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Wikipedia documents some: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Autopilot#Fatal_crashes

This site claims 42: https://www.tesladeaths.com/

They can be difficult to classify. I don't have a link handy, but I've seen reports that FSD/Autopilot disengages moments before an inevitable accident, allowing Tesla to claim that the systems were not engaged and imply they were not at fault. I haven't seen an investigation into whether this is true and, if so, whether the system was designed for the purpose of misleading claims.


That's Autopilot, aka cruise control, not Full Self Driving.

There's an excellent pithy saying for this: If something is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly.

I've had a small, shared hosting plan for personal stuff since fall of 1999. I recently talked to an employee who was younger than my account.


Pretty much every brand or app I search for finds a competitor first. Searching for "robinhood" turns up an unaffiliated cryptocurrency app and "macrofactor" turns up a competing diet app, etc. App store search has been broken for at least a few years.


> "Pretty much every brand or app I search for finds a competitor first."

You're going to hate Amazon.com.


Amazon is known to be a flea market though. Apple is supposed to be the Nordstrom of this sector.


Do you mean ads or organic results?

Apple should remove App Store search ads altogether (I'm sure they won't). By definition they won't give you the app you searched for, because the keyword will be bought by a competitor or even a scam.


If Apple is making money from showing incorrect search results, isn’t that worse?


What if you're searching for "bank" or "flashlight" or "map"?


Do you mean the ad at the top? For me, the first result is always an ad which is mostly not the right result, and the second entry (the first actual result) is the right app.


> They also highlighted a multistep process they say the defendant used to pay for the Bitcoin Fog domain name more than a decade ago.

For anyone else curious, it's described in this affidavit, page 8: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.230...


That was interesting. At first it reads like it could have been a deep investigation. Then you realize that with the right 3 datasets, it's trivial to reveal this level of attempted obfuscation.

Mt. Gox didn't help. Liberty reserve didn't help. Bitcoin shuffling didn't help.

If it looks like a money laundering tool with a paper trail, it's eventually just a prosecution tool.

One day, Monero books will be cracked wide open and we won't even know until later.


The initial account in the chain belongs to Sterlingnov. However where is the evidence that subsequent accounts belong to him? Maybe he was selling the BTC on Bitcoin-otc or some other random place that existed back in the days, and now he is wrongly linked to the guy.

Edit: sorry, missed the evidence about using same IP for both the mtgox and LR account. Weird using the chain of transactions and then doing that kind of rookie mistake.


> and included links to a clearnet website for BITCOIN FOG (www.bitcoinfog.com), the Tor onion site (http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion), and a Twitter feed for updates on the site (www.twitter.com/#!/@Bitcoinfog)

This is how many illegal services get decloaked. They have a clearnet domain, but ironically a darknet .onion too which is what they should just have, not a clearnet domain (if what you're doing is illegal or operates in a legal grey area). I am aware it's possible to get a clearnet domain anonymously with services like NJALLA[0], but you have to take extra special care, pay with crypto, do everything over Tor, use XMPP w/OTR etc

[0] https://njal.la/


To me that process highlighted looks more to do with how to convert fake e-bucks back into real dollars via liberty reserve and less to do with any type of criminal structuring but I'm not IRS agent trying to hang a case on someone.


What purpose do you see served by opening three Mt. Gox accounts under three different names and sending bitcoin from the first, to the second, to the third before sending it out to Liberty Reserve?


I read it a few times but for me to pretend I understand why this person made three separate transactions to pay an $86 hosting bill speaks more to me of a lack of consistent revenue or source of funds.

Ocamm’s Razor doesn’t point me to malice. It’s just as easily a kid trading gift cards $20/time until he has the funds. This looks like an idea that starts small, and frankly when it was invented it wasn’t illegal at the moment of creation.

It’s the story laid out in the court case and the changing of regulations and laws that created the crime. Inception of an idea alone doesn’t lead me to believe the intent was malice; privacy, obfuscation, the lack of funds maybe.

Obfuscation can be as simple as protecting privacy.

As an example I can say the first day I stepped foot in a cryptocurrency community was on IRC about 13 years ago. I didn’t realize Freenode showed your hostmask by default and random people had IPwhois’d my netmask, asking about where I work, pulling up the address on street view…

I’ve exclusively used rented servers bouncers cloaks etc ever since. That’s the community I realized I was dealing with.


> pulling up the address on street view…

What ISPs provide this level of detail to people other than law enforcement? (And I'm pretty sure law enforcement need to follow an actual process too) Is it a US thing? Looking up my IP tells you... A different city, where presumably my ISP owns some infrastructure or office space


I think it's two things. We develop our intuition for how many maladjusted people there are from our physical surroundings, but we're limited in how many we can meet and are unlikely to meet the extreme outliers; on the internet everyone is our neighbor. And then on top of that, they are overrepresented because they are much more likely to be removed from communities to arrive at new ones.


It's a scam, they'll attempt to phish account credentials. Googling for [scam call "interest in the financial market"] turns up scattered reports.


They do have a comparison page, but it's hard to find, incomplete, and leaves out significant information: https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/difference-among-keychro...

The KeyChron Discord has seen enough questions that it has many bot autoresponders to explain model differences. I thought the experience of selecting among the many very similar, poorly-named models was a frustrating slog, but it seems unlikely to change given that they sell out their production runs.

As long as you happen to quote it, I forgot a key sentence in my story: I placed my order with the official Keychron store and it was fulfilled by Amazon.



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