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by lilsoso 3y ago
this should be on the front page
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Since your comment there has been a new update from the intelligence community: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-... Maybe if we shut down all discussion as a society we wouldn
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by lilsoso 3y ago
I think you've missed the point, and I've been downvoted for venturing to make it, nevertheless let's try the same point in a different light: ideas that were first widely broadcast (ie, before Jon Stewart) by perhaps a dange
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by lilsoso 3y ago
As an example, yesterday NYT published an op-ed flipping the narrative on the origin of Covid: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/opinion/covid-lab-leak-or... . This is something you couldn't previou
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by lilsoso 3y ago
Bill Ackmann: "I was, however, mistaken in encouraging a debate between @RobertKennedyJr and @PeterHotez as based on my further research Hotez does not appear to be a credible advocate for vaccine policy in light of the repeated inacc
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by lilsoso 3y ago
This is a satirical point of the British TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister . The high ranking civil servants, with nearly permanent positions, are in charge. The elected officials think they are in char
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by lilsoso 3y ago
For Americans, that would probably increase your exposure. They can legally spy on their own people via foreign governments. This is well documented, see for example the first result I found: https://www.washingtonpost.com/n
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by lilsoso 3y ago
To promote freedom, and avoid complications such as issue number two, we should also recommend users pay by cash.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
real estate property, form 8300 (say for car purchases in cash) unclear to me if 1099-k could be used to track purchases. I'd guess if you're audited perhaps credit card records.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Reductions in the size of the service? The whole idea is... It strikes at the very roots of... It's the beginning of the end! The thin end of the wedge!
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Does this cover most payments over $600? They're now mostly all recorded? I don't understand the exceptions. So it applies to digital payment methods like Paypal, to payment networks like Western Union, but also to any credit card
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by lilsoso 4y ago
If the law were to go through, would this imply that Swedish VPN traffic would likely be monitored? It seems impossible that the government could separate the traffic of its citizens for spying out of that of foreign nationals.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
So you want to force outcomes according to whichever moral rubric is fashionable at the moment? How well has 'equity' worked for Asian Americans with regards to Ivy League admissions?
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by lilsoso 4y ago
You've been downvoted into greyed out territory, so those observations aren't tolerated here.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
There's a bizarre formula that Citations Needed uses in their titles to describe something they seem to disagree with in a way to immediately distance it from truth. They'll use the following words as synonyms: narrative, cliche,
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Are You Garbage? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-garbage-comedy... All-In https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja...
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by lilsoso 4y ago
You write, "The highest status people in society are dominated by social awkward, physically weak people with high earnings." The socially awkward may earn increasingly higher salaries, but this does not necessarily confer status
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by lilsoso 4y ago
There are more curious details surrounding his parents. And you've neglected to point out the SEC connections. Also, how many lawyers has Sam had now? Who are they? Who have they previously represented? There's more to the story.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
The issue is that Albert Heijn, and many other stores in the Netherlands, will not accept credit cards. And then American-issued debit cards do not seem to work either (eg, Bank of America shows the symbol "Debit Visa"). Perhaps d
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Yes, technically. But you won't be able to use an American Mastercard. Maestro is a debit card, generally it will look like this: https://www.abnamro.com/en/news/pin-needed-less-often-when-m... . I've nev
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by lilsoso 4y ago
They do accept that amount of cash. They do a dance where they take your cash, convert it to Apple gift cards at about $1k (or $2k?) each, then they apply those gift cards towards your purchase. Afterwards, they throw away the gift cards.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
A new Macbook Pros can easily be over $6k (16", upgraded ram, upgraded hard drive, etc). $10k is not that much money. People do pay for these laptops in cash. A phone has cost over $1k for years. Think of the present rate of inflation.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Form 8300 must be filed and is sent to various agencies for multiple cash payments over $10k as well, which includes, for example, paying for a car or paying for rent. These laws are old and stem from a time when $10k was equal to around $7
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Foreigners in the Netherlands must use cash at Albert Heijn, the major grocery store, as they do not accept credit and essentially only accept Dutch debit cards (ie, Maestro). Ethnic restaurants in Amsterdam, say around De Pijp, often for
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by lilsoso 4y ago
That depends on whether or not your paranoia is warranted. If your communication is compromised, what's the cost? Are you naive enough to think you're secure from the most sophisticated actors? Those with nearly unlimited funds? T
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by lilsoso 4y ago
David Foster Wallace, whom some might sneer at, had a number of observations on the phenomenon you've described. For example, from the book "Conversations with David Foster Wallace": 'Irony and cynicism were just what th
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by lilsoso 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. The error discredits the voice of the article.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
It's not always opt-in or part of Global Entry, for a number of flights that I've been on there is a facial scanner check in lieu of a boarding pass check, despite being issued a boarding pass, to board the plane for all passenger
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Airports already deploy facial recognition. The Global Entry program scans your face upon arrival. And sometimes flights scan your face as a boarding pass for entry.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
I don't think that's quite true and I don't have a copy of their terms of service from 2011. Let's apply their rules as they stand today to various artists: "(f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other form

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