notch656a

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by notch656a 4y ago
Breaking the law does not make you dishonest. Being paid to do something illegal gets you most of the way to the jail sentence to actually doing it, most of the time. So after the boss narcs you out for not doing the deed you'd be loo
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by notch656a 4y ago
This guy has some great stories about sailing there and other tiny places in tiny boats. In 1974 his boat was the first to land on the world's most isolated island, Tristan da Cuhna. He had built the 6 meter long boat Bris in his m
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by notch656a 4y ago
NGOs commonly are just employment schemes for wealthy first worlders. They aren't ignorant to the fact the solution they are providing isn't practical, they're just going with whatever pays their fat salary while generating
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by notch656a 4y ago
"Fun" fact. As of ~2004 roughly 1/3 of the male populace were soon-to-be-convicted sexual abusers of children, including the mayor.
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by notch656a 4y ago
But the EU also has citizenship by investment, it's just reserved to the even more rich. If anything opening it up to the lower wealth makes things more equitable, not less. IMO the most equitable world is open borders, so ideally th
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by notch656a 4y ago
EU and other entities are trying to choke off their income by cutting off their visa-free access which reduces the value of the passport, driving the country further towards the direction of poverty. Previously Vanuatu was able to make inc
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by notch656a 4y ago
That is a great interview. But it turns out Coffeezilla got tricked here by letting SBF turn back to the fiat funds. SBF did not admit to fraud. The TOS specifically defines 'e-money' separately from digital assets. As soon as
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by notch656a 4y ago
SBF can easily escape the first world and probably even the arm of the law. But what is life like for someone living outside the law who stole billions from angry people including likely many criminals? His life expectancy would not be lon
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by notch656a 4y ago
IANAL but my understanding is reckless disregard is mens rea, whether the result of that disregard was intentional or not.
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by notch656a 4y ago
I read the TOS. SBF is deliberately getting people to focus on "e-money" part rather than "digital assets" like crypto. Y'all got tricked by focusing on the wires and fiat currency path. The TOS make it clear that
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by notch656a 4y ago
I am fascinated to learn more about the apparatus that checks pedestrians leaving the US. I understand there is doubtlessly unseen stuff going on there. Do you have any materials or primary sources I can look at to understand what you&#x2
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by notch656a 4y ago
You may be right. I don't have anywhere near Sunny's problems but I do have a flagged passport after I fought in the militia YPG in Syria (legal, but I seem to have been put on a list which has caused me endless issues with CBP).
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by notch656a 4y ago
I've never had CBP check my passport when walking into Mexico. And Mexican officials are always asleep or absent when I pass through their side. No matter, all they require to enter Mexico is a US Birth Certificate (but they don&#x27
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by notch656a 4y ago
A back-handed compliment is the closest I ever get to a real one on HN, so I'll take it.
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by notch656a 4y ago
Carlos Ghosn agrees with your sentiment.
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by notch656a 4y ago
Satire
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by notch656a 4y ago
That's pretty much my point. It isn't technically infeasible but rather infeasible due to collusion of governments in the form of KYC/AML and other tyrannies against the populace.
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by notch656a 4y ago
Most already banked people could realistically achieve it if KYC/AML and FATCA-like reporting requirements were eliminated. It is not technically infeasible, but as we both pointed out infeasible due to government imposed limitations.
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by notch656a 4y ago
Not to blame the victim, but having all of your money in one jurisdiction is like putting all your eggs in one basket. This is why the federal government loves FATCA, as it makes the banking requirements so onerous for US citizens abroad t
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by notch656a 4y ago
SBF between his own prior arbitrage wealth and his family's wealth was set for life as for as necessities. He could move to a single family home in Iowa, find a nice wife, raise kids, send them all to college and generally enjoy barbe
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by notch656a 4y ago
Felony isn't about the jail sentence, normally. It's about stripping you of your civil rights. That's usually the real punishment. She'll have incredible difficulty getting a residence visa for almost anywhere desirabl
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by notch656a 4y ago
If crypto people are destroying other crypto people it's basically seen by much of society as beneficial mutual attrition.
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by notch656a 4y ago
> Do companies exist to protect their employees, or to provide something useful for their customers? Neither. They exist to benefit their shareholders/owners. That's it.
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by notch656a 4y ago
Nah the first world can just rob third world elderly of their retirement by just importing in their most skilled/intelligent workers and spitting them back out when EvilCorp finishes chewing them up and cancels their work visa. No rea
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by notch656a 4y ago
Yeah Brazil at least has Mercosur. It's pretty crazy North America doesn't have something similar considering capital can mostly freely flow between NAFTA countries. (although we do have something similar with compact free associ
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by notch656a 4y ago
How old are your kids now?
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by notch656a 4y ago
Before 100 years ago there was precious little nation-state level social security, so families were far more dependent upon other family members. Middle age parents needed to support their parents directly, so there was an obvious quid-pro
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by notch656a 4y ago
No disagreement there, although I think perhaps society should stop treating children as crops to be harvested for the commons. A tragedy of the commons has been created as society claims social security tax from grown children to pay to t
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by notch656a 4y ago
Pretty consistently research has found waiting until at least roughly 30 or so leads to greater average life satisfaction for parents. I'm not going to provide a rigorous or even cited defense here but I spent several days sifting thr
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by notch656a 4y ago
Those countries just offload the cost of the child onto other people. The cost is not low.

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