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But insider trading isn’t comparable to larceny whatsoever. There is no definitive victim. Yes, in some sense the market is “less fair”. But the purpose of insider trading law isn’t to create a level playing field. It’s perfectly legal for a well-funded hedge fund to fly helicopters over an oil refinery with infrared cameras, so they can know ahead before a public announcement how much revenue the company is doing.

Rather, all insider trading requires the breach of fiduciary duty somewhere in the chain. The “victim” aren’t mom and pop investors, but the company itself. The idea being that the insider who leaks the information is misappropriating his fiduciary duty in a way that’s not in the direct interest of the company.

But in this case the damage to the company is far less than the amount of profits the perpetrator gains. Ask yourself, where if you owned a company would you rather have $100 million in cash embezzled or have an employee make $100 million off well-timed stock trades with unrelated third parties?

The damage to the victim only occurs in the sense that adverse selection in the form of insider trading dampens liquidity in the secondary market for company’s shares. Theoretically this decrease in liquidity should hurt the company’s valuation by making shares trade at an illiquidity discount.

In practice, given how extremely liquid and efficient modern stock markets are, the impact of a few million in insider trading is a rounding error. The vast majority of HFTs and stat arb funds that provide liquidity don’t hold anywhere long enough to where insider trading would make a significant difference. Most stocks trade thick at a minimum penny tick anyway. (Logically we should only prosecute insider trading when stocks are priced over $100.) And the evidence is scant that less liquid stocks even trade at a discount, after controlling for size and industry.

If we’re actually punishing crime based on the damage to the victim, then insider trading is almost certainly only pennies on the headline number.
For people downvoting me, I'd love to know why. The many comments here aren't negating what I said or explaining why I was wrong.
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This rings true for me, and reminds me of my early experience learning about machining and CNC machines. There are a lot of very low quality googleable sources out there for that field (mostly dealing with the hobbyist side of it) that crowded out the information I needed for professional development and troubleshooting.

Eventually, as my knowledge of the field increased I learned the "pro" terminology for certain objects and processes, which improved my ability to search useful info. I also discovered through chance or personal recommendation some very useful pro-level online sources, which don't have a large presence on search engines. There was a long grind of several years before I got to the point where I could search online for machining information and solutions online with confidence that I could find useful results and assess their reliability. Even then, there is a lot that I need to find in books/manuals or in conversation with experts.

While this is a process that takes place when learning about any technical topic, in my experience its easier in programming (and to a lesser degree general IT topics) than in fields that exist primarily in the world of physical objects. IMO, this has something to do with the tendency of programming problems to "self-define" themselves in specific textual language (I.E. compiler errors you can copy and paste into google) and also with origins and focuses of the largest internet knowledge bases.
Wow, that's an awful design. It's even harder to implement that than to leave it stateless and require the client to pass in a date range.
Well, clearly the incentives for Tether are against auditing as any details they could announce (given what we already know) would just generate mote negative coverage amd uncertainty.
There are some definite non-trivial skills involved in successfully googling the solution to a problem. The biggest one is having enough reading comprehension to understand what you found (or alternatively, having enough time/patience to watch YouTube videos that take forever to get to the point. The second most important is the ability to recognize non-solutions or non-optimal solutions.

For many people, they are used to learning from other people instead of from search results. So it makes sense that their first instinct is to reach for asking those around them.
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It's also just as obvious that everyone will agree for the foreseeable future that USD can be used to buy things, do things.

Given that people already disagree about the status of Tether, it's not nearly as obvious.
My eldest is also a daughter of a similar age. What my partner and I have said is "yes you're old enough to go do things, as long as you're going with friends." She's not old enough to go places alone, or to go places where she'll be supervising her younger sibs. But she's old enough to be in a setting where peers are watching out for each other and know how to find help if needed.

I know that's still a walk-back from what previous generations enjoyed, but it's not that different from what we both experienced at this age in the 90s. And in parallel to this, we've put a fair bit into teaching our kids to navigate on foot, use public transportation, and safely ride their bikes on the road— all of it an investment in pre-car/non-car teenage autonomy.
Why does her age matter?
In 2020, SCOTUS decided to limit the SEC's ability to impose disgorgement of profits sanctions, see Liu v SEC. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1501_8n5a.pdf.

