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The last quote from Desair really sums it up nicely, "The language of finance can be insidious. Words like leverage and concepts like diversification can morph from narrow financia…

Who said anything about a border? A person was arrested in Seattle for throwing a Jose Cuervo bottle imported from Mexico. The importation was the "foreign or interstate" nexus. Do…

What's the difference between the US and a despotic regime? We have a gulag system. There is a degree of legal nihilism that borders on lawlessness. For example, the DOJ charged so…

> The difference being that then we saluted getting access to raw data, whereas now we are being conditioned to consider them "misinformation". I like this point. I wish it would b…

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Its been a while, but I just read an article arguing the case that Len Sassaman was a Satoshi. It was a neat article, so I watched one of Len's Defcon talks about remailers from wa…

> It really comes down to how it's used I absolutely agree. The thing that concerns me is these cameras sitting on the internet. It says something about how overworked the security…

There's more information here as well. Cloudflare was apparently operating network connected facial recognition cameras in their offices. I'm not someone who's crazy about privacy,…

Or the commercial model that identifies criminals from their photograph. Turns out people who frown are criminals. People who smile aren't. Or so you'd believe if you anchored your…

It would be nice to see a logistic regression using at least some of the features known to be useful (including geography and income). That way we can see how much of the performan…