rando444 (u/rando444)

rando444 commented on HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine icij.org/investigations/f... · Posted by u/nkurz

swiley · 5 years ago

Could it be that the law here is just unreasonable and only the biggest players can afford to get away with breaking it? (likely for an additional premium)

rando444 · 5 years ago

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.

rando444 commented on Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia reuters.com/article/us-wi... · Posted by u/hhs

sneeze-slayer · 5 years ago

I wonder who hired them. Sure, it could be the CEO of Wirecard, but it could also be another large shareholder. Given how ridiculous this story is and how Germany's regulator BaFIN has done such a horrendous job looking over Wirecard, I would believe it if they were somehow complicit. I guess only time will tell, though.

rando444 · 5 years ago

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.

rando444 commented on Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host imgz.org/... · Posted by u/stavros

badrabbit · 6 years ago

Glad this exists. Still does not replace imgur.

You just need a free tier. No way out of that. I am not paying you even $0.01 if I need to upload 2 memes and share it with 5 people. I can afford it but not gonna happen. Here is ideas: make it a subscription. Allow free hosting with no registration but let the image expire (unhost) after N views and rate limit clients. Don't freaking ask me for my email. No, I do not care what your reason is kind sir. It is 2020 basically, don't ask me for my email. Just process the payment and give me a key I can use for futue uploads,ask me to optionally email but man i hate that so much. I don't see why I need any account other than an access token,but even if I do why do I need to give yet another imposing site my email? How about random 5 character subdomains for for payinf accounts and a premium fee for being able to choose the subdomain? All images uploaded with a token get the same subdomain?

Look, I haven't looked too deep into what you do and your business model but with imgur I can still upload pictures for free,which I can link to directly and I quite like being able to share it and have others up/down vote it as a post. You don't do that. Imgur was specifically started because the founder, much like you was frustrated with all the b.s. image hosting options available when uploading to reddit. Right now only people who care about not being the product will pay to use this. Even though I am very much one of those people I can never use it since I am not a frequent image uploader. From what I have seen it replaces imgur as much as a dirt cheap shared webhost does.

But I do applaud your api and acceptance of btc payments. And I subjectively am not impressed by your UI either. Just not attractive.

Fyi: I made these comments tk try and provide honest critique that might be useful to OP.

rando444 · 6 years ago

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.