JasonADrury

How do you see this not being fraud? Clearly the intent was to deceive Spotify and obtain money by means of false pretenses, or do you disagree with that characterization?

What problems do you see in the indictment? https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.62...

The steps he took to conceal his activities certainly seem to suggest that he was intentionally deceptive.

> no Sackler family member went to jail

Perhaps none of them personally engaged in conduct that merits a prison sentence? Which of the Sacklers do you believe should have been charged, and for what conduct?

> Earlier estimates put the family's wealth around $11 billion, so they remain enormously wealthy

Why wouldn't they? The company had been around for a hundred years

It would also be completely inappropriate if you did that with a fork or a knife.

All of your examples are downright terrible, but perhaps that's to be expected with these sorts of arguments.

> AT&T “unlimited” mobile plans

https://www.att.com/plans/unlimited-data-plans/

There's a huge bolded disclaimer literally in the middle of the page which says "AT&T may temporarily slow data speeds if the network is busy."

> Purdue Pharma's OxyContin push

Forced to file for chapter 11

> Juul marketing vaping products as a "safer alternative" to smoking

It is strictly true that the vaping products sold by Juul are vastly safer than smoking.

> Facebook's sale of user data to Cambridge Analytica

Not fraud.

> Wells Fargo opening fake accounts for people

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/wells-fargo-agrees-p...

Huge penalties far exceeding their gains from this scheme conducted exclusively by low-level employees.

Do you think fraud should be legal if it's only targeting large entities like Spotify? Would that make the world a better place?

I guess forging documents and selling you a house which I don't own shouldn't be an actual crime either? The patterns of behavior in both cases are functionally indistinguishable.

For what it's worth, both the pieces are part of a smear campaign by an American far right Christian group called Exodus Cry.

Among other things, Benjamin Nolot who runs Exodus Cry is a holocaust denier

Can gay men still watch porn, or should they feel bad too?

>You’re the only person of the three of us getting very very worked up about it.

I'm really not? I'm just very surprised how strongly you guys are reacting to my anecdote which I never claimed to be proof of anything.

Look at how strongly worded your original comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390326

>Yes. It’s about the integrity of the discussion. There’s no point in being here if we can just post nonsense and have it accepted as truth.

This is truly insane. It was Xunjin who started insisting that my clearly indicated anecdata should be some sort of proof. I never made such a claim!

I never claimed that I was attempting to prove anything, that's something you two invented.

Is it genuinely your stance that to protect the "integrity of the discussion", all HN comments should be verifiable?

In my experience the differences are mostly between the chair and the keyboard.

I asked Codex to scrape a bunch of restaurant guides I like, and make me an iPhone app which shows those restaurants on a map color coded based on if they're open, closed or closing/opening soon.

I'd never built an iOS app before, but it took me less than 10 minutes of screen time to get this pushed onto my phone.

The app works, does exactly what I want it to do and meaningfully improves my life on a daily basis.

The "AI can't build anything useful" crowd consists entirely of fools and liars.

It's you who's missing the point. You're engaging in ridiculous pedantry over whether or not people cheat in a very popular video game, take a break.

The reality is that it really couldn't matter less whether or not anyone has ever cheated in overwatch pro games, but we can pretty safely assume that somebody has.

Is this a topic that genuinely calls for greater precision than this? What's the benefit?

>with "currently stranded at sea" being one of those things nobody can prove either way with shadow fleet.

This is simply wrong. The shadow fleet ships still exist in the physical realm and can be observed using eyeballs and other pieces of equipment.

Why do you think this claim is "wildly" speculative as opposed to merely speculative?

We have two possible options here, it's pretty obvious which is the more likely one.

It is pretty ridiculous to suggest that nobody has ever been caught cheating in overwatch pro games.

Do you really think that's not sufficient for the purposes of this conversation?

That article does not say what you (and possibly the author) think it does.

