Craig Newmark: preference

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…If I do this, what should I be thinking between second eight and second nine? I get what I should be thinking in the first few seconds, but at seven, eight rolls around, what am I doing? If something still smells bad to you, I would either not do it or go right to the source. If they say they’re pointing you to, let’s say, Amazon for something, I would say type in Amazon directly because a common technique of scammers or phishers is to get a domain name that might look like Amazon but isn’t. If you use a font where you use an R followed by an N, some fonts make the RN together look like an M. You’ll go to what looks like Amazon, and they will capture your user ID and password. Then they’ll get you to Amazon, and you won’t know that they just stole your credentials. That’s actually an illustration of a common technique for which solutions exist. A long story. There’s a cat-and-mouse game involved, but I’m trying to figure out what institutions to fund to stop that from happening. What is it that you understand about used goods that others do not?…

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