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csin··on Murder Suspect Has Witness: A MetroCard (2008)
Are you implying. The judge was wrong to exonerate Jason Jones?

Because the evidence of a MetroCard and photograph are "flimsy"?

csin··on The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
OK I'll bite. I think your solution only solves one edge case. And there are too many other edge cases to warrant spending the infrastructure to fix one edge case.

Examples, your solution doesn't solve:

- Mugger waits for you to withdraw the money from ATM.

- Mugger forces you to withdraw everything AFTER you entered your PIN.

- Muggers holding someone ransom until you get them their money.

- You are traveling outside of your home country/unreliable law enforcement.

csin··on How Hard Is It to Generate a 10X Return on an Investment?
I don't have an opinion on the moral aspect of being a billionaire.

I just want to point out that billionaires don't just magically create more money for charities. Someone had to lose that money.

For the sake of simplicity, lets say... Goods & services were priced optimally to reduce the middle classes disposable income. The billionaire throws the poor-and-starving a bone every now and then.

Should the middle class have more disposable income? Or should charities get their bone? It's a matter of philosophy.

Being rich is being in control. You get to decide who gets your money.

csin··on How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
Van Gogh never got monetary reimbursement for his art. Are we all suppose to feel terrible for such an injustice?

As a budding musician. I am mentally prepare for my art to be a financial failure/setback. It comes with the territory.

csin··on Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level
You wanna be careful with your usage of quotation marks in context of woman. You make it sound like she slept her way to a startup.

This is 2017, the year of Harvey Weinstein.

csin··on India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy for 13 cents
As an non-American I would like to ask...

For people who are in the "patriotic" group. Your country needs to maintain the infrastructure to self-sustain it's people in a world war.

What would be a more effective strategy over food subsidies?

Edit: Sorry I meant Farm subsidies, not food stamps.

csin··on How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)
The H word is such a lazy excuse. Techies overestimate how much the common folk give a shit about getting hacked. 99% of the population are not celebrities.

I know a bank that purposely reduce their Internet banking security. To cater for specific elderly customers who constantly forget their password. They are not going to force their customers to walk into the bank everytime.

These accounts are at a risk of getting hacked. It's called a tradeoff. As a bank, do you want customers or not? Do you like money or not?

As for the Yahoo situation. If they gave a shit about customer service: they can accept copies of drivers licence/passport signed off by a justice of peace.

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