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cryptical··on Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid
Instead of an iPhone, use a Pixel with GrapheneOS.
cryptical··on 150 people fatally shot in more than 400 shootings over the 4th of July weekend
An Illinois resident cannot legally buy a gun in another state without shipping it to a FFL in Illinois and getting a background check done there before taking possession.

So the argument that Chicago residents can skirt gun control laws by crossing state lines is false.

cryptical··on 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet
It looks like they sent 0.1 BTC as a test before sending the big transaction.
cryptical··on Just About Everyone with Bitcoin Is Lying to the IRS
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

-Judge Learned Hand, Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934), aff'd, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)

cryptical··on Ask HN: Would like to learn blockchain tech, where do I start? What to build?
Princeton put a pre-publication draft of the book for their Coursera course.

https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/p...

cryptical··on An Independence Day thought experiment
"A series of technicalities" also known as "the rules".
cryptical··on [dead]
That's why universal background checks are considered by many to be the first step down the road to a gun registry.
cryptical··on How these Chicago firms took on spoofing
Because the wrong people™ are losing money.
cryptical··on College Choice
I'll guess the data is skewed because University of Phoenix caters to people who are already working. Work experience + degree is better than just a degree.
cryptical··on In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas
"Owning" a puppy is slavery.
cryptical··on Apple Pays No Tax on Much of Its Overseas Income, Senate Panel Finds
When your tax rate is high enough, it pays to optimize your cash flows to avoid taxes. If tax rates were more reasonable it wouldn't make sense.
cryptical··on Hugo Chavez Hires 200 People to Manage His Twitter Account
Ah, socialism.
cryptical··on Ask HN: Which Lisp book should we publish first?
Do you mean ACL: ANSI Common Lisp and PAIP: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming?