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Because there are too many people that are in the situation that state actors steal from them more than these scams do.

Anyone doing international money transfers. Hell, that included intra-EU money transfers not 5 years ago.

Anyone in a bunch of countries. Lebanon being the most recent addition. Venezuela, Columbia, Turkey, Russia, Greece (sort-of-not-quite-anymore) ...

Anyone in legal but unfairly treated business/professions. Situations vary from country to country. From sex work, even website admins, to "the unbanked", who can expect the authorities to impound their money at the drop of a hat.

Anyone who wants to do large cash transactions safely without using a bank. And that DOES NOT mean drugs. Reality: you do this because you're afraid bank transactions can be reversed, which is possible in a bunch of places. Large, in the EU, has now become smaller than the cost of a used car.

Recently, if your transaction involves anyone on social security, your or their bank transactions may be monitored very closely by non-judicial institutions. If this is unwanted (and I guarantee it'll be unwanted) that will means you either use cash or crypto, depending on the amount. Although a lot of people in this segment haven't really discovered crypto yet.
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> Friedberg, who served as FTX’s general counsel before taking on the company’s regulatory role, was recently described by Coingeek’s Steven Stradbrooke as being “almost comically inappropriate” for the job. The description appears apt, given Friedberg’s long history of not complying with various jurisdictions’ regulations, but rather, evading them.

Can't make this up. Reads to me like, on the contrary, they couldn't have found anyone more qualified.
I did like 20 and missed 1.
I think they might be researchers, so this is their job.
There is nothing wrong with this, and indeed it's a good thing.
I think it would be reasonable to confine judgement of an article to the actual text of the article, which is explicitly making the point that two women could kiss because it wasn't seen as sexual, rather than some SEO keywords that have been added to an image subheading that is invisible unless you click on it.
Which, at worst, is dismissed in bankruptcy court. No amount of liable or defamation can land you in jail. At least not in the US...
More expensive lenses get you:

* A material with a higher refractive index (-> thinner glasses) and higher Abbe number (-> less dispersion). Scroll down to the "Optical Glass Selection" in this article for a diagram: https://www.edmundoptics.com/knowledge-center/application-no... - the stronger the prescription, the more it matters, but generally the step up from the cheapest material is much more significant than from the mid priced tier to high priced tier.

* Coatings (anti reflective, anti scratch / oil / water, and for sunglasses also: polarizating, and the tint itself of course, ...). These are all worth it in my opinion. I cannot praise the polarizing coating on sunglasses enough. And the anti reflective coating. "Computer vision" coatings are not useful in my opinion. Mirror coatings for sunglasses are a personal/aestetic choice.

* Glasses for people with astigmatism or with both near and far prescriptions are more expensive.

More expensive frames get you:

* Lighter, thinner frames and frameless options.

* Hinges that open a bit more than 90deg and flex back with a spring, so the temples will adapt to the head better. Better hinge materials (e.g. I've had hinges wear out).

* Titanium or memory metals instead of plastic of aluminum.

* "Aesthetics" and minor add-ons like laser engraving.

Obviously price only correlates with quality, paying more doesn't guarantee getting more.
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Less concentrated wealth seems an obvious one. Including corporate wealth.

It's relatively easy to draw a parallel between fossil fuel corporations and the fawning media they paid for and FTX.
There use to be a time when fucking somebody's wife had a certain... weight to it.

Marriage actually 'ment' something in a fairly direct way.
You can’t assume that recruiting has been told that layoffs are coming. Likely they are in the dark intentionally. A hiring freeze would be news that could negatively affect stock price for a well known public company. Think of layoffs as a controlled PR burn, you don’t want to go set off a bunch of little random fires ahead of the big event that might burn out of control.
> but I wanted to share

Are you sure?
Commercial aviation could stick as many as 850 passengers on an A380-800 in it’s maximum configuration, but the most an airline actually gets is 538 because of business and first class passengers having more room. Increasing passenger space by even 1 inch or just a pound of weight per seat makes a real difference.
No, they say it on podcasts mostly… where many of them they are making more money than they they ever did at standup.
It is simple.

In this case he is just trying to figure out how to write the macro the expansion of which is motivation.
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I miss awesome blogs with a common topic.

A Japanese tech blog service[1] continues advent calendars with various categories. Do anyone know what other tech advent calendars are still active?

[1] https://qiita.com/advent-calendar/2022
Sadly, in the mind of these young white knights making these decisions, they thought they were doing these folks a favor by saving them from their poor country.
FTX.us was also US based.
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Kris Marszalek is in Singapore, which so far has proven lawless with respect to crypto (stealing a $billion is legal, while smoking a joint of marijuana means 10 years in prison) and uncooperative with other counties.

