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How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (2012)(npr.org)
210 points by mdeck_ 5y ago|97 comments
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Further details on the background/history of the operation here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/australia/operation...
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
Ever-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
So, in reality, virtually identical to a common-law (US/UK-style) legal system.
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
“Frag” as a portmanteau of FRagmentation and AGgregation is hardly a non-ambiguous choice of terminology.
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
> What's more, the 5L detergent can last well over 3 years of daily wash, while the rinse aid can last almost 12 years! Over those time you would have spent £2088 on Bob cassettes, and who knows if they will even be around then. The
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
I am a lawyer, and you’re correct. It’s typically called a “jurisdictional hook.” In certain regards the US Constitution limits the U.S. Congress’s ability to legislate to issues that touch on “interstate commerce.” If it all happens within
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
> Conclusion > We can see that referees’ bias towards away sides has completely changed without an audience in stadiums. > Previously, away sides used to get more yellow cards in all leagues, and they also had an inferior fouls to
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by mdeck_ 5y ago
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/510/176/e33...
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
–Carl Sagan (which you’ve just slightly misquoted) Credit where credit is due :)
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
You’ve got your causation backwards. He made a series of purchases... ok... of course his last purchase was shortly before the story was published. As to this being his last purchase, well of course—why would he keep buying after his inside
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
> What's not being said here is that for the trader to have timed his bets so precisely, the reporter would have had to tell him when the story was coming out. Based on what are you speculating this? I just looked at the indictment,
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
In retrospect, it’s not clear to me why I somehow expected this project to be something more literally arboreal. I even got my hopes up further when I clicked the link and saw that photo of plumerias. Yet, this project is cool enough that I
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
The point is that (a buyer expects that) the value of the stock itself is increasing. Whether it pays dividends is not the pertinent question.
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Hm. But is there anything particularly special about a hovering ship... a hovering... craft? :)
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
This is yet another philosophical problem: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
By definition philosophy has come to refer to the study of things that cannot be resolved by empirical inquiry. So, every time human advancements have ACTUALLY allowed us to answer a question, it ceases to be the realm of philosophy. For in
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
It galls me every time I see “neuroscientists”/“neuropsychologists” and the like considering themselves to have essentially discovered the problem of mind-brain duality, fundamental questions about what consciousness is, and so forth,
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Your networking equipment example goes to the same point. Why do I care how many bits are transferring per second? I don’t. I want to know bytes, since everything on my computer is measured in bytes. Regarding media encoding, there I’m less
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Between this issue, the general untrustworthiness of the reviews, and the fact that I can quite often find a better deal on masking tape, undershirts, or whatever else at my local brick-and-mortar store or a more specialized big-box retaile
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
This may be a historical explanation, but it also seems a tacit agreement with the point above, when it says “no one wanted to be the one to switch to a ‘lower’ number.” No one measures anything in kilobits or megabits today (nor has for
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
This is nothing new. Just another example of corporations screwing over consumers with ambiguous/confusing measurements. See e.g.: - ISPs advertising network speeds in megabits per second instead of megabytes (who ever uses megabits ot
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Both of these points are mentioned in the article.
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
It is a not-completely-frivolous argument in this procedural context, you could say. This is not the final determination in the case; it is just a question about whether the law can be enforced right now, while the case is pending. If the I
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
For the non-lawyers: as the article indicates (but doesn’t really explain), this is a ruling on a request for temporary relief (called a “preliminary injunction”). This is not a final judgment. It can (and presumably will) also be subject t
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
thatsthejoke.png
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
It is not possible to make baby formula (the only thing besides breast milk that babies under 4 months can eat) at home.
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Dante has no living paternal-line descendants. The reason for the unusual (for Italy) double last name Serego Alighieri was to preserve the Alighieri name despite there being only female descendants left at the time (in the 1500s). Source:
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Fair enough—I think we’re agreed, then! :)
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by mdeck_ 6y ago
Well, you’ve got all kinds of problems baking at altitude. You may need to make all kinds of adjustments to your recipes. So it feels to me like this is just one of a dozen issues you’ll have. But yes, I did not mean to endorse measuring by

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