ColanR

That sounds incredibly dystopian.

That seems to agree with what the parent said. It sounds to me like if a broadly interconnected network was found, that would be a failure on the part of the people trying to facilitate the tax avoidance schemes - the closer to homogenous noise the graph looks, the harder it is to trace. Based on that, I'd say that there's no utility in trying to prove the negative, i.e., that larger networks do not exist.

If the people hiding their assets actually did their job well, they would expect and hope that you (as an outside analyst) would come to exactly the conclusion that you have come to.

Being from the US, and not being part of the vocal minority that reacts like this, I will agree with you that the last few years have increased the sense that we aren't really free to say things that deviate from the 'approved opinion'.

As the other commenter mentioned, "bigoted" implies "intolerant". A joke about culture differences isn't intolerant of those cultures; you're just overreacting.

And as someone else mentioned, the Japanese, Germans and Italians do not want or need you to save them. Maybe you should dial it back a bit.

As I linked elsewhere, Bloomberg seems to think they were the "first successful online retailer to embrace consumer views".

It doesn't say if they were the first, but it looks like they were at least one of the first.

Edit: yep, Bloomberg says they were the first to do it.

I don't get this Amazon hate. Weren't they the ones who originally came up with the idea for putting purchaser reviews with the product, and the 5-star rating system? It seems like their solution was to 'crowdsource' the problem. Now people have learned to game the system, but I buy plenty of electronics from amazon and from ebay, and I'm careful enough that I've never ended up with a counterfeit.

Edit: I've noticed that ebay gives seller ratings, and amazon does product ratings. I guess that belies the different focus they each have. It would be cool (and probably a big improvement) if amazon put both product and seller ratings in equally prominent positions.

Far as I know, there isn't a searchable database of 'suicides per school'.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/dec/09/attempted-vo...

With the increasing dominance of cloud-based infrastructure, will laptops/smartphones/tablets in the 2050s all be Linux based zero-clients running on 8G networks?

> Manning never provided the two files necessary to “reconstruct the decryption key” for the password hash, Eller testified. “At the time, it would not have been possible to crack an encrypted password hash, such as the one Manning obtained.”

Who told you that? Have you talked to a spectrum of professionals yourself, in an environment where they aren't afraid of social repercussions for speaking against the 'approved' party line? Or did you get that from the media?

Personally, I read the journal publications and see what experts have to say - and not just the experts trotted out by the media.

Per the HN guidelines: "Don't be snarky...Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

> Viral diseases aren't spread through radiowaves.

You're clearly not responding to the parent, since they weren't defending that. It would be more interesting if you responded to the not-so-strawman position they actually represented.

> This constant childish "hey but how do you know that this is true buddy" talk around misinformation and information is really driving me nuts.

It drives me nuts, too, when people refuse to consider alternative perspectives because the source seems tainted.

From your first link. It sounds like the law enforcers need to do better at enforcing the law. If they can't enforce it against the banks, how can we expect the banks to enforce the law against themselves?

We should make stickers that say that, and paste them on the cameras and drones we use to videotape the police.