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> Will USBs, home routers, and printers that I buy on amazon require my KYC/AML?

Of course not. Those are products not services.

Let's break down the statement in detail:

> digital assets

This is something I'd expect to be defined in the definitions section of the act. Even if it's not, the most reasonable interpretation is going to be something along the lines of any digital product whose ownership can be traded for material value gain, which would include cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and possibly MMO virtual currencies. There's definitely a lot of gray area in defining digital assets, but pretending that word documents and the like are digital assets is intentionally misreading the law.

> effectuating transfers

The plain definition of "effectuate" is "to bring about" or some other variation that specifically implies a causal link. To effectuate something requires that the agent itself is causing it to happen. Mere incidental participation wouldn't be sufficient. If I tell someone to take $1000 out of my ATM in cash and send it to somebody else in the mail, the person who is following my instructions is effectuating the transaction; the post office is not.

> providing any service

As mentioned above, we are specifically restricting this only to entities that are providing services, not products. So people whose roles are limited to providing products (such as software developers) are not affected by this rule.

> responsible for and regularly providing

And said services have to be provided on more than a one-off basis. So even the example I gave earlier of ordering someone to move money around wouldn't qualify; the person basically has to be willing to do this on an ongoing purpose, essentially as their business model, for this provision to kick in.

In other words, the people who are affected by this are going to be those who are offering banking-like services for digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies, NFTs, WoW gold). Pedestrian things like routers and USBs are completely unaffected. The assertion of a sibling comment that software developers are potentially at risk is equally asinine. The people who are affected are the cryptocurrency exchanges, probably services like cryptocurrency tumblers, possibly miners or companies that operate MMOs.
New to me, Berry Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Amendment

Learning about this now ... appears as though the Berry Amendment is based on a defense policy, China's perhaps is political/economic.

I think the U.S. has everything to lose with this new China policy and little chance of imposing a similar one for the U.S.
I get the snark but this is also Science and their easy to digest news release. It is literally a science journal, not a product release or even engineering journal. I wouldn't say it really fits into the "advancement in the art," or "actual products." It is scientific progress in the material science world (which I know is your last parenthetical aspect of your comment).
Not quite as straightforward. Infrastructure comes with maintenance costs. These costs can tie you down in the next decades. But even worse, you literally cannot spend an arbitrary amount of money even for absolutely obvious ideas. Try to renovate or rebuild all schools in one state at once. Or create new bike lanes. You will soon see that there's only a limited amount of companies that actually can do what you want.

The one thing that seems to work surprisingly well is direct subsidies for switching to a better but more expensive product (electrical cars, house insulation).

Personally, I agree that the government should take negative interest rates as a sign to massively invest. But I struggle to find an investment that is both just and sustainable.

There is, for instance a huge pension gap in Germany. It would be wise to borrow money now if we could invest it to mitigate that gap. But how would such an investment look like? Buying children?
The optics are that they thought they needed a woman for PR, but didn't have any confidence in her. I'm not saying she's incapable, but that's what the optics are.
https://xkcd.com/2368/

[Fallacy of appeal to xkcd]
People still can't afford to work jobs that won't pay for their food and shelter. Prisoners, or any other slaves, are a great solution.
They also have a lot more ways to abuse people if they choose to do so.
> I see UBI as a very elegant solution to this problem.

To which problem? A UBI will obviously mean more income for those stuck in low wage jobs.

But a UBI will definitely not help attract employees to low wage positions. In fact, I think the increased unemployment benefits during Covid proved that if people have some sort of UBI payment, they are not going to work low wage jobs (hence the labor shortage).
Well, a huge lot of people make usage of bitcoin like it is gambling (i.e. as a speculative asset).

Cannot make generalities of course, but still.
It's funny but I forgot that Git restore was a new command, it only came in 2019 but I use it all the time.
I made a conscious effort to unlearn bad habits in my 20s and it was pretty easy. I definitely press some keys with the wrong fingers, though. (1 is especially annoying to press with your pinky, so I don't do it.)
Many black ones are...school or otherwise.
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A lot of IT positions at Universities. To the point where it can be a problem as in a Junior Position, it can be really hard to be promoted internally unless someone decides to leave, which they rarely do because people in Senior level Uni positions get good pay and they tend to be very chill environments.
If the drift is 18s over 50 yrs then it doesn't address your issue to any noticable degree throughout your life.

Nor that of your children, grandchildren etc etc, as the change is gradual enough that nobody would notice. The only way to get a significant difference is by somehow sleeping for thousands of years (1k would be 6 minutes, which would still be impossible to tell with human senses).

