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>This is almost off-topic. Skip if that bugs you No, you're completely on topic : the phenomenon you describe of privatised systematic perpetrator defensive hurdles is called self …

That's very quick. My memory is a little hazy, but the fast prosecution was motivated by covering up structural inefficiencies in CA energy trading created knowingly against consid…

>I'm certain each party felt they could swindle the other. There's a reason trader turrets handsets and boxes have high resistance non latching push to talk switches. Because both …

Exactly, precisely, it's theft not fraud. You can't accuse any of the cockamamie nonsense this inflated and instrumental child concocted of being as sophisticated as fraud. For tha…

In another front page discussion is what looks like a emerging consensus that grand larceny like the FTX theft is a function of the non existent fact checking of the media. What po…

Remember that the SEC exists because a bankrupt banking sector begged the government to give them a fig leaf. If you aren't sure who they serve, go looking for a punitive fine that…

After Glass- Steagal was repealed, structural conflicts of interest putting the totality of supposedly safe deposits at the service of gambling has been standard operating procedur…

>she was talking about prescription amphetamines aka Adderall. >>If you've been around people on Adderall and don't recognize that it can easily compromise judgement and result in …

Intel is offering customer silicon on their latest architecture. So you could be ambitious and design your own block with as much SRAM as you can sacrifice other accelerator units …

Because unless you're tall enough (and quick enough) to dunk like you're dropping it, lower angles give you more opportunity to underspin off the board getting the net more often.

Each of your two caricatures exhibit obsessive traits that should be disqualifications for any multivariate layered and strategic responsibility. In my working life I've found, in …

This is my favourite ever episode of This American Life, about NUMMI, the shop floor level and individually fraternal miracle that was created by workers at Toyota and GM in a CA G…

Instead, how much would it cost for the IRS to check everyone's returns reconciliation against employer statements?

Removing the audit trail and reporting from accounts probably turns this into theft according to the definition of the intention to permanently deprive, which forethought hence men…

Much of the apparent distortion in post 83 tracks is caused by the horizontal alignment of near field monitors beginning with the Yamaha NS-10 popularity. Realignment is a octagona…

Recording engineer here of the same age as the OP: perceived (spectrum summed) volume and associated hearing loss is proportional to the level of distortion (not simple noise) in t…