tcoppi

Sad news. She gave me a gmail invite after I begged for one on slashdot, seems like an eon ago. We corresponded off and on but unfortunately I was never able to meet her in real life. Rest in peace.

Even assuming you are correct on all these points ASLR is still an important use case and the effective security of current 64-bit address spaces is low.

Agree Raleigh and the general Triangle area is a good one. Maybe surprising for most here but Maryland and Virginia is like this as well. We're more expensive but you can get 1-3 acres within an hour commute of DC and/or Baltimore with a relatively robust tech scene, especially if you're willing to work for the government. Areas like Frederick, MD even have reasonable rail commutes into DC!

If they borrow money to purchase the stock that's effectively what it is, a margin loan.

If anyone trades options, the IV on options expiring in March on AMD went up significantly last week with no apparent news, probably because of these guys.

Seems like the ultimate end-game here is to have mini-vms for every process using CPU-level ring protection. If you can't speculate across privilege levels, only inside them, it isn't a security problem anymore.

Right, so you're trusting the miners. Got it.

It isn't zero trust though, you're trusting the miners(collectively) at a minimum.

You have to trust miners and developers with blockchains still.

CBOE settles to Gemini's spot price, not GDAX. The prices between exchanges differ dramatically currently.

There doesn't need to be an official BTC-USD tether, BTCUSD on bitfinex is exactly that in practice and in fact.

Why do you think any of these factors relate at all to whether there is an imminent stock market crash?

Exactly, there is no reason anyone should be on the roof of their homes in Houston other than inability to heed warnings and read a weather report.