GigabyteCoin

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Comment · 9 years ago
>Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Verizon chief privacy officer Karen Zacharia and both the current and former CEOs of Equifax on how to protect consumers against major data breaches.

That has got to be some kind of joke.

Why would they ask the former leaders of two companies (Yahoo and Equifax) who have experienced perhaps the largest data breaches of all time... "how to protect consumers against major data breaches?"

That is ridiculous.

They should have asked the current head of security from each company instead.

Comment · 9 years ago
>However there are now other exchange betting options, with at least some degree of liquidity - Betdaq, Smarkets and Matchbook for example.

That's good to know.

But do they impose the same sort of "60% winners tax" that betfair does? Or anything close to that?

Because if so, I wouldn't even bother signing up.

I don't need to gamble that badly!

Comment · 9 years ago
That's the scam.

They get you hooked thinking they are only taking 5% or whatever it was... and from pretty much everybody who bets there, they do only take 5%.

But all of the "smart money" gets taxed at 60% when they inevitably take all of the losers money who only paid 5%.

So in essence, they are doing exactly as you suggested... "they're just taking a cut of the action." But it's a 65% cut!

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
>it's killed far fewer people so far.

Sitting curled up in a chair for hours straight staring into a phone is killing you a lot quicker than you might think.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'm guessing they'll be charging big bucks for the higher quality versions now that they're world-renowned photographs.
Comment · 9 years ago
That was achieved by placing the scrubber directly on the coal plant's exhaust stack.
Comment · 9 years ago
The class of people that can pay $40 for an uber ride home right to their door is entirely different from the class of people who would wait 15 minutes out in the elements to pay $2 for a ride that would take them within a 10 minute walk of their home.

I don't really consider myself an uber or a bus person... I drive myself around most of the time and just choose not to drink too much when I am out.

But I have never shared an uber with anybody who I regularly take public transit with.

And i have never shared a public transit ride with anybody who I regularly share an uber ride home with.

All I am getting at is I do not believe that Uber is stealing away too many people from the bus system at least where I reside.

Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
The right answer to those failures should never be murder.

The right answer to those failures is to pressure the system to change, as this newspaper article is helping to do.

Comment · 9 years ago
>amazed that we don't see more retaliatory murders when the legal system fails, considering how easy it is to get a gun in most of these states

You're amazed that most Americans do not resort to murder when the legal system fails them?

That's why we have appeals courts. To appeal decisions by judges that you believe have failed you.

Where do you come from if you don't mind my asking?

Comment · 9 years ago
By targeting recent visitors to a subreddit... they are essentially no longer targeting anyone.

I rarely browse the reddit homepage, but I know that most redditors do.

And what's on the homepage that most everybody who looks at it clicks through to? Any and every random subreddit you could think of.

I have seen /r/bitcoin on the homepage recently.

I have seen /r/security on the homepage recently.

I have seen /r/rtlsdr on the homepage recently.

That's ridiculous.

If I want to advertise a SDR to the "rtlsdr" crowd, I do not want to pay for impressions for every single user on reddit who has just recently viewed /r/rtlsdr because they had a quirky post which resonated with people.

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