>> If Blackrock is saying this, then they are pushing for a recession. In fact, they are trying to provoke a recession.

They don't want a recession. Those comments are aimed at central bankers. They want them to stop raising interest rates.

Scaring everyone else into selling assets so they can buy them cheap is just a happy side-effect for them.

Now can we all stop worrying about security and NPPI since it's all out there anyway?

It's futures-based, so I don't think they have to actually hold any bitcoin.

How do you know that? Where is the real document that proved that?

Quick! Everybody download it before Trump deletes it from the internet archive!

"Proportional" doesn't mean "identical".

Remember when Kissinger cut the Soviet's legs out from under them with an intelligence briefing to communist China? Look it up. It was devastating to Soviet strategy.

There's lots of embarrassing data we have on Putin and lots of ways it can be easily used to hurt him.

Now finding someone in the administration clever enough to use it... that may be difficult.

How do you know that?

I honestly can't decide whether I think he's a hero or a villain because we just don't know if he took it with him or if he limited the scope of what he stole to only data about domestic spying.

I would love it if I could give my wife a fallback password that doesn't work until a certain amount of time has elapsed without a normal login.

If I haven't logged into my bank account in 2 weeks, I'm definitely dead.

GM only killed people.

VW committed a far worse crime. They offended the regulators.

You don't understand. When you can append "using a cell phone" to any behavior it becomes news all over again.

I'm pretty sure I saw this in the movie National Treasure over 10 years ago - and I doubt Hollywood invented the idea so it's probably decades old.

Could you explain why? Since the ISP supplied the modem and your packets all travel through their tubes anyways, what additional vulnerabilities do you have by using their router?

Serious question. I stopped scrutinizing my home networking gear when everything seemed "good enough", so apart from the fact that my isp could have me pwnd a number of different other ways, why should I be particularly worried about using the freebie router?

The goal is to make big companies with deep pockets more sue-able.

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That link points to a story about an online chat for "men and anyone with concerns or questions about prostate cancer".

A chat run by a charity. In the UK.

I don't want to go out on a limb here, but I don't think the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or any US government agency has anything to do with it, so que sera sera.

'Rich people having fun' does have its merits. It may be an inefficient use of capital, but it can still advance science and stimulate the economy.

Certainly it's preferable to 'Rich people sitting on their wealth'.