Casablanca gambling? I'm shocked!

> I can't think of many stand-out moments in it To me, the `La Marseillaise` scene[1] is incredibly powerful. The crowd trying to out-sing the German soldiers with the French national anthem, and the sheer raw emotion of the scene. Amazing character moments from Ricky, Victor, and Illsa. I haven't looked into the veracity, but the legend around the scene is that most of the extras in the bar were French refuges - and the emotion of the scene was very much present on set. Casablanca was filmed during the height of WW2, and came out in 1942, so it does seem plausible. Louis's brief "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" - Handed a pile of his winnings by the croupier - "Oh, thank you very much." exchange [2] is also a fantastically memorable comedic exchange. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

Like it or not, Sarbanes-Oxley is the law (since 2002). We wound up with that law because of executives who built incentive structures within their companies which they knew would cause unlawful behavior while keeping themselves one or more layers removed from the actual criminality. The gambit was to feign surprise and throw the "rouge troops" under the bus if they got caught. That gambit is played out now. You missed your opportunity to play the naive CEO card [VIDEO]

Seeing Nature reporting this as news feels to me a bit like watching Captain Louis Renault telling ‎Rick Blaine: "I am shocked -- shocked! -- to find that gambling is going on in here!" [a] Still, it's progress. [a] [VIDEO]

Awww. Do you mean publicly distance themselves? Of course they have ! ( [VIDEO] ) Privately ($ with a B in the front of it), let's be real, would you ?

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" – From the classic scene in Casablanca, 1942 ( [VIDEO] )

I really think that all of this DeFi stuff is playing with fire. If these tools scale large enough, it's easy to imagine breaking the right link in the system at the right time to cause catastrophic failures. Remember that all complex systems operate in a degraded state. If there's ever a way that only part of a complicated swap executes correctly the trade can get really far out of position. People in Ethereum land will say things like "the smart contracts can't possibly execute if all of these conditions aren't met!", but I can assure you that lots of extremely fault-tolerant systems built by very smart people (like electronic stock exchanges) have failed in very surprising ways. Weakly collateralized flash loans are just faster leveraged tools with all of the tradeoffs that entails. YMMV, there's definitely a lot of money to be made. [VIDEO] << Relevant.

"I am shocked, shocked... " Chrome creates a unique ID for each user (there has been much discussion about the entropy vs the uniqueness for the install key), they have been found to give a pass for Google Analytics when visiting from Chrome, etc. And what else do you expect when it is in their interest to track you (and to have a excuse to justify their knowledge when found out in other grey areas). EDIT: The quote above is from Casablanca, was once very famous [1] [1]: [VIDEO]

Even non-global economies end up diffusing the blame for poor labor practices. So many big-box stores end up in a wage-theft situation just because the upper-management sets benchmarks that are only achievable through wage-theft and then they are shocked[1] to find out that the individual store managers are committing wage theft. 1: [VIDEO]