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ML Engineer (Former) attorney
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John 19 hours ago
The life of a normie must be so peaceful
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John yesterday
Yue2 is a hilariously good music ai. Made 90s of music that was actually good in 30 seconds on a 3090
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John yesterday
How can bitcoin be less than 1M when the US government still exists?
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John 2 days ago
Juggling 5 threads is exhausting. Claude manage my Claudes for me
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John 2 days ago
Crazy how the best solution is the free one that no one talks about image
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John 3 days ago
Do I need a cash-app account to receive fiat via strike? I thought you could but today someone couldn't send cash to my strike address
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John 4 days ago
I thought this shit was cringe but it's kind of cool and encouraging. Not that I need encouragement, my strength comes from my indominable will. Obviously image
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John 4 days ago
I wonder if Astra can edit videos well
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John 4 days ago
Is there clear case law on what crimes or liabilities a party commits by using a logical bug in software (i.e. bitcoin) to move funds to themselves? Yes — but the answer is a little more interesting than “there's a law against exploiting bugs.” There is now a pretty direct U.S. precedent that deliberately exploiting a software bug in a crypto smart contract to extract funds can constitute a federal crime. But there is not yet a clean Supreme Court/appeals-level rule saying that any use of a logical bug to cause a protocol to transfer assets is theft. The distinction matters enormously. The clearest case: United States v. Ahmed In 2022, Shakeeb Ahmed exploited vulnerabilities in two decentralized exchanges' smart contracts. In the Nirvana Finance attack, he discovered a flaw that allowed him to buy tokens for less than the contract was supposed to charge, then immediately sell them back at the higher price, extracting about $3.6 million. That's almost exactly the hypothetical you're describing: the protocol's own code executed the transaction; Ahmed supplied inputs that caused the buggy logic to transfer value to him. He pled guilty to computer fraud and was sentenced to 3 years in prison, plus forfeiture of about $12.3 million and restitution. DOJ explicitly described it as the first conviction for hacking a smart contract. So “but the smart contract itself authorized the transaction” is emphatically not a guaranteed defense. However, Ahmed's case was a guilty plea, so we don't have an appellate judicial opinion carefully deciding why the conduct constituted computer fraud.
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John 5 days ago
Got 800w of solar today, can power my freezers indefinitely now
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John 5 days ago
The labor movement was way more badass than I expected. I wonder why we don't learn about this in school 🤔
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John 5 days ago
Gm. The first time the US gov dropped gas bombs from planes was the battle of Blair Mountain during the 1921 labor war with appalachian miners.
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John 5 days ago
Always a good day when I get to shill flat earth to girls on hinge
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John 5 days ago
Doing a 72 hour fast. Wednesday evening will be my next meal. Inspired to try fasting from atlaspowershrugged guy on yt. I think fasting suits my personality more since I tend towards all-or-nothing. You can get a weeks worth of conventional dieting done in one day. Which can be way more encouraging to see results for your effort. Also the risk of muscle loss is way overblown to the point of being fraudulent. You can get a week's worth of conventional dieting done in one day. So this is a test, if it works out I'll probably do weekly fasts until I have veins crawling up my belly, hopefully it's only like 5 weeks lol. But it's always more than you expect
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John 6 days ago
Doubled my leg days now I'm making giant gains. Guess I just wasn't doing enough. Wish I figured it out earlier but hey
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John 6 days ago
Johnny Appleseed got sued by monsanto