A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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OpenStars

a month ago

No no no no no, you are supposed to reassure me with nice-sounding "factual" statements!? Everything will be okay bc... Cap't America, or sumtin.

What I know is that if people have principles but not convictions, then they have neither.

And unfortunately, greed is a principle.:-(

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