Ransomware GoFundMe. Cute, but still criminal and laughable completely unscalable as a way to address social issues.
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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There's a line in the guidelines that touches on the nature of this comment. Since you have 1 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Appreciate your concern and goodwill. When I see sweeping, often incorrect generalizations, I will respond. His statement in the parenthesis seemed unnecessary. I wanted to point out that his premise could also be applicable to the gunslingers. Now, watch my karma go negative ;)
I mean, you're trying to create an off-topic thread on a topic you know will be divisive. No need to sugar coat that you're going out of your way to harm the community.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appreciate your concern and goodwill. When I see sweeping, often incorrect generalizations, I will respond. His statement in the parenthesis seemed unnecessary. I wanted to point out that his premise could also be applicable to the gunslingers. Now, watch my karma go negative ;)
I mean, you're trying to create an off-topic thread on a topic you know will be divisive. No need to sugar coat that you're going out of your way to harm the community.
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Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appreciate your concern and goodwill. When I see sweeping, often incorrect generalizations, I will respond. His statement in the parenthesis seemed unnecessary. I wanted to point out that his premise could also be applicable to the gunslingers. Now, watch my karma go negative ;)
I mean, you're trying to create an off-topic thread on a topic you know will be divisive. No need to sugar coat that you're going out of your way to harm the community.
I'm holding up a mirror to the community. No intention to harm.
Some won't like what they see.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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agree. the freelancer / gig economy is dominate by script kiddie / template churner companies in India for whom $2/hr is a good wage. there's no competing with that
this is a feature, not a bug, of globalization. Work that can be done in cheaper countries is allocated there. On a related note (and I get negative feedback whenever i say this, but) this is the future of all software developers as i see it. If you can do your entire job remotely, then "remote" is going to get optimized over time. It does not make sense to spend your time in USA (for example) coding when you can sto…
I think AI will do a better cheaper job before your vision of the future comes to life.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, you're trying to create an off-topic thread on a topic you know will be divisive. No need to sugar coat that you're going out of your way to harm the community.
I'm holding up a mirror to the community. No intention to harm. Some won't like what they see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That may be what you're telling yourself, but that's not reality.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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They certainly can cause a lot of chaos. In fact, I'd say that most malicious chaos normal internet users may be subjected to is done by these scriptkiddies. Theres a difference, though, between an extensive ransomeware attack and an experiment by a bunch of amateurs. The chance of key recovery is much greater if there are dedicated criminals behind the attack, but amateurs also don't get the widespread reach that th…
What if this ransomware infects a hospital ? Then it can kill people.
What if the moon were your car and Jupiter your hairbrush?
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.
It's only perhaps possible in the most desperately impoverished portions of Indian cities. If you think even moderately poor and above Indians are going to be OK with a random person picking up their children for a meal, that's pretty unlikely.
I encountered children begging for food and/or money in Delhi
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#249What if you're poor yourself? :(
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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The English is non idiomatic. Mistakes make it seem middle eastern/central asian
The article claims the writers are Indian.
Strange. We never write "in Facebook". It's always "on Facebook" in most Indian languages. Though it's possible it was just a mistake.