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bandermanon S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk from Debt Growth

What about all the casinos in Macau?

bandermanon Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack

I like how people are encouraged to pay $5-10 to each reporting agency to have their file locked. Multiply that by the 140,000,000 people whose data leaked... should generate some nice revenue for all 3 of these companies holding your exploitable personal data hostage.

bandermanon Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies?

They claim to be operating out of the US, and the address listed is a half empty strip mall in the Las Vegas suburbs. They post no licensing details. Seems legit?

bandermanon Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice

I recommend watching the scifi film "Her", it has a different take on this.

bandermanon Netflix Plans to Spend $7B on Content in 2018

Start producing content that you care about. Practice and get better at it. The equipment costs are low, or some places (schools, non profits) offer classes and equipment loans.

bandermanon Ask HN: I'm late to the crypto currencies boom, what are my options?

Do some research on how sketchy some of the big players in the exchange scene are. Look at the "hack" that happened at Bitfinex. Can anyone cash out USD from there? Try and find out who owns Poloniex or where they operate out of. Check out how Bittrex only lists a storefront in a half abandoned strip mall in Las Vegas as their location, and how much the coins traded on that platform have increased in price recently.

How much do you trust a business that won't list a phone number or physical address? And there's no information on who owns or operates the business? And there's no information on how they are licensed to operate? And there's no details on if or how customer funds are held segregated from operating funds?

Don't let greed overcome your better judgement.

bandermanon What Is Cryptocurrency Game Theory: A Basic Introduction

Game solved: the only winning move is not to play.

bandermanon Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform

There are over 3,000,000 Namecoin domains registered[0], but nobody uses it. Not a worthwhile metric IMO.

[0]https://namecoin.webbtc.com/stats

bandermanon Why are all my friends buying an overhyped digital currency?

Greed.

bandermanon Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005)

The full report appears to be available here: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/broadbandgrants/comments/61B...

bandermanon Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones

I thought that vampires were an allegory for people with an economic or social advantage extracting rent and interest from the younger or more ignorant.

bandermanon Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots

Isn't it w/ and w/o?

bandermanon Show HN: GreenPiThumb – A Raspberry Pi Gardening Bot

I am excited to see projects like this. I believe that it will be important to be able to deploy fully autonomous food production facilities to Mars ahead of any colonization effort.