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‘FinTwit’ Influencers Face Charges in $100M Scheme(nytimes.com)
1 points by giaour 4y ago|0 comments
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by giaour 4y ago
Aircraft location data cannot be "delayed" for some very obvious public safety reasons. The FAA requires that every aircraft loudly announce itself at all times unless they're on the ground.
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by giaour 4y ago
"Reporting that Elon Musk is being arraigned at LA County Court House violates our ban on live location reporting."
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by giaour 4y ago
You could make the same argument about news articles on current court proceedings, professional licensure records, or even Amber alerts, but you would almost certainly lose in court if you sought prior restraint of such speech. Restrictions
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by giaour 4y ago
A private citizen's home address is definitely not public record. Perhaps you're thinking of home purchase records? Real estate title transfers are public, so if you buy a house in your own name, there will be a public record of t
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by giaour 4y ago
A key principle of the right to be forgotten is that no one should be perpetually burdened by a past they have shed. Hard to see how that applies to future flight plans for a private jet!
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by giaour 4y ago
The right to be forgotten does not apply to current or future actions, so it feels like very much a stretch to use that as an informative example here. Republishing public flight data is closer in spirit to retweeting a public hearing annou
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by giaour 4y ago
> Unless you do really stupid things with that money it’s almost impossible for a billionaire to get poorer. "Really stupid things" like buying a social media company?
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by giaour 4y ago
You're inferring that; I was referring to the income you can make in blue collar work. There are jobs that do not require a bachelor's degree equivalent education. Many young adults drop out of college (or never start) in order t
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by giaour 4y ago
Even in countries where college is free, students do typically give up several years worth of annual income in opportunity costs
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by giaour 4y ago
You can absolutely find video tutorials on all the hobbies and daily stuff you list, and in most communities you can find groups that will teach you informally for free or in a slightly more structured way for a nominal fee. Where formal cr
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by giaour 4y ago
I totally understand the impulse, but if you can find a way to get a tech or tech-adjacent job in a fulfilling industry, you'll probably be able to have a bigger impact and sacrifice less in terms of pay and work life balance. I spent
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by giaour 4y ago
It pays better than retail, but nowhere near as well as tech.
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by giaour 4y ago
When was this? I recall carrying a USB stick with a bootable image in the early 2000s because it was reasonable to assume BIOS support for reading from USB. I also remember carrying a separate stick with "portable apps" that I cou
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by giaour 4y ago
Yep! To contract, I have to find clients, solicit project work, write invoices, keep after clients for payment; in general, I have to do all the extroverted business shit I became a software developer to avoid doing. As an employee, I can w
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by giaour 4y ago
Same. The amount of overhead involved in any side hustle is just too high compared to getting stuff done as an employee. even volunteering as anything but unskilled labor is a hassle.
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by giaour 4y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/boo...
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The Crypto Industry Struggles for a Way Forward(nytimes.com)
2 points by giaour 4y ago|1 comments
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by giaour 4y ago
The standard government employee is a project manager whose main job is overseeing contractor work. Funding cycles make it nearly impossible to hire in house staff to actually do work, and there is firm political opposition to the federal g
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by giaour 4y ago
I mean, that does restrict private tyranny…
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by giaour 4y ago
> Privately funded libraries didn't need any laws. Not sure if this was meant to be a troll, but obviously private libraries depend on someone enforcing private ownership in general. Public libraries have some very specific legal ca
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by giaour 4y ago
err, $120/hour. I think you meant $240K/year?
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by giaour 4y ago
Just as a gut check, getting paid $2/minute would be an annual salary of $240,000 (assuming a 40 hour work week and two weeks paid leave). On principle, I wouldn't pay $30 for delivery under almost any circumstances. I'm gene
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by giaour 4y ago
I admire this approach, but I am a bit worried that making big public announcements of doing so will trigger a crackdown (especially if Stephen Miller or his ilk are ever in charge of US immigration policy again).
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by giaour 4y ago
I definitely read "can't" in the passage you quote as expressing something like, "I can't do this because I'm too busy"
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by giaour 4y ago
The issue is more that the kind of executive who says "show me the data" is often not numerate enough to understand the limitations of the data set in front of them. (Maybe the solution they see in the data has a tiny effect size
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by giaour 4y ago
> One of the things I don't like about statements like this said in a Data Science context, is that they are true outside of Data Science as well. Executives make big decisions, managers make smaller decisions, nobody can evaluate h
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BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy(wsj.com)
2 points by giaour 4y ago|0 comments
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by giaour 4y ago
> You're using the law of averages. No, GP claimed that enforcement of any sanctions in international transfers means that the whole system can’t be trusted. > You're the one characterizing this as an absolute stance, rather
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by giaour 4y ago
SWIFT is regulated by Belgium and the EU, not the US: https://www.swift.com/about-us/legal/compliance-0/swift-and-... ?

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