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Chrikyon Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

There's no mention here of the regulation only applying during elections - where are you getting that from?

Can you link me to some of the lies from the BBC during the indyref?

Chrikyon Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts

They weren't appealing to authority though. An appeal to authority is "It's true because Snopes says so", they just linked to Snopes' reasoning as a shorthand for repeating the reasoning themselves.

If Snopes didn't provide their reasoning, it would be an appeal to authority.

Chrikyon Fake news was illegal in 17th century colonial Massachusetts

The BBC is not government funded, and all television news in the UK, including Murdoch's Sky News is required by law to be unbiased.

If it's a choice between the BBC and the constant, blatant, society distorting lies you see in American "News", I'll take my Orwellian dystopia thanks.

Chrikyon NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp rise: official report

> That's why the connection between organized crime and intelligence agencies has always been solid.

What do you mean by this?

Chrikyon Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

> Can't find a link, but I swear I've watched it in a blockchain event in youtube.

This is a perfect example of "solution looking for a problem". You heard about the thing via Bitcoin channels, you only care about it because it's /Bitcoin/ solving a problem, not because the problem is solved, you can't actually find the thing now!

Normal people, people who haven't bought Bitcoin, don't really care /how/ their problems are solved. This is the fundamental reason Bitcoin hasn't gone mainstream. It doesn't solve any mainstream problems well.

Chrikyon Illegal prime

That actually is often why they do it. Obviously, they are also sexually attracted to children and are evil. Those two are also requirements, but the third is the audience.

Consider this - how many people do you think make YouTube style vlogs then DON'T upload them to YouTube? Not many right - the audience is part of the inventive for making the video. Among paedophile communities first generation IIOC are highly prized.

Source: I am a criminal investigator who works exclusively on CSE

Chrikyon Illegal prime

If possession is not illegal, why is distribution? You point makes no sense.

Consider your argument with respect to privacy and data issues - obviously possession of information can be in and of itself harmful because it can be something that other people have a right to restrict your access to.

Chrikyon Relative's DNA from genealogy websites cracked East Area Rapist case

It seems like one of the least problematic ways of generating suspects to me - what's the issue compared to, say, eye witness testimony?

Chrikyon Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]

The Laffer Curve makes a number of assumptions without evidence, most notably that tax revenue as function of tax rate is memoryless, when it obviously isn't.

This is ignoring the issue, even when accepting the Laffer curve as true, that the revenue maximising rate would surely be well above what would be morally acceptable to enforce (~75%)

Chrikyon It all made sense when we found out we were autistic

I mean, IANAD but I would definitely get a professional diagnosis before acting on the assumption my child has a specific medical condition...?

Chrikyon The Rubik's Contraption

The way a Rubix cube works, the center tiles never move.

Chrikyon Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job

Well, I mean you didn't provide /any/ examples, you stated something false.

My point was more that this "battle of wits" cops vs robbers narrative is just Hollywood nonsense.

Do you feel the same about MI6/GCHQ (organisations staffed to a large degree by Cambridge grads) vs ISIS (an organisation staffed mainly by idiots and conspiracy theorists)?

Clearly the two sides are not playing the same game, and any disparity in ability will be completely overwhelmed by structural differences in their respective challenges.

The uninformed opinion you're spreading is damaging because it implicitly implies that these crimes wouldn't happen if only our cops were a bit brighter.

If only they were as clever as those City boys! Too bad old chap, better luck next time, all's fair in love and war etc etc.

Chrikyon Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job

HFT at a bulge bracket bank

Chrikyon Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job

As another former investment banker, and current NCA Investigator, and - for what it's worth - Cambridge graduate, I can tell you your description of the relative competencies of the good guys and bad guys is just elitist crap.

Chrikyon The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)

Yeah... especially as it's apparently given to significantly more than 1% of children!

Chrikyon The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)

Am I missing something... what's wrong with being below the 99th percentile...?

Chrikyon Chuck Feeney: a billionaire who gave it all away

That's kind of like saying taking a pay cut or working part time is tax avoidance. "Normal people" can also avoid taxes by giving their income to charity if they want.

From reading your posts it seems like you jumped to a conclusion without understanding the situation.

Chrikyon Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying

I'm familiar with SOD - this supports my point not GP's point.

Chrikyon Norway Used NSA Technology for Potentially Illegal Spying

> "data gathered from dragnet programs is [...] used in the [...] prosecution of normal domestic crimes in both the US and UK."

I don't think this is true - sigint is not admissable in the UK (or US afaik).

Chrikyon Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse?

Electric cars are replacing a definite fossil fuel with something potentially renewable.

Bitcoin is a brand new, utterly pointless use of electricity.

Chrikyon Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans

That's just not how it works. Eventually you have to present actual evidence in an actual court and it won't be "this software you never heard of said so".

Chrikyon Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans

I am law enforcement - the opposite is true. LEOs are looking for any opportunity to close off their cases with as little effort as possible.

Chrikyon Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans

I don't, no, why would they?

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Downvoters, care to explain?

Chrikyon The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

It's my personal belief that this line of thinking, which is common among "geeky" types but not among the general population, is a form of slight delusion or power fantasy.

Is there anything you can provide to convince me it's remotely possible?

Chrikyon The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

I understand the theory thanks, I'm just disputing that this scenario is anything other than exceptionally rare. Parallel construction is used to protect sensitive sources, not cover up illegality.

Chrikyon The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model

What here is illegally gathered?

Chrikyon Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

It seems utterly nuts to me that someone could sleep at work as a reasonable alternative to drinking coffee. Most jobs and workplaces are just not at all set up to sleep during the working day.

Chrikyon Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

Are you saying embezzlement and fraud are legal in Switzerland? This analogy makes no sense.

Chrikyon Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

I don't understand your use of "monitor" here. Banks by their very nature "monitor" your financial details, what else are they going to be doing?

Swiss banks will routinely refuse to honour legal requests for information from international law enforcement, e.g from 3rd world countries investigating their own corrupt politicians.

Chrikyon Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs

He's blaming the Swiss for their own actions