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Gentoo is the only way to run Linux without dbus udev consolekit polkit and the rest of the annoying Freedesktop.org software. If you run GNOME or some giant desktop environment maybe that means nothing to you but it is very important for
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> So you're saying the improved tracking of criminal proceeds, which started during the peak of the mafia's prominence and improved further as the mafia declined, had nothing to do with that decline? Very few transactions hit t
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“Money laundering” became a crime in 1986. The bank secrecy act originally just introduced the $10000 threshold ($80000 now) and record keeping requirements. It was later amended in the 90s to add suspicious activity reporting. Nearly al
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Yes but most likely his wife or son wouldn’t show up in World-Check or whatever compliance system they use nowadays. Instead of engaging in this hypothetical we can just look at the million examples where modern day multi millionaire crimi
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Hint: Starts with “adv” and ends with “cash”
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I agree with your broader point but I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court case is about a technicality involving foreign bank account reporting, basically whether a failure to file that you had 5 foreign bank accounts is 5 counts or 1 count of
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Phone verification raises account creation costs to at least 20-30 cents an account (assuming you ban VOIP and only take first world countries, can be lower otherwise), email verification if you still allow yandex rambler outlook hotmail ad
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Provisions of the Patriot Act allow banks to share customer information with each other for “compliance reasons.” The government is increasingly encouraging this. What this will mean in practice 30 years from now is that one account closur
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> Nonetheless, resources are still a curse for the first world even when they dont overwhelm their entire economy. For homework I suggest you contrast Oklahoma and Texas politics to those of New York and Washington State. New York had th
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Well the government owned every legal business and then was pressured to dispose of all those businesses quickly when the USSR collapsed. It is not surprising that that kind of environment invites massive amounts of corruption, especially
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How much do you think he made? Even if he got 20 years if he made $20 million it could still be worth it to him (assuming he was successful enough his wife probably doesn't know about all his assets anyways). Most of these people com
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Watch this video: https://youtu.be/watch?v=IQtB4KSzSyY This is not about fuel theft but a related crime called fuel smuggling where they buy subsidized gasoline and then illegally export it to neighboring countries (the gov
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Basically no country with substantial resources looks at things this way except America. They all either have government owned drilling companies or the companies that do exist pay substantial royalties to the government. I agree with it
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They do, it’s just rate limited. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641623
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Apple has a public API with some rate limiting that returns a link to the preview audio file, see: https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=1023678453 ( https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/06/19&#x
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> Assuming someone managed to hijack a bunch of planes again, I doubt they could reproduce 9/11. The government would shoot them down. They don't really need to hijack planes, they just need a few hundred thousand dollars and a
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Human psychology. Refer to: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103671/characters/nm0351225#qu...
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I guess criminal conspiracy might be the wrong word. There is no prohibition on sharing hacked data as far as I can tell. There is “unauthorized access device” like having CC or SSN numbers but that’s only if you have an intent to defraud
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I assume the #1 indicator is frequent travel to Syria Iraq Iran Lebanon. Have you ever gone to those places?
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Were you expecting participants in a criminal conspiracy to take Amex?
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> - Verify the end customer’s government-issued ID. This never happens. Lots of PPP or bank fraud investigations go nowhere because the perpetrators used fake IDs all the way down. No company is actually checking the governments databa
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> Let's just make the phone companies liable for damages where they can't produce the customer (no KYC) or the customer is international. They'll quickly figure out who is legit and who isn't when it actually hurts th
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> The number of non-US callers I want to contact me But non-US callers can get US numbers. Do you want the phone company to fax over a passport scan of everyone who calls you?
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It's not. There was 1 or 2 customers who were bad out of probably hundreds of thousands. I'm not sure why that required them to publicly shame Twilio when they probably do more to stop robocalls than most other companies in this
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Be Amazed: https://globalvoipforum.com/forums/i-sell-voip-routes.2/ Most of these guys will charge you 10-20% less than bandwidth.com or Twilio will in return for slightly lower reliability. nCLI means you can&#x
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FCC threatens to disconnect Twilio for illegal robocalls(commsrisk.com)
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Because the drug is highly effective and has improved the lives of millions of people? There is a reason Medicare patients are willing to spend 5 grand a year on it. What has the State Department done for me lately?
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Well those 20 years are where they make all the money - there is a lot of reason to think that they would just double prices if you were to cut that period in half. Given that Humira has made life livable for millions of people with RA, Cr
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You know domain sniping already happens right? There is extensive auctioning infrastructure. And most of the good names were claimed a long time ago. The only way to get an existing domain name without paying the owner for it is to sue ov

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