The rationale behind the decision was that disgorgement imposed joint and several liability rather than individual liabiity, and that disgorgement didn't take into account business expenses incurred in acquiring the illegally acquired income...

So now, the SEC has to determine disgorgement sanctions on a per-defendant basis, rather than assessing it as a single joint amount and making the wrong-doers go after each other for reimbursements.

Note though that the $700k are just the fines, not the disgorgement sanction, which will presumably be issued soon. (The $700k penalties are not treated as deductible expenses, so they're effectively on top of whatever disgorgement is ordered.)
SEC is such a joke, they let a lot of wrongdoing go by then once in a while find a small fry to show that they're doing something. SEC cannot enforce naked shorting for example and it comes down to the transgressor to report themselves.
We have space based astronomy (Chandra, Hubble, ect...). There are more missions with expanded capabilities on the horizon.

However they do not negate the value of a ground based system. You wouldn't use a hammer to drive in a screw in the same way you wouldn't use Hubble to look at the surface of the Moon. [1]

Disclaimer: I work on the Chandra team but I am not an astrophysicist.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/03/22/5-re...
this has been a thing for a while now, they opened the first one like a year ago
Indeed. But note that there's a ton of personal-freedom rhetoric in our world. However, it exists primarily entirely in the form of propaganda that serves the interests of bigger lobbying groups. Personal freedom in that sense matters when it's the freedom to be a consumer in the market buying the products that the business wants to sell. The personal freedoms that have nothing to do with the market or which enable people to function outside of the market, those are indeed deprioritized.
US government services will always only accept USD, which means the dollar is tied back to real-world value. taxes, services, etc.
Yep! https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/introduci...
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"Steps that employers can take, the experts said, include allowing staff to set their own schedules, checking in with them to monitor well-being, designating meeting-free days and proactively addressing microaggressions or rude workplace behavior"

You're not going to stop burnout with "meeting-free days". You have to stop doing meeting driven process altogether. And most of the microagressions and rude behaviors are coming out of too many meetings as well. And for god's sake don't schedule 1-1 meetings to monitor for well being - that just adds another meeting onto the pile!
Mayhaps to make the story more salacious?
People have been calling it a train wreck since it went public in 2010, at just a tiny fraction of its current price. Tesla has long exhibited a tendency of suddenly surging and defying the doubters, over and over.
The Nazis gave bogus info and were used to kill and torture countless people. You lose any moral high ground when you ally with psychopaths like that and are no better than they are.

The US had plans to invade Russia, Cuba, and pretty much any place they could think of. That is irrelevant.

And to your last point, I disagree. I know also that lots and lots of people in other countries disagree. Why do you think the US is hated so much globally?
Or, maybe it's because cryptocurrency isn't actually useful for the things people claim it's useful for...
Goodwin's law warning.

If you go into it with a critical eye and compare it to other sources, then you didn't fall for anything.

Reading mein kampf can be really insightful if you read it from a historical perspective and use the hueristics of skepticism. You can still dislike the original intent and think it is a missinformative work in general, but hold that the world would be better off without it.
I used to work in adtech. My position then, as now:

1. targeted ad buys are mostly a scam. Research shows that they are barely more effective than old-fashioned contextual ads.

2. Contextual ads, aka "dumb" ads, the kind that show ads based on the content they are displayed with, are fine.

3. adtech companies depend on advertisers not understanding (1) and publishers chasing dollars by signing up with ad targeting networks.

The ones that are actually making money are the ad networks, and it is in their interest to spread FUD about (1) and not offer (2), as they make their money as a percentage of every ad sale (auction) transaction, and the CPM is higher on targeted ads because of ignorance of (1)
It's between that, the zero tolerance policies that many places have, and the unwalkable suburban residential nightmares we have built.

I know for several of my minority friends, they won't let their kids go anywhere alone due to run-ins with law enforcement.
The irony in making this suggestion in this thread...
MKULTRA was about trauma-based mind control. Many techniques were employed. The world's most notorious organization never stopped trying to break, abuse, and exploit people. Forgive and forget? MKULTRA is alive and well. Cell phones, social media, mass surveillance, 5G. Technology is a weapon and the CIA has been many steps ahead for its entire existence.
Social trust has been falling for decades, and the blame lies at the feet of nearly all our major institutions: both political parties as well as the permanent bureocracy, corporations, churches, the media and so on. If we want a healthy society, of which independent children are a part, we should work to restore social trust.

