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by raincom 3y ago
https://archive.is/WUf8G
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In some respects, uber wealthy and street/cyber savvy criminals act same: use intermediaries, use cash, use trusts incorporated in states/places, where it is hard to trace beneficiaries, burner phones bought with cash, by intermed
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That's bad then: nominal interest rate should be greater than the perceived inflation rate. What does this interest rate hike achieve then? I think, it creates more inflation, instead of curbing inflation.
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First polio cases linked to new oral vaccine detected in Africa: https://www.science.org/content/article/first-polio-cases-li...
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by raincom 3y ago
US is lucky, because USD is the world reserve currency. Every exporter in the world wants to swap nominal USD with oil, chips, materials, grain. No one wants to swap real assets with Turkey Lira, Zimbabweian dollars.
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by raincom 3y ago
Nominal interest rate in the country X = real inflation rate in X + Fed Funds rate (about 5.5%) + cost of money Turkey's central bank accepts that Turkey's inflation is at least 30%.
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by raincom 3y ago
I agree completely with you that 'Western corporates don't go outsourcing in India for the talent'; they go to India primarily for cheaper resources. But there are secondary consequences to this outsourcing: cheaper resources
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by raincom 3y ago
Maybe, Broadcom's strategy is 'to raise maintenance and licensing fees until they very last customer turns off their last ESXi box'. Broadcom spent $69B to acquire VMWare. They just need to squeeze blood for another 10 years.
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by raincom 3y ago
Few things: (a) a sealed indictment wrt the plot against Pannun (b) India openly told CIA that Pannun is a CIA asset, that’s why he was not taken out (c) India wants this guy gone (d) Five eyes taps every diplomatic mission out there. See a
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by raincom 3y ago
One tidbit: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the target in this question, is claimed to be a CIA asset. Recently, he 'threatened to blast' Air India flights. Same group he associated with bombed Air India Flight 182 in 1995, killing 329 f
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by raincom 3y ago
I learned it from this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQano9BaJxg
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by raincom 3y ago
Perfect reply. Every statement and its contrary can be made plausible with right arguments.
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Lots of counterfeit US dollars are in circulation in Argentina, though :)
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Toyota has been saying this for a decade, without much to show for it. Why should I believe Toyota now?
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https://archive.ph/8RLsB
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I completely agree with you, as I have enough experience in the third world commission structure for government payments. Intermediate distributors always want commission; often times, local politicians even at the village level create fake
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by raincom 3y ago
David Chaum [1], a famous Cryptographer, founded International association of Cryptologic Research (IACR). He published so many articles on digital-cash, anonymous cash, etc. He had patents on them; he even founded a company on that concept
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by raincom 3y ago
Best examples come from medicine. There are many drugs that work, but we don't understand how they work. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drugs_with_unknown_me...
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by raincom 3y ago
I am quite sympathetic to the view point that Arab countries don't want a Jewish state in the middle east, and that when Muslims become majority, they don't want to peacefully co-exist with Jews and others. I am not ignorant about
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by raincom 3y ago
Orthodox Jewish folks don't need to serve in IDF, and yet they produce more kids. So, more votes and better poll participation from the Orthodox side skew these problems. That's what I heard on some show. I am not justifying Hamas
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Almost all middle-eastern governments hire ransomware/hacking groups to take on firms/companies they don't like. [1] [1] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-01-15/hac...
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by raincom 3y ago
Settlements in the West Bank are the culprit. When settlers settle in some area, they need protection. Barriers, permanent road closures, security gates, even welding the doors facing roads that are used exclusively by non-Palestinians, sur
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by raincom 3y ago
Large companies have WAFPlus-as-a-service(load balancing +WAF+ SSO: any team can provision one and put their app behind a WAF. Is there any alternative to replace that?
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Can you share more details about your particular scanner?
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In Indian Purana-s, stories exemplify recursion: story A has story B, which has story C, and so on, then backtrack.
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by raincom 3y ago
Another Wuhan, but this time it is cancer.
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Well, if X is working for a manager M for 3 years at Apple(for that matter, any company), M wants to make sure that wheoever applies to X's role during the PERM process (labor certification to ensure that no US citizens/perm resid
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I worked as a contractor for a decade before, I didn't find it demeaning when employees didn't invite me to team lunches or special meetings. Just charge more for your services. Do you care when you get paid $200 per hr, if you ar
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Yes, most of the time people worry about CTRs when they try to withdraw or deposit in an amount more than $10K in one transaction. So, people go around to avoid CTRs. CTRs are never a problem: for every SAR, 10+ CTRs are filed. In other wor
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Since the first SAR is filled with “transaction with no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose”, subsequent transactions from the same account would become "transactions with no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose&quot

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