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MikeCrotch posted:It always depresses me to hear Mike Duncan on Revolutions reading ad copy like a shill. Guy's gotta eat, I guess. Has Mike done BA ads? I know about Casper and the razor company and I remember him saying he will only advertise things he has tried and believes in. I do tend to skip the ads if my hands are free but only because I don't live in the states. Yes I would like a razor blade to cost less than NZ $10 thanks. I have heard BA ads on like every other podcast I listen to but not revolutions.
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fishmech posted:No, the original idea for Uber was "an app to dispatch black car services which normally are dispatched by phone call". Then it became "also just have a bunch of contractors drive their own cars as taxis, because they'll do it cheaper". Most of the other ones do that too. There was never any actual sharing involved in theory or in practice. Just as an aside, I live in New Zealand, where we deregulated taxis in the 80's. Calling a car and hailing one is done by the same company's, though some specialise in calls and some in hanging around bars at 4am. All taxis are the drivers car with signs on them. Uber is now ubiquitous. The only legal kerfuffle happened when uber complained that registering drivers with the govt (background check, making sure he has no driving convictions) was taking too long and just registered drivers without it. The govt said that they considered uber drivers to be taxi drivers and would prosecute any driver found without one. A few companies have seen the writing on the wall and are developing app for the day uber falls over. But for the consumer, uber is about 66% the price of a taxi, and easier to use than ringing to cab. Drivers have less wasted time and major, positive disruption is happening to an industry that has had many complaints in the past with regards to drivers refusing certain fares
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eschaton posted:Don't do this. Or more correctly cryptology, which covers both encoding (cryptography) and decoding (cryptanalysis) 
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mobby_6kl posted:Everybody pretends like they'll read War and Peace while riding the bus but from observation, you're lucky if they read Trump's latest tweet masterpieces, most people just stare in the distance and avoid making eye contact. And if you do try to read something, you'll find that it's a pretty distracting environment that can make concentrating on the text quite difficult. Podcasts and audio books, friendo
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Blut posted:Thats why the whole point of the laundering is to get that exact winnings receipt, to establish legitimacy. As I previously said. Ok. I work at a casino. It is not in the U.S. but our anti money laundering (AML) laws were written by the U.S. govt via the UN. First off, cash -> chips -> cash does not wash anything. It can change small notes to big ones or if you think the bills themselves are being tracked, but you are still holding unspendable* cash. To launder the money you need a check. If a casino issues a check, they will first use surveillance and player management software to find your cash buy-in. That amount will be returned as cash and the check issued for only the winnings. Alternatively with patience you can try to use many small transactions over time with an account at the casino to eventually be given a check or bank transfer but AML best practices tell casino staff to be extra vigilant with these accounts. *Unspendable for major purchases anyway
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Best way to launder at the casino would be to syndicate play, that is find a linked jackpot and fill every seat and pump money in until one of you wins the jackpot, who then asks for a check. But casinos hate syndicate play because it is quite obvious to the average punter who is waiting for an available machine and can see these guys going back to one guy to get more money. The punter complains, and the casino throws everybody out.
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As mentioned earlier, the best best way to launder is through layering with a cash business. Just remember to give the taxman his cut.
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Blut posted:Sounds like wherever your county/casino is the AML laws actually do a reasonable job, thats promising. Though it does assume the casino has enough surveillance and player management to do the job, alongside the will to do it. That isn't the case many places in the world, if AML laws even exist in the jurisdiction. Most casinos will just issue a cheque for the total winnings to the gambler, successfully laundering the cash. Our laws came into effect in 2014. As I said, the laws were part of a UN resolution pushed by the US. How recent is your information? I believe even US casinos now must undertake reasonable due diligence to ascertain the cash buy-in before issuing a check. For clarity, issuing checks for unknown players is super rare unless something like a jackpot has been won. Our casino will ALWAYS ask for ID here and the paperwork discourages casual issuing of checks. Much easier to just pay cash. exmachina fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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fishmech posted:Are you role-playing some sort of perpetually inept criminal or what? The success of a money laundering scheme relies on presenting evidence that aims to draw away suspicion for where your money comes from, to avoid a total investigation to your life to find the main crimes that you are doing. It is not that the police would magically find a record of your specific gambling. It is that if you're claiming a very large windfall and it gets investigated, it will likely turn up in the casino's books that there doesn't seem to have been such a thing that day. And then that makes your claimed source of a large amount of cash from gambling look a lot like money laundering, so they start investigating other poo poo you do, and then they find why you wanted to launder money in the first place. And that's just with a casino that doesn't bother to do any close player tracking as more and more do now. This. The person in the article is not laundering money, he is explaining why he has a lot of cash on him to avoid civil forfeiture. He can't buy a house or invest this money, it is not "in the system". Part of the problem is the words "launder" and "clean money". People think that changing cash for cash accomplishes the goal. It may be a step, but the goal is money, preferably with tax paid, in the bank account in your name or a business you control. A better word is "legitimate money". Now online casinos are a problem,which was one of the reasons the US completely removed them from the legitimate banking system. They accept money from multiple sources and then happily deposit into a bank account with no explanation of where the buy-in came from. But like fishmech said, even this does not scale well to organisations wanting to move millions of dollars.
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MiddleOne posted:Wealth inequality and de-politicised pension funds have created massive swaths of passive capital investments which has no goal except returns. There's also currently an out-crowding effect going on where shortages of 'secure' assets like national bonds (brought on by conservative fiscal politics and expansive central bank practices) pushes everyone into alternatives they'd normally not be comfortable with. It's not just bitcoins and startups, CDO's (yes they still exist, the name of the derivative was just changed) have already ballooned back into popularity and it's getting worse for every year that passes. On the heap of all this is global competition between investment banks and hedge funds and internal competition between the investors at these workplaces which incrementally pushes up the expectations on rate of returns far past what normal investment options could ever match. That means riskier assets and higher leveraging, Bitcoins currently being the most extreme example. Reminder that CDO's were never the problem, insanely high risk loans to satisfy demand for CDOs was.
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Or there is the simpler explanation that some people are idiots. I don't see how a cat picture is any more suited to the job as etherium itselt
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GreyjoyBastard posted:gives a somewhat different meaning to crypto-Catholics Well, considering crypto means hidden in both words, probably not.
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Apparently they were meant for the Chinese market but we're accidentally put into the global stream: which tells us something we already knew.
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Morbus posted:The brain geniuses behind Uber forgot that the whole "become a global monopoly in a winner takes all industry" thing only works when either Exactly. I use Uber because the app is just so much better than traditional 'call a number and pray' dispatch, especially in peak periods. Our taxi fleet in NZ is COMPLETELY open, the only legal issue was Uber saying 'we are not a taxi our drivers don't need a DL class for carrying passengers' and they quickly folded when the US based suits realised how easy it was to get.
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Also the van is marked peleton, a term used in tour cycling.
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Trevor Hale posted:Or the name of a stationary bike company? Oh. I'm not in the US
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Isn't the booze you are talking about Grey Goose?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Oh nooo, please don't kill all of the australian news sites Yeah the abc will survive, burn the rest
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I feel like ML is ok at comparing samples i.e. is sample A the same person as Sample B? But the dataset issue strikes as soon as they try to be predictive
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Why would they be protected in NZ?
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Sex Tragedy posted:So they ruined it like pepe. What about naturally balding people? They die of melanoma
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Adtech is bullshit (thread) This, and the linked series of articles, is amazing. Some researcher discovered ad managers were effectively putting their blocklists unencrypted in the source code, and from there found all sorts of bizzare poo poo
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Also you might listen to a song dozens of times but watch a show only once.
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PhazonLink posted:she also puts on a deeper voice. try to look up video or audio where she doesnt put up her biz woman persona and compare it to that video or most of her public appaearences. Disruptive technologies are basically a cargo cult
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I don't think NVIDIA is trying to nerf mining in order to sell more expensive hardware to miners. GPU's fly off the shelves regardless, and in an extreme demand situation the real value is captured by middlemen and scalpers. I wouldn't be surprised to be wrong but BTC prices are destroying the PC gaming sphere right now and that is a high margin space for hardware manufacturers
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Solkanar512 posted:I would kill for a modern smart phone that allowed me to use a microSD card and a set of headphones with a 3.5mm jack. It's bullshit that they keep pushing these disposable bluetooth headsets with irreplaceable batteries. I am having a great time with my moto g8, hth
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The barrier to entry in this space is insanely low imo. The hard work is already done. Reverse engineer the app if Google doesn't already have an API pre-made, then offer drivers 1% more than they currently get. The rest is just marketing
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You need marketing, so people know you exist. You need some compliance, gathering and filing details about drivers and their DL details. Regular maintenance of the app is probably a good idea too. But yeah, without either the mountain of burning money or massive overhead reductions, Uber is gonna get it's lunch eaten (and is right now, where I live)
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For context, I live in New Zealand, where the taxi industry was completely deregulated in the 90's. We did our version of Reaganomics/Thatchernomics properly, to the point where when Uber first came here, they initially did the whole "rules don't apply to us" thing but when they realised how easy compliance was they just did it. People flocked to it immediately, because the Uber app is actually quite good, and beat calling a cab and hoping like poo poo it would come. But now we have at least 4 companies in the space (Didi, Ola, Uber and a local version) and Uber is rapidly losing market share.
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GPS and cashless is like the main reasons to use Uber. Next idea: in order to guarantee driver income, only those who buy a licence can drive a taxi, be in quick stocks are limited!!
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Tuxedo Gin posted:TVs are worse than ever. You can't even buy a TV now that isn't full of bloat and they're starting to sneak in internet access requirements, microphones, and ads in the menus. McDonald's!!!
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knox_harrington posted:These insurance and pharmacy benefit management jobs are such an excruciating waste of money. You'd have to be so brain poisoned to think those parasitic industries are worth saving. Or dependant on their campaign donations
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TheScott2K posted:it just changed forms. Megaupload links, Plex servers, ad-crusted streaming sites. All those things existed beforehand. No, the reason was that it became a lot easier to not pirate. All the tv shows and movies were on Netflix, music on Spotify or apple. It was a dark time for piracy. Now you need to buy 5 different services to watch what you want, and wow, piracy is up again. But a lot of the knowledge is lacking, so the old scams are working again.
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Western succ dem parties are populated at the representative level only by those who have compromised enough to become electable. Sometimes people with ideals manage to stumble their way into winning an election from outside the main party machines but they quickly run into opposition from those who hold their comfortable and powerful lifestyle to hewing to liberal democratic structures, and they either bend or break. The very few who manage to overcome this seem to conveniently fall to some sort of scandal, if not an assassin's bullet
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So is SA social media? I have a funny taste in my mouth
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I'm pretty sure the main reason SA survived is the  . Not because of the income but because to force the mods to play whack-a-mole requires a stupid amount of money or credit card fraud.
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CommieGIR posted:I suspect they are closely connected. New wave web3 stuff like NFTs are really sketchy and attract a lot of security concerns, wouldn't surprise me if the CEO got pissed being told that. Folding Ideas just dropped a video going into great depth what the scam is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g Yes it is longer than many movies but you can watch as much as you like and get a real thorough breakdown on crypto, tokens, and the grift economy surrounding them.
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