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by aianus 9y ago
> Most people don't want to work more than their normal job Exactly why I don't want to go home to my second "job" as a line cook / dishwasher for an hour every day at a "wage" 5x lower than my day job.
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by aianus 9y ago
Can we get around this by using a reshipping service from the US? Or would those shipments be blocked as well?
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by aianus 9y ago
They treat their customers very well, that's why they've been so successful.
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by aianus 9y ago
> There's no way that criminals with even lower oversight behave better. There are no bigger criminals with lower oversight than anonymous drug sellers on silk road, and yet most people did get their orders. That was my point. >
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by aianus 9y ago
It's not about resting, it's about escaping from life.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes, you have an additional opportunity. You don't have to use it if you're not comfortable with the seller or the chance of being swindled. However, reputation systems seem to work alright, as evidenced by silk road where you rea
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by aianus 9y ago
I've done this all personally many times and it is the cheapest way to exchange a couple thousand dollars worth of fiat cross-border (I usually made a profit, even). You have to hold bitcoin on the destination exchange and then buy and
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by aianus 9y ago
Actually there are quite a few legal applications that are well-served by irreversible internet cash. Things like porn, sex toys, gambling in many jurisdictions, selling expensive items like gold bars or cash online, selling cross-border to
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by aianus 9y ago
Because it doesn't feel the same, duh. Might as well ask why people have sex at all instead of staying home safely and jerking off.
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by aianus 9y ago
Why would I pay more money for a higher chance of getting into an argument with some asshole cab driver instead of using Uber, saving money, and avoiding the hassle entirely?
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by aianus 9y ago
https://www.coinbase.com/careers I'm sure crypto projects and experience are a plus :)
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by aianus 9y ago
> However your coins will most likely be moved to "Cold storage" This is the part I was responding to. It sounds like you're saying that using the vault feature will move your coins into cold storage. In fact, they were al
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by aianus 9y ago
This is incorrect, customer funds go to cold storage regardless of whether they're in a vault or wallet. This feature is intended to protect against account takeover, not the Coinbase hot wallet getting hacked. (I worked at Coinbase a
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by aianus 9y ago
How does the French bank know if I owe $100k to some other bank and am now 2 months in arrears? Edit: also, comparing nominal interest rates is meaningless, you have to compare the spread vs. the risk-free rate for the given currency.
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by aianus 9y ago
While getting payroll correct is definitely complex, not paying people at all is an unforgivable and inexplicable failure mode.
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by aianus 9y ago
Because subsidized housing is located in, and funded by, the city (at least where I live). There is no option to move somewhere cheaper and keep the subsidies.
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by aianus 9y ago
It's only a few lines of terraform to spin up a mysql or pg RDS instance. It can't get any easier, so why would I jump through extra hoops to use sqlite?
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by aianus 9y ago
> I am not aware of any other service with a comparable number of properties and reviews. Why do you need so many properties and reviews? You're staying in one room, presumably. You just need at least one room with a few good revi
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by aianus 9y ago
> Well, domestic capital leaving China is largely illegal Says whom? I imagine anyone who got rich legally in China would also try to get the capital out and diversify in more developed countries.
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by aianus 9y ago
You can mine in a pool that distributes the pool's winnings proportionally to hashpower to its members. You don't need to actually mine any blocks on your own.
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by aianus 9y ago
I didn't say the state doesn't have other forms of power, only that they don't (and shouldn't) have a monopoly on it. Anyways, Bitcoin doesn't seem like much of a threat to the kind of power developed countries have
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by aianus 9y ago
The state by definition has monopoly on violence, not power in general. You don't want a state with total centralized power over the economy because you end up with places like North Korea or the USSR with uncompetitive industry and sh
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by aianus 9y ago
Al Jazeera is the state media of Qatar which exports natural gas, not oil.
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by aianus 9y ago
Giving people credit without seeing how much they already owe and how they're repaying it is insane. Rich people can go over their heads and default just as well as poor people. There is an obvious and valid need for credit reporting a
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by aianus 9y ago
Credit has little to do with income. I have over $70k in various credit lines and have never shown any proof of income whatsoever. I just name a number and they accept it (after checking my all-important credit score).
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by aianus 9y ago
I was making $145k as a junior rails dev at my last job in Toronto and they're hiring nonstop. Message me on keybase if you want to chat or get an intro.
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by aianus 9y ago
Neither of them exist in my city and the trip is 300km each way :/
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by aianus 9y ago
I'm never going back to hauling a week's worth of groceries through the snow from the bus stop. Nor cutting my weekend with my girlfriend short so I can make the last train back to my city on Sunday night. You'll have to take
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by aianus 9y ago
Their usage of the discount window has to be miniscule compared to customer deposits, no?
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by aianus 9y ago
At least in Canada the last bank integration I worked on was FTPS (FTP over SSL). Files were otherwise in plaintext with account numbers and everything.

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