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"Even worse, security doesn't provide immediate feedback. A dead patient on the operating table tells the doctor that maybe he doesn't understand brain surgery just because he read a book, but an insecure cryptosystem works just fine. It's not until someone takes the time to break it that the engineer might realize that he didn't do as good a job as he thought. Remember: Anyone can design a security system that he himself cannot break. Even the experts regularly get it wrong." -- Bruce Schneier
Source: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2009/0915.html
I recall the anger is not about any trade off. It is that they rolled their own poor crypto instead of using battle-tested crypto. There’s no convenience factor or trade off here, they just literally did the thing the textbooks tell you not to do, and have ignored the industry’s calls to use strong crypto.
Probably because they didn’t want to lose their medical license, and make their degree (that they’re still paying back their debt on) suddenly worthless?
Sounds more like textbook fraud than a Ponzi scheme (though, honestly I did not read the whole article).
> In testimony before Congress in July 2018, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed slowing down the development of WFIRST in order to accommodate a cost increase in the James Webb Space Telescope, which would result in decreased funding for WFIRST in 2020/2021.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_Infrared_Survey_Tel...
We've been trying to solve this problem for years, but they're being contested and underfunded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
Looking at the CA non-resident form, I don't see how you have to pay taxes in CA:
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/fileRtn/Nonresidents-Part...
No, not really.. You're free to choose states with sensible department of revenues.
Wyoming has a 4-6% sales tax, nowhere near the 13% you're arguing about. If capgains of 13% is levied upon 10mil, that's 1.3mil.... while Wyoming's 4-6% sales tax is (obviously less than half that) only levied upon actual purchases (which in practice is way lower).
What's the purpose of the water? If a micro-asteroid punctures the hull, does the water freeze to stop the leak?