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by dcc1 13y ago
He's a legal troll a parasite on innovation not to different from patent trolls, don't entertain him.
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by dcc1 13y ago
Notice how I listed internet/network related technologies (HDMI/blueray/ HGP etc are not)
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by dcc1 13y ago
Which is how state controlled bitcoin like currencies will be pushed onto people, claiming it would save time/money etc, be more safe and secure etc. Tho' I highly doubt bureaucrats in IRS or similar would rollover so quickly and
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by dcc1 13y ago
Yes very annoying especially when paying them, also Outlook.com was having issues too :( and blockchain.info is down too
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by dcc1 13y ago
They are wrong, the blockchain is public, it is very likely that a bitcoin like technology be used by state actors in future to create tightly controlled currencies! Imagine a state being able to charge sales tax at the point of each transa
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by dcc1 13y ago
Well it is an innovative technology/platform that ranks up there with HTTP, html, tcp/ip, usenet, bittorent Nothing as interesting has come out since 90s, all we had since are "social networks" and "flappy bird&quo
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by dcc1 13y ago
Yes because there hasnt been any politically motivated cyber attacks on countries within the Russian "sphere of influence" in the past /sarcasm
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by dcc1 13y ago
Electricity, water, telecoms, sewage comes in underground (and I instructed builder few years back to bury them deep against cold) My house was all build using concrete block with only the roof and interior flooring made of wood, This winte
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by dcc1 13y ago
I suppose the Russians will be telling their people that the "West" did it themselves in order to make Russia look bad, just like the "Ukranian" unmarked fascist troops surrounded their own bases "for the laugh&quot
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by dcc1 13y ago
It absolutely amazes me how all houses in US seem to be build with 100% wood, especially in areas with termites, dryness or possibilities of hurricanes! It is not that much more expensive to build a solid concrete block home, insulate and a
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by dcc1 13y ago
The similarities, the rhetoric and the actions from Putin are frighteningly similar as to what happened at the start of WW2 :(
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by dcc1 13y ago
$Sudetenland = preg_replace('/Russian/','/German/',$argument); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland
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by dcc1 13y ago
Lets look at the facts, Russian speaking troops without any country marking (shoot at one and the world would quickly find out who they belong to) but are speaking Russian and driving trucks with Russian numbers plates are occupying Crimea
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by dcc1 13y ago
My parents have and still watch Russian satellite channels, what is shown on Russian news channels when compared to every single other news channel outside of Russia is very different. Either there is a conspiracy between all the news chan
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by dcc1 13y ago
I was born in the USSR, my birth cert has the hammer and sickle, so please don't lecture me on "the Russian way of thinking" What has risen in the last ~15 years is a much more cynical, evil, ugly and nastier version of wha
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by dcc1 13y ago
There were huge protests before the Iraq war, it was invaded anyways.
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by dcc1 13y ago
Until one day those antiPutinities are mysteriously rounded up and sent to Siberia, heres a thought for you if Putin did that tomorrow what would the "West" do? the answer will be nothing, nada, zero If I was in Russia now i would
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by dcc1 13y ago
I see, still thats quite a bit especially when need to hand over a large chunk on any sale from Irish/EU28 customers in tax! Currently working with Elavon for credit card payments (cant disclose exact rates, but much cheaper than Stri
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by dcc1 13y ago
re: fastsrping "You have the option to pay either 8.9% flat or 5.9% plus $.95 per transaction. " Wowza, thats steep! edit: Sorry but experience has been different here in west, in another lifetime I worked on an "innovation p
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by dcc1 13y ago
No incorporation was extremely easy and fast. Its afterwards when the fun begins especially if you are in IT where Revenue might not know how to tax you and you need get a written judgement (So they don't accuse you of not paying taxes
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by dcc1 13y ago
Yes sorry VAT (i called it sales tax for US readers to relate) We have a lowish corporation tax of 12.5% yes paid on company profits, but everything else is very high! For example out of a ~€39000 salary last year after all taxes i was left
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by dcc1 13y ago
As someone who has been in business here since 2007, i would stop you right there! We have our share of a bureaucracy (example: took 6 months to get reply from Revenue as to what VAT to pay or not on sales of hosting packages, 23% sales tax
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by dcc1 13y ago
Its correct, has 20 euro balance on an account I haven't used in 2 years and forgot about until this hoopla began
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by dcc1 13y ago
well that ain't the fault of the bbc now is it?
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by dcc1 13y ago
Thanks to shitpal I discovered bitcoin and stripe. PayPal are The.worst.company.ever TM
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by dcc1 13y ago
probably because the withdrawals to bank havent worked for months, the writing was on the wall for a long time, people who lost money in it took a huge gamble he should have transferred the bitcoins to bitstamp when transfers worked and cas
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by dcc1 13y ago
There is work being done on distributed exchange, the problem is quite difficult tho, I believe there is an exchange in germany that works quite well and users pay by bank transfer between each other (sepa transfers are cheap or free) There
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by dcc1 13y ago
Mtgox existed because Only ways to get bitcoin: 1. Mine them (very very hard and getting harder) 2. Get paid in bitcoin for product/service 3. Buy them on an exchange for fiat 4. Be given bitcoin by early adopters Until its possible to
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by dcc1 13y ago
I use it on several sites, and it works quite fine, The problem is with users they are so used to registering with "omgonies/1234568" into sites that federated login is weird to them
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by dcc1 13y ago
See here for an example questions they ask personal customers trying too withdraw above certain limit (not sure what it is exactly or what criteria is used to trigger this) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=356026.msg3

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