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by elliekelly 3y ago
As near as I can tell conducting a “malign influence campaign” isn’t an actual criminal charge that can be brought against someone in the US. The people in that article were charged with illegally acting on behalf of a foreign government wi
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by elliekelly 4y ago
You wouldn’t need to ask the SEC that hypothetical because you can see their long history of bringing cases against “bread thieves” and (correctly) infer that they would bring a similar suit against you for the same or similar conduct. To t
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by elliekelly 4y ago
That isn’t the function of the SEC. They make sure issuers have complied with disclosure requirements so investors can make their own decisions. They make sure you get full and fair disclosure and that’s about it. They’re more like the FDA’
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by elliekelly 4y ago
That’s not even remotely the same as showing up at their office and asking them to apply the law to your specific scenario. That’s what lawyers do. And if your lawyers are unsure they can ask the SEC via the No Action letter process. For Co
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by elliekelly 4y ago
And some Howey-in-the-Hills investors may have just wanted to eat their oranges. First and foremost they’ll look to what was said in selling the tokens: “join a crypto community!” vs “start your crypto portfolio”.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
This is absolutely the answer. The NFA/CFTC have been having a quiet turf war with the SEC for a decade now in an attempt to thwart the obvious and hopefully inevitable solution you’ve suggested.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
The SEC doesn’t give out legal advice.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I’m sure it depends on the language but I’ve found ChatGPT works well for this purpose. I suppose the risk is that I don’t know what I don’t know so it very well might look fine to me but terrible to native speakers. Even so I’m fairly cert
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I almost think having crew mates in a small confined space for years on end would be worse than the isolation of being alone. Maybe the first mission to Mars should just be one astronaut and their dogs.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
If you’re willing to answer a question a bit beyond the scope I have one that relates to your story but also to your experience as a journalist. It seems like grifters often rely on “reputation laundering” through reputable news & media
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I do think it’s kind of odd that we, as a country, have decided people are not mentally mature enough to use alcohol or tobacco and yet we’re apparently willing to just hand these junior adults stacks and stacks of sensitive intelligence in
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by elliekelly 4y ago
Do you realize that “learn to lip read” isn’t feasible for a lot of people? That’s great that lip reading worked for the one Deaf person you know. But Deaf people, like the population at large, are all different people. It’s cruel and ridi
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by elliekelly 4y ago
This is stupid and meaningless pedantry. Like when you ask your teacher if you can go to the bathroom and they say “I don’t know, can you?” A system of writing can be used for any language. (Have you ever wondered why English, a Germani
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by elliekelly 4y ago
There are many languages that don’t use a system of writing.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
Check out that first link about Martha’s Vineyard ;)
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I’m not sure how you can read hostility into my comment when I plainly stated I didn’t think you were commenting with ill intent. Ignorance doesn’t require intent though. ASL isn’t a “foreign” language. It’s an American language. In fact, i
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by elliekelly 4y ago
No, ASL is not English. ASL is a complete and distinct natural language in its own right.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I suspect (and hope) you had no ill intent but this comment is really ignorant. There is a terrible history of Deaf people being discriminated against and forced to “lip read” rather than communicate through ASL. And by “forced” I mean they
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Dress Survived for More Than Three Centuries at the Bottom of the Sea(nytimes.com)
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by elliekelly 4y ago
Yes. That’s how investing works.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
It reminds me of this thread[1] from a few weeks ago. The article was so infuriating to read. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639988
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by elliekelly 4y ago
CueCat! There’s a name I haven’t seen in a while. I still have mine from RadioShack.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
If they think tip-offs like this are a risk they’ll raise the covered deposit amount.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
I’m lost. How does $200 translate into 200 years? The fees are assessed quarterly. And they change. They go up and down depending on the fund’s needs, credit cycles, etc.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
“Riskier” and more complex banks do have higher FDIC fees: https://www.fdic.gov/resources/deposit-insurance/deposit-ins...
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by elliekelly 4y ago
They invoked this exception repeatedly during the financial crisis and fees did not go up in response. In fact, they all but disappeared.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
It seems like there’s a lot of uncertainty around the dollar amount of the deposits in excess of FDIC limits which would make it difficult to figure out a deal.
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by elliekelly 4y ago
It’s my understanding that while Harari’s books are fascinating and entertaining reads they’re mostly pop-science and lack much actual science. He’s a good storyteller but he presents his stories as though they’re fact when they are, at bes
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by elliekelly 4y ago
Mickey Mouse has changed several times over since the death of Walt Disney. Books and plays are adapted to film, often without the input of the author, and a film adaptations almost always require significant changes. Sometimes the changes
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by elliekelly 4y ago
Zero Hedge is an even less reliable source of information than the narrator in the blog’s favorite book (or, more likely, movie).

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