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> people vote The "high taxation is not slavery, because you voted" argument lost all merit once net recipients of the welfare state became able to out-vote its net contributors - …

Slavery was not fully eliminated in the US; it was just fractionalized, and the terms - which groups are enslaved, which groups are entitled to their output, and how much of it, et…

> It's not legal for Americans to completely avoid taxes simply by operating in a jurisdiction with different tax laws. This is not correct, and pretty much all of the US Elite, ab…

If the untoward event is solely in USD, perhaps, but not if it's in crypto. Exit scams, hacks, rogue employees, etc, could still hit a US exchanges' crypto holdings and the governm…

I believe they valued at time-of-transaction. e.g. if you had no other transactions except for a $100 buy in 2013 that you immediately withdrew to personal cold storage, and then t…

It doesn't necessarily tax everything but the IRS does seek God-level knowledge/insight into every transaction - and then it just exempts certain things based on size or other fact…

AFAICT the risk/reward for this change (and others along the same line) is poor, because like it or not, as a factual matter, there are many tens or hundreds of millions of notiona…

This is not a complete, imperfect, optimal, uncontroversial or always-trivial-to-implement list, but some common ways to increase attacker costs are to: 0. Put a CAPTCHA on expensi…

The solution there is to have the app use line buffering rather than a "raw" term mode that exposes inter-char timing on the network. How widely that's followed in practice, I do n…

If you really cannot use keys, then one mitigation is to use copy/paste to paste the entire password instead of typing it one character at a time. That can open some copy/paste vul…

Right - I believe the whitepaper says it'll be a mix of bank deposits in various currencies plus short-term government securities. Still my point stands: you can have lower systemi…

In the US the evidence for a central bank PhD Politburo "preventing" or even "minimizing" financial disasters is dubious at best. Financial panics in the 19th century were generall…

This seems to be a false either-or because FB is probably not holding 100% reserves as actual paper cash in a giant Scrooge McDuck vault underneath their HQ. It's holding them at a…

That may be the protocol at launch but the protocol can always be changed/hardforked, including (as an extreme example) to just centralize the system into VISA/MC style db at FB af…

Though not as bad as Win9x it definitely had some frag-of-death/ping-of-death vulns around 1997/98. teardrop et al.

When was the last time Linux had a similar, reliably-remotely-exploitable kernel panic in the TCP/IPv4 stack? Pre-2000?

They use a different TCP/IP stack which implemented SACK without introducing this bug. It's a Linux-specific implementation defect, not an intrinsic problem with the TCP SACK wire …

> that's just how the internet works Well, the Internet does not strictly require all traffic between two parties to go through a MegaCo Cloud. Location privacy in this system woul…

The Wired article is not detailed enough to definitively poo-poo this scheme, but I am pretty skeptical about some of the claims, given a) how easy it is to map an IP to a coarse l…

That's a good idea, though I would still prefer to understand their detailed CPU% abuse criteria pre-deployment rather than via just-try-it-and-see-what-happens. Secret rules are a…

> They don’t care if you use 100% of CPU They clearly do, at least for some subset of customers meeting various quasi-secret criteria. > they don’t want you to do is use 100% CPU a…

Indeed, but AFAICT there are apparently still some opaque, undefined CPU% limits for people paying with CC instead of free credits. They also mentioned elsewhere that customers pay…

I don't think there is a single cloud provider that accepts unlimited liability and wholly compensates customers for lost data, lost sales during downtime that was the provider's f…

Their apparent conclusion that high CPU% for a few hours or half day or whatever means "cryptocurrency miner - ban ASAP!" is naive and flawed. Compute offload is an ancient and fai…

FWIW deb9 installs both 3.5 and 2.7 by default.