It really is a pretty pointless solution to a non-existing problem.
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Free speech on the internet is not in danger. It's never been easier or cheaper to set up a blog and publish to a global audience.

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press do not include a right to use somebody else's press. Or the right to override somebody else's freedom of association.

That's the inconvenient thing about rights: other people have them too.
Public education is the front lines of the culture wars. I've observed many waves of reform (fads).

Overcorrection is the norm.

Probably because incrementalism simply isn't possible. So when reform does happen, it releases decades of bottled up pressure. Like a dam bursting.

I don't have a dog in this fight. I've seen too many of these spasms to care too much.

That said, my hot take on bias training is two fold.

1) Bias training for teachers (and every other profession) is long overdue. This is indisputable.

2) I'm unaware of any validation which shows bias training for students is worthwhile. Maybe it is. But hippocratic oath dictates that we figure this out before committing.

Teachers et al should dog food their own training for a while. Lead by example. See how well it works.

My hunch is that students will pick up most of the important lessons thru osmosis.

Simply removing teacher-born biases, those negative role models, certainly couldn't hurt.
Re: Oneal, it's true she's new to the Blizzard executive staff, but she's a 17-year veteran of Vicarious Visions where she rose through the ranks to be Studio Head before they were moved under Blizzard earlier this year.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't thrown away my 5150.
150 million after tax = 75 million. Spend half and save half, left with 37.5 million. Investing 3 million a month at 10% returns gets you to 800M after 12 years. It's damn hard to become a billionaire, even when you make 150M. Most reports I've seen have Kotick's net worth significantly less than 800M though. He's known as a very high spender
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Oh my god. Why does this exist?
Because the original commenter is not arguing in good faith. There are countless examples of crypto and bitcoin helping civilians escape tyrannical states, conveniently non were mentioned.
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But "job creators" are a protected class.
I'm not sure how much the board could be aware, but I agree the whole leadership needs a 3rd party examination.
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This is why I didn't just mention the engineers. It's the conflation of all those factors. Not just a single one. Crazy engineers can get a lot done with no capital, but mostly they will end up doing soul crushing Dilbert style jobs.

For instance, look at Russia! Their engineers are probably twice as crazy as Americans, but they have very little room to do crazy things with that talent. They don't have trillions of US dollars being sheltered in their tech startups by VC funds.
> Open source would be ruined if it were easier to build upon past works with lower barriers to research and licensing?

Why is recognizing someone else's work so much pain?

The whole point is that copilot forgets who wrote the code and who is the author of the whole idea (unfortunately few programmers write it but sometimes it is there is you are patient enough to read documentation). Thus a copilot's user cannot know who deserves the credit.

This whole discussion is like if you train an AI to pick apples from a supermarket and leave them on the street waiting for someone else to take them home, and pretending that nobody is stealing anything.
I’m not “free” to go on a machine gun rampage, this lack of freedom isn’t “being oppressed”, and as it applies to everyone it stops other people doing it to me.

So I know you’re being sarcastic, but yes, for some things more freedom directly causes oppression.

I assert that letting power-hungry tax evaders get away with it is in that category.
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It's a lot easier to require businesses in the country to report sales tax (of which the infrastructure is already in place and could be funded more heavily) than it is to go after individuals. Even if the business' individual transactions are in cash or anonymous.

There will always be a black market, but eventually that money has to flow back into the regular economy (food, housing, etc...) and will be taxed.
Yep, this is how it goes to zero. Hopefully not, but if it did, a fundamental flaw that invalidated the blockchain would probably be the reason. Diversify!
Virtually any asset thats not cash should do given that the response to any negative economic event is going to be fiscal and monetary stimulus.
Diablo 1&2 were Blizzard North things who were more or less autonomous though. I feel this needs mentioning.
The EU imposes strict fiscal discipline. That basically prevents the possibility of taking advantage of Keynsian fiscal expansion. In other words, to the extent that greater spending causes growth, it's cancelled out by the matching taxes that reduce growth.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/eaec/fiscal/html/index.en.htm...

> Compliance with this rule is to be examined on the basis of reference values for the general government deficit (3%) and gross debt (60%) in relation to GDP, whereby a number of qualifications can be applied.

The simple key to understanding what can and cannot be done with printing money is to understand that you can redirect activity inside the country almost at will by printing, a pseudo command economy; but you can't print (a) foreign currency or (b) oil, steel, vaccines, or other constraints of physical production.

