Something something smart contracts don’t require trust something something.
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Have they tried looking for a Post-it note on the bottom of the laptop?
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Look! He has a print of Pablo Picasso! Type in his Birthday! (Every hacker movie ever.)
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Wait a second, in the mirror - zoom in on that - and reverse it. I think I have it!
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“The laptop computer from which Gerry carried out the Companies’ business is encrypted, and I do not know the password or recovery key,” Robertson wrote. “Despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find them written down anywhere.”
So they can’t find any sticky note.
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Well it must be somewhere. They’ll just have to look again. It’s usually in the last place you look.
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Of course it is. Who would keep on looking after they found what they were looking for?
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Just to prove that wrong, I will occasionally continue to look for my keys after I have found them.
Of course, this all depends on if the guy actually died and not trying to get out of a fraudulent business.
Not that that would ever happen with something as solid and dependable as BITCOIN
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I’ve known at least two people IRL who are like this, although neither are as successful as Mallory. What’s your score?
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I knew a guy in college who tended to inflate his background, so to speak, but not like that.
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Old SF controversies never die…
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No, that’s just a snake tattoo on someone’s cheek.
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I’ve known a man who was very consistent with his lying – it was only when you tried to construct your own timeline of everything he’d said had happened that you realised it was impossible it had all happened.
I also know a woman (who remains a friend of friends) who has had one version or another of cancer for as long as I’ve known her – over 15 years now. She gets “sick” from the chemo, yet never loses weight or her hair.
And the kinds of cancer she’s claimed to have had… it’s hard to explain in a BBS post, but seriously, she should be dead several times over by now. I only learned this when I mentioned her latest bout to someone who used to work with cancer patients, and they got me to tell the whole story.
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How anyone believes that adding more cars to our landscape is going to help the traffic problem in urban areas (driverless or not) is beyond me… you can’t add more vehicles and expect less traffic! Now more HOV on the road (or more trains, etc) will help… but if literally all of us has our own driverless cars, it’s not going to help the problem of volume on the streets.
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A friend of mine is studying autonomous cars, and he says most adoption models assume ride sharing will be the norm, and private ownership the (expensive) exception.
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Does that model have the AI blessing?
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It assumes an AI can be developed which can safely drive a car, I’d that’s what you mean.
That problem becomes much easier to solve if human drivers are off the roads, of course.
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Theory I developed while reading this article: what if everyone’s feeling of disgust at Trump is what is making the authoritarians MORE extreme in their political stance?
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