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rando444on HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

The law allows for jail time, it's just rarely pursued these days by the DoJ because Eric Holder changed their system to pursue 'wins' (fines) rather than criminal prosecution, because the bar for successful prosecution is so much higher to convict someone of a crime.

Can't lose a case if you never try and convict anyone.

rando444on Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia

Any shortseller with a lot of money would have an interest in bringing them down sooner rather than later.

Their financial trickery was exposed in early 2019 and then was overwhelmingly confirmed by the end of 2019.

If you were trying to make some money on their stock tanking, timing it would have been anywhere from extremely difficult to impossible.

rando444on Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

I like your ideas, but how do you retain control of your account?

How do you prove that you are the owner?

If someone manages to log in as you and takes over your account, how do you get it back without giving some method to contact you.

rando444on Twitter lets you use 2FA without a phone number

SMS 2FA is insecure because companies implement it in a way that it becomes one-factor.

Forgot your password - reset your password - get an SMS

When there is no second factor involved, it's not 2FA despite people calling it that.

rando444on I'm Resigning as a Stack Overflow Community Elected Moderator

>I am not confident that moderators are seen as partners in community building; but rather volunteers to be tightly controlled.

This is really the core of the issue IMHO.

rando444on Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64

Would you please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the HN guidelines.

Comments about voting are highly discouraged.

Additionally voting is not about your feelings, or even whether you agree with the person. Everyone should vote based on what is relevant to the conversation.

Anything not relevant to the topic at hand should be downvoted. It's not a personal attack, it's a way to clean up the thread to prevent people from reading irrelevant posts that don't add anything to the discussion.

rando444on An apology to our community, and next steps

From the comments.. for anyone that didn't scroll all the way:

Before "apologizing", you need to come clean: did you lie?

Earlier, you (Stack Exchange) wrote:

>We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to change that behavior.

However, Monica disputed that she had received repeated requests to change her behavior.

Clearly one party here is lying, and much of the community believes that party is Stack Exchange.

So—did you lie, or not? Your "apology" is meaningless until you clean this up.

rando444on An Update to Our Community and an Apology

Monica already posted everything from her side here:

https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...

Or is there some specific piece of information you feel she is withholding?

rando444on The largest offshore wind farm is nearly complete, can power 1M homes

They said in the article that this wind farm is the size of Malta.

rando444on SIM Vulnerability leads to information disclosure via malicious SMS

The youtube-conspiracy-style intro video and lack of details does not instill a feeling of credibility.

rando444on Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

personally i do change my birthday and mother's maiden name for every service i sign up for.

i make up random answers and write them down in the notes of my password manager. i always try and recommend others do the same.

rando444on Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?

If it's any consolation, it's common that children labeled 'gifted' early, either don't live up to the label or are affected by the label negatively.

Even in my own adolescence I watched the most 'gifted' child eat batteries and jump off the roof of the school.

rando444on Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?

I believe that one was the hacker news network (hnn) IIRC

rando444on NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps

It's only failure if you side with the overly dramatic guy on twitter complaining about non-interactive screens.

Everyone that's been to a shopping mall knows how consistently broken information touch-screens are. Suggesting they put interactive maps in a subway is just silly.

The digital maps are to show realtime service information, train-times, etc. It is an improvement, and if you want a printed map, you can just ask for one at the booth.

The whole "my map isn't in 4k" argument is whiny, at best.

rando444on Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

It's not about trusting the encryption, it's about trusting who does the encryption.

If you are encrypting a password store and using the cloud only for sync, you're trusting an encryption standard.

If you are using a cloud based password manager from a service provider, they may be using encryption, but your trust has to be in the company and their employees.

It's a rather large distinction.

rando444on A man who destroyed his multimillion dollar company in 10 seconds (2018)

In the other article that is posted in this thread it mentions he was kicked out of grammar school at 15 for 'being too stupid'.

Some people are just like that.

rando444on Why all the Jira hate? I’ll tell you why

I don't follow any of his arguments.

The author suggests that Jira is partially to blame for people who don't fully understand Agile software development. I would argue it's not the software that's the problem.

Bad practice in workflows? If you have a bad workflow, the software is not the issue.. and the author's argument that making workflows is 'difficult', just doesn't hold water with me.

His final argument to steer clear of Jira because physical paper is 'better' isn't even an argument against Jira, it's an argument against all organizational software.

I never knew there was jira hate before this posting, and only leaves me wondering 'Why all the Jira hate?'

rando444on Why the U.S. Army Owns So Many Fossils

The criminal division of the IRS is most certainly armed, as well as equipped with AR-15s, and are trained by Army Special Forces contractors.

rando444on G.E. Is Accused of $38B Fraud

I'd like to recommend the book:

The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox

rando444on IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

If businesses started creating child companies (for any reason) it would result in substantial job creation.. so this sounds like a win-win to me.

rando444on Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire

These days, I believe all auto manufacturers that make three wheel cars (peugeot, etc.) .. make them with two wheels in the front.

I believe the majority of three wheel motorcycles are also made this way now as well.

rando444on Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?

Personally I've felt this has been in the works for some time.

If you look closely at how the founders exited facebook, and what was said at the time, it seemed (to me at least) that they left over exactly this.

I mean, that aside, can you really come up with many other operational arguments that would result in people walking a way from hundreds of millions of dollars? (or by some estimates leaving over a billion dollars on the table between the two of them)

rando444on Jeff Bezos sells $1.8bn of Amazon stock