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rafale commented on Crypto founder Do Kwon pleads guilty to US fraud charges ft.com/content/2e6fdc73-1... · Posted by u/TechTechTech

jjangkke · 18 days ago

Looks like he's going to do about 12 years which is insanely low for the financial damage caused and after he will be deported to South Korea where he will be immediately put on trial and sentenced to prison again.

rafale · 18 days ago

How much money he had when he was caught? How much you profited usually makes a difference in sentencing.

rafale commented on High-fidelity simultaneous speech-to-speech translation arxiv.org/abs/2502.03382... · Posted by u/Bluestein

iambateman · 2 months ago

This is why I wonder about the value of language learning for reasons other than “I’m really passionate about it.”

We are so close to interfaces that reduce the language barrier by a lot…

rafale · 2 months ago

What about brain development and general intelligence. Knowledge will always have a value, or else we become slaves to the machine.

rafale commented on Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/Bender

cedws · 4 months ago

Given that the NSO Group is supported by the Israeli government and their weapons have been used against US civilians, and US-aligned individuals, you would think there would be much heftier consequences.

rafale · 4 months ago

They knowingly attacked and destroyed USS Liberty in 1967 and didn't face any consequences.

Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with everything.

rafale commented on California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy edition.cnn.com/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/ozgune

ninetyninenine · 4 months ago

All our GDP is in software. We don't know how to make anything except AI and web apps. We wouldn't know what to do with a nuke.

rafale · 4 months ago

Ask Nevada.

rafale commented on Bybit loses $1.5B in hack tradingview.com/news/coin... · Posted by u/tuananh

killerstorm · 6 months ago

Over-collateralized stables are different from "algorithmic": the algorithmic ones are not fully backed by reserves.

rafale · 6 months ago

They are very capital inefficient and still can fail during black swan events.

rafale commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains

bbarnett · a year ago

You know, as this is a tech forum, I'll reply via a tech business, re: branding angle.

Yes Gold Apollo, they were yours. That's because you licensed your name, and your name is your business.

(EG your mark(name) of trade)

I've seen this in everything from hotels to frying pans. License that name! We made 1% more this quarter. Yeehaw!

Holiday in has corporate owned hotels, franchised hotels, and of course licensed hotels. Franchised ones have more control from corporate, licensed far less. And it shows.

Same as t-fal, which in Canada is just the cheapest junk you can get, with Canadian Tire owning and manufacturing under the name:

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/t-fal-viva-aluminum-fryin...

Anyone buyong t-fal pans there will think t-fal is the cheapest junk ever. Because it is.

This worked well pre-Internet, but now people see reviews for Canadian Tire t-fal when researching pans in Europe. Way to trash your local name.

Licensing your name doesn't work the same in 2024 as 1994. Don't do it.

rafale · a year ago

It's unreasonable to expect a small companies to have rogue nation states in their threat model. Apple, Microsoft, ... yeah but not a smaller business.

rafale commented on Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500 marketwatch.com/story/wan... · Posted by u/ilamont

rafale · a year ago

Or you can vote with your wallet and boycott the games. They will eventually offer a solution when nobody is watching the games.

rafale commented on A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel... · Posted by u/rbanffy

antisthenes · a year ago

It seems like that that point the bike thieves are just a bike rental company.

You get the bike for < 20 Euro and then, presumably, at some point in the future it gets stolen again, but you already got 20 Euros worth of use out of it.

rafale · a year ago

Efficient market hypothesis proven.

rafale commented on Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report ainonline.com/aviation-ne... · Posted by u/elorant

whitej125 · 2 years ago

20 years ago nobody thought there'd be a another US automaker beyond the big three (Ford, GM, Chrysler)... yet today here we are with Tesla and a list of others.

Are there any other US companies today that could ostensibly be viable alternatives to Boeing's spot 20 years from now?

Electric-first-and-only was the differentiator for Tesla vs big three... what differentiator will it be in the aero industry?

rafale · 2 years ago

The barrier of entry is much higher with commercial aviation. You can get started with a lousy car but a lousy plane will never be acceptable. The MAX fiasco could have killed Boeing. Maybe Boom will succeed by getting its feet wet in the supersonic flight niche. Time will tell.

rafale commented on EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

kasperni · 2 years ago

Really? I know Snap AI (which is available for kids over 13) will happily advise you with how to cut yourself if you ask it.

rafale · 2 years ago

So would Google or any obscure forums. Just like fraud, the optimal amount of negativity in a technology is never zero. Gotta accept some amount of issues to maximize the benefits to drawbacks ratio.