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Matt Levine noted this in his Bloomberg newsletter yesterday, as did Andrew Ross Sorkin in his NY Times Dealbook column today. The latter offered a link
to an old story from 2001 about how the expert networks work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/business/investing-it-s-not-what-they-know-but-whom.html

They call me every few months, generally with a client who wants to
understand Verisign's relationship with ICANN and USDoC.

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:39:17 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Facebook has no idea where to find your data (RISKS-33.44)

Failure to document programs/routines is commonplace in the IT sector, and
it is unarguably nice to have documentation of how programs/routines work
and where their outputs are stored.  But the fact is that programs get modified over time and the documentation doesn't always keep pace.  In many cases the doc wasn't accurate to begin with.

So there is something to be said for "self-documenting" code, if one is
skilled enough to be able to read it.

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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:31:20 -0500
From: dmitri maziuk <dmitri.maziuk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 3D gun printing operation busted in Calgary (RISKS-33.44)

I've seen it a number of times, on 3D printing sites and "gun nut" sites,
that it costs $2-3 in filament to print a pistol frame/receiver good for a thousand-ish shots. But that is it: *filament* for *pistol frame*. No wear
and tear on the printer, no electricity bill, no barrel, pin, springs, nor
any other parts that make a working pistol, included. (Some rifle receivers apparently can be printed too, but require better quality filament and more
of it.) Nor the program cost: some a free, many are not.

I lived in Australia during its much hyped gun buy-back and saw pictures of heaps of rust for which the government had to pay, by law, a "fair market
price of a weapon". So I don't really doubt that Houston "buy back program
gone LOL/wrong" in many cases.

But I do very much doubt the "$3 gun".

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