being pushed for. Wouldn’t be failure it would miss some information. An application not designed for this missing information could break irrecoverable. Its a data availability issue.

2) Most of today’s largest blockchains can handle VISA levels of transactions and the bandwidth has been used for something like NASDAQ levels of transactions (but doesn't reach that) since its mostly trading of assets on those blockchains. (The “merchant adoption” use case was always a small use case being masqueraded as a “killer app”by irrelevant people grasping for any use case, but its worked to get more relevant interest into the system, so maybe you heard that, the VISA benchmark is still useful though) When a form of sharding is implemented they get an additional 1-2 orders of magnitude more bandwidth. We’ll see how it pans out.

My next realization was that it doesn't matter if I have the right of way and am dead.

This is a good realization for others to have before it takes a near death experience to change the view.

thanks for elaborating on that for them, California propositions are citizen initiated amendments that citizens vote on

so it doesn't need a politician to run on that sacred platform

Yes, there are limitations to the tools available to the Federal Reserve and what can be done with monetary policy. At the end of the day you are trying to control individual's behaviors with gravitational pulls of satellite objects, and that doesn't really work. The analogy continues as even astrology enthusiasts might do things because of the believed influence of a celestial body's location, but can really still do anything they want.