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by rosndo 5y ago
> I don't think so. Think of all the people who have difficulty with basic computer/phone tasks, either because of knowledge or accessibility issues. Do you think all the steps to securely cast votes with an electronic system a
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by rosndo 5y ago
Paper voting is vulnerable to basic sleight of hand, and your ability to effectively monitor the count is somewhat limited. Electronic voting can be much better, but it is of course not a terribly easy problem to solve. For what it’s wort
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Only if you're an expert cryptographer, else you're deferring to the authority. At least it’s still provable, a plenty of people can afford to hire their own cryptographers to do verification. Foreign observers can also do th
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Criminals take great efforts to not be caught and still are. Insider trading is not like other crimes. Consider the reasons why it is criminalized, which have been discussed elsewhere under this post.
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by rosndo 5y ago
>I would argue that: yes, it is immoral. >Is it likely for you to get caught for insider trading? Probably not. Overhearing something in a restaurant and trading on it is not illegal insider trading. For the purposes of this conversat
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by rosndo 5y ago
Can you find any sources to support this claim? It is easy to find sources claiming the opposite. And no, it’s really difficult for SEC to detect any but the most basic forms of insider trading. Try to apply some adversarial thinking and en
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by rosndo 5y ago
> Retail investors are less likely to make optimal investment decisions if they think that insiders are lurking around every corner. But the reality is that there are insiders lurking around every corner. The argument is essentially that
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by rosndo 5y ago
Exactly. It is the perspective often repeated by economists. There exists little political will to legalize insider trading because it would be hard to sell to a public that doesn’t even understand why stock markets exist. To the average
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by rosndo 5y ago
This implies a truly bizarre understanding of markets and fairness. Was it fair when Enron was valued at $70B? Would the situation have been less fair had insider traders with more information pushed the prices down earlier? Insider trading
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by rosndo 5y ago
Indeed, insider trading benefits everybody by adding more information to the markets, leading to more accurate prices.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> These guys are like the kids who saw the Tide Pod challenges and decided to actually eat the pods. I bet insider trading is not as fun when you're unemployed and bankrupt. Most insider traders are never caught, everyone eating t
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by rosndo 5y ago
Phaeton existed in a weird segment, it was like a gimped S-class for the price of an E-class. It failed because there wasn’t a huge market for gimped S-classes among the E-class buying segment. The only people interested in Phaetons ended u
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by rosndo 5y ago
I certainly don’t miss switching channels. TV experience 20 years ago sucked. Now I can have all the content I could ever want immediately accessible via Plex, no need to fiddle with DVDs or gasp VHS tapes. Commercials? hah. Unskippable a
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by rosndo 5y ago
What if you just look for “dedicated servers”? Pretty much all of them will fit your needs, whereas “bare metal” will only bring up buzzword hosts. Shops like nforce or FDCservers might fit your needs better than the super overpriced option
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by rosndo 5y ago
A theoretical exploit can always hack anything at any time anywhere.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> So lets not go to the actual source @latestanonpress is not the actual source, every single “anonymous” twitter account is run by a different idiot.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Large EU companies are more similar to large US companies. Small US companies are more similar to small EU companies than large US companies. Size brings more savvy lawyers.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> In small European companies I've worked for this would be considered a big red flag and a sign of broken company culture, but for US companies it is seemingly the norm. Try working for a big European company, it’s no different.
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by rosndo 5y ago
As far as I can tell this exclusively applies to self-employed people, i.e. someone running a business from their home.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> You would save the records for deductions or business expenses or whatever as a bookkeeping measure - and as a tax precaution, yes - even if you were not expecting an audit. Audits are fairly unusual I think you are just repeating orig
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s the lack of corruption. In India the projects are blocked by individual officials seeking to line their pockets, they don’t care if that causes their area to lose out on the project.
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by rosndo 5y ago
> It was, which is why your comment starting with "As a business" was so bizarrely off-topic. What do you mean by off-topic? Businesses receive utility bills too, and might genuinely be required to keep records of those. As far
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by rosndo 5y ago
> a) You need to get that fake mail into the postal system, somehow - and do so in a way which escapes attention You pay some guy to drive around and stuff your envelopes into various post boxes 500-1000 at a time. Or just find an inside
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by rosndo 5y ago
This is a bizarre idea. Scammers printing scam letters can just as easily print fake postmarks. > When you have to pay the postage and printing costs, it is far less attractive to throw out 10.000 scam mailings, because the ROI is quite
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by rosndo 5y ago
I thought this thread was about utility bills, but okay, I’ll play along with your incredibly specific example. Is this a weird american thing? At least here in the UK mortgage interest deductions are only applicable to businesses.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Why would you ever need to prove this kind of transactions to the tax man as an individual? As a business it’s your duty to take care of your recordkeeping, print out the invoices if you so prefer.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Or even if they did identify him as a threat, they could’ve kept the information to themselves for leverage. There is literally zero information you could extract from this besides the fact that he probably didn’t do anything indictment-wor
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by rosndo 5y ago
> but I think it’s completely untenable to make this happen politically and will either result in global war or the collapse of our civilization :eyeroll: Yeah, no need to explain the details of how encouraging people to live in cities w
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by rosndo 5y ago
It’s also possible that this is happening at a different stage of call routing and that nothing is wrong on their end.
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by rosndo 5y ago
Not illegal, just not binding.

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