Worked example? If you print money and the citizens spend it on imported goods, that depreciates the currency and is usually Bad. Currency depreciation against hard currency (USD) usually shows up as inflation.

Weimar prints money to buy up domestic gold to ship to France for reparations => hyperinflation.

Zimbabwe prints money but is unable to subsidize kerosene in shops at any price because the country doesn't export enough value to import fossil fuels => hyperinflation.

US prints money for domestic stimulus while being oil producer and having labour slack and a generation of anti-wage-rise policy => almost nothing happens except asset inflation.
More than one person is responsible for the illegal culture. More than one person should go. And they should be fired before having opportunity to resign.
"We would “sticker bomb” a vinyl decal of a two-headed Rottweiler on lampposts, power boxes, bar bathrooms, and park benches"

Stickers are the worst. They can't be painted over like spray paint. They get brittle as they age. Removal requires a human with a razor blade and some shop cloths and minutes of time

Edit: and good luck preserving the surface if it's old, soft, or already overpainted.
Just rearrange keys on your existing keyboard.
> Whewell pointed out that humans, according to the geological record then being unearthed, had been present on this planet for only an “atom of time.”

By Bayesian logic, this says ominous things about the expected value of how long humanity will remain on the planet...
Read that damn book :D It's a treasure trove of information, not only for estimating software projects! For example, learning to differentiate between estimate, target/goal, and commitment.

Personally, I'm often dumbfounded that folks still use planning poker when there are so many more reliable methods as discussed in the book, e.g., wideband Delphi.
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I find it hilarious that old keyboards used to have most of these buttons. Gradually people migrated to "60% TKL" keyboards to save space, and now apparrently buy an entire stream deck to replace their missing buttons?
I admit it looks cooler though
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I agree that the end effect will be largely what you suggest: aggregate activity in large institutions at the expense of smaller startups and decentralized protocols. But from talking to people in the space, it seems that most of the large exchanges and hedge funds are vigorously oppose to this law. Bryan Armstrong (the CEO of Coinbase) has repeatedly and publicly criticized the bill.

I'll cite Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. I think this is simply the result of what happens when we decide our government should be run by a bunch of octogenarian lawyers, most of whom's tech knowledge ends at their ability to reset their WiFi router. Is it really that surprising that Biden, Schumer, Portman, McConnell, Yellen, Pelosi, etc. have no understanding about how crypto works? They were all born before the charge card was even invented.
The problem of undesirable work being low wage due to people being born to the parents they were born to.
I don't know if everyone's following what's going on, but China just pulled the rug out from under a lot of investment firms -- costing pension and hedge funds at least $400B.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-rethink-china-bets-af...

That's a huge amount of money and will dramatically and negatively impact the public pension funds. For instance, Illinois pension fund already has a $100-$300B deficit.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/moodys-report-illinois-pensio...

Combined with this effort, not only has billions of U.S. dollars just went to China without anything in return, but now they're only purchasing within their own country.

This economic war is accelerating.
The universe is so vast; you can't confidently say that we are the only ones living here. Maybe we're not up to a point in time in which we can explore the worlds outside of the Earth, especially we don't have the equipment to last long and withstand extreme temperatures of other planets. There is so much out there, it may not be in our time, but there will be a big chance our future generations can truly meet and interact with extraterrestrials.
> relentless attempts at developer commodification

LOL, it's been happening since the beginning of software. So many things reduce or replace developer work - compilers, libraries, templates, free/open tools. Desire is always going to expand to contain the whole space of what's possible and then overflow.
Imagine if they shut down every Shell gas station or something similar.
It's not about new, it's about highlighting progress against a plan that will likely create new competitors on a global stage while closing out any free market competition within their come country.
Not if you use the prison population and lobby Congress to import more cheap foreign labour so that you don’t have to increase wages.

Which is entirely my point.
It's not that I don't understand the use case.

It's that the current use cases can be either replaced by preexisting less compute-intensive tech, or that the usage is just meaningless (gambling-like speculation, failed attempt at anonymity, tax avoidance, etc).

However my comment is as well a call to everybody to think about it!

I know I'm not very brilliant, so if anybody can do a favor to the world and find out something interesting, I'd be extremely happy :)
People have been saying this since 2010. I think it's much more likely that negative yields are the new normal. I expect <10yr yields to go negative in the US eventually. The fed was able to tighten rates in 2016-2017 without anyting bad happening. Everyone keeps thinking things will end badly. Maybe they won't. My $ is on the latter.
>But if the asset bubble bursts and your home loses most worth.

