paulusthe

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by paulusthe 3y ago
That's overly simplistic. AML laws serve more purposes than simply catching money laundering, they discourage the underlying crime in the first place. Discouraging that can't be counted, yet you are saying is "AML doesn'
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by paulusthe 3y ago
The public option was killed by Arlen Specter, a Democrat, who refused to go along with the other Democrats. Rs were united, which made his defection critical. Kind of like how Joe Manchin throws a wrench in the works every few years in ret
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by paulusthe 3y ago
The state-run exchanges solution was itself a compromise for Republicans and on the fence Democrats, particularly Arlen Specter, who feared a federal healthcare system would inevitably lead towards universal healthcare. They received their
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Did the same thing. I guess it's fine if he doesn't want anybody to share his website, but in that case ... Why have a website
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by paulusthe 3y ago
The diesel is bad enough. Hope you've got a great air filter, or the ability to move.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
This is fun, but the game doesn't seem to accept that a pair of aces is a winning result. Aces specifically, other face cards work as intended.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
As someone who has studied financial crashes extensively, I agree with you but worry that we lack the regulations. All these bank-ish companies offering credit cards are having impacts on the money supply (every loan they issue becomes an a
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Running a system that allows a fat fingering mistake like that to go through is yet another sign of their gross incompetence.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
It's more complex than just that. Sure, there's the people trying to make a dollar who are willing to do bad science in order to get the result they want. But there's also the general publication bias against replication stud
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by paulusthe 3y ago
"regulations slow innovation" is not a valid reason to ignore any regulation one finds annoying. That said, my problem isn't that he broke the rules. My problem is that, when confronted about having broken the rules, he lied
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by paulusthe 3y ago
The magazine I worked for at the time was about to publish an article claiming that DeepMind had failed to comply with data protection regulations when accessing records from some 1.6 million patients to set up those collaborations—a claim
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by paulusthe 3y ago
I think it's personality differences. The people who love being in the office probably do best in that environment and likely got promoted into leadership as a result of their interpersonal skills / ability to navigate office poli
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by paulusthe 3y ago
I agree completely. AI model trainers should have to pay the people who provide their training materials, and there should be a default assumption of opting out until someone or their company explicitly opts in. Unfortunately the Peter thie
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by paulusthe 3y ago
I think you're being overly charitable, because he's not really interested in governance writ large. He long ago decided what he thinks the best government system is, and sees everything political through that lens: is this good f
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by paulusthe 3y ago
> If you really want to design your own house (a great idea), look up materials around A Pattern Language instead. Learn what makes a great house, then design a plan incorporating those ideas but customised towards your plot and your nee
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Read this as "tacos," came expecting some pointlessly quirky OS filled with taco references (perhaps arguments are "fillings", passed to objects called "shells"), am now very disappointed
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by paulusthe 3y ago
For what it's worth, sapiens was generally hated by academic anthropologists but Dawn of everything is generally hated by everyone else. Graeber was always expressly advocating for one specific (anarchist) viewpoint in his work, and th
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by paulusthe 3y ago
We truly do live in an incredible time. The first human immune to aging has likely already been born. Hypothetically, given enough luck, an immortal human probably walks among us. We're that close to being able to genetically modify ev
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by paulusthe 3y ago
No, this is a terrible metaphor, because the 14th amendment in this example doesn't exist. Imagine a US without a constitution, but instead it just has a big body of case law and precedent to go on. The judiciary's role is to adju
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by paulusthe 3y ago
What issue specifically are the conservatives in Israel mad about? Settlements. It's not about high political principles or abstract questions of balance of power. It's conservatives mad that the supreme court keeps finding settle
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by paulusthe 3y ago
OP was being disingenuous at best, as if the country could be brought to a standstill over a minor legislative change to allow one guy into Parliament
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by paulusthe 3y ago
This law is intended to prevent the judiciary from finding settlements unreasonable. Aryeh Dery is the cover story.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Yes.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Anyone who runs a business knows you can't just apply your overhead costs to one part of it but not another. If I have to pay the energy bill, that applies whether or not I had the gas on. You're trying to handwave your way into s
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by paulusthe 3y ago
> This is a loaded comment, because I think it's bullshit. The cost to process any payment of any size under the $10,000 AML threshold is constant, and functionally zero. Your argument fails here, because you are wrong here. The cos
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by paulusthe 3y ago
In the United States, the growth in spending on administrators from ~2000-present is more than the combined growth of spending on scholarships and professorships combined. Academia in the US has become a business, and the business is being
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by paulusthe 3y ago
If we had data on the median insurance cost per person - I know I pay a lot more than $1035/year - we could hypothetically have a rough estimate of how much the uninsured cost everyone else.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
You're being naive. The grass looks greener because you're used to your present day existence. If you actually took a 2/3 pay cut you'd see just how little money you really have at the end of the day. It's far bette
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by paulusthe 3y ago
Erasmus is under heralded but an incredible program. Similar to the scholar himself.
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by paulusthe 3y ago
It's not probably out there, it's definitely out there. One of the absolute best places to be a hunter gatherer is in river deltas and low lying floodplains. If we could magically lower sea levels by 100m, we'd find evidence

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