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homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Developers, family protest arrest of Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam

Pretty much anything with money transactions can be classified as laundering. If governments dont like you aby transaction you made can be classified as such. Money laundering is basically like a catch all tools by law enforcers who cant do their job properly and need a cheatcode to do so. Cash is widely use in laundering as well. Guess how government enforce money laundering on that since it is so hard for then to trace, civil forfeiture. We should always boycott and saturate law enforcers and politicians whenever they touch on this area. Their overhand is getting worst everyday.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: How much gold has been found in the world?

Bingo! We are artificially pricing gold incorrectly! USA has very little gold compare to others like Russia and China. Nixon realized this in the 70s and then we have fiat dollars. Most people don't know the price of gold other than what is being advertised on the market which is based on paper gold mostly. Having gold as valuable can undermine USA petroldollar dominance and bad for America in general as gold commodity USA has very little to influence worldwide order.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal

Reversing Roe vs Wade means that individual states can decide on their own. Each states in USA has their elections. This means the decision is way more democractic than being decided by 9 people. SCOTUS didnt ban abortions. You go to Cali for example, you can still abort right to 8mths even if those babies or fetus can survive to adulthood without modern medicine (with modern medicine, fetus as youbg as 4mths can make it). If you feel unpleasant that you can have unprotective sex and kill fetus anyway you like it, you can move to the state that align with your preference. In the past Roe vs Wade basically oppress people who supported pro-life and they can't even move to any states as they are forced to accept and practice fetus killing nationwide. Of course you could argue, they leave country then. Well that also is a bit oppressive as now if you dont like the majority preference in USA you get out...sounds familiar?

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models

There are taxes too depends where you are. So likely closer to 50. At least calculate that way give oneself an assurance 41.67 is fixed for 3 years. It could be likely they intend to charge maybe 30/mth and then ramp up to 60/mth towards the end. So at the end of 3yrs, it will be 60x12x3 instead of 41.67x12x3. We got official near 10% inflation (unofficial near 20%). I doubt that 41.67 is what they have in mind for coming months.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%

Another questionable statistics. Bet in next announcement this number go up again. See if Fed will sit quiet and not raise any rate. Better tell Mark that his VR shouldnt have increase by 100 bucks! That is way higher than 8.5%. Same goes with those 6-7usd gas. Surely 8.5% on a dollar is just 8.5cent!

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Most Americans support using the popular vote to decide U.S. presidents, data

Again another unverifiable and non audit-able "most Americans". I have heard so many "most American" votes/polls in my 50+ adult years life. You will be surprise how some of this poll conducted....there was once I recalled a polled "done" by a staffer in toilet cubicle several years back. It is like Bitcoin is actually worth 250K usd now. Just dont trust the current selling price and buy it now at cheap!

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession

Many companies retrench/layoff. Margins are zero and that is consider good. Many going negative and have to do creative financial engineering to eke out some profits. I guess we just have to wait something big collapse come this Nov in the same way as 2008. By the way, winter is coming. Not sure how green EU can be keeping those coal plants running under capacity.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: AMD passes Intel in market cap

Being nimble is preferred. In the long run you can vertically and horizontally intergrate every available business and infrasture. It will save cost assuming those businesses are relevant. In the short-run you burnt out before those business "expired" or fall out of trend. The trick here is to have the right integration at the moment and expand in the market direction that favors it. Is like friendster and myspace too early to boom. Is like every other zoom-like businesses too late. The west has too high labor cost and seriously shortage of engineers. Countries in Asia like China, Taiwan, and SK churned out engineers like the women studies undergraduate in the west. The business environment in Asia will simply edge out the west. Remember solyndra? Remember GE? Remember Kodak? Upcoming is Tesla. There are so many Asian side EV coming in now.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To

The irony is even those deal in bitcoin, they have to quickly convert to USD now for fear of further drop. Their entire operation involve in converting their cheap electricity (vastly subsidized by their government) to USD with bitcoin as intermediary. And when ask, they only tell the story of their intermediary bitcoin as though as they really by potato eoth bitcoin at their local wet market.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: A coder’s guide to coffee (2002)

A lot of instant coffee (3in1 or 2in1) these days are quite good especially from Vietnam. In Asia, these are quite commonly sold in supermarket. In western countries not so much (guess quality of living in the west are lower than Asian sides these days). Seriously speaking, non of the coffee either self-roasted or instant able to match coffee luwak. If you are coffee afficianado, luwak is a must.

homeland221 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)

The moral of the story is 1. Use credit cards that has limits based on your top ups. COMPANY CANNOT CHARGE MORE THAN WHAT CASH AVAILABLE IN THAT CARD. Card app can also temporary disable the card at any time as you like. 2. As public, dont give advice about seeking arbitration help. Do like BLM, boycott and viral spread the issue. Dox if possible. Bombard their c-suite with hate mails. Now I've seen this way more helpful and powerful than ANY legal means.

Company these days are way more powerful than individual in legal arena. They have the advantage of corporate lawyers and cash to burn you out. The only way is exactly what BLM did effectively.

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