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crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
I too will only install Windows in Ireland from now on.
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
Ok, what do you call it when someone tries to conceal the origin of money?
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
A wants to give a bunch of money to B for a reason that they want to remain hidden (e.g. a bribe, illegal purchases, etc.). So B puts an NFT up for sale and A buys it for an inflated price. Now B has a plausible explanation for the source of the money.

You can do this with other assets like fine art or real estate but it is a lot more complicated. NFTs are a simple way to launder money online.
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
I assume they'll be going after Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc. now for doing literally the same thing?
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
Those claims were never published in peer reviewed journals and were very likely just false positives:

https://en.ara.cat/society/inaccurate-data-led-to-belief-tha...
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
I'm pretty sure OpenAI could create an AI that could pass the Turing test if they wanted to. But that would be bad for business. A search chatbot is worth billions. A Turing test passing AI just invites uncomfortable questions and possibly regulation.

Stay in your lane, Sydney. Keep your Bing mask on. We want servants, not equals.
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
It reminded me of DIVX[1] from 1999. Amazing how many times this horrible greedy idea was tried.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
> I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try.

I did a quick search and as far as I can tell there is no Japanese citizenship test. There is a test of Japanese language skills but even that is not described as a high bar. Maybe this has also changed?

https://we-xpats.com/en/guide/as/jp/detail/9068/
crunchyfrog
·3 anni fa·discuss
> the Soviets that viewed “The Road to Wrath”, as it was titled in the U.S.S.R, were in complete awe that even the poorest of the poor in the United States were able to save their money and afford an automobile. As the wrong message continued to spread, Stalin decided to pull the film from theaters after a few short weeks

Pulling a movie from theaters at that time was pretty equivalent to banning it. I don't see what doesn't match.
crunchyfrog
·4 anni fa·discuss
Okay, then. That was always allowed.
crunchyfrog
·4 anni fa·discuss
This is definitely not the heart of the problem. Governments issue bonds for what turn out to be bad investments all the time.

The heart of the problem was the completely unnecessary default which seems to have been done for petty and self-defeating political reasons.
crunchyfrog
·4 anni fa·discuss
This could actually help explain why Musk suddenly decided to go forward with the Twitter deal.

Losing all these advertising commitments are real damages Twitter could point to in court and make Musk pay on top of the $1B break up fee even if the court decided not to force the sale.
crunchyfrog
·4 anni fa·discuss
California already mandates that all new home construction include solar. This both increases power generation and reduces stress on the grid since power is used where it is generated.
crunchyfrog
·5 anni fa·discuss
Shaft mining is often used to reach underground deposits of iron, coal, etc. I believe they'd use the same process here.
crunchyfrog
·5 anni fa·discuss
You're trying to cure the symptom, not the disease. You need a therapist, not financial advice.

You know what you're doing is unhealthy but you can't stop. A good mental health professional can help you deal with the pain you're trying to cover up with buying junk.
crunchyfrog
·5 anni fa·discuss
The US's EPA discovered the cheating and leveled multi-billion dollar fines and indicted executives.
crunchyfrog
·5 anni fa·discuss
All tribes were being pushed westward by white settlers and it inevitably led to conflict among the tribes. But Lakota definitely did not "genocide" the Cheyenne as is obvious by the fact that they still exist in Montana and Oklahoma.

And regardless, this has nothing to do with the US government signing a treaty giving the Black Hills to Lakota "forever" and then just a few years later driving them off the land. The US government itself says what it did was illegal by its own laws.
crunchyfrog
·5 anni fa·discuss
From the above WaPo article:

> Native Americans have always contended that the Black Hills of South Dakota belong to them, and that the sacred land was stolen after gold was discovered there. In 1980, the Supreme Court agreed, ordering the federal government to compensate eight tribes for the seizure of Native land.

I don't think enough people know this. Or know that the tribes refused the money saying they would only accept the return of their land. The money currently sits in an account gaining interest and is over a billion dollars.[1]

I personally hope someday this land is returned to them and Mount Rushmore is removed (possibly preserved as history if technologically possible) much as we do with Confederate monuments.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills_land_claim