patio11

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by patio11 7mo ago
The thing which is beyond intellectually serious dispute is industrial-scaled fraud. You keep wanting to make me "own" the CCAP's estimate. I will not reciprocally try to make you "own" $5 million, because I am char
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by patio11 7mo ago
The way I phrased that point was "The investigators allege repeatedly visiting daycare centers which did not, factually, have children physically present at the facility despite reimbursement paperwork identifying specific children bei
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by patio11 7mo ago
<LLC voice> We have reviewed your feedback on our editorial choices, and are comfortable that we have characterized the claims in the report accurately. We stand by "Minnesota has suffered a decade-long campaign of industrial-sca
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by patio11 7mo ago
FoF claimed to supply meals at the same physical locations as CCAP and paid the same owners. As mentioned, one of nine of the operators profiled, who was previously raided in an investigation into alleged overbilling of CCAP, received $1.5M
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by patio11 7mo ago
The Swanson memo memorializes the consensus of his investigatory group and, put to question by OLA and legislators, they stick with that story: Page 14 of PDF: [The OLA] did not find evidence to substantiate Stillman’s allegation that ther
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by patio11 11mo ago
I am quite likely to do a more formal writeup in the next few weeks, unless Zvi beats me to it. (He had, apparently, directionally similar results.)
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by patio11 11mo ago
See: https://tax.illinois.gov/individuals/credits/educationexpens...
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by patio11 1y ago
As I note frequently, I have a small pile of thank you letters as a result of the negotiation piece. Very few are written by people with an outsized public profile. How many people do you think would hit that bar in the industry? Hundreds?
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by patio11 1y ago
Internet fist bump.
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by patio11 1y ago
(I worked at a different processing company, which I am not speaking for.) We're struggling to find the motive or intended outcome by the attacker(s). The highest likelihood for me is that they're doing card/credential test
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by patio11 2y ago
She does not misrepresent her wealth in her article. At no point does she claim to be scraping by. A direct quote: > Initially, I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to afford my taxes this year, but then my accountant told me I could
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by patio11 2y ago
I seem to have set you off somehow, and I do not understand precisely how, but I feel this is important: I did not publicly accuse the writer of anything. (I did heavily imply publicly that I thought that the publication had no real fact
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by patio11 2y ago
You can put theses in the third paragraph but you can't force everyone to actually read them.
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by patio11 2y ago
I still get a kick out of this photo: https://x.com/patio11/status/332651272878575616
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by patio11 2y ago
Tiny correction: in 2010, I invented a thing parallel to something many well-educated Americans of my acquaintance believe with respect to the centrality of their experience, for the Falsehoods essay. In 2012, a clerk actually asked my wife
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by patio11 2y ago
(Correcting record: four witnesses.)
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by patio11 2y ago
(Fixed.)
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by patio11 2y ago
This is occurring against a backdrop of e.g. hearings of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. I regret to inform you that the broader issue is of great interest outside our circles. One of the three witnesses the Senate Banking Committee chos
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by patio11 2y ago
Appreciate the note. The production configuration still thinks it is in Tokyo, and I did all my reviews on a laptop that knows it is in Chicago. Will fix.
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by patio11 2y ago
They literally have no computer system that can tell them the difference between you and a hedge fund manager, and so an email to IR fairly reliably gets the white glove treatment. I used to send them on behalf of, cliched but accurately, K
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by patio11 2y ago
I could have quoted the roadshow verbatim in support of the point, but it felt tangential. The point is not “Chicago is on the precipice of a pogrom.” It is “political elites in Chicago’s African American community believe the community is
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by patio11 2y ago
Congrats! Thrilled for you and the team.
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by patio11 2y ago
Does your envisioned product allow someone to direct deposit a paycheck? Then congratulations, it is a credit account, because a) we expect to spend paychecks including very soon after receiving them but b) payroll companies sometimes screw
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by patio11 2y ago
Japan had a similar policy, with respect to legal immigrants it had made a point of recruiting, in the immediate wake of the global financial crisis. They'd buy (largely) Peruvian/Brazilian factory workers of Japanese descent a pl
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by patio11 2y ago
Depends on the country and weight class of the financial institution, but among e.g. U.S. money center banks, branch bankers have been successively de-skilled for the last ~3.5 decades or so. It is still nominally a white collar occupation
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by patio11 2y ago
(I was not on the healthcare.gov rescue mission.)
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by patio11 2y ago
With the limited roll out, it wouldn't take much capacity for individual sites to schedule their available doses. You'd think so, right. You'd think that the state of California was certainly able to successfully inject mor
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by patio11 2y ago
Bureaucracies don't punish people for mistakes. People get punished for non-compliance. It is a bit remarkable that nobody in California will take either a career or political hit for instituting a policy of redlining [0] in the prov
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by patio11 2y ago
A commanding percentage of all citations of me on e.g. Twitter will apologize to the user's own audience for the age of the piece, in a way which is obviously suboptimal. For examples, see this thread: https://x.com/pat
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by patio11 2y ago
De gustibus non est disputandum; there are some things that ruin many people's lives that have no appeal to me, there are some things many people enjoy responsibly that I have learned to stop myself from using because I will not make g

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