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Maybe you're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadBIOS .
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Related: The $10,000 reporting threshold in the US has not been updated since the 70s. There have been multiple bipartisan attempts to update it to $20-30k (which is still half of what it should be according to CPI) but for some reason the
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> I religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control. But then you are losing the anonymizing effect of the VPN. If you are doing something illegal this is obviously bad but I guess it otherwise doesn't really
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The law on structuring ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5324 ) is about evading the $10,000 reporting threshold for financial institutions taking cash deposits or businesses taking cash payments for
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These are mostly class action suits that will result in a settlement. Antitrust enforcement in America usually just means the company will sell some of its divisons (maybe Google sells the ad business). Half the push for tech regulation c
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Re: Toll-Free calls, you can actually get paid for those too. Thanks to the 1996 telecommunications law, there's something called "dial-around compensation" which entitles payphone owners to about 50 cents for a toll free ca
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Interestingly, the federalists tried to argue against the Bill of Rights by essentially saying if an individual right was not mentioned in the Bill of Rights than that omission could set a precedent that the individual did not have that rig
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I read Red Notice and found myself really annoyed by the author's enormous ego and self-righteousness. He talks about how Putin and his cronies have corruptly siphoned of massive amounts of wealth for themselves at the expense of ordi
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Yet another article which ignores the fact that America has better enforcement and longer sentences for white collar crime then basically any other Western country. Law enforcement in most of the world is a total joke in this regard. &quo
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You must run earlyscores.com! That site was a life saver for me. Sadly anything aimed towards tech savvy high schoolers is probably going to be pretty difficult to monetize.
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Studies have consistently shown that sanctions only result in a change in behavior of governments 30-35% of the time. Sanctions designed to cause regime change have an effectiveness even lower than that. Also worth noting that this effect
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The difference is that it's in Europe. Ukraine is about as democratic as El Salvador. See https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort...
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I wrote it over a year ago so I don't remember exactly but I think there was a template when you went to make a new script that made it easy. Had to google some things but I don't think it took me more than 15 minutes.
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There's a site I use that checks for membership only on the client side and I use requestly to spoof premium status. Just had to write a simple script like this to modify the response body of the request that gets membership status:
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The IMF trusts the yuan enough to hold reserves of it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights ).
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>The reason we have to have laws about such things is that paying the bribe is always beneficial to the individual company. Refusing to pay bribes only helps if every company refuses to pay the bribe. That's great in theory and that
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There is now. You can get 10-30% of the settlement the company makes with the government. If anyone reading this has any information about their company making bribes to foreign governments and does not particularly care about their compa
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This is a particularly egregious case but reports about FCPA cases like these (and the ensuing calls to imprison executives) neglect the fact that most major multinationals do not want to pay anyone. Governments in about half the world r
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This is because major countries with their own currencies do not like having dollarized economies. Trade with the west could be done in BTC because there is no blanket prohibition on business with Russia just mostly their financial institu
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Because great companies can be bought for pennies on the dollar? It’s irrelevant now because they’re trying to prevent foreigners from selling and the sanctions are probably going to get worse but if I was a Russian with good savings I wou
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Doesn't it just mean they'll pay extra (for the cost of evasion)? Apartheid South Africa still got oil when it was sanctioned, they just had to pay Marc Rich a 10% premium. Of course that's not great, especially when your cu
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Erdogan is probably a better analogy but we'll see how long that lasts.
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My armchair analysis: Losing SWIFT access is bad but it's definitely not a death knell (estimated to cause around 5% GDP contraction initially but they could probably get by with the alternatives). The central bank thing seems much wo
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It's to keep the exchange rate stable. Although that can't happen if the FX reserves are frozen.
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Doesn't this mean the ruble will collapse? They only have $12 billion in physical cash and $140 billion or so in gold.
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If the Magnitsky Act actually worked then we would expect changes in the behavior of the people it sanctioned to get off the list. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe... , it doesn&#
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I'm convinced there's always going to be some new frontier for regulators to say "if we could just get rid of this, there'd be no more crime." 80s/90s: offshore banks, bearer shares 00s: MSBs/money orders&
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But it's not like they put "explosives and other ordinances" in the subject line. For all the bank knew Atta was just some flight school student. If banks were to require justification for every wire transfer, legitimate co
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Yeah I think I would have been more successful had I just bought some aged accounts with 50-100 karma. If you're "morally flexible" and willing to work with some unsavory types there's probably a lot of money to be made
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You're not serious, right? You clearly haven't seen some of the latest unlicensed money transmitter prosecutions. The resourceful agents over at HSI have come up with an incredibly effective method of stopping crime in the Bitco

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