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I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented. For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successf…

The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) covers AML in Australia. Tranche (Part) 1 was implemented immediately. Tranche 2, covering real est…

Linked from Nicolas Wilson's twitter, this video, about a Tory MP and her husband's stealing of GBP 203m of Government money for useless PPE at the beginning of the COVID crisis, i…

"Reference guide to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism" (2003): https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...

My anecdata: tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate. My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 mon…

Your comment is almost certainly the stupidest thing I have ever read on HN. I look forward to more insightful comments from you in this vein: "I'm not sure how I feel about univer…

As an example, the MMORPG "Elder Scrolls Online" [1], uses Lua as the interface and plugin ("addons") language. This allows feature-rich, very useful UI modifications such as "Band…

There are/were issues with using the rpi-imager [1] under Windows, which would result in the configuration information not being written to the memory card. They claimed to have fi…

The codename for Ubuntu 21.04 is "Hirsute Hippo" and "hirsute" means "Covered with hair; hairy."

After having yet another "gaming" mouse fail with the "double-click" problem I did some research which led to this in-depth video. Essentially it's failed engineering and companies…

It wasn't gold foil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton

> People can write blog posts criticizing Facebook. But they should not direct their anger to employees. Please quote the part of the post where he directs his anger DIRECTLY at em…

How were they rude? His FIRST line was "Hi REDACTED. I know you’re just doing your job." They weren't arrogant or hostile to the person who emailed them. He has a strong opinions o…

I wonder if this is linked to the case of Huang Xiangmo, who spit the dummy after his residency visa was revoked: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/austr...

Is it a coincidence this report appears a month after it was revealed that China was the source of massive amounts of the banned chemical CFC-11? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-e…

"Fast, instant"? That's, err, just dumb. Fast perhaps. Instant, never.

LinkedIn need to be made an example of. They continue to spam with contact recommendations etc even after I closed my account.

Let's then not forget the 1 billion per year spent on keeping mothballed desalination plants operational, plants that talking heads like Tim Flannery got us into thanks to clueless…

I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion". I wonder how many companies, schools, hospitals etc would like an…

Seen "The Pentagon Papers"? [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

Month-old news. He died on 8th September 2017. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/