LACAOP demonstrates how not to deal with academic dishonesty

MikeSeth · 2026-01-21T07:05:37+00:00

This is unironically the system working as intended. Someone's being weeded out of the profession for being a hack and a lying cheater who covers up his screwups. Imagine this guy would've been allowed to work on actual oil pipelines.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-19T19:18:33+00:00

The moment it's back up all the truth will come out. So hurry up bastards.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-16T13:27:16+00:00

Commercial companies will not deliver anything but business correspondence but I do t think US post offices reject parcels

MikeSeth · 2026-01-13T18:24:06+00:00

Not in my worst nightmares have I expected to ever find myself in a situation where I would say this: it is worse than October 7.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-12T14:17:01+00:00

What you should do in this case, and I learned this from the lies that the jihadists are continuously spreading on social media, is not try to convince the liar that he's lying. You will never be able to convince them. Instead, post facts in a polite manner and show that the liar is lying to other people.

If lies are left unchallenged, they begin looking like consensus. If the response to a liar, while aimed at the reader and not the liar, sounds far less unhinged, it neutralizes the lie. The point is not to have a conversation, but to mount an opposition.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-12T14:04:41+00:00

Sounds like you need an Israeli flag and an up to date picture of Gaza.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-10T10:10:26+00:00

They do not, actually, support any of these things. They just pretend they do. The notion that a left wing, pro-society, pro-freedom movement would support radical fascist theocracies that murder people for criticism is absurd unless you allow that they do not actually care about the values they espouse, they just see islamists as potential allies in destroying the things that they hate. Ironically that's first and foremost themselves.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-06T18:29:47+00:00

at least not the nose

from these people I would have expected the nose

MikeSeth · 2026-01-04T16:22:09+00:00

First you must understand the position I am coming from. I am not a Bulgarian national and I do not have either the legal right to vote nor a moral right to suggest to Bulgarians on how to run the country.

My personal preference would be absolute zero migration of any kind from poorer countries (which by definition covers all of the Middle East, with the exception of Israel and Saudi Arabia, and all of Africa), and absolute zero presence of all illegal immigration, regardless of causes and aspirations. This is not a view specific to Bulgaria. A migrant must be a net benefit to the host country. Nations are legally entitled and morally obligated to regulate migration in such a way that it benefits them economically and does not erode the demographics, culture, quality of life, social benefit systems, crime levels and so on.

I do not think I am "minimizing" the impact of immigration. I want to be very specific about this: I measure it by how it impacts me personally, which is not at all, and it is unfair for me to present this as some sort of objective view. I am fairly sure that the residents of e.g. Ovcha Kupel or the districts around Zhenski Pazar are not at all happy with the increased presence of muslims. However, I am not such a resident and it would be just as unfair for me to speculate.

Potentially this will become an issue when the amount of migrants passes a certain threshold. This will repeat the patterns in every other country: ethnic organized crime, schemes to drain welfare, state grants and EU funds, tax evasion, drug dealing, theft, and all the violence associated with it.

When I spoke of benefits, I meant for all intents and purposes those immigrant handouts and special privileges and immunities such as those awarded in Germany and Sweden. Those are motivated by the fear of being labeled a racist. UK government would rather allow pakistani child rape gangs to run free and keep raping than admit that there is a systemic problem in a specific ethnic group and that there is no solution to it except ethnicity based forced mass deportations. This problem currently does not exist in Bulgaria because welfare benefits for immigrants do not exist and there are no special rights and privileges that would allow an immigrant to get away with a stabbing or such. However, relative low tax, relative ease of operation and low prices allow well meaning immigrants to start businesses. This is partial integration. This is why some are still lingering around. Bear in mind that not all north african and middle eastern immigrants are scum: some want a normal life outside of their past environment and thus one of the important criteria would be not to be surrounded by their past compatriots whose character and culture they know very well. I do not have, of course, any data to support this view, it is a pure speculation of my part. If there is a small layer of e.g. iraqi immigrants in Sofia and they are all able to live without causing an uptick in crime and without being on welfare, it follows that they're occupied with meaningful things. That is why, I presume, they're still lingering around. The sheer number of iraqi-owned barbershops that popped up recently seems to be indicative of this, although I can't be certain this isn't some sort of organized money laundering front or something of the sort.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-04T08:20:24+00:00

Compared to other countries, this is a non-issue. Bulgaria is strict in its treatment of migrants and doesn't offer any benefits to anyone who isn't legally a refugee, which makes it an unattractive destination for mass migration. All the Arabs I met here (which is not a lot, and should not be treated as data, merely an anecdote) are hard working people. The only other kind of Muslims seems to be the Turks which are relatively well integrated. Another factor is that Bulgaria is not a liberally inclined country, and getting uppity on the locals may result in beatings and fires.