The US has more reason to sanction the rogue dictatorship of Singapore than Cuba.
Honey bee life spans are 50% shorter today than they were 50 years ago
You'd need to look at libel laws. SBF might not have been a real billionaire but he had access to enough money to sue the average journalist into oblivion (or at least make their life miserable for many years). Second look at how news is funded now it's not being subsidised by ads in the back of a newspaper.
More like house of cards
I believe in Crypto, but have less than zero faith in "Big Crypto"

The whole point of the tech is that centralized players are simply not needed. Why did an engineer design a system where they're not needed? Because they commit fraud whenever given a chance. Greed and ignorance is what reinstalled them into the stack.
It's opensource. Build it, test it, send any fixes necessary, add a few CI tests to verify it keeps working, and then add it to the supported list.
9/10, is amazing
The weakness of the perfect determinism model is nothing would ever happen if it were true. The leap to bacteria to mitochondrion to humans was not pre-determined, randomness is part of the equation.

I could buy that will isn't free in an absolute sense, but neither is it entirely deterministic. The question is whether the confounding factor for the latter has anything to do with the individual, but you can't divorce it from nature. There's no meaningful difference between "you chose x" and "your brain chose x".

There's also a socio-cultural reason I dislike pure determinism which is that it's used as bludgeon to absolve one of responsibility, justify inaction, bad behavior, or Socialism.
Eerie. It seems like most people here could tell, but with my morning vision and on my phone screen I did terribly. Not sure if it’s because I can’t see as clearly as usual or I have some deficiency in identifying faces.
Is this… sarcasm? It’s a good thing that crypto exchanges are streaming their customers’ money?
it's that money talks, especially to people who don't understand technology enough to spot obvious bullshit. which of course isn't a justification for anything other than why the price of bitcoin is relatively impervious to logical analysis.
There's always landlording. Buy a tatty place, do it up a bit, rent it out, remortgage, buy another. It tends to be fairly part time so you can spend time on other things too.
I don't think you appreciate how difficult it is to navigate in a foreign country with no help. You could well be given $100 million and end up on the street because you were unable to complete the move-in process on your own. It's not like you can wave with dollars bills to fix this.
Yes! And the CD was entirely printed with Bob's yellow, smiling face.
The reality is most people don’t give a shit about animal welfare and unfortunately a huge percentage of the population would have no problem eating tortured meat if it was a bit cheaper.
There are almost always these strangely colored, flare-like artifacts in the background or on the skin. Looking for those, I also easily scored 10/10.
Lovely idea! We use Slack for CX - per-customer channels. I think one of our concerns with this approach is the fact that it doesn't feel scalable, especially when it comes to locating knowledge/experience around similar support queries/cases. I was wondering about your thoughts on that front?
> Is there any reason someone would take out a loan in crypto and pay interest on the repayments?

People want to increase their exposure to crypto via leverage. For example:

1. Collatorize BTC to get USDT

2. Use the USTDT to buy ETH.

3. Use ETH to collatorize to get USDT

4. Use USDT to buy sh*tcoin

5. wash, rinse, repeat

If everything goes up, you can make a ton of money. If things go down... you lose everything.
> unless they are charging reasonable money for the privilege of using their exchanges

If the trading volumes they are claiming are real, these exchanges should be printing money from transaction fees alone.
>So next time you're on a video call with someone and you're unsure if they're human or not, ask them to draw a letter on their face or have them dress like a pirate ;-)

is that a thing now? my cursory search for "deepfake video call" gave me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSmp-nrJ7M
but other than that, there is just youtubers goofing around with the tech. Do you know of a "good quality" deepfake video call that can fool us like the whilefaceisreal does sometimes?
Different times, different values.

Even today there are still places where honor is more important than life.
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If someone offered me 1BTC for $10k right now, I would assume I'm being targeted or scammed somehow, since crypto is rife with grifters and fraud.
Why would you assume that when every other exchange is starting to prove that they don’t
Apropos. I remember one disaster. I wanted "Leningrad Cowboys" wraparound sporty glasses, but they informed that they do not work too well beyond -2 .

I ordered anyways, and they sort-of worked, but while rollerskating all those peripheral distortions threw me of balance and I broke my rib. Money refunded, no hard feelings.
People usually have crypto on exchanges for leverage, which is a valid reason. People do this with many stock brokers as well, e.g. for option trading.
I suspect the women themselves were complicit. If having no sex drive was seen as attractive back in the day, it is very possible that women played that role to get the attention (and sex!) from the man they wanted.

