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by landemva 4y ago
I'm old enough to have flown for business on tickets the office admin would book in her name. Whoever got the short straw would have to travel to the customer site... The ID check is to help airlines prevent sale of frequent flier awar
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by landemva 4y ago
Immigration in ORD has the same voluntary photo. Just opt out and the person looks at passport for your photo.
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by landemva 4y ago
Maybe a prosecutor/IRS will offer his parents a deferred prosecution deal to spill the info about that house in their name. Either way the parents may lose their lawyering bar cards.
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by landemva 4y ago
> Again we don't know exactly how much SBF tried to directly profit off the business The article has some large numbers. "Bankman-Fried received an incredible $1 billion in personal loans, as well as a $2.3 billion loan to an e
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by landemva 4y ago
They were involved enough to get their names on a $14M condo in the Bahamas. Will be interesting to learn whose funds paid for it.
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by landemva 4y ago
>> massive rise in education costs is a much more recent phenomenon. Clinton did it by making most student loan debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget&#x2
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by landemva 4y ago
Futures products allow producers to offload some of their risk. CME provides a regulated transparent place to trade those products. While I was a small-time landlord in the past, I am not now. It is difficult (financing, zoning, permits) to
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by landemva 4y ago
CME provides a place to trade futures products, which producers use to hedge risk. That is not like the apartment rent collusion.
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by landemva 4y ago
The fix which increases safety is to replace traffic lights with traffic circles. Speeds are lower and more consistent.
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by landemva 4y ago
For cold storage, I think hardware wallets are unnecessary and add risk of the supply chain of that device. Those manufacturers are good at marketing what they sell.
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by landemva 4y ago
Investigation after the handcuffs would be appropriate. And it would surprise me if the IRS is unable to find fraud in undeclared gifts like the reported $16M condo his parents somehow got in their names.
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by landemva 4y ago
The left embraced SBF and have some embarassment about the looting. If a poor black man stole funds like this, he would be locked up awaiting trial.
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by landemva 4y ago
Effective altruism was hijacked to provide cover for the rich party crowd. Same for many of those charities in Africa, unfortunately. McConnell is a neocon protecting the swamp. He worked against Trump and for the swamp. Anecdote that havin
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by landemva 4y ago
The owners and creditors of auto industry can fail and the assets (factories, IP) would remain and be transferred to new owners. Bankruptcy does not disappear factories.
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by landemva 4y ago
This is a start because they read court filings. https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/11/u-s-justice-departmen... Everyone can get a PACER logon and use the free tier to read the court filings for themselves. http
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by landemva 4y ago
This is the same as entering or exiting the gold coin market. Buy it or earn it or mine it.
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by landemva 4y ago
I keep Play Store disabled and only enable it when I want to update apps. This seems to keep regular apps from auto-updating. I don't often need GPS, so I wonder if disabling Play Services would work for me without allowing forced spyw
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by landemva 4y ago
I know this to be fact. $100M and she was still scrapping for rent money because she didn't know how touch it.
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by landemva 4y ago
> They are, at the very least, obligated to show up at the scene. Not in USA. Supreme Court said cops have no duty to protect any individual. Supposedly cops provide general protection, or something. USSC said cops don't have to do
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by landemva 4y ago
> The authorities have a responsibility to be competent. Not in clown world USA. The USSC said there is no government responsibility when USSC created the doctrine of government immunity.
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by landemva 4y ago
How is a governor in a State a federal official?
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by landemva 4y ago
No, that is not the theory. The btc blockchain protocol provides the security. Putting coins into a centralized database managed by a few javascript devops wunderkids is a break of the security of the protocol.
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by landemva 4y ago
The electricity grid does not store energy. Maybe the future use for the storage tanks will be to take that stored liquid energy, run it through a generator at the truck stop to make electricity, and put that electricity into chemical batte
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by landemva 4y ago
I have used btc as a hedge against my government and the uncontrolled judicial system, and it has been phenomenally successful. Not everyone lives an upper-middle class existence with good rule of law.
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by landemva 4y ago
I don't know details about nuclear decommisioning. In my experience, State permitting standards for decommissioning bonds have been implemented as part of mine permitting and oil and gas permitting. I would like to see more people gett
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by landemva 4y ago
A public ledger is not really anonymous, whether you put that in quotes or not. It can be censored, and this is a difficult game theory problem to solve. There are a few major mining pools which build the blocks, and some think that is not
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by landemva 4y ago
I drove there down a southern road in 2010 past a long row of rusting windmills. I have not been back since then, so I don't know the current condition. I saw many near the southern-most point. What are your thoughts on a site reclamat
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by landemva 4y ago
> The PPP program Rather than the forgiveable loan scheme, I would have implemented as a rebate to employer on say 5% of the payroll tax they remitted to the feds. That would precisely track actual payrolls without the application hurdle
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by landemva 4y ago
> US banks and stocks are strictly better than BTC as a place to park their USD as American citizens. Not when a simple letter from government gets your accounts seized incorrectly. Gigantic problem to get the funds back without high-pri
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by landemva 4y ago
> Bitcoin has anti censor mechanics. While people like to claim there is some anti-censor magic, it's not really true when block space is full. There is nothing in the code to penalize miners for ignoring a particular transaction fo

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