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Are you Jim? I am honored to read your comments here, and would love to hear where I got things wrong, if you're willing to point them out.

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I always thought it odd that the most common TaskRabbit job was assembling Ikea furniture. Do people really need to outsource that job?

Amazing that the company lasted so long.

Awesome code review, even more valuable than the plugin itself. Thanks :)

That's why Yahoo made the point of blaming a "state-sponsored actor". You would expect a giant tech company to be able to defend itself against random hackers, but what if it was the government of Russia?? That's why Sony Pictures blamed North Korea for what was, in the opinions of security experts, the work of an insider.

Unfortunately, lawsuits are rare unless a user can demonstrate that the hack led to measurable harm.

Palantir and Skype are in Downtown Palo Alto. Paypal was founded there, and so was Google.

If investors think it's theft, they should call the authorities.

The suspect (not "thief", because "theft" is determined in a court of law) can then be convicted via due process, which is a constitutional right.

After the Mt. Gox hack, users contacted authorities. The Mt. Gox hack lost $600M worth of bitcoin. They are now recovering some of their funds.

Now say, you took out a mortgage and came up with 5 million dollars. Another 100 people don't have any dollars, so they would like to seize your 5 million dollars with a patch. There's a clear majority vote to take your 5 million dollars. Should they be allowed to do that?

nope, that's exactly correct. They even use the term "trustees".

Yes, that is a more accurate description. The Ethereum community was very quick to call the guy a thief, without due process.

DAO failed, but it controls about 15% of the total ether supply, so it was too big to fail, and the fork will save it.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know people were doing this. I had only seen EthereumClassic, which seems prone to attack, and a nightmare for exchanges.