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by ciamac 6y ago
The claim is that he didn't declare $200M in income and hid it in off-shore accounts over a decade. Sounds like a large amount of money and a substantial time period.
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by ciamac 6y ago
Notice that his charitable giving began after he was aware the IRS was after him. There is evidence he committed criminal tax fraud, giving the money back or giving the money to charity doesn't ameliorate that. To make an analogy, supp
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by ciamac 6y ago
That DB/rentech basket option is a tax avoidance scheme. It has nothing to do options pricing and concepts like delta, gamma, etc.
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by ciamac 8y ago
Well, we can agree to disagree, but I think there are many reasonable arguments against this deal that have nothing to do with the RWDSU and everything to do with a lack of transparency and special treatment for a large powerful corporation
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by ciamac 8y ago
$500M is literally a check to Bezos. And it is a backroom deal in that there was no competitive process to redevelop LIC, which would allow other companies and developers to compete with Amazon, as well as no input from city residents and t
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by ciamac 8y ago
1) $500M of the deal is cash. That can be spent on other things. Many other companies are investing large sums in NYC without cash or tax incentives. Why give amazon special treatment? 2) It was a back room deal in the sense that it was neg
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by ciamac 8y ago
NYC resident here. If Amazon wants to come to NYC, great, but why do they need corporate welfare including $500M in cash? We do not need them here, and they should pay full freight like everyone else (including Google, which is buying whole
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CIA's communications suffered a catastrophic compromise(yahoo.com)
11 points by ciamac 8y ago|1 comments
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by ciamac 8y ago
Well the direct mechanism in this case is hedge funds paying "placement agents" which fund the corruption, so they do have responsibility, even if they are not solely responsible.
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by ciamac 9y ago
Seems like Google has gone a ways from "don't be evil" to applying AI to tracking and targeting drones.
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by ciamac 9y ago
I'm an author of the underlying paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3025604 This article is very misleading in several ways: (1) we do not work for the Finnish Central Bank in any way nor do
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An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System (2017)(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by ciamac 9y ago|0 comments
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Activists call for Facebook 'censorship' change after Korryn Gaines death(theguardian.com)
4 points by ciamac 10y ago|0 comments
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by ciamac 11y ago
He made fake edits that were against the terms of service. Why should Google tolerate that?
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by ciamac 16y ago
There is a lot of empirical evidence supporting the fact that the rich "own" government, or, more precisely, that politicians vote in ways that are more correlated with beliefs of high income voters than other voters, and that politicians a