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by granfalloon 11y ago
At the time his transactions may have been difficult to trace, but now we have tools like Wallet Explorer, which make his wrongdoing pretty clear: https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/08363b86122e340c (That's the
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A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving(nytimes.com)
533 points by granfalloon 11y ago|281 comments
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by granfalloon 11y ago
Deserves it because he was stupid??? Or do you mean because of what he did?
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by granfalloon 11y ago
Seems equally fair for a city to require the standard tax rate regardless of whether the owner lives there. What interest does a city have in allowing residential housing to be bought up by absentee owners paying lower taxes vs. locals who
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by granfalloon 11y ago
"Are they teaching kids about programming or computer skills?" I had a friend tell me recently how her young child "loved computers and was really good with them," but clarified by saying he was "always playing with
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by granfalloon 11y ago
Wow, I found this to be a great stimulus for thinking about the concept of instinct. For some reason -- maybe it's the subtle movements by the chick to adjust its "flight path" -- it really makes me intuitively understand ins
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by granfalloon 12y ago
Now that blockchain analysis tools are getting better, I wonder if we'll be seeing more and more criminal activity exposed. For example, someone linked to this wallet/transaction in a reddit thread, which appears to show one of th
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by granfalloon 12y ago
To your [1], I actually think studying for the LSAT has been the most intellectually enjoyable part of my legal career so far!
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by granfalloon 12y ago
As a lawyer, I think I'd actually be in favor of the opposite approach -- law school (maybe just one year) with no bar exam. I guess the bar has some value as a "last line of defense" against totally incompetent people enteri
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by granfalloon 12y ago
My wife is a teacher's aide at a school for kids with autism and various learning/developmental disabilities, and this weighs on her often. It's always in the back of her mind that in a few years the kids will age-out of the
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Introducing Darkleaks(medium.com)
6 points by granfalloon 12y ago|1 comments
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Silk Goxed: How DPR used Mtgox for hedging and lost big(np.reddit.com)
4 points by granfalloon 12y ago|0 comments
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by granfalloon 12y ago
"The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought." This is interesting to me. When I'm working on something difficult I often find my thought process to be ver
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by granfalloon 12y ago
"Yet all of our scientific progress is biased, because we have evolved in a very specific environment that we handle well." I often get discouraged thinking about this. Our entire body of scientific knowledge consists of inference
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by granfalloon 12y ago
I recently took a look at Evolution's fraud offerings, as I do anti-fraud work for an online company and was curious to see where the masses of fraudsters I deal with were getting their CC number and bank account info from. It's a
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Why Netrunner Matters(killscreendaily.com)
2 points by granfalloon 12y ago|0 comments
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by granfalloon 12y ago
What are you referring to? Looks like you have several three-in-a-rows, and some other squares are highlighted because they will be invalid once you fix the triples. (Could be wrong!)
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by granfalloon 12y ago
I wouldn't trust a jury on this stuff, either, but it's going to be a judge deciding these issues, and they usually at least TRY to get this stuff right (though some are much better at it than others).
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by granfalloon 12y ago
It's not just about punishing the cops, though. The problem is that illegal searches are Fourth Amendment violations -- which we take very seriously -- and this seems to be the best way of preventing them. Usually constitutional violat
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by granfalloon 12y ago
How does "materialism" come into it? I dream of being "rich," but for me that means having enough money that I can (a) spend lots of time with family, and (b) spend lots of time learning and doing the things that are imp
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by granfalloon 13y ago
Wow, thanks so much for all the great responses! This has gotten me really excited. Lots to think about! (And special thanks to those who left their contact information -- I really appreciate it.)
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Ask HN: Will soon have lots of time and little money – how to spend it?
95 points by granfalloon 13y ago|73 comments
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by granfalloon 13y ago
Because they would go to jail for a very long time?
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by granfalloon 13y ago
Realized my question may have come across as rhetorical, but I really am looking for clarification on the rules!
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by granfalloon 13y ago
I'm assuming that when it says a "fixed number of states," it means that the number of states can't be tied to the number of soldiers in the line? (e.g., a five state solution would have to work for any number of solider
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by granfalloon 13y ago
The money laundering charge, however, might not be such a slam dunk (Count 3, I think). That requires a showing that the BitInstant guy intended to promote illegal activities. Courts are usually pretty flexible when it comes to showing inte
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by granfalloon 13y ago
I believe so, but not 100% sure. There are a lot of artists nowadays releasing sample-heavy music for free, and then making their money by touring and playing it live.
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by granfalloon 13y ago
You need to get permission from the copyright holder, which has gotten substantially more expensive over the years. Hip hop tracks back in the 80s and early 90s used to contain loads of different samples all mashed together, but it slowed d
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by granfalloon 13y ago
This has actually been going on for a while. Check out www.cryptsy.com -- I think there are already over 50 crypto currencies being traded there, with more being added regularly. People are making tons of money on the initial pumps and dump
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by granfalloon 13y ago
yeah, it seems like the author (and many of the commenters) are just using ponzi as a synonym for a "pump and dump" or a speculative gold rush

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