"We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
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As other commenters have noted, the SEC doesn't have the power to bring criminal complaints; however, they do frequently refer such cases to the DoJ, which is in the process of bringing criminal complaints against three of the conspirators.
If you're mutating variables then I'd agree that it might be best to encapsulate that in a function. But I'd argue that except for performance sensitive code, that's bad practice. The vast majority of code I write has 95% immutable variables. So even in a large function they'll typically be at most one or two mutable variables to keep track of (and very often zero).
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Repeated concussions are suspected of increasing the risk of developing mental health problems one day by several times.

This might be the correct term: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalop...
That is a shockingly high number. I think it's the same people in that meme things you realize when you're adult: More people do cocaine than you think. Gambling, drugs, OnlyFans, eventually debt adds up.
I don't think so. Even if that were true, he knows is power and influence and how it works with sponsorship etc..

So he would have known it would have been interpreted one way and not the other.

Definitely moving a bottle of something aside he's not being paid for is rational in his part.

If he 'said the names' of the water companies he was not sponsored by, that would be odd as he knows not to do that, but if he just said 'water' then that would be normal.
There really is a Python module for everything.
I think the argument in this case is simply that there isn't a business interest in getting kids to go to the park themselves, so it just doesn't get the attention that business-interest issues do.

But we could also describe how kids being independent and walking to the park bypasses all the market activity they could be doing otherwise: social media, video games, other commercial activities, etc. But that's not the primary argument.
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Well, first, that's not what the word "debunked" even means. Two, there were and are plenty of odd signs, like the furin cleavage site.

Yes, that's by no means conclusive, but they say that we should research this instead of coming to hasty conclusions in either direction that are, as you point out, manifestly political.
I want open protocols and publicly documented cryptosystems based on published protocols. Instead we are just enabling the surveillance state.

I think you just answered your own question.
For 64-bit Arm FPU registers, the mapping is extremely simple: Q0 is the 128-bit vector register; D0 is the bottom 64 bits of it; S0 is the bottom 32 bits; H0 is the bottom 16 bits; B0 is the bottom 8 bits. Similarly Q1/D1/S1/H1/B1 are all the same underlying register.

For 32-bit Arm, unfortunately, things are different: D0 is the bottom half of Q0, and D1 the top half; similarly S0 is the bottom half of D0 and S1 is the top half (and so Q0 is S0 S1 S2 S3, with S3 its most significant 32 bits). This is why "just indicate the length on the insn" wouldn't have worked for 32-bit: there is more than one 32-bit register in each 64-bit register (and some kind of 'high/low' notation would have been annoying when you really do want to just think of it as a collection of 32-bit registers sometimes, especially if your hardware doesn't even have double-precision support!). The 64-bit transition fixed up the awkward overlaid mapping, but retains the notation for the benefit of all the people who were already familiar with the Arm notational conventions for things.
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I don't think it's useful for analysis or activism to group Equifax, Google, the NSA, the New York Times, Humble Bundle, Twitter, Airbnb, Walgreens, etc. under a single term. The flattening of this mess down into "adtech" is how most of them have avoided scrutiny, and relabeling that "surveillance" doesn't make the relationships between them any clearer.
The requirement to frequently change a perfectly good password is nonsense.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05

It says:
SP 800-63B Section 5.1.1.2 paragraph 9 states:
“Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.”
Users tend to choose weaker memorized secrets when they know that they will have to change them in the near future. When those changes do occur, they often select a secret that is similar to their old memorized secret by applying a set of common transformations such as increasing a number in the password. This practice provides a false sense of security if any of the previous secrets has been compromised since attackers can apply these same common transformations. But if there is evidence that the memorized secret has been compromised, such as by a breach of the verifier’s hashed password database or observed fraudulent activity, subscribers should be required to change their memorized secrets. However, this event-based change should occur rarely, so that they are less motivated to choose a weak secret with the knowledge that it will only be used for a limited period of time.
Reading a paragraph of Nietzsche contrasted with a paragraph of the Stoics is quite reflective of how their philosophies affected their mental states. Their internal peace of mind oozes out.
Yes, I've also done this in places. It works pretty well, although I wish I could get my syntax highlighter to de-emphasise these lines like it does with comments.
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That is bullshit. 40 years ago the industrialized world was actually industrialized and the developing world was not, so everything was produced in the industrialized world and toilet seats still didn't cost half a months wage for low earners.