Luckily the primary function of a home is to provide shelter. You don't have to worry about being out on the street if you're unemployed (pending you can afford local taxes).
On the face of it, you sound informed, but you made several bizarre asides, and a few glaring errors.

"So what this suggests is that Ibarra [sic] had the confidence of Kotick and the board, she would now be president."

Jen Oneal is the woman who is mentioned. And Mike Ybarra is not spelled that way.

"One of them is a woman of course." Yes, about 50% of the planet is female, and I'd appreciate it if you took your misogyny elsewhere.

"I'm not saying she's unqualified," yes, you are trying to imply that.

"although both of them are relatively recent hires, interestingly", with as the article reminds you, "more than three decades of gaming industry experience between them."

And yes, there are several examples of large and successful projects having more than one leader.
There's no assumption in what I wrote, that's just a question.

Meanwhile, GP is explicitly putting words in my mouth, but I guess it's ok because my comment was just whataboutism, right?
It sounds like you think they required this in order to act DURING the carjacking, like some kind of Snow Crash/Fifth Element scenario, which the actual headline ("helping" vs. "compensating") is baiting you to believe. But the content of the article makes it clear this was well after it occurred. So the duress angle doesn't work.
Europe is a big place. There are huge variations in social services, minimum wages, and infrastructure spending. In general though building infrastructure is more expensive in the US.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-o...
Bringing a lawsuit requires paying >~$10k up front, or the attorney taking it on for a prearranged cut of the settlement in exchange for no up-front.
If anyone is interested in near-real time updates, I've found this site to be handy:

* https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/germany-government-bon...

They have the rates of most countries if you poke around.
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>>Untraceable money is far more likely to lead to centralization of power, because it allows the already wealthy to act unaccountably.

How do you keep the people collecting all of this information accountable? Information asymmetries that this kind of mass-surveillance creates ultimately leads to power disparities, and there is no way to police the information collectors to prevent them from profiting off of it.

Just look at the Snowden revelations. He speaks of LOVEINT, where agents would on intimate partners. It was a practice so common it had its own term coined for it. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have no idea how this information is being used, and how it's contributing to all sorts of social, economic and political disparities.

And unlike the business world, where individuals begin to face diseconomies of scale as the size of their portolio of businesses/investments grows beyond their ability to actively manage them, and the number of investment targets that can absorb their wealth diminishes [1], growing concentrations of political power begets even more political power, as the state's monopoly on violence requires no sophistication to scale up.

>>With untraceable money you'd never know this. Or you'd have to limit yourself to "declared income", which would be effectively voluntary.

Untraceable money does not mean an income tax can't be collected. The act of earning income doesn't become untraceable by virtue of the government not being able to swoop in and monitor every transaction without a warrant. And frankly, if an income tax did require warrantless mass-surveillance of the population's financial interactions, to effectively collect, then it would be better to replace it with another form of taxation which didn't.

[1] https://youtu.be/2Qq8GZjmHqw?t=120
At least Mike Ybarra is a hardcore WoW player. I feel a little bit better knowing that.
Gotta love the moral clarity of "companies".
"Tipping the scales" does not necessarily mean changing which pan of the scales is higher (ie, changing the outcome). It just means shifting the balance.
Where in their reply did it say they weren't a touch typist? They most likely touch type with 2-3 fingers. Not that shocking if you learned to use computers without typing classes.
The OP wrote "self-hosted Jenkins", which has a different meaning
I've had some success finding the pages or processes I need on a site with virtual assistants, but the design of the website had failed in the first place if I had to resort to that.
Boards can find things out on their own. Board members can talk to employees. I personally think they have an obligation to look beyond tidy narratives presented by management, but at the very least they have the capability.
The stolen money don’t have a value to the thief?
Good luck getting much sympathy. There is still some asshole making off like a bandit even when the lowly employees get hurt at the same company.
> Removal requires a human with a razor blade and some shop cloths and minutes of time.

Or a few seconds with a 3000 PSI power washer and narrow fan nozzle. Though doesn't work nicely indoors.
> You can't just crank the team up to "flank speed" and leave it there.

That attitude also ignores the nature of the work. Incident response is 90% investigation while development is 90% creation.

It's the difference between reading a map of a city and planning a city.
There is also this one:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

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Just curious: How far east/west from Greenwich are you? - Depending on that meaning of colloquialisms can become weird (what is today/tomorrow? What is "around noon" etc.)
Open an old Scientific American, wonder at just how wrong some of the facts reported turned out to be.

Is there any real reason to believe the same is not true of the latest edition?