SilasX

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by SilasX 4y ago
I get the logic, but … isn’t this failure mode the fault of the doctor, for overreacting to a minor issue/non-issue, rather than the patient for getting yearly checkups?
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by SilasX 4y ago
But, I mean, aren't Swedish police much better at respecting the rights of suspects and thus already better at avoiding George Floyd-type situations?
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by SilasX 4y ago
You might be thinking about filing directly on the IRS site, which has an income threshold? There are free filing services, like FreeTaxUSA that I use.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Maybe California could prosecute them under the new rules about contractor misclassification!
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by SilasX 4y ago
I missed what it was responding to beyond “look I can show off my knowledge and my proud opposition to cash bail”. If you want to dispute the “not weird” label, you should reply to the person originally making it. As it stands, you’re respo
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by SilasX 4y ago
I wasn't criticizing additional means to achieve compliance -- I don't know what you think you were addressing there. >Would you view a $100,000 non-dischargeable, non-expiring debt to the federal government when you have $100,
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by SilasX 4y ago
That's exactly the distinction I was making in the first two paragraphs, about "weird" relative to existing practice vs "weird" relative to the outside world's standards for reasonable behavior.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Only because federal courts are consistently weird about it! :-p From an objective, outside perspective, it's definitely weird to say, "Put up $X to assure us you'll actually appear for trial. Oh, you're putting up .01
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by SilasX 4y ago
In the sense of whether their client has committed the underlying acts they are accused of, yes, this is something a lawyer would definitely want to know, and try to find out, as it effects what legal defenses can actually work vs. are like
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by SilasX 4y ago
“A socially destructive practice benefits you, so you shouldn’t wish for it to stop.” Wrong. You should, and I always bite that bullet.
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by SilasX 4y ago
"Hey, we really can't keep up this system of just letting anyone graze sheep on the commons willy-nilly. Eventually it'll get overgrazed and produce nothing. To prevent that catastrophe, we need to move to a system where tota
732.
by SilasX 4y ago
To the chagrin of “may I”/“can I” pedants everywhere…
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by SilasX 4y ago
For anyone who's reading, the recent SVB chaos must have been a bonanza for them. There was a massive flight-to-"quality" from USDC and DAI into USDT, which led to a massive premium the latter. That premium still hasn't
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by SilasX 4y ago
Wasn’t there that theory about Vermeer (Dutch 17th century), that he was able to “crack the code” by using special lenses that allowed him to see how an image should look on paper? HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by SilasX 4y ago
This. It doesn't seem materially different from a credit card: if you pay within a certain window, no interest charges. It's just that BNPL is associated with being unable to afford it at the moment. And, not surprisingly, comed
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by SilasX 4y ago
You're thinking of El Salvador, and a different use case (legal tender with government incentives), which has indeed been ridiculed as a failure. The parent was referring to ordinary people using cryptocurrency without official backing
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by SilasX 4y ago
I thought it was the law[1] that put them on the hook for any sex trafficking that's facilitated by said payment processing, not moral judgments? [1] FOSTA/SESTA https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOST
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by SilasX 4y ago
Okay, then presumably you can just appeal to the real basis for that claim, rather than the unreliable realtor source?
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by SilasX 4y ago
The question was about a Cupertino homeowner vs what that corresponding homeowner would see in Austin. You're linking an article about the median Californian vs median Texan, which -- even accepting its assumptions -- is only sup
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by SilasX 4y ago
Similar issue with that Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who only wanted "cool kids" to be seen in his clothes, so someone made sure to give donated A&F clothes to the homeless: https://www.businessinsider.com/man-g
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by SilasX 4y ago
But the thing that did SVB in was, overwhelmingly, Treasury bonds, due to duration risk and interest rates going up, nothing to do with the bank's more exotic practices.
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by SilasX 4y ago
>Why didn't banks liquidate their long-term bond holdings a year ago? Because if they had all done it then, the crisis would have happened at that time instead of this one. For any mass-liquidation, you can always ask, "well w
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by SilasX 4y ago
>similar consider which liquidity focused/dominated business would be at risk of they randomly lose half their liquidity Except, the way banking is set up in the US, there exists a lender of last resort (the Federal Reserve) that ca
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by SilasX 4y ago
Exactly. Like the infamous remark that inflation is being canceled out by faster iPads: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUST...
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by SilasX 4y ago
I had to look that up — he resigned in August 2022, over two months before the FTX collapse on ~November 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Trabucco
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by SilasX 4y ago
That's irrelevant to the topic of this subthread, about Glass-Steagall and the regulations that would have prevented this.
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by SilasX 4y ago
There are also the people who were able to buy USDC or DAI at a discount when there was worry that SVB's collapse would cascade to those stablecoins. Disclaimer: was one of them, though not nearly as aggressive as I should have been.
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by SilasX 4y ago
Buying long-term Treasurys and booking them as high-grade capital (whatever they call it) was legal under GS too, and was the cause of SVB's failure. SVB was killed by the boring part, not the startup banking risk.
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by SilasX 4y ago
>The fundamental lie here is allowing banks to tell you you have “cash” deposited and “available” with them. If the online app showed the truth - how your $10k you deposited turned into some shares in mortgage backed securities or whatno
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by SilasX 4y ago
You mean the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)?

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