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We live in the age of post irony. The definition of what makes something a joke is now based on "amusing vs not amusing".

We no longer define jokes based on "real vs not real".


Sounds like Elizabeth Holmes next project.

That's the definition of a White Hat to me.

If there was a well known company, TrustedExploitAndPatch Inc, that had faces and contact info and dropped an 'oh by the way.txt' file with the details, screen recording, etc. after patching showing they didn't exfil all the coins - would people be happy?

Even if someone finds your wallet and returns it, full of its original cash, they still would have had time to snag your credit card numbers, figure out your address, what coupons you have.

The alternative is a guy in a suit walking up and saying "I saw your wallet in the bushes on 144th and 132nd."


Can’t wait for my AWS region selection dropdown to include "us-pacific-active-magma-1"


So one person single-handedly knocked out 10% of the entire Tor exit network over an SSH port redirection?


10% were compromised. The author contacted the Tor Project's network health team, who "made an announcement to the operators, who began shutting their exit nodes down."


If you are talking about take a screen shot, analyze move the window a bit, take another screenshot, move the window, repeat until they have seen enough of the map to make a decision, then decide what to click on, issue order.... this could absolutely be done. It's very similar to how LLM's have driven a car on a safe track.

But right now the response time would be so slow that the bot would not be close to competitive except with the most low level players. Especially because its hard to click on things that are moving at the same time as well.

Sometime soon, I'd like to see an LLM be competitive using only computer vision, mouse movement, and locked into a human possible number of actions per minute.


I don't know how close you have been following but she did get shut down.

And she had to do a lot to get it permitted and set back up.


Counterpoint: Restaurants have ALWAYS had dynamic pricing. It is called "Happy Hour". Dynamic pricing for an eatery serves an important purpose besides just gouging the customer. It moves customer traffic away from the intense surge at standard breakfast, lunch and dinner times which is a hard problem for businesses to work around.

You DESERVE a discount for patronizing them during their slower periods.


A Happy Hour is publicly priced in advance. Not so "dynamic".


Yep, the overarching term they might be looking for is price segmentation. Coupons, matinees, college/senior discounts, etc

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...


A discount is quite literally the opposite of what's happening here.


Guess that is a matter of perspective eh? If they say a Big Mac meal now costs $20 normal price but the price is being dynamically decreased based on order volume to attract customers at off-times for a lower price, does this Kohl’s “every weekend is a sale” model suddenly make everything feel better?


There have ALWAYS been projectiles but when guns came along we had to treat guns differently. Scale and magnitude and context matter.


There is a TV show called "Alone" where people have to live in a remote area using basic survival skills and very minimal tools. It's interesting, but I've always wanted to see a version of that show where small communities are competing against each other.

If we practiced for these Armageddon scenarios what would a highly prepared group of 20 be able to accomplish in a year. How fast could they get humanity back to the bronze age?


This is the type of movie I would be so excited about until I found out it was made by Seth Rogan.


How about Adam McKay, then?


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