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by somelamer567 1y ago
> Apart from nuclear war > It's also funny when war mongers online talk about cowardice > Why dont you go volunteer in Ukraine if you're such a non coward? This is an impressive feat. You've managed to package not on
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by somelamer567 1y ago
> thin air Except for the mountain of evil, violent, underhanded and illegal stuff Russia keeps getting caught doing, and has so far escaped scot-free due to Western cowardice?
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by somelamer567 1y ago
Some more-unhinged ultranationalist elements of Russian societies loathe Western culture and what they see as 'decadent' Western values on their culture. This is not new. Xenophobia and hate of the Other has a long and sordid hist
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by somelamer567 1y ago
Spain underinvests in its military. Russian mafias also control much of the costas. I would surmise that the Russians think that Spain and Portugal are cowed, and want to keep them intimidated and prevent them from increasing their aid to
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by somelamer567 2y ago
As somebody who's seen communities come and go over the last couple of decades, I cannot praise Hacker News highly enough. And we can thank the moderators for that. HN is like an oasis for me: polite, sane, and informative, and your v
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by somelamer567 2y ago
The central tenet of techno-fascism / the hard alt-Right / the Dark Enlightenment, is that democracy itself is incompatible with "freedom" (as techno-fascists understand it).
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by somelamer567 2y ago
This techno-fascist trend can best be understood through the lens of a cognitive bias called 'elite projection': where the rich and powerful believe that everyone shares their preferences and plans accordingly. 'Freedom'
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by somelamer567 2y ago
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by somelamer567 2y ago
I seem to remember that Russia has significant expertise in building powerful and compact microwave sources to control and heat plasma in tokamaks. Nizhny Novgorod is a known centre of expertise in such technology. It wouldn’t be such a str
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by somelamer567 2y ago
And why do you suppose these ostensible 'China bashers' believe what they do? Do you believe that people just wake up one morning and say to themselves: 'I'm going to go online and hate on China today' for absolutel
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by somelamer567 2y ago
I'd say the author's mental model of the nature of C as a programming language isn't accurate, not helped by efforts to standardise the language. It could be argued that C is little more of a defined programming language any
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by somelamer567 2y ago
This really is a thing. My son seems to have learnt the grammar, but not so much vocabulary of English, so he'll borrow vocabulary from Spanish, and force English grammar over it to invent entirely new words. Example: he doesn't
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by somelamer567 3y ago
I’m not familiar with the minutiae of the current rules, but I know that the penalties around not screening for sanctioned entities are now quite severe. The funny bit, is that as soon as you SEE a hit against a sanctions list, the clock st
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by somelamer567 3y ago
They’re charging for the effort of collecting and curating it all.
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by somelamer567 3y ago
Fairly sure that anything super sensitive like that won’t make it into the World-Check datafile. The records in there are mostly already public information if you know where to look
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by somelamer567 3y ago
PEPs — Politically Exposed Persons, like family of politicians. Businesses with KYC screening requirements beyond sanctions and criminal convictions might care about it, because they fear bad media coverage, for examples
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by somelamer567 3y ago
Much of the data is indeed public. LSEG have analysts going around all the websites of major government entities publishing sanctions lists to update their database. If you’re politically exposed or get mentioned in the media for being conv
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by somelamer567 3y ago
The data goes stale after a while. The real value of World-Check, is that it’s constantly updated, and if you’re using LSEG’s KYC screening platform, you get notified in real time as soon as anybody you’ve screened gets a new hit or update
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by somelamer567 3y ago
To use the World-Check datafile, you need decent tooling to go with it. You can either build your own, or use theirs. That said, it’s only as good as the analysts using the tools as well as the consultants configuring it. It’s a hard proble