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by FDSGSG 5y ago
> It's not a trivial problem. It seems pretty trivial. You just follow existing international standards and use the transliterated version of the name found on the passports MRZ if accepting unicode strings isn't easy for your
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
I bet your passport has a transliterated version of your name on it. In fact, you'll have a really hard time finding anyone who does not.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
> Unicode exists and is well supported, not using someone’s actual name when it’s entirely feasible is just rude. It's really not, and I say this as someone whose "actual name" has to be transliterated for an ASCII represe
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Practically all CRS tax information sharing happens using ASCII-7
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Are there names that cannot be transliterated? Somehow all the banks and passport issuing governments in the world seem to manage this, if it's good enough for the banks and tax authorities it's probably be good enough for the FSF
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
In the grand scheme of things it's a minor detail, but they clearly didn't study the history of digital money: >For a long time, people have tried to create a form of digital money independent of state-backed currencies. But th
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>5 million is “never work again” money for a couple of people who want middle class incomes the rest of their lives This is ignoring the interest
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Substantially correct? Paying ransoms is legal except for a very limited set of payment recipients.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Shouldn't your terminal handle this even if you were using netcat to chat? If the client was injecting newlines that would end up being rather unpleasant when pasting chats into a different channel.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>1) Penetration testers relentlessly scanned my IP address every time I connected. You probably mean the very boring automated open proxy scan that every IRC network runs.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Fake logs, you can't have newlines in IRC messages!
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Don't forget about rasengans cryptocurrency scheme that Freenode has been helping to promote.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Continuing this story from 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696035
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>Kidnapping for ransom is basically a dead enterprise in the US because of laws essentially forbidding the paying of ransom. This is bullshit. US laws do not prohibit ransom payments except to sanctioned and/or designated entities w
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>However it is my understanding that paying ransoms to save human lives is technically illegal to You are wrong.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Ransomware actors could easily punish such legislation. By continuing ransomware attacks they would place many companies in an impossible situation, either break the law by paying or face imminent collapse. How many jobs are you willing to
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>The US does have an extremely good network of embassies The only reason most citizens would go to an embassy is to renew their passport, so these embassies are needed once every 5-10 years. Do you really think that US embassies offer su
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Maybe not, but they certainly do worse: https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-insiders-saudi-arabia-sp... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
If it's a significant sum you should speak to a lawyer, you may be able to claim those funds back from law enforcement. Liberty Reserve claims are seemingly being processed (after 7 years), I don't see why BTC-e would be treated v
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Have you actually driven new comparably priced cars by "traditional automakers"? There's not many things where Tesla is actually significantly ahead Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
The idea that an "ID-required" network would do anything to slow down bad actors is downright hilarious.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Dealers who operate at a scale where twitter tips or venmo are viable payment methods are not operating at a scale where they'd need any excuses.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
... but why?
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
A drug dealer could also get cheese from their customers instead of cash. Would that make sense? About as much as using twitter tips, I guess.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Why would GPS not be reliable while skiing?
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Oh, Apple stores will waive the deductible if you ask. They don't even try to charge it if your device was originally sold in the EU. I've replaced two iphones in the past month, didn't pay a deductible for either. If you bre
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
Why don't you just get applecare plus? Getting a case has never even crossed my mind, I can just go replace my phone for free whenever I want.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
What's your point? Those people have money.
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
It solved the problem of paying for drugs which you ordered online. It solved the problem of ransomware payments, before winlockers used to ask for gift cards which didn't scale well. It solved the liberty reserve problem where the US
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by FDSGSG 5y ago
>What's a fiat equivalent, because it sure doesn't sound like a $? Government bonds

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