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> But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US. That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. They don't operate at all outside the US. :)
Say what? The FBI definitely operates outside the US. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/legal-attache-offices
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I play every once in awhile, when the jackpot gets to be large enough they start talking about it on TV. The $10 or $20 I spend is well worth daydreaming about the things I would if I won.
Buy index funds and live off the proceeds?
Ok. Do these guys that commit white collar crime not know how a passport works? If you have millions of dollars stashed in bank accounts WHY are you in the US? Why are you buying estates and testing out a new bmwI8 and spilling champagne all over? Why not get on a plane go to Morocco (a country with an extremely complex extradition process)? wtf. Even the guy running silk road was hanging out in SF now lives in a 4x6…
> "It's difficult even saying that with all the people that I know behind me that I hurt." It is interesting to think about who he considers he hurt. The potential winners who relied on lottery winning to secure a future for their families? The lottery workers? He is a criminal surely, but isn't the whole lottery system a tax on lack of education and it just gives false hope to people and encourages gambling. He redu…
Ok. Do these guys that commit white collar crime not know how a passport works? If you have millions of dollars stashed in bank accounts WHY are you in the US? Why are you buying estates and testing out a new bmwI8 and spilling champagne all over? Why not get on a plane go to Morocco (a country with an extremely complex extradition process)? wtf. Even the guy running silk road was hanging out in SF now lives in a 4x6…
Good luck. It's pretty difficult with the various capital controls in place to get lots of money out of the US without attracting attention. The Governor of NY was run out of office and nearly prosecuted when some bank compliance officer when transferring a few thousand bucks to a escort service.
Spitzer was almost certainly parallel construction.
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I once read the lottery is a way of buying hope.
I never really understood this argument. I mean, you can daydream for free about Warren Buffet choosing you at random to give $300 million to, or inheriting a distant relatives belongings and finding a Pollock in there. Maybe with the lottery its easier for people to deceive themselves about the actual odds?
It's not deceiving yourself to recognize that miniscule odds are greater than zero.
Time to switch over to provably fair lotteries!
This is actually a hard problem. In order to be provable, you have to be deterministic (i.e. you can't leave the RNG as a black box). However you can't let any individual (nor any conspiring individuals, think Sybil attacks) predict the result, nor have any control over the result (except perhaps to disqualify themselves).
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Say what? The FBI definitely operates outside the US. https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/legal-attache-offices
Technically, those embassies are still in U.S. jurisdiction, however, I grant you your point as I was unaware they did this.