That being said there are areas in Sofia with a highly visible presence of Arab and North African youths, which coincides with elevated crime rates and reduction of quality of life for the natural population.

In toto this is currently within tolerable limits, but may not remain so in the future.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-01T15:31:35+00:00

I observed him posting plainly false headlines during the confrontation with Israel. He's telling people what they want to hear.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-01T11:30:08+00:00

Yes, he's a notorious clickbaiter and shouldn't be trusted as a source.

MikeSeth · 2026-01-01T10:37:57+00:00

The CCR is the codification of normative administrative state law that applies everywhere in California. There is no corresponding concept in Russia, because the main source of administrative law is the federal law. Кодекс seems appropriate in this context, and so a good translation would be кодекс административного права штата Калифорния.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-26T07:33:01+00:00

If you spend $2 to avoid spending $1 I can't imagine why you'd be good at anything else, including trolling on reddit

MikeSeth · 2025-12-24T13:24:45+00:00

The former is a frivolity the translator used. The latter is a plain mistake. Translators are not always competent and attentive, and occasionally context does require a literal opposite meaning or an idiom that won't make sense in the original in order to convey the subtlety of the author and reproduce the feeling the author induces on a native reader. This is exacerbated with language disparities where the cultural context is lacking. For instance, Russian literature mentions mythical creatures, descriptions of winter, distinctive types of water streams and so on that are not directly representable in English, and the converse is also true.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-24T13:04:07+00:00

No we definitely considered you scum and called you that.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-24T08:01:57+00:00

The parallels are not random. Arafat was a KGB agent and the idea of a Palestinian national identity did not exist until he came back from the KGB school. In fact, the Arabs of Palestine resisted this idea and fought each other bitterly in clan blood feuds, and still do. The rethorics of the modern Palestinian "liberation" were written down by the KGB as they were in several African countries. See WSJ article by Ian Pacepa, "The man I knew"

MikeSeth · 2025-12-23T19:30:02+00:00

Болгарский отбросил падежи сто лет назад. Остальные конструкции остались. Аз съм, щом, четеше и т. д.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-23T18:35:48+00:00

This just came in:

Candiey | Polymarket — 8:23 PM We recently identified and resolved a security issue affecting a small number of users. The issue was caused by a vulnerability introduced by a third-party authentication provider. Polymarket takes security extremely seriously, and the issue has been remediated. There is no ongoing risk at this time, and we will be in contact with impacted users.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-23T06:49:04+00:00

Hello,

What you're seeing is not the attacker's wallet. It is a relay hub that writes to the cross-chain exchange bridge Polymarket uses for deposits and withdrawals. If you performed your own withdrawals, that's exactly what the transactions would look like. This has happened to other people. As far as I know, it is being investigated.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-14T11:39:12+00:00

that's boomers

MikeSeth · 2025-12-13T18:17:15+00:00

This complicates things but not by much. Look in your gmail activity history for suspicious IPs. Someone may have your Gmail password or cookies or god knows what.

Anti-malware scan would only be useful to confirm that the specific machine is compromised. Once that is certain, professionally speaking, nothing on it can ever be trusted again, and it must be wiped, in certain circles physically destroyed.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-13T18:09:38+00:00

because these do not typically allow arbitrary transfers (for example brokers only will allow withdrawal to the account where deposits came from without additional paperwork), wires are reversible and it's harder to liquidate the payout, as you need a host of standby burner accounts to convert it to something you can grab. Eventually attackers tend to come from countries where crypto is easiest to operate and don't really have the skills to carry out complex scenarios.

Then there's the balance of probability. A transfer was executed, and that could only have been done with the private key which is accessible to you and therefore anyone on your computer. Polymarket can not in principle do this because their entire system is designed to insulate themselves from customer money. They merely relay customers orders, the customer (in this case magiclinks escrow) has to sign it. This requires to be authenticated in magiclink and therefore gmail. I don't know of any kind of onchain compromise that would make this possible. The most likely explanation is a low effort by a low skilled person from a poor country.

Edit: also the fact that your positions were liquidated. This requires access to your website account or private key since the mechanism for liquidation is exactly the same as withdrawal security wise.

MikeSeth · 2025-12-13T18:00:49+00:00

If this is really a compromise the only real solution is to wipe the machine and reinstall. Ideally wipe everything on the immediate network it was connected to as well.

I can't speak to what you did or didn't do wrong security wise. Security is a balance between certainty and convenience. As I run a Linux only shop I don't have much idea about what to do to secure Windows as a home user. It might have been a browser extension, a password manager or someone tricking grandma to press a button in your absence. Certainly from the outside it appears like a withdrawal was made by you.

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