I am convinced most of the Victorian behavior is an act. It is the classical game of seduction, up to 11.
I don't think the universe is deterministic. Why would you think such a thing? So, if you start from a wrong assumption, the rest that comes is not that interesting.
There is no indication that this was the reason for the block, is there?

The speculation I've seen on the other thread (linked below) seems to be mostly either "probably caught up in some pirate site takedowns" or "nobody knows, stop trying to guess, the government doesn't make sense and is run by monkeys" (the monkeys being their words, not mine).
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I agree that this is a PITA, but this really is more of a growth pain than an initial design flaw. Contexts have appeared way after the Go 1.0, when the entire ecosystem has already gotten used to io.Reader and io.Writer.

If you want a much more annoying example of inconsistency in the initial language design, look at the behaviour of nil and closed channels:

- sending data to a nil channel blocks forever;

- receiving data from a nil channel blocks forever;

- sending data to a closed channel causes a panic;

- receiving data from a closed channel is fine: you receive the zero value, forever.

I can understand the logic behind the last two (sending to a closed channel is an error in program logic, and closing a channel is a common idiom for broadcasting completion of a task to several goroutines), but the first two are just a massive footgun, and, in my opinion, should cause panics instead.
> Define TLAs the first time they appear.

FTFY
As an Argentine, it's really hard to not know about the World Cup and I would wager most (male, at least) friend groups will see each other more often during the games, since last World Cup

In that context, I have resolved to not watch any official broadcast, pirate any games I may want to see and only interact with related media (like a page that tracks results of the games for the betting we are doing with my friend group)
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There are plenty of ways to commit fraud with fully decentralized protocols. For example, build in a well hidden backdoor, and then steal all the users funds with it (via a good VPN of course, so nobody knows it was you, and you can publicly claim you were hacked).
Clickbait title. Tether is only vaguely mentioned and there is nothing related to Tether operations- only to an employee at Tether.

While this article covers an interesting topic, the title is clearly an attempt to bandwagon on the "Tether is next" narrative while contributing nothing substantial to the conversation
I understand that there's frustration and a lot has to do with the focus on hate or being hated, that's where the rhetoric seems to land at least.

I would say, if the hate was completely irrational, or you think that the other politicians are just as bad, then that is not ok either. Since two wrongs does not equal right, and actions should not be seen as a balance scale of 'doing equally bad things to each other', which somehow rationally makes it ok to do bad things in what seems to be a hateful way. It should not be accepted to do bad things, no matter the party, the opposition or person.

So if you think Trump is doing bad things, and the other party is doing bad things as well, rejecting both Trump and the other party seems like the logical option given the options? You don't have to belong to any camp/party, it's a hurtful illusion/rhetoric IMO, 'us or them'.

And if you think the current other politicians are doing bad things as well, I'm genuinely interested to know what bad things they are, and not just things which can be seen as political disagreements. Because I I just don't know what you are thinking about when you say it specifically, it's as simple as that, not ill intentioned. But I can understand if you do not wish to air your opinions.

But I'm under no illusion that on both sides of the parties there are and have been bad actors and corruption, which has been ongoing in many forms, which must be fought no matter where it is. I'm just afraid that when you 'weigh evil' as a justification you lose nuance, and people are more likely to fall into the tribalistic rhetoric equivalent of 'mud slinging' or just calling 'hate' which I find sadly unproductive.
A completely deregulated market will be great! /s

With no demands of a bank, why expect them to?
Again a reference to the Nazis in this thread.

Being empathetic (take it from someone that believes they're an hyper empath) means understanding that if I were born in the 1910s in Germany and maybe blond and blue eyed, I could have probably been a big Adolf fan, but I was not, so current me believes fascists in general should get punched in the face indiscriminately and with extreme prejudice.

Having black-and-white thinking, of "I would never do that", like you seem to do, is proof itself of lack of empathy.
30 days is in no way "the EU standard" and it's not even the minimum. In various countries the minimum can be longer than 30 days.

More importantly, the average de-facto "standard" in many contracts is longer.

Additionally, many companies go beyond the contract requirements.
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This was "optional" reading in my Undergrad Calculus class at Brown, I probably was the only student who bothered to read it, and it made most of engineering a breeze for the next 3.5 years, whether electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, etc.
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Are you by any chance making a confusion between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation? The former is the for profit organization that pays most of the developers of the browser and adjacent projects. The foundation is largely meaningless at this point (in my opinion) and serves little purpose outside of providing a good PR talking point.
Ears and teeth artifacts, if present.

