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New comment by GizmoSwan in "Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone"

GizmoSwan — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:01:22 +0000

I would be surprised if they did not have a back door in the chip's firmware but so far nobody had found or talked about it.

They can intercept post de-encryption data if they hack the firmware during design period and get access.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:49:11 +0000

Great minds think alike! I have seen the Parasite too but few months before the other one.

The Parasite has won an Oscar I think.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "I’m Not a Cat"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 04:25:29 +0000

Hilarious

New comment by GizmoSwan in "The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 04:10:09 +0000

Yes it did mention the Gatsby. The author was obviously interpreting the psycho-thriller angle by design.

The privileged versus unprivileged; being trapped and unable to achieve the dream and living with unfulfilled desires...

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:52:05 +0000

Indecision is suppose to be bad but it is probably a natural response to possibility of poor outcome.

It all depends on the risks.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "The Great Gatsby: Misunderstood Novel"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:41:06 +0000

I have seen several versions of it in the movies which were easier to interpret than the novel.

Few months ago, I even saw a Korean version called The Burning on netflix!

Vaccination in Ancient Times

GizmoSwan — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/a-history-of-vaccination/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085312

Points: 2

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New comment by GizmoSwan in "Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:34:54 +0000

Hair thin anything can look transparent though. I seems to be paper thin.

As building products go, I believe rot resistant glass infused wood as a substitute for pressure treated wood is a more useful product specially in humid regions.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:25:58 +0000

DNA testing should be double blind. I have no idea if it is.

Sample contamination can be arranged before sent to the lab though.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:14:45 +0000

Participating in illegal activities does not make the coin more valuable but rather makes illegal transactions possible and criminalized the bit coin trade and hence soon it will become regulated.

So it is not like a bank transfer which is legit.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:12:16 +0000

How are they cashing bit coin to eat?

The conversion has occur somewhere or they whole world has to accept bit coin and participate in tax evasion schemes by being so called unbanked.

There is limit to bit coin usage and alike and they will eventually hit the limitation and regulation.

The unbanked people are not buying Tesla. They will pay the tax.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:49:48 +0000

Yes but once they are used for tax evasion and underground economy they can become worthless in hands of people that deal with it as a legal asset. Governments can regulate any asset class.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:37:00 +0000

To an unbanked! person in Los Angeles? In a black market?

It is taxable in your hand as well as theirs. So any tax avoidance agenda makes the trade illegal.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:24:09 +0000

What is the monetary benefit for Tesla when accepting the bitcoin currency ? Is it going to charge more in bitcoin?

Is Tesla using it as an investment thing? Is it for publicity? What is the benefit?

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Talent Is Largely a Myth"

GizmoSwan — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:42:42 +0000

Yes, don't you know:

Einstein could have been the best ballet dancer! Michael Phelps could have been the next Tesla! .... NOT

Talent is not specific at birth but it has direction. Certain types of processing are more natural for certain brains and the outcomes are random given the opportunities to master a certain skill.

Talent and interest go hand in hand. The interest is the driver but it won't exist without the processing ability and opportunity.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:32:56 +0000

Billionaires can avoid paying taxes equal to what people make in life time. It is fraud.

Why should Bernie Madoff gone to jail then?! if some guy can steal a car then?

The scale matters.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Engineering productivity can be measured, just not how you'd expect"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:23:02 +0000

'Evaluations of an economy's productivity performance are made using a measure of real gross domestic product (GDP), which represents the constant dollar income (labour income plus profits) that an economy generates through domestic production, with the volume or constant dollar indices being calculated from the prices'

'DP=(GDP/Hours)*(Hours), (1)

where Hours is the total number of worker-hours.

Chart 1 depicts changes in each of these components over time. For the entire 1961-to-2012 period, labour productivity advanced at a 1.9% annual average, accounting for slightly more than half of the increase in GDP growth. The rest is attributed to hours, which increased at 1.5% per year on average.

Aggregate GDP measures the returns to both labour and capital. Distributional concerns lead to questions about whether the share going to labour increases over time and, in particular, how productivity growth is related to real income.'

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/15-206-x/15-206-x2014038...

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Yellen Summons Regulators to Discuss Financial Market Volatility"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:16:50 +0000

Now that this is open information, they may have wasted all that cash.

Let see what happens.

New comment by GizmoSwan in "Madagascar reckons with an invasive crayfish"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:13:30 +0000

So their economy is now dependent on this newly acquired evasive specie. Very interesting article.

'In Mahasoa, nearly everyone participates in the crayfish economy in one way or another. People use them to fatten up pigs and chickens, or eat them with rice'

New comment by GizmoSwan in "IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources"

GizmoSwan — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:00:49 +0000

Block chain is just a frozen link list database. It has its uses and every big software company has it and can offer it.

It can support all sort of permanent registry stuff and protect against tampering.