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The 'small-scale' 100k-1MM per participant per day per casino laundering can add up to 'real money' quite fast. The larger-scale money laundering in my area is a but more complicat…

Criminals don't have to "recruit and pay huge numbers of naive bank customers"; in my jurisdiction, they just walk into a casino with a few hundred thousand dollars, exchange for c…

Having the ability to identify who is watching or saying what on the internet would be immensely useful to the government; the justifications are really meaningless. Anti-money-lau…

> "It could be 99% filler and not be a lie." There is no evidence that McDonalds has included any filler in their burgers at all (at least in recent history). See the link in the c…

To be fair to its adherents (of which I am not one), the so-called philosophy espouses maximizing income, so that one can later allocate that wealth efficiently. Working in a low-e…

"100% beef" is a factual claim, and not subject to Trademarks; McDonalds Trademarked "100% PURE ALL-AMERICAN BEEF" in 1982. https://www.trademarkia.com/100-pure-all-american-beef-7…

What do you mean by this? The two ideas/groups/perspectives seem completely unrelated.

I’m not saying that the lawsuits are necessarily wrong or bad (though there do seem to be many of dubious merit), just that they don’t accurately reflect the mix of safety and othe…

The measures related to lawsuits are misleading and terrible, because of the way class-action lawsuits have incentivized lawyers to pursue dubious cases against large companies.

The US's problem seems to be that citizens demand a very high level of (costly) medical care, which would not be sustainable if implemented as a taxpayer-funded universal program. …

I believe that it was changed after the comment you have replied to was posted.

Deep-sea mining has been studied and foreseen for at least 50 years, but it's never been economical. It is possible that current technology will allow for mining of nodules, but th…

You are describing the justification that NVDA is using to explain their behavior; they see it as something of a 'bridge-loan' until the LLM business model reaches steady-state. Th…

The problem is that when a vendor finances their customers, they can create the illusion of 'real' demand for their product, when most of the the end-users are only actually using …

BRK has been roughly flat since the beginning of 2025; you might be better off in bonds or money markets (depending on your beliefs about near-term inflation).

If people really cared, they’d choose browsers that have better control, but that’s obviously not a priority for them. Why do you think this sort of thing should be regulated to su…

I believe myself to be fairly well-informed, and usually accept the cookies, because I don’t foresee any potential harms, and it helps the people running the website. I am worried …

The manufacturers are willing to put in whatever seats the operators want, and airlines want to have the lightest, most compact seats possible because that allows them to offer the…

What exactly do you mean by "10x doctor"? Some surgeons have a 10x higher 'revision rate' than others, and from what I understand, that may be an understatement. Many of the statis…

Quite reminiscent of Enron, though obviously not the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_...

There are many science fiction stories about amoral humans, cyborgs, and AIs. Paperclip maximization is a relatively recent meme, but the 'gray goo scenario' has been widely writte…

There's a wide spectrum of 'private credit', and it varies from low-risk to quite high risk, depending on the debtor. In the case of "AI Companies", their debt is low-risk, but man…

Is this comment pure speculation, or do you have knowledge (or anecdotal evidence) of a similar exploit being sold for $500k?

SPCX is valued as an AI company; any and all issues you have with AI company valuations apply to to SPCX. I too agree that SPCX’s space business is real and valuable, but it’s (alm…