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by egorfine 4mo ago
Yeah... I have been reading threads upon threads of normies who discussed how to take better pictures of their passports to submit to Persona in order to keep using reddit. We are clearly the minority and reddit is happy to pay the price of
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> they are required by law Yes I understand. They are better prepared to fight