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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by qqqwerty on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @11:52PM (#19325596)
FWIW, this is only marginally worse than your standard 'industry award' in that he had the nerve to give it to himself. Pretty much every industry has a boatload of meaningless awards. It is done largely for marketing and for 'social engineering'[1]. It is cheap (both in cost and tact) but effective.

[1] Curries favor with the awardees, creates an 'in group' etc...

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by wallace_f on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:07AM (#19326360)
Feynman spoke at length on the shallowness of awards.

>epaulets, uniform, position: it has nothing to do with something intrinsic of that person.

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Re:Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M,... by Scoundreller on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:37PM (#19333302)
I see someone that listened to Hidden Brain last week!

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697641324/better-than-cash-ho...

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