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3y ago
That’s the same culture c-level executives inculcate: (a) don’t put anything in writing (b) don’t explicitly ask to do unethical things (c) use layers of lawyers or of other executives to evade culpability (d) since voice calls can be recor
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3y ago
Listen to the interview with the former Suffolk DA Tom Sini: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/gilgo-beach-murder... Cell phone tower dumps, analyzing these dumps (analytics) to reduce the search space (th
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3y ago
Pedro Sanchez from my hood, who went to meet some capos, has been missing in Culiacán. Can you locate him, please?
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3y ago
Selectorate theory (which is described for the lay people in "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics") talks about your points: picking voters through (a) immigration policy (b) restrictions
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3y ago
Communication workers, IT specialists end up missing in Mexico; here is the story: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9akgj8/radio-silence
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3y ago
VCs can destroy your career and finances in safe/legal ways. Cartels don't operate in safe/legal ways. Cartel members snitch on you, can kill you or family members. Cartel members always care about their safety first, not you
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3y ago
Read the indictment[1], which has all details about burner phones, AOL accounts with fictitious accounts, Amex credit card bills that gave away "google pay" payments to Tinder, which gave away more burner phone numbers. [1] https
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3y ago
Not just Ashley Madison, every dating/relationship site is full of fake female profiles. Why? Of course, to force guys to pay in order to respond to winks by these these fake females. There is an old muslim matrimony site based in UK,
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3y ago
Be careful dealing with federal agents and federal agencies. They can get you for "lying to federal agents". Always have a lawyer next to you, so that this lawyer can take notes, thereby preventing you from being charged under &q
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3y ago
Have you read the court transcripts of El Chapo trial? Maybe, better read them, before you think you can safely contact drug cartels. Drug cartels are at least three moves away from your local drug dealer. Cartel folks deal with the wholesa
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3y ago
Buying things that are not needed with the money one doesn't have = credit cards. That's the beauty of credit cards. It increases the spending in economy. With debit cards, one has to spend within their means.
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3y ago
Well, there is Real Time Payments, as it is called RTP by The Clearing House. (RTP is almost like FedNow.) However, The Clearing House is owned by a small number of banks. That's why only big banks use RTP. I heard about 50 banks use R
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Even before the advent of modern sciences, people in tropical and sub-tropical areas have used limestone powder to pain their homes just two months before the start of summers. People used to excavate limestones, then put them through kiln
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3y ago
I worked for a couple of banks. The older the bank is, the difficult it is to 'implement a lot more technologies'. They have the old COBOL codebase running on mainframes from 70's, then a lot of Java, COBRA interfaces that de
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In earlier times, there was more decentralization. So, such decentralized localities couldn't be what we call states today. Yes, some elders, some wise men, some people with more clan-power, etc., were involved in settling property dis
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3y ago
Hahaha, when third world countries suppress social media, NGOs, USAID, the West bemoans the fact that liberal values of the hour (freedom, suppression of minorities, independent media, etc) are suppressed. When it comes to the West, blame i
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3y ago
I think you are right on this. Being the world's reserve currency, US can swap their printed money with real assets (in this case, companies, metals, grains, etc), thereby these companies bought with USD becoming American. If USD cease
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3y ago
Using Fednow is no worse than using zelle/venmo/paypal when it comes to such abuse. Law enforcement agencies have direct access to banks these days.
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3y ago
CentOS Stream and RHEL diverge. (a) many bug fixes are back ported to RHEL 9.x, but not to the Stream 9 at the same time (b) they fix bugs right away on RHEL 9.x, but delay them for a long time (c) some packages in the Stream are from the l
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It was not so much law enforcement, but protection of property. Especially during harvest seasons in old days, farmers pay a share of harvest to protectors. Some kind of such protection has had existed, for sure, without formal laws or with
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3y ago
Most of these patriotic people in the government are either powerless or keep silent.
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The current SCOTUS says admissions is a zero-sum game. If legacy or ALDC 'quotas' somehow results in racial discrimination indirectly, yes, there is a case. We will know it through the discovery, as these schools don’t reveal thes
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If Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford remove quotas for ALDC (Athletes, Legacies, wealthy Donors, Children of staff and faculty), these universities cease being elite. That's good for America. However, it is bad for the administrat
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That's a great news. Harvard, uber wealthy, and their elite 'servant' class don't want to distribute elite power centers across the states. Once they get rid of ALDC, Harvard ceases being a Harvard. Exclusive companies s
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Harvard ‘buys’ faculty, that’s how they have become a world class institution. They rarely tenure their assistant professors. Whenever some professor becomes a rock star in some a second tier school, or non-elite school, HYP/S just buy
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"On average, LDC applicants (that is, excluding athletes) are stronger than typical applicants. However, the average LDC admit is weaker than the average typical admit, suggesting an admissions advantage for LDC applicants." (p.3
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This news is from 2019. Here is the published paper: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
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3y ago
Time to hike interest rates at least by 200 basis points or more.
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Redhat should have stopped rebuilders seven years ago, when many large enterprises signed up site-wide contracts with Oracle. Maybe, they want to keep the EL ecosystem grow, then cut it off.
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3y ago
'The torso in the Thames: A 20-year mystery': https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58415046
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