Peleus

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by Peleus 3y ago
> It doesn't really seem to have made a difference. Twitter is worth around a third of what Elon paid for it. I'm assuming you're happy to just assert that 2/3 of it's lost value is just those "who were leav
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by Peleus 3y ago
1) You're correct in saying it clearly doesn't constitute Blackmail. 2) No, the opportunity cost for Reddit is the users using Apollo to browse Reddit as opposed to official channels. This prevents Reddit from effectively monetizi
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by Peleus 4y ago
> There are payment terminals attached to these kiosks. If someone installs malware on here - just insert a usb stick or use the recovery mode - then tada we have the next generation of atm skimming. As has been mentioned through out thi
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by Peleus 4y ago
Honestly I have to say this is the type of security article that annoys me the most. - Snarky and talks down about people not "in the know" about potential security issues. - Supreme confidence that they are super knowledgeable ab
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by Peleus 4y ago
Step 1 is going to be figure out what you are prepared to trust and work upwards from there. There will always be an infinitely recursive list of trust issues or potential attack vectors, they will just become less and less likely. What if
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by Peleus 4y ago
Fucking lol. I can just imagine a company sending a package to the wrong address. The customer rings the company to ask what's going on. "Sorry the blockchain is immutable, we can't change where your package is going, deal wi
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by Peleus 4y ago
so that all that goes away All WHAT goes away? You're talking about hordes of people answering customer queries. How the hell does blockchain make that go away?
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by Peleus 4y ago
Respectfully, I'm not really sure how this is relevant to anything I said?
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by Peleus 4y ago
I never said blockchain was a solution. I literally just said there are features of cryptocurrencies that are useful. There are features of cryptocurrencies that would actually be useful in today's financial services. The main one
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by Peleus 4y ago
> I remember vividly opening the door to the pig pen, and it was just a sea of people, 95% just responding to very basic customer queries/doing incredibly basic computation work and costing huge amounts of money...because, of course
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by Peleus 4y ago
Then look at _why_ you don't have it in today's financial services. Is it because there is some technology lacking that only blockchain and cryptocurrencies can solve? No, it's because in the years of financial market experie
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by Peleus 4y ago
The bait and switch with this comparison is you're comparing something you have no control over (bread slicer which randomly malfunctions) against something you have full control over (my own cutting abilities). No one thinks their c
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by Peleus 4y ago
Under NDA but I'll give rough details of what's occurring while also naming my client and disparaging them to the public. Well that's a brave move...