What are the chances that these casinos actually just use these products and donate to them? Everyone here immediately jumping to SEO conclusions, but maybe its a bit less nefarious than that?
While these are all cool, the tool they're selling just openly is made for stealing styles from other pages? I mean I get that CSS isn't copyrighted (specifically), but it does just seem like its a tool made for stealing other peoples work?
When I read these type of comments, I wonder if OP is living in some kind of bubble. Large corporations spent billions over the last years migrating to the cloud. You can't simply 'undo' that. All fine and dandy for small orgs, but they aren't the ones AWS makes most its money with.
I would guess companies spending billions migrating to clouds has probably peaked, and that would also be part of an argument for cloud bubble bursting.
Care to elaborate? How would a bakery using AI generated images of bread be any different than McDonalds or Burger King advertising highly photoshopped / fake products?
The main difference is those restaurants photograph their real products. Even though they use top tier food prep, lighting, camera work and editing for the shoot, they’ve shown the thing you’re ordering and it’s theoretically achievable by the local store.
I’m sure it’s possible to tune an AI to work within similar constraints but I haven’t seen that to exist yet. (You can shoot hundreds of photos of a chicken sandwich for much less money than trying to create one.)
You are sadly naive if you think food shown in advertising is anywhere near close to the real thing. Faking both the appearance of the actual ingredients and using entirely different analogues. Shaving cream instead of whipped cream being one of the more obvious examples.
I remember reading that (at least in some countries) food marketing is regulated and requires you to use the same ingredients and quantities as the real food.
Doesn’t mean someone won’t lovingly make that McDonald’s burger patty and pick the most beautiful color corrected piece of lettuce, but it’s still real.
I run a startup that heavily relies on ads, and I can tell you for sure that we spend and measure ROI in detail. We have metrics that tell us exactly how much we need to spend to convert a user into paying user, so that we can budget ourselves accordingly; I think most low/mid tier companies do this. Of course, when you look at real giants, its a different story as the ROI is harder to measure.
I know I will get a hail of downvotes for this, but again you're comparing apples and oranges. The operators are using crypto for a wide range of applications. Using a mixer has probably 99.9% illegal reasons and 0.1% legitimate uses. Making money laundering harder is a good thing, no matter how many people here will try to convince you it isn't.
> Using a mixer has probably 99.9% illegal reasons and 0.1% legitimate uses
Similar to people using paper money or end-to-end encryption really. Nobody needs military-grade encryption or anonymous currency unless they're trying to hide something.
Say I sell software, or SaaS. Then I may need military-grade encryption because I need to sell, a few potential customers (may) need that, and I need to keep my costs down so supplying the latest and greatest cipher to everyone is the right default. It may waste a bit of CPU but it saves the time of the sales and support people, and human time is expensive.
Say I'm going to buy something tomorrow, and I don't like SPoFs. There's a card in my wallet, or maybe two, but if the card reader in the shop is down, that's a SPoF unless I also carry some cash.
That is the fun part, isn't it. Government is now ok with crypto, because it can easily track it. But you try to make it actually not being able to track, booy howdy, it will come down on you like a ton of brick.
Only if you presume that private deeds are illegitimate. That appears to reverse the presumption of innocence, without which the law becomes nothing more than a tool to destroy the enemies of the prosecutors.
unlike 'peer 2 peer' cash usecases of crypto. ethereum added a lot of social elements to it with ens names. All sorts of common folk use tornado cash to keep their private transactions separate from their public address
The most important countries in the world are democracies. Even if the demos is occasionally influenced by poor arguments, the laws made are valid anyway. And the laws say (simplifying) that those who carry out money transfers have to take reasonable precautions against money laundering. Details vary, particularly wrt what's reasonable.
"Doing nothing" isn't reasonable though, and the people has decided. Calling the people's arguments puerile or useless makes no difference.
The way the Flash Translation Layer works is complicated, but long story short, there's still an advantage to sequential reads and writes on SSDs. The difference in latency and throughput isn't as dramatic as with spinning disks, but is still there. Random vs sequential writes have big implications for the long term health and performance of the SSD.
This is disingenuous. It's like responding to someone arguing for gun control with "all the shooters drank water, should we ban that?".
We can argue about the legit/legal uses of Tornado Cash and whether it deserves to be sanctioned - but do so in good faith rather than pretending like it is equivalent to a general purpose tool like Microsoft Windows.
The tweet is very low information for me to comment. I can't tell whether these people contributed to Tornado cash before/after the sanctions were in place.
I think a fairer analogy would be, some devs contributed to signal, signal or a derivative of it got used by North Korea/Terrorist/current enemy of choice of the political class. Do we go around and delete the developers GitHub accounts?
Having never used tornado.cash or much of crypto (apart from making some money doing spot trades) I can't comment on what the good use cases are. Here's a sample thread of Vitalik claiming to use Tornado.cash to donate to people in Ukraine https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/155692560223356928.... I can find some other threads like this on Twitter.
This is just another case of Government choosing "security" over privacy and should be scary to folks on HN than be cheered upon.
As a side, I am not sure whether Tornado.cash was marketed specifically for "bad" use cases. In the example below I'd support the DoJ in fining & imprisoning a software engineer for his visit to Pyongyang https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assi...
That's a false equivalence and you know it. A browser and a coin mixer have 2 very different core audiences, aiming to do very different things. I don't know anyone who has legitimate uses for a coin mixer other than laundering/covering their tracks.