If the head is rotated slightly, the faces, especially the cheeks are getting slightly distorted in the artificial images.
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I recommend going off all crypto, not only on exchange.
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I don't think this is a very productive direction because it seems like unfalsifiable speculation. Placing the hidden determinism enough "wants" away seems to make it obscure enough that you can think "sure, that's where the magic happens" and it's impossible to be proven wrong.

IMO, the perception of free will comes from our observation of our deliberations and our actions. We observe that we often have choices and uncertainty about what to do, but something always breaks the impasse, because we always continue making choices and going on living. That "something" is what we call free will, and isn't entirely transparent to us.

If you tried to crack open the black box, I think you'd see wants and want-to-wants driving things in there, but I don't think you'd see a clean system of n-th removed want-to-wants determining everything.
Like many others, I've also thought about few will. By best answer at this point is, we have limited free will but we don't always know how to use it. It's like surfing. You can't do everything you want to do, but you can position yourself to make choices that better leverage the waves of your subconscious.
> I would give a pass to any celebrity that was paid to be in advertisements. They are paid to make an appearance and say lines convincingly.

I disagree. It's super weird that we accept "well I was just doing it for the money" as an excuse from people who are often already insanely wealthy.
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I saw an assembler tutorial for coding against COM and it actually looked easier than in C. (There was no faffing about with types...)

I wish I could find that blog or whatever it was again.
Not a book or a course, but rather a blog post by Sanjeev Arora et al that made backpropagation crystal clear for me: [1].

[1] https://www.offconvex.org/2016/12/20/backprop/
Said by the dog in the burning house meme.
After a while the speed at which a fan turns in a circle in order to move heated air off a CPU stops being interesting and larger questions that aren't as falsifiable start to seem interesting since they have so many implications to the practical questions that do matter.

For example, "does God exist?" has huge influence on how we think of why wars are caused.

The trouble is that much of philosophy is castles built on sand. The first principles are accepted and then built upon with potentially faulty links from layer to layer until it all starts getting weird. Marxism, Objectivism, Spinozism, etc.
If you believe its value is going down you wouldn't want to hold at any purchase price.
I don't really. There's no air up there, and nothing but rocks.

But you be my guest.
You shouldn't be down voted, this is largely correct. High rates of violence in the "wild west" are a myth created by Hollywood.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=6182
I got the first 3 wrong, then I started looking at the necks and the background and got all of them right (although not always 100% certain I was going to get it).

A few of them to have some artifacts on the face that give it away, but this is very impressive.
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Doing the wild west days America had a bunch of what was called wildcat currencies issued by private banks with dubious backing in either non existing gold reserves or over inflated property holdings.

look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking it's kind of an interesting period in finance that got kind of forgotten as it did not exactly end well.
Are you confident it won’t go to $5? I’m not.
In Binance's defense, they claimed (a) they don't follow their publicly known plans, and (b) they have other, secret plans.

Up to users if they want to trust that.
This has helped many people I know get some "clicks" on a variety of topics:

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You're saying we shouldn't call out people who didn't do their due diligence on who they took money from? I say the opposite. Tar and feather them.
That's the money that the owners take and hide for when they are out of jail.
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I think the different length of trips might have something to do with this. It's also the norm not to talk to strangers on subway systems in the US in my experience (at least the ones I'm familiar with; Philly, DC, NYC, Boston) but it doesn't feel as taboo on e.g
Amtrak. There might be something about longer trips that encourages it, since unless you've brought some form of entertainment you're sitting there for a while without much to do.
> > Permesso di Soggiorno

> Absolutely false, immigration is handled by the interior ministry through the police, you request it at the immigration office of the Questura (police preccint) that is closer to wherever you are.

I have been involved with applications three times now, twice in Rome and once in Forli. And I assure you based on rather personal experience that the local government is very deeply involved, much to the consternation of the Italian Embassy in DC.

The difference in the application process between Rome and Forli is unbelievable. It's touted as uniform but very much is not. This includes the procedures for both obtaining materials and for submitting applications to your local carabinieri; and the outcomes vary widely for the same applicant. Unlike Forli, the system in Rome is very clearly designed to put up as many roadblocks as possible. Do not apply for a Permesso di Soggiorno in Rome.
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I am wondering how archiving will work with the GDPR and right to forget in the EU
I'm 100% serious.

Exchanges are not and should not be banks. They should not be comingling their assets with client assets.
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