mahart's comments

mahart | 2 years ago | on: SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father

On his staff page he's described as a "leading scholar in the field of tax law". Maybe he was the one that got FTX on QuickBooks after having been paid for 11 months there.

mahart | 3 years ago | on: FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions

It is an alleged massive fraud going on a public relations tour pre-trial, which not every defendant gets. I guess we'll see if NYT allows him to sail through it sympathetically.

mahart | 4 years ago | on: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

I have found videos that were marked disliked by me that I never intended to dislike. Pretty sure it was all from trying to scroll on mobile and a click accidentally getting registered.

mahart | 5 years ago | on: “I will slaughter you”

The sentence: 'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids'

Suggests he doesn't even comprehend that curl amounts to 'instructions to copy data'

mahart | 5 years ago | on: “I will slaughter you”

I disagree with the idea that sharing a singular name of someone you had a conversion with is doxxing. Especially one voluntarily sent without a prior agreement that the email conversation would remain private.

mahart | 5 years ago | on: After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract

>As developers we are no longer seeing our actions as “politically neutral” and are starting to understand the power we yield collectively to make positive change to our industry.

The only thing it changes in the industry is who gets a contract.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Google allows G Suite administrators to monitor and audit user emails

Also legal action can require the admin to have access to obtain this stuff. Also thanks to FOIA, there are government orgs that are required to comply with public requests for copies of emails.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly

The explanation would be the desire to sell GIS products in a particular region.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Li Wenliang

As big of a challenge as this is, the party has more control now than it ever had before. Control from technology but also control from social structure and how they teach people to think.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Are Passenger Jet Engines Hitting Their Technical Limits?

Biotech is still in its infancy and mastering DNA would open up a new frontier where humans can edit the genetic code to what makes a human. Assuming it isn't universally banned.

The only truly depressing future to me is if interstellar travel really is as hard as it seems to us now. There kind of needs to be a physics/propulsion discovery on the order of magnitude of electricity or the journey can only be feasibly made by the immortal AI robot race that replaces us.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

They (generally) don't think like that because they are taught an extreme sense of nationalism/collectivism.

Anyone with enough money to emigrate has a much stronger incentive to stay and play along with the system.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Death on an Unruly, Overcrowded Everest

And Sherpa laborers hauling heavy oxygen tanks up ahead.

mahart | 6 years ago | on: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China

Not to anyone who matters because they will never know.

mahart | 7 years ago | on: Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

People are more willing to pay to have their own views and beliefs confirmed to themselves over factual reporting.

mahart | 7 years ago | on: Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee

They are used to treating women like children who never grow up. There is always a guardian in charge of them. It is crazy to read they've set up a website to send notifications and disable family members from travel.

They only just allowed women to vote/run for office a few years ago, and women to drive last year. This is a great produced piece by nytimes as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ8WPHj6Nhw

mahart | 7 years ago | on: A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video]

I've watched a bunch of his videos a while back and he said he had a day job in the tech industry. But basically he's said he wanted a tesla without paying $$$ so he bought some salvage vehicles and did it as a hobby.

But with his channel starting to take off he might have transitioned to a youtube career. At this point he's probably funding a lot of it via youtube income.

mahart | 7 years ago | on: Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power

Just my personal anecdote but a vast majority of the Chinese students I've known do not want to stay after their degree. A couple have rattled off the statistics on the huge advantage they have in the job market back home with a degree from the US.

Not that I'm arguing against immigration reform, though. Just playing devil's advocate.

mahart | 7 years ago | on: Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

He instructed other people to delete tweets/messages after learning someone died to cover up what happened. That seems like obstruction and conspiracy to me.

I think it is a stretch to call tweeting a wrong address "wire fraud" though.

mahart | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane

It is just a result of poor planning, technically they are two separate accounts. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/...

They did add an option so you can change your personal account's email address so you don't have to deal with account namespace issues.

mahart | 9 years ago | on: How Chinese Students Saved America's Colleges

Well there are 2 bar graphs and 1 line graph in addition to "the feeling"