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by iaw 8y ago
According the filing (linked elsewhere in this thread) she knowingly took funds (from an undercover agent) that she believed to be from drug sales... e.g. she intentionally provided a money laundering service.
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by iaw 8y ago
Realistically, probably not. Compliance with a lot of these types of laws is challenging and at times murky (especially in new areas). That being said, from a practical perspective, ignoring compliance requirements in your area of business
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by iaw 8y ago
There are several mentions of the timing of CIA operatives getting sick that would allow foreign intelligence analysts to identify them if they had other sources of information about the events. There's unlikely to be the information y
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by iaw 8y ago
When does Facebook not do that?
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by iaw 8y ago
To me, typing on a phone is a lot easier to learn in terms of dexterity than threading a needle.
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Sears Is Fading, but Memories of Its Mail-Order Homes Endure(npr.org)
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by iaw 8y ago
There was a team that did this, as long as they didn't create an up draft it was legal by the rules, their air time was still less than a minute. The burnt ash wafted for well over 60 seconds.
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by iaw 8y ago
No, the burning of the paper removed a great of mass from the paper turning to to a brittle paper ash. After the fire was out is when the timer started, since the paper ash was so much lighter but the same volume its buoyancy in air was dr
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by iaw 8y ago
"Time of flight" only the definition of flight was something like unpowered and untethered off the ground. So floating slowly to the ground becomes "flight" by the definition of the rules.
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by iaw 8y ago
No, apologies. He burnt the paper and then picked one of the ashes as his "plane" His finger never touched the plane after it took "flight" just pointed to it from the side so that everyone could follow the "flight
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by iaw 8y ago
Similar story from a university aero course that ended with a paper airplane competition. There were some remarkable paper airplanes, making amazing flights, all sorts of research and time went into developing the ideal model. One guy comes
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In theory that's how it should work if there was internal firewalls. In reality the brokers at the investment banks will shill the IPO to their undesirable clients as a way to get it off the books, or at least that's what they us
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by iaw 8y ago
That was the one line I picked, if you did a fair amount of research please add citations in line. Quickly, a couple other lines that are editorializing without adequate references: "Inflation is the tax we all pay for the fraud of mon
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by iaw 8y ago
I'm amazed because it implies positive free cash flow in the billions which, last I heard, Uber did not have. Barring some major turn around, or increase in competitive advantage, my guess would be that there are a lot of people that w
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by iaw 8y ago
There's a fair amount of editorializing in this post that isn't born out by the limited references included. One example is this line: "Why was this all done in secret? Simply put, the American people did not want a Central B
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by iaw 8y ago
It feels a little misleading to not emphasize that this is reported income. On paper the top 0.1% appears to pay more than their fair share (2x proportional vs. their median counterparts paying closer to parity). But as recent articles abo
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by iaw 8y ago
> In addition, he said, invasive plants have been enabled in their spread by centuries of environmental disturbance. “If we think in our forests we are dealing with a pristine habitat, we are deluding ourselves,” he said. Peter Del Tredi
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List of chess variants(en.wikipedia.org)
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by iaw 8y ago
That is frequently what happens with the house cleaning middleman apps. They can't keep the good housecleaners because they quickly arrange better side deals. Eventually my ex did the same to get a consistent cleaner.
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by iaw 8y ago
> "His team used three pairs of laser beams to trap and cool neutral (uncharged) cesium atoms to ultra-cold temperatures (a few degrees above absolute zero) in a 3D lattice with 125 positions (a 5×5×5 cube). They filled half the pos
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by iaw 8y ago
I can see a number of bad managers running with this to mean "we shouldn't spend time debugging, refactoring, or fixing bad code" I actually expected a real potential market, silly me.
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by iaw 8y ago
No one really answered your question so I'll give it a shot. Increasing the pressure on a gas increases it's boiling point. If you have a lot of pure helium gas and a really good compressor you can increase the pressure until the
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by iaw 8y ago
It's a double red flag: 1) If a potential hire is willing to violate their current employment contract they'll be willing to violate any contract you have with them. 2) If a company is happy to trounce into a legal gray area becau
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by iaw 8y ago
Well this could be a fun data science project. How much real estate fraud can you find in ACRIS?
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by iaw 8y ago
I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that if a leader has enough time to spend some on twitter they probably have their priorities wrong.
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by iaw 8y ago
Fun fact: when a cylindrical shaped object fractures from a twisting stress it leaves 45 degree break patterns. Try it with a pencil.
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by iaw 8y ago
Generators are turned on/off via pricing signals, in advance a generator makes known how much money /MWh it will take for them to turn on and scale to various levels of output. A control dispatch system monitors/estimates dem
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by iaw 8y ago
> "A ban on a foreign entity selling or leasing a property without declaring its beneficial owner, with jail of up to five years and an unlimited fine for those failing to comply" Is there going to be a mechanism to prevent str
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by iaw 8y ago
One thing you may consider is, if you aren't already, interspersing a real-world motivation. So take the current material and make it slightly more relatable via anecdote about why one may need to use the current technique or motivatio
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by iaw 8y ago
I would like to see sentencing (probationary or prison) for financial crimes correspond to the amount of time it would take the median American to earn the amount of illicit proceeds. So if someone makes $5M illegally their penalty would be

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