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Re:How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work? on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:23AM (#44973934)
Money launderning is making it look like the taxes have been paid.

After you pay your W2 income taxes for the year, your income for the year is no longer taxable.

edit: I guess I can't argue with the holy writ of wikipedia, but it's how they got Al Capone.

Re: on Friday August 01, 2025 @06:22PM (#44763105)
It does what it says on the tin.
Glad we could help M. bin Salman park his money somewhere safe.
Autodesk licensing drove me away from Fusion 360.
Re:Cool People [pdf] on Sunday July 06, 2025 @02:15PM (#44482842)
Cool people are perceived to be more extraverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open, and autonomous, whereas good people are more conforming, traditional, secure, warm, agreeable, universalistic, conscientious, and calm. This pattern is stable across countries, which suggests that the meaning of cool has crystallized on a similar set of values and traits around the globe. We build on the results to advance a theory of the role that coolness plays in establishing social hierarchies and changing social and cultural practices and norms.
Measles data for the USA

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

and the Canadian site since the US one could be shut down at any time

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rubella/#a21

Re:I just publish a paper solving quantum gravity on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:02PM (#44449318)
Call me old school, but he couldn't be bothered to put the past tense of publish either, published.
Re:I just publish a paper solving quantum gravity on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:31PM (#44448501)
Sorry, a single author paper means you could not find even one co-author to agree with you. That's why they tend to get ignored.
Re:What I learned gathering nootropic ratings on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @01:05PM (#44446149)
The Liver King spent $11,000 a month on them. Too much for me.
Re:What I learned gathering nootropic ratings on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:04PM (#44445385)
What I want is a pill that makes me exercise.
Re:Has AI made "learn to code" obsolete? on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:55AM (#44435190)
Betteridge's law of headlines
Re:The New Control Society on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:40PM (#43889816)
The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Re:The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:01AM (#43886752)
I'm still using 2 RSS readers (Inoreader and TheOldReader) that I switched to after Google Reader shut down.
The problem of evil men. I would start by seperating the evil billionaires from their property.
Re:American Panopticon on Saturday May 03, 2025 @03:09PM (#43881331)
Re:What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @10:55AM (#43846150)
Just chiming in to reinforce this take.

Hello there. Can I call you sock puppet?

Why did you pick that particular passage?

It had the sharpest point about how craven the repubs are. Sorry I didn't add value to the quote to your satisfaction sock puppet, but I'll be happy to refund your money.

Yes I know the rules. I'm moving on forever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:12PM (#43836077)
You are the first one who ever complained.
Re:What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:43PM (#43834974)
But where do we go from here? Unlike the British parliamentary system, the U.S. has no break-the-glass off switch that lets us get rid of a deeply unpopular and delusional leader. Impeachment won’t happen, because this isn’t the Nixon era: Trump’s party is too corrupt to help save the country.

So we must begin to ask ourselves: in the 1364 days left of the Trump administration, how much damage can he do? And what can those of us who want to save the country do to minimize the damage?

Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and more severe. Many of his young patients have so much damage that he has to work with them under general anesthesia.
Re:Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products on Sunday April 27, 2025 @06:42PM (#43815725)
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I uploaded an image of kermit the frog sipping tea, with the prompt sips tea. Got an image of a girl sipping tea.

All image links have been copied to your clipboard. Images are available for 24 hours only - please download them before leaving. You will NOT be emailed the images.

https://eglwedwlixqeqiteygec.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/p...

Re:Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products on Sunday April 27, 2025 @03:44PM (#43814558)
Try it out!

You have exceeded the daily limit of 2 image generation requests. Please try again tomorrow.

Re:Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products on Sunday April 27, 2025 @02:49PM (#43814206)
Try it out!

Failed to generate images

“the Republican supermajority isn’t interested in a good-faith energy debate. They’re interested in handing TVA over to big utilities and fossil fuel donors, locking us into expensive, inflexible systems with no public oversight.”
Is it me or is this site incomplete?
"Many people project demand for our industry will go from 3 percent to 99 percent of total generation... an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030," he asserted. "If [China] comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting," Schmidt said...
Re:Regex Isn't Hard (2023) on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:38AM (#43751301)
Regex is much easier if you don't do it all at once. It's perfectly acceptable to, say, trim all the leading spaces, store the result in a temp variable, trim all the trailing spaces, store the result in a temp variable, remove all the hyphens. etc. etc.

Everyone tries to create the platonic ideal regex that does everything in one line.

Re:Which year: guess which year each photo was taken on Sunday April 20, 2025 @11:27AM (#43744390)
Score

3433

Avg. Years Off

12.2

No country has ever made nuclear power profitable, it is always subsidized.
I like that term, 'relevance runway'.
Re:Owls in Towels on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @06:18PM (#43699114)
Does what it says on the tin

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