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"Terrorism, regime destabilization, and policy change related objectives are by far more often assessed as failed, as compared to the other policy objectives. Overall, the average success rate [of sanctions] of around 34% across differ
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Not available to Americans (at least the ones unwilling to use BTC and a VPN), but Pinnacle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Sports ) is happy to take sharp bettors. If you're just arbing major US books the
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It upsets me that we've ceded control of a nontrivial part of our lives to a bunch of opaque risk scoring algorithms. No one knows how they work and even if they did they couldn't tell you because that could "help the bad gu
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Ironically, yes. Casino sites can also do the same thing (although obviously if you deposit 1.215179 BTC from one address and then withdraw the exact same amount to a separate address it's probably still going to be possible to link t
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The article doesn't come out and say it, but what they really want is for Binance to "de-risk." This could mean any or all of the following: - Banning users from 2nd and 3rd world countries ("high risk jurisdictions&quo
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How much revenue will this actually raise? The previous threshold was $20k which makes me think this new policy will mostly just result in the IRS catching the neighborhood bike repairman who made $3k last year on Venmo and didn't rep
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When the $10k (~$70k today) reporting threshold for cash deposits was set in the 70s, it was taken to the Supreme Court. Now we all celebrate "compliance." Interesting change.
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I read stuff like this (not this book specifically) from the OCCRP or ICIJ occasionally and I'm beginning to have my doubts about all of it. It's always based on innuendo and insinuation. Like "the grandson of this Nigeria
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In these groups it's probably mostly driven by desire for internet fame/prestige, a sense of belonging, and competition with other pirate groups. But a lot of piracy I think comes from the spirit of sharing. No one paid all thos
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I'm not sure there's some rigorous ethical justification but it's only available to people who have a Hulu account so they could just watch the movies on hulu.com instead of downloading them anyways. It also makes watching H
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I think the problem is mostly that mass popularity is sort of at odds with the cowboy attitude of a lot of Linux desktop users. Creating a "standardized experience" like Windows usually means that configurability goes right out t
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I have not tested this but it looks like it should work: https://github.com/Gryffindor8/Netflix-videos-downloader
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Author here. I worked on this for a couple of weekends and hope someone finds it useful or interesting. I'm probably going to have to take it down in a couple of hours though. The process of actually downloading something using this
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Show HN: Hulu Raw Video Downloader(github.com)
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The party will come to an end soon. There are people at Treasury (FINCEN and OFAC) who find the idea of people being able to transact even thousands of dollars without them knowing about it repulsive. Having coins tied to dollars is beggi
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The more likely scenario rather than this faux-altruism is that she just wants to get whistleblower status to collect 30% of the settlement Facebook will make with the government.
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Hank Asher(en.wikipedia.org)
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Lebanese reserves of USD and other hard currencies are rapidly dwindling and going LBP -> USD at the official rate is now only permitted for "essential imports." Essentially the central bank will allow you to convert your LBP
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There is a way to do it where you recompile the APK to enable trusting user CAs, see https://daksh.github.io/MITM/ .
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The sanctions affect everyone in Iran. The elites and people actually involved in the nuclear program in Iran have access to dollars/western markets via smuggling networks and other underground efforts (see https://en.wik
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A Brief Survey of Code Obfuscation Techniques(github.com)
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Websites Know You're Lying About Your User-Agent(github.com)
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Synthesizing Loop-Free Programs with Rust and Z3(fitzgeraldnick.com)
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Reversing the Old Widevine Content Decryption Module(github.com)
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Reading HN threads about AMP has taught me that it's very easy for people with gigabit internet connections, fast computers and adblockers to ignore the fact that AMP made the web actually usable for large numbers of people who previou
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Shining a Light on Currency Black Markets(winton.com)
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The other Microsoft coffee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Online_Forensic_Evide...
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I can definitely agree that Bitcoin is a step in the right direction for expanding access to the financial system and I think the whole DeFi space on Ethereum is pretty incredible too (Uniswap, Curve, etc). It's outrageous that there
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This has always perplexed me too. There's a nice Buffett quote on this ( https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf ): "Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold
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All your input are belong to me – 3rd party web security(adtechmadness.wordpress.com)
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