Daniel Franke
@dfranke
Security researcher. Keeping the internet safe for anarchy.
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Outside my polling place was a completely unattended table with a sign on it that said "The Exit Poll". Why, I could have just walked up and dropped my lunch receipt into their "ballot box" and nobody would've stopped me!
You might feel powerless, but you still can do your part today to degrade the information environment by sharing context-free anecdotes whose meaning at this point is genuinely unclearView quoted post on X
So here's the thing about this quote. Lonsdale is not wrong here, but it misses the bigger picture.
Perfect fraud protection is good for buyers, bad for fraudsters, and irrelevant for legitimate sellers. Pure win for society.
Imperfect fraud protection is less good for buyers, less bad for fraudsters, and catastrophic for falsely accused sellers. A defrauded buyer gets screwed on one transaction. The consequences of a seller being falsely accused of fraud can be life-altering.
I'm not a PayPal vendor, so strong fraud protection personally benefits me. But in a Rawlsian scenario that randomizes what side of the transaction I'll be on, I'd prefer that the policy of payment processors be caveat emptor, and that fraud recovery be left to police and courts.
Perfect fraud protection is good for buyers, bad for fraudsters, and irrelevant for legitimate sellers. Pure win for society.
Imperfect fraud protection is less good for buyers, less bad for fraudsters, and catastrophic for falsely accused sellers. A defrauded buyer gets screwed on one transaction. The consequences of a seller being falsely accused of fraud can be life-altering.
I'm not a PayPal vendor, so strong fraud protection personally benefits me. But in a Rawlsian scenario that randomizes what side of the transaction I'll be on, I'd prefer that the policy of payment processors be caveat emptor, and that fraud recovery be left to police and courts.
Palantir cofounder
“@elonmusk made a great point when I was involved as a kid at PayPal: whenever you turn off fraud or grift, the people who would scream the most were the fraudsters.”View quoted post on X
They should not have posted this. If you can be pressured to issue a denial like this, then your failure to do so in response to similar pressure about other alleged patients becomes evidence that violates those patients' privacy.
Representative James Talarico has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope.View quoted post on X
If this is for himself and not one of his kids, then I think it's awesome that a guy who owns a company that builds real spaceships still enjoys building pretend stuff out of LEGO.
@PEoperator @bot Grok will find another way to buy stuff. I just ordered LEGO and Grok bought it from the LEGO website.View quoted post on X
