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extraordinary risk requires extraordinary reward

Email: andrew@tian.io

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atian··on ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
This is very similar to Suchir Balaji and passive surveillance counterterrorism technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterterrorism

"Kill Yourself" is very similar in verse to "You Are Done."

atian··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
it's called malfeasance
atian··on Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
Yeah it was.
atian··on Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet
“Inside job.”
atian··on Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?
SEO
atian··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
Interesting cause that oxidative stress is particularly lower for them.
atian··on It's Not the Incentives (2018)
> Show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome.
atian··on Three Felonies a Day (2013)
There is a huge lifetime gift tax exemption.
atian··on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Sounds like entrapment or he was heavily induced (by whatever) into whatever they got him for. Maybe he'll get pardoned like Ulbricht.
atian··on Stargate Project II? Declassified US Government Research in RV and Psi [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42021450
atian··on 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
Yeah…
atian··on How Correlated Are You?
I put quotes around words to differentiate when I’m using them incorrectly but popularly. By definition the goalpost has also been shifted.
atian··on 300 Years of 'Too Big to Jail'
Alternative perspective: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-...
atian··on Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]
“OTR” has been around for way longer. Not sure internally.
atian··on Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]
> a party failed to take reasonable steps to preserve it

There is nothing reasonable about turning an existing system that was never designed to keep chats at all, to do on a whim, where would cause irreparable damage to the common offering both internally and externally.

Once is a pass, but 24 hours is not nearly an established window that a medium can/should be made arbitrarily compliant. It would be a large precedent.

atian··on Anki-fy your life
I don’t believe them to be the same. I have friends who repeat words to me GPT style, that I know them to be imprecise in the spirit of the discussion.
atian··on Acceptance of evolution by high school students: Is religion the key factor?
Incentive structures are as old as the hills. You can’t sell me evolution just to be correct.
atian··on Binance is fucked
> Your comment is a lot better (and more information dense) than the submission article. Can we change the URL to just point to your comment instead?

No it’s not. It’s unclear why some of the points are relevant to Binance’s health.

Edit: @rippercushions they are factually correct, but there is no context. With context, the points make even less sense.

Edit 2: @rippercushions Sorry then it’s not on your comment, just the parent’s proposal that it stands alone better than the speculation offered in the article.

atian··on Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?
I have this problem from not getting enough sleep. Sleep apnea?
atian··on Ask HN: Tell me what programming project I should finish
That’s the entire fun of it! If someone else could value your priorities, the value is in them now and no longer you!
atian··on North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies
> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

atian··on The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Words can only substitute for so much information.

Generally more words means more information.

You’d probably get fired for giving minimal information.

atian··on Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan
California did something really interesting by removing that complexity completely.
atian··on Ask HN: Is it just me?
> Typically, I work for an employer for around 3 to 5 years. […] Then around the halfway mark or later, things sour for a variety of different reasons. Typically, I will fall out with someone senior, like my line manager. It's normally over something mundane but definitely technical.

This is a red herring. The fact you’ve carried it out this far to the 3-5 mark is extraordinary. Most people move every two years just to overcome this effect.

atian··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
Both. It is sort of an “honesty bond” that Twitter knows your details in return you get a status mark. Of course the bar is quite high these days for recourse.
atian··on Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
This is at Medium’s expense. Not very good.
atian··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
See how your site looks like on mobile with content blockers turned on.

For me the navigation bar doesn’t collapse and covers the whole screen.

atian··on Chainalysis: A startup that helps governments trace crypto
Is not a panacea.
atian··on Hacker News, shut up and take my money
He/she lives in Australia. As a one-time visitor, seems they are not exposed to the air that you and I share and may explain their experiences with them putting capital where there is little (comparatively) industry.
atian··on Tornado Cash and collateral damage
It’s not unconstitutional for a company to think that they need (or want) to do something in response to a sanction.

GitHub is not in the business of being legally innovative.

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