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If you google Eric Sperber, you can see that youtube show up in first page results.

I wonder how in hell is Yelp not giving a fuck? They even tried to take down the video but that guy was smart enough to upload a backup on S3 and many ppl have copies ready to be distributed.

At least Yelp knows about streisand law....

I've never heard of Nomx but this really should not be how you should introduce your product by claiming it's safe and you should just believe the website.

Except we don't have kings anymore but hundreds of thousands f corporations writing the rules to benefit their shareholders who collectively act as the brain.

Price is manipulated but because these don't fall under SEC's turf it's being looked the other way...

but if anything should keep the Poloniex and Ethereum guys awake is that the SEC has traditionally retroactively applied a law however far back they need to.

This means that you should start treating cryptocoins under the assumption that the SEC would retroactively view it as equity therefore violation of trading laws.

I'd imagine the sadness easily turning into some sort of aimless wrath. It's like being told you've lived a lie to save birthgiver's face. Maybe that's what happened to Paul Le Roux when he found out he was not only adopted but that they didn't even bother giving it a name.

In my humble opinion, it's a sign of the increasing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. The middle class is disappearing and it looks like they are taking the Mall away....they realized vast majority just window shop.

Read Antifragile book

edit: oooh, definitely a touchy subject around here ;)

I'm not saying Robinhood is bad or anything but the business model and the valuation built on top of it is very questionable.

It's almost like gravity does not exist anymore. It's all about making it across the IPO finish line and then it's like fuck what happens to everyone else because I've already got Monssack Fonseca shuffling my untaxable money.

This is the hallmark of modern day capitalism. By issuing loans knowing full well they will never pay back, you can collude with banks to threaten to kill the economy when the government hesitates about cutting them a cheque.

It makes sense why a massive payout would be valuable in contrast to the billions of dollars in unlimited upside rewards a share price uplift would bring.

Marissa Mayer spends $1.1 billion and makes ~0.2 billion. It almost seems like her bonus is tied to how much she spent on acquisitions.

Ethic issues arise when the expectation is that the occupants will live and then your product falling short on those critical constraint.

Because when you design something for the masses, you are directly responsible for the deaths caused by your product.

This is not a matter of philosophy, from one engineer to another, it's our duty.

Imagine if the video didn't have the friendly European accent and patches of green. Imagine if that was a real life scenario and the greens were a hazard.

I wonder if there are more such videos that show Tesla Autopilot freaking out. It would be an eye opener, Tesla's stock price is dependent on Autopilot among other innovations.

There's no evidence to suggest that is the case. If anything, Tesla has made it more dangerous to assume that it's safe and falsely autonomous.

When you create new drugs, the FDA definitely doesn't look to kindly on people who think like Silicon Valley. "Killing people is product testing" won't fly in pharmaceuticals.

I'm glad that we don't have people like you designing drugs for the masses!

我是韩国人。- wo shi hangguo ren can easily and concisely be written using Korean alphabet phonetically.

The two are a perfect match. One system to easily construct sounds and the other carrying deep compressed semantics with the minimal sound syntax.

It would be like like what Vietnamese language did using roman alphabets and accents.

Theranos running fake tests is just another example of the type of charlatans enabled by socioeconomic lineage.

> Theranos plans to offer investors shares in the company in exchange for them not filing lawsuits against the embattled blood-testing company.

How far removed can you be from reality to even think like this?

I'm pretty sure the author wasn't the only guy looking for vulnerability. I'm pretty certain criminal minded folks would've already used it....with no way of finding out which are real or manipulated.

Which further raises the question, why they would go to extreme length to cover their tracks? They could've easily saved themselves trouble by coming clean but because they've gone such great length to hide it and threaten anyone who tries to expose it makes this a hollywood type story. That just seems so over the top like they are protecting something much bigger.

It is the radars that is the bigger issue because it diminishes China's nuclear projection in the region.

> Immediately the lightbulb went on in Ryan’s mind that there was a significant shift happening in the market from a physical credit card to digital payments. His mind went wild as he dreamed about what the future of digital payments could look like and within a short time after he launched Plastc."

So, after shopping at a store that sells fruit smoothies and sneakers (?), and being told that nobody cares enough about a universal credit card to use the free Google Wallet one, he concluded that the future is a universal credit card that people will pay hundreds of dollars for?