For any particular one, yes. For the claim for an entire category... that needs proof.

Exactly. "like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby" sounds like pure nightmare fuel. Like learning to swim in a shark tank.

Well, I like how quickly you acknowledge that your second point is not only redundant, but worse than the pre-existing alternatives.

Your first point is actually wrong. Not only is it not intrinsically valuable, it's inherently bad. In the long run, only criminals benefit from it. Governments MUST be responsible for the nation's wealth. They MUST at least have visibility into the net flow of capital in and out of the country. This is necessary because governments are responsible for fiscal, monetary, and economic policy. Having a chunk of GDP vanish pulls the rug from under the currency and destabilizes everything. And for what?
In the near-term, it may be advantageous to disrupt that for an enemy government, but over the long term, every nation suffers and criminals benefit.

Strelok is still #1.

Isn't that a billion-dollar skill? Do you work for the people setting this up? That's a good ad for them.

And about what educational program could that not be said?

Well, they are nomadic for the same reason the animals they follow are. Do antelope face the tragedy of the commons? No, they're animals. They graze and move. Their predators, like us, follow. The land renews after the antelope and hunters have moved on, bolstered by manure, and the cycle continues.

It is only when humans settle and establish shared resources that the tragedy begins and must be addressed.

So, I think we're largely disagreeing about definitions. I say nomads can't have commons; those only exist when you settle.

I accept the correction. I don't care enough about that scene to bother with the differences between them and just lump them all together in my mind.

I don't understand why this would boost Bitcoin, for the reason you mentioned - it has nothing to do with this. The SEC is talking about stock trades using similar tech. That shouldn't impact Bitcoin prices at all.

Which tells you something about that market. People investing in it don't seem to have any better understanding of it than I care to keep.

I didn't care for it. I like folder trees and tight detail views. Dolphin can give me a folder tree, but I hate the view. "Files" (which I'm using), has nothing for a tree, but the viewing pane doesn't irritate me.

I greatly prefer Windows Explorer. I haven't found a linux file manager that came even close. If you know of one, please tell me about it. If it can give a popup for elevation instead of forcing me to the command line, that'd also be great.

Suffer? You think having to work is suffering? So, I have to suffer more to support your selfish apathy and laziness? I have to surrender the benefits of my hard work so that you can sleep in? F-k you. No.

I have to work to earn what I have. You have to work to earn what you have. It doesn't matter what anyone else has, their lives aren't yours. Resenting what others have doesn't help you, it hurts you.

Even if you build a house out of flash paper, the arsonist who lights the match is still the one at fault for the fire.

How long does google have to go unfixed before you'll put it in the same category? At some point, you either have to do that or accept the same "might be fixed" possibility for Microsoft.

I just delt with a gmail breach.

Not many businesses use Yahoo or Apple for email, hence the absence of BEC events.
Self-hosted servers get hacked all the damn time. I see the spam they send.
cPanel is vulnerable as hell, I've seen it hacked many times. It also sucks.
Microsoft is one of the largest providers for business email. That they are a primary target is expected.

It's not super intelligence because it currently has tremendous blind spots. But so do people, just different ones. I *think* that blind spots are a necessary feature of the compression used to take a huge volume of signal and compress it into something that will fit into storage.

OTOH, note that the "blind spots" are only "relatively blind". And can be worked around. Actual human 6D geometricians exist, but they approach it via symbolization. (Actually, they are really n-dimensional geometricians, but some specialize on problems in 6 dimensions.) But an AI could presumably be designed to work natively in 6 dimensions (or any specified number), however for most problems this would not be an advantage, but rather the contrary.

Note that human thinking is basically either planar or linear. To handle 3-space we use various short-cuts than enable dimensional reduction. (Unless you are counting time as one of the dimensions...then it get more complex.) Compare the way you play 3-d tic-tac-toe toe the way you play 2-d tic-tac-toe. That's not really fair as the 3-d one is inherently more complex, but it give you an idea.)

Well, scratch that, it did add something. The blockchain it's built on is a useful tracking mechanism. And that seems to be what the stock market wants to use it for - making and tracking stock transactions.

Why that would boost the value of bitcoin does not make much sense to me.