Similarly todays Chinese laborers have no problems affording stuff they produce. Industrial production is very efficient, the products aren't super expensive even if you pay the laborers decent wages.
It's a rejection of an entity that is not sponsoring him.

These are 'businessmen athletes' who are intimately familiar with issues around sponsorship.
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I also found the "best friend" part to be strange – I expected language more like "close acquaintance" instead
You don't get to claim an unproven alternate science just because it's a good story unless you're in the Fiction aisle. Gladwell would like to be in the non-fiction aisle, and he really utterly fails there.

He's "not lying" only in the sense that he spouts completely uninformed opinion. He knows that he does that, because it's not like he hasn't been told repeatedly. He continues anyways.

At that point, the line to flim-flam becomes tenuously thin.
Thank you for sharing!

I requested my job give me 2 months off (unpaid) so I can move into a new house and get everything set up, but was told "just use your vacation days". Really frustrating (I need vacation days to go to weddings and see family).

I intend to take many months off when I eventually switch companies (however many years from now that is).
The bigger risk is getting run over by an inattentive driver, and yet most parents are worrying about pedophiles. How would a phone guard against distracted driving?
No? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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> How is theology not knowledge about the world?

Gather all the theologies into a room and get them to agree on the evidence for their points of dogma if you can. There's a first test of knowledge. Beyond pragmatic social strategy, these ancient tribal writings are a vestige of ignorant mummery.

"My Sky Avenger versus your Sky Avenger," as George Carlin might have said.

> Religion is the original form of moral philosophy and sociology, and contains thousands of years of experiential learning [...]

Sure, humans (and likely other extinct hominins) have speculated about their life and the world. It is not given that all their conclusions favoured a Sky Avenger. Some notable ancient Greeks were atheists. So, no, "religion" does not contain thousands of years of experiential learning. Speculation only becomes learning when it can be tested. Arrant nonsense is not learning, even if bound in leather and printed in gold on vellum.

Theology is knowledge only in the same sense that astrology, Scientology, or QAnon claims are knowledge. It is knowledge about a system of false and/or untestable assertions, constituting in all a set of conventions to which a power structure may ally itself. Old religions become mythology when there is no longer a power structure to promote them.

People make pragmatic choices every day to live in the real world. Purveyors of religion just build fantasies atop these pragmatic choices.
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I presume phones just use what the network tells them to use.
I wanted to take that annoying Coke ad that played in movie theaters (remember movie theaters?) showing a glass filling up, and ending with "Aah", and make a parody version that ended with someone barfing.
There are no consequences from incidents caused by gross negligence.

I think gross negligence should be treated similarly to insider trading, HIPAA violations, etc. There should be fines and jail time.
How does "open protocols and publicly documented cryptosystems" help when the carriers are mandated by law to have backdoors so they can fulfill "lawful intercept" requests? You're better off treating it as untrusted and using your own encryption on top (eg. Signal).
Can William Daniels at least voice the car saying "one more thing" before throwing it to Hasselhoff?
Like, you can download BBC iPlayer (or could) and pay a fee. For UK license fee payers, the app and content is free.

I don't think the content was identical, but it was pretty broad. Some EU countries, maybe Canada?, at least.
No, gVisor is from Google. They emulate system calls in user-space and use VMs, which increases runtime performance overhead. We use hardware virtualization to directly run containers -- no I/O emulation, no expensive VM exits, scale as needed. Initial comparison with FC/GVisor/Xen here: https://github.com/ashishbijlani/kwarantine
The Supermicro Redfish API is unlocked with the same key, at least that was the case the last time I experimented with it back in 2019.

You can use Redfish, in theory, for bare-metal management of servers. I never went all the way with it, so I don't know how solid the implementation is.
The FAA here also has to make sure the US is conforming the the international agreements regarding space flight. This does not only affect the US like a flyover maneuver at some local airport.
It's hit and miss. Many civilian side agencies have PIV (the civilian version of CAC) cards for login to laptop/desktops, but not mobile phones/tablets. A few agencies have apps are PIV/CAC enabled or have any MFA, but usually one user/pass login. So you see situations where smartcards are used to login to a device, then a username/password to connect to webapps.