elaineo | 8 years ago | on: The Transaction Costs of Tokenizing Everything
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elaineo | 8 years ago | on: Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
I always thought it odd that the most common TaskRabbit job was assembling Ikea furniture. Do people really need to outsource that job?
Amazing that the company lasted so long.
elaineo | 8 years ago | on: How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps
Awesome code review, even more valuable than the plugin itself. Thanks :)
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
That's why Yahoo made the point of blaming a "state-sponsored actor". You would expect a giant tech company to be able to defend itself against random hackers, but what if it was the government of Russia?? That's why Sony Pictures blamed North Korea for what was, in the opinions of security experts, the work of an insider.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
Unfortunately, lawsuits are rare unless a user can demonstrate that the hack led to measurable harm.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Palo Alto mayor pushes for ban on large tech companies taking over downtown
Palantir and Skype are in Downtown Palo Alto. Paypal was founded there, and so was Google.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
If investors think it's theft, they should call the authorities.
The suspect (not "thief", because "theft" is determined in a court of law) can then be convicted via due process, which is a constitutional right.
After the Mt. Gox hack, users contacted authorities. The Mt. Gox hack lost $600M worth of bitcoin. They are now recovering some of their funds.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
Now say, you took out a mortgage and came up with 5 million dollars. Another 100 people don't have any dollars, so they would like to seize your 5 million dollars with a patch. There's a clear majority vote to take your 5 million dollars. Should they be allowed to do that?
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
nope, that's exactly correct. They even use the term "trustees".
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
Yes, that is a more accurate description. The Ethereum community was very quick to call the guy a thief, without due process.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
DAO failed, but it controls about 15% of the total ether supply, so it was too big to fail, and the fork will save it.
elaineo | 9 years ago | on: Stick a Fork in Ethereum
Thanks for the link, I didn't know people were doing this. I had only seen EthereumClassic, which seems prone to attack, and a nightmare for exchanges.
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: Unmasking Startup L. Jackson
Was he unmasked, or did he just voluntarily disclose his identity? Seems like he went to Bloomberg and offered them a scoop.
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
I think it was just an excuse used as a cover-up. Sounds like cultural issues were at play with the split.
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: There's a new way to track startups that are in serious trouble
Recruiters could use this to find engineers...
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK
Can self-driving cars use bots to automatically fight traffic/parking tickets?
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins
look at the post just below this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134798
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins
I think journalists like to predict doom because imminent disasters scare people and get pageviews.
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
Google doesn't demand anything. If your paywalled website is not accessible by Google's crawler, then Google will not index it. Publishers want Google to index their pages and drive potential paying visitors, which is why they open the loophole themselves.
For the second point, Google does require that publishers specify "registration required" in their sitemap.
elaineo | 10 years ago | on: How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
that's a good analogy.
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