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marme | 8 years ago | on: Calls for Twitch to police 'sexual streaming'

they should just relaunch justin.tv and move the IRL section to there. The big problem that the gamer streamers have is the IRL streamers are flooding twitch with users that are not the gaming streamers audience

marme | 8 years ago | on: US blacklists 17 firms from applying H1-B

they are already penalized. H1B farms like tata and inforsys just submit thousands of applications knowing most wont make it through the lottery. They are just throwing shit and the wall and seeing what sticks. Startups cant afford to file that many applications and only submit one application for the worker they need and most likely wont get it

marme | 8 years ago | on: Do you need a VPN?

that is not how they caught him. They used a correlation attack. He was stupid and posted something using his personal email on stackoverflow about setting up tor website and processing bitcoin transactions. He then used a linked account to advertise silk road a few times. This made him a prime suspect. They followed him for weeks and watched that every time dread pirate roberts logged in and posted on silk road he was sitting in a cafe or library on his computer connected to a vpn. This was enough for them to get a search warrant and they found all the other evidence they needed to convict him on his laptop

marme | 8 years ago | on: The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups

BMR units should not be required by private developers. This is a public problem that private developers are being forced to solve and many are just refusing to build more housing because they cant make a profit. Instead of requiring them to build BMR units just require all apartments to rent out 25% of units to section 8 housing and the city can subsidize the rent of low income people. The more barriers to housing you put in the more developer leave the market. If you want BMR units then have the city build them and they can build 100% BMR complexes

marme | 8 years ago | on: Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month

it is great for money laundering which is why it is so popular in china. You can buy btc in cash no questions asked and it is untraceble and then sell it at a legit exchange in another country and claim it as legit income or just move it from country to country bypassing currency controls in places like china where no bank will allow you to send more than 50k USD per year out of the country

marme | 8 years ago | on: The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover

Thatcher was too soft. The UK gave up HK for nothing. They could have milked china for billions by making the terms a sale rather than just returning the land to them. The UK had to give up the new territories in 97 but could have kept kowloon and hong kong island which would have forced china to setup border checks/customs in the middle of the city which would have been impossible without tearing down hundreds of buildings. Without borders goods would have freely flooded through kowloon into the mainland and vastly disrupted the economy just look at the fact that today thousands of tons of goods are hand carried across the HK border to avoid paying tariffs.

Thatcher showed her hand early and made it clear she carried more about stable trade for the UK in HK. Once she let the chinese know that is what she wanted they knew they could ask for anything because if the deal failed the economy in HK would collapse.

marme | 9 years ago | on: Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities

yes if the food safety inspector is not performing an inspection a restaurant has right to refuse them service. Uber was deny inspectors service while they were not doing announced inspections. This is like saying you cant refuse to sell alcohol to a minor if you know they are part of government undercover sting. Uber is able to identify government agents try to perform a sting and preemptively refused them service

marme | 9 years ago | on: Moneyball teams

Gretzky is great example because he was not the best player because he scored the most. He was the best because just him being on the ice lead to others scoring as well. Just being out there he was able to help the rest of the team score as well. Contrast this with a player like Kobe Bryant who was a great individual player but horrible team player. Kobe did not get along with his team mates and other than the points he put up on the board Kobe did not really contribute much to the Lakers. Kobe was such a ball hog that they refer to a missed shot that is rebounded and scored by the offense as a kobe assist because it was only way he was going to give up the ball

marme | 9 years ago | on: Stupid security things

this is exactly why 2FA with SMS is not secure at all. If someone really wants to get into your account all you have done is added one extra step where they need to steal your phone account and then they steal your other account. It has been shown how easy it is to steal someones phone account and transfer the number to a cheap burner phone or online service. This also kills your cell service so unless you have another phone to use you cant even call to secure your accounts so the attacker has plenty of time to break in to all your other accounts

marme | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Cash

if you overdraft your account and owe the bank money or write/cash bad checks you get blackballed by the banks and your name gets put in the chexsystems that all banks use until you pay back the bank you owe. No bank not even a credit union will allow you to open an account until you get your name removed from chexsystems. Many poor people just give up knowing they will never be able to pay off that debt and go without a bank account

marme | 9 years ago | on: 'My life was ruined by a typo'

just realize that the type or wrong cell phone number could have been an extra 0 in you medicine dosage that have killed patients before. The leading cause of death in hospitals is error not any actual disease. Doctors amputate the wrong limb, give the wrong medication, all sort of stupid mistakes that should be easily preventable

marme | 9 years ago | on: Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes

so this is more like the police asking 7-11 for the security footage of anyone who bought a red bull, loaf of bread and six pack of beer in the city over the past month. If this request was made it would be insane for 7-11 to have to go through their footage and figure it out. Why should it be any different because google could do it more quickly? It is not google's job to find suspects for a case it is the police's job to find suspects

marme | 9 years ago | on: Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC

the big reason has to do with taxes. Many states have state corp taxes, delaware does not. If you only register in texas it means that you must pay corp taxes for all profits made worldwide, if you register in delaware you only pay state corp taxes for the business done in those states. If you do 100% of your business in one state there is no reason to register out of state

marme | 9 years ago | on: Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary info, poaching employees

so if someone leaves and starts their own company you can prevent them from actively recruiting former coworkers but you cant prevent them from hiring former coworkers who went to join them on their own without any active solicitation from the former employee, basically if the current employee contacts the former employee first then it is ok but contract forbidding the former employee from contacting current employees to recruit them is allowed. Also contract forbidding the active recruitment of current employees that the former employee never met are not enforceable so you cant forbid recruiting employees who joined after you left the company

marme | 9 years ago | on: If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his searches legal?

plea deals should just be outlawed. They only benefit the government and hurt the poor. If every felony had to be taken to trial the government would be quick to stop wasting their time arresting people for a single crack rock or other petty drug crimes. For people who plead guilty you can let the judge show leniency on them but most people would clearly fight things they were not guilty of if there was no incentive to plea to a lesser charge. It is the same with why most patent trolls are successful because it is easy to just pay them than to fight. If you make it so fighting and accepting it have the same risk than more people would fight
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