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by askmike 8y ago
> whose site no country would dare censor Google is not accessible to about 1.4 billion people because the single government of China "dares" to censor Google. That's close to 20% of the world's population. I don&#x27
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by askmike 8y ago
I'm not sure, but I do know that in the Netherlands no one bikes with a helmet, and it's considered very safe: I took the bicycle to school ever since mid primary school (we don't have school busses or anythig like that.) The
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by askmike 8y ago
So the decision on what apps can be domain fronted because they need to get around censorship lies with Google or another big company, what could go wrong here?
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by askmike 9y ago
It appears that that "een pinpas" is a form of a debit card, though not all debit cards work: > Credit card use in the Netherlands is very low, and most credit cards cannot be used with EFTPOS, or charge very high fees to the c
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by askmike 9y ago
Not sure about how unsafe offices are but here is a paper showing statistics about how it is safer to ride a bike than to not ride one. As in "[cycling has] shown beneficial effects on population risk of all-cause mortality (ACM)"
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by askmike 9y ago
They might actually. As for the security: I only meant online payments (should have clarified).
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by askmike 9y ago
In most countries in Europe people don't really use credit cards. I only have a credit card because I travel outside Europe a lot (and want to pay online where proper payment solutions like iDeal or even PayPal are not supported). Even
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Arbing the great bull run of 2017(forum.gekko.wizb.it)
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Agent Smith: The story of my cryptocurrency arbitrage bot(forum.gekko.wizb.it)
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by askmike 9y ago
> RTBF is Europe-wide Nope it's not, it's an EU law and EU !== Europe. Europe has 51 countries while the EU only has 28. Just like Mexico is not in the US, a ton of European countries are not in the EU.
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by askmike 9y ago
> I guarantee Yandex and Baidu will not respect western delusions of security through obscurity. This has nothing to do with security through obscurity, it has to do with rights of human beings. Anyway Google doesn't either, hence t
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by askmike 9y ago
You cannot copyright a story written about you (AFAIK IANAL), DMCA is not designed to protect individuals from these kind of things.
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by askmike 9y ago
Closer to "The problem isn't that I bought a fridge, the problem is that it malfunctioned and my house burned down." The problem is the content showing up when searching for someone's name, not that there is an article o
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by askmike 9y ago
> Europe doesn't have free speech, so, no problem. Europe definitely has free speech (all the countries I know of anyway, Europe has a lot of different countries). There is just a different definition of what exactly is free speech
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by askmike 9y ago
Would you say the same about gambling software? What about software related to selling heroin? All of these products are designed to be as addictive as possible (to varying degrees). The whole point of of an addiction is that your are there
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by askmike 9y ago
Right now Google Analytics is loaded but there is no tracking code configured! Not the biggest fan of trackers but definitely would want that configured if my post would be on the HN front page.
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by askmike 9y ago
OP is talking about the machines Google devs use, and I am betting they are definitely not desktop machines.
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by askmike 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the amount of users that actually like this opt-out behaviour (everything gets suspended by default) is a minority. Instead what they choose to do is not worry about memory until it you actually run out of it. I don&#x2
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by askmike 9y ago
Given keybase is a social product around cryptographic security my bet is on some kind of a social platform where stellar tokens play a big role.
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by askmike 9y ago
> 1. They are more likely to be assaulted or robbed in a shelter. Shelter staff may or may not do shit to help you. I'm not sure you can still call something like that a shelter to be honest.
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by askmike 9y ago
Tax in the US works very different from most other places as far as I know. In my country (NL) you only report how much assets you have at the end of the year (wealth tax) as investing in crypto with a profit is not considered income. My ad
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by askmike 9y ago
If you take that stance you also say there is no such thing as free will, since all your actions are some kind of response from the environment. Not saying that that means you're wrong.
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by askmike 9y ago
> Even IF those tethers are 1:1 backed today, they won't be once uncle sam figures it out. I 100% agree, this is also the reason why there is no public audit ;)
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by askmike 9y ago
The picture in that tweet (IMO) only states that a lot of people who get their hands on USDT didn't buy them with USD but with crypto (on any of the big no FIAT exchanges like Binance, Bittrex, etc). This can at some point create a pri
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by askmike 9y ago
> Do you consider it credible that they have received, this year so far, somewhere between 5 and 10% of the entire volume of fiat currency that has so far been put into cryptocurrency in its entire history so far ? Yes I do: if we look a
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by askmike 9y ago
I agree with you. Though if I want to show the flashy-wannabe-HFT exchanges to my friends I might still go for their dashboard.
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by askmike 9y ago
Unsure, I just know it doesn't work for me and most of my EU based friends: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/969743/33161855-cf... EDIT: Apparently I am allowed to trade BTC/EUR. Yay! If only it was
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by askmike 9y ago
Looks great, would love to see some exchanges supported that people outside the US can actually use (GDAX is not accessible to most people in EU).
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by askmike 9y ago
If it is raining outside and I take an umbrella with me, I can say it's a solution to the rain. That doesn't say anything about whether I bought the umbrella specifically for today and if I had it longer than today I am lying...
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by askmike 9y ago
> If they can't do that, remove the thing that says This again, is related to their marketing and not actually to their solvency (red herring). > Release an official audit (that doesn't say "this is not an audit")

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