> The United States on Thursday temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil that is currently at sea

This is weird phrasing, and for a reason. Oil at sea has typically already been sold! Lifting sanctions on it does practically nothing.

What's the point of even complaining about this?

The reality is that nobody is willing to do anything to stop this.

The people responsible will keep pushing for these schemes until they suffer direct personal consequences for doing so, that's the only way to ever make this stop.

Every other competitive game regularly has public cases of cheaters being caught in pro games, overwatch doesn't.

Nuking Tehran would be perfectly in line with stating on TV that you will summarily execute surrendering combatants!

Surely this kind of murderous rhetoric is more in line with possible use of nuclear weapons.

If you're announcing that you'll kill surrendering Iranians, it seems to follow that you intend to kill lots of Iranians and are not particularly concerned with the ethical implications.

> Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies

The Hague Convention IV (which the US is a signatory to) has this to say:

>Art. 23. In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden

>(d) To declare that no quarter will be given;

This is a pretty significant statement given that Hegseth is explicitly stating that the US will summarily execute surrendering Iranian combatants.

>Any e2e encryption provided by the same entity who fully controls both the blackbox clients, and the server in between, is just a security theatre that they can selectively bypass anytime with very little risk of detection. Not really much better than simple client to server encryption.

You are no more capable of spotting a deliberately concealed backdoor in a binary than in source code, there's simply no meaningful difference.

It's certainly not the usual "investigative report" style I'd expect with Christo on the byline.

Perhaps it's an attempt at making the report less dry? I don't think it worked.

The unnecessary dramatization just feels a bit off:

>in the deadpan vocabulary of Russian intelligence, “legally deported.”

>But now the agents had failed to deliver, and one had been arrested. It was time for Alimov to take matters into his own hands.

>he had chosen the date revered by Russian spies and soldiers — Defender of the Fatherland Day — for his maiden undercover trip abroad

>the “main adversary,” as Russian intelligence jargon refers to the United States

Just to be clear, the biggest problems are associated with games that allow trading.

The investigative work here is great, the writing is absolutely terrible at times.

The oil will typically already have been sold by the time it's "at sea".

US grants sanctions waiver for countries to do the thing they never stopped doing? It certainly sounds very American.

Including the significant amount of recent European immigrants?

The provenance according to the Met:

>Henry II, King of France (until d. 1559);

>Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Residenzschloss, Weimar (by 1804–d. 1828);

>by descent to Wilhelm Ernst, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Residenzschloss, Weimar, later Schloss Heinrichau, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Henryków, Poland) (1901–d. 1923);

>his widow, Feodora, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Schloss Heinrichau (1923–1929;

>sold in May, 1929, to Kahlert & Sohn);

>[E. Kahlert & Sohn, Berlin, 1929;

>sold on December 14, 1929, for $135,000, to Sir Joseph Duveen for Mackay];

>Clarence H. Mackay, New York (1929–d. 1939; his estate, 1939, inv. no. A-17;

>sold through Jacques Seligmann & Co. on May 15, 1939, to MMA).

Unfortunately, this does not answer "why did it leave France?"

However, the book "Merchants of Art, 1880-1960: Eighty Years of Professional Collecting" (1961) by the rather famous art dealer Germain Seligman offers this missing link:

>Parade armor of King Henri II, embossed, damascened and gilded. Later presented by King Louis XIII to Bernhard von Weimar.

You can be cynical about Islam without being cynical about this particular principle.

Any vaguely good shilling eventually gets reposted by real people.

That's probably happening here too. If you use reddit a lot, you can probably tell why this thread looks suspicious as hell for example https://www.reddit.com/r/mightyinteresting/comments/1p6aq33/...

The "customers" I speak of here are the people finding my antisocial content on reddit and deciding to enter into long term business relationships.

I don't get paid to sell bottles of sriracha, but the fundamentals of doing so on reddit are basically the same whether you're selling expensive services or sriracha. The only difference is the content.