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BMc2020on How well does the money laundering control system work?

Money launderning is making it look like the taxes have been paid.

After you pay your W2 income taxes for the year, your income for the year is no longer taxable.

edit: I guess I can't argue with the holy writ of wikipedia, but it's how they got Al Capone.

BMc2020on [dead]

It does what it says on the tin.

BMc2020on Autodesk Weighs Takeover of Engineering Software Firm PTC

Autodesk licensing drove me away from Fusion 360.

BMc2020on New study offers clues about what makes someone cool

Cool people are perceived to be more extraverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open, and autonomous, whereas good people are more conforming, traditional, secure, warm, agreeable, universalistic, conscientious, and calm. This pattern is stable across countries, which suggests that the meaning of cool has crystallized on a similar set of values and traits around the globe. We build on the results to advance a theory of the role that coolness plays in establishing social hierarchies and changing social and cultural practices and norms.

BMc2020on Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years

Measles data for the USA

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

and the Canadian site since the US one could be shut down at any time

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/#a21

BMc2020on I just publish a paper solving quantum gravity

Call me old school, but he couldn't be bothered to put the past tense of publish either, published.

BMc2020on I just publish a paper solving quantum gravity

Sorry, a single author paper means you could not find even one co-author to agree with you. That's why they tend to get ignored.

BMc2020on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings

The Liver King spent $11,000 a month on them. Too much for me.

BMc2020on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

What I want is a pill that makes me exercise.

BMc2020on Has AI made "learn to code" obsolete?

Betteridge's law of headlines

BMc2020on The New Control Society

The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center

BMc2020on An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

I'm still using 2 RSS readers (Inoreader and TheOldReader) that I switched to after Google Reader shut down.

BMc2020on Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Resources? [May 2025]

The problem of evil men. I would start by seperating the evil billionaires from their property.

BMc2020on American Panopticon

https://archive.ph/v2tTs

BMc2020on What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman

You are the first one who ever complained.

BMc2020on What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman

But where do we go from here? Unlike the British parliamentary system, the U.S. has no break-the-glass off switch that lets us get rid of a deeply unpopular and delusional leader. Impeachment won’t happen, because this isn’t the Nixon era: Trump’s party is too corrupt to help save the country.

So we must begin to ask ourselves: in the 1364 days left of the Trump administration, how much damage can he do? And what can those of us who want to save the country do to minimize the damage?

BMc2020on Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened

Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and more severe. Many of his young patients have so much damage that he has to work with them under general anesthesia.

BMc2020on Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products

AdMuseAI Logo AdMuseAI Your Ad Creatives are Ready!

I uploaded an image of kermit the frog sipping tea, with the prompt sips tea. Got an image of a girl sipping tea.

All image links have been copied to your clipboard. Images are available for 24 hours only - please download them before leaving. You will NOT be emailed the images.

https://eglwedwlixqeqiteygec.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/p...

BMc2020on Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products

Try it out!

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BMc2020on Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products

Try it out!

Failed to generate images

BMc2020on Trump admin says it wants a nuclear Renaissance. These actions suggest otherwise

“the Republican supermajority isn’t interested in a good-faith energy debate. They’re interested in handing TVA over to big utilities and fossil fuel donors, locking us into expensive, inflexible systems with no public oversight.”

BMc2020on A Marketplace for Made in America CNC machining, PCB fabrication and 3D printing

Is it me or is this site incomplete?

BMc2020on Eric Schmidt Tells Congress That 99% of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power AI

"Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation... an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030," he asserted. "If [China] comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting," Schmidt said...

BMc2020on Regex Isn't Hard (2023)

Regex is much easier if you don't do it all at once. It's perfectly acceptable to, say, trim all the leading spaces, store the result in a temp variable, trim all the trailing spaces, store the result in a temp variable, remove all the hyphens. etc. etc.

Everyone tries to create the platonic ideal regex that does everything in one line.

BMc2020on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

Score

3433

Avg. Years Off

12.2

BMc2020on Germany Deserves a New Deal on Nuclear Energy from Merz

No country has ever made nuclear power profitable, it is always subsidized.

BMc2020on Is Russia Headed for Economic Ruin in 2025? The Fallout of Prolonged Warfare

I like that term, 'relevance runway'.

BMc2020on Owls in Towels

Does what it says on the tin

BMc2020on Blue Origin spaceflight faces more backlash after launch: This is beyond parody

...all-female crew that included pop singer Katy Perry; CBS Mornings host Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez, an author, TV host turned philanthropist and Bezos’s fiancée.

They were joined by activist Amanda Nguyen, ex-NASA engineer Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Flynn on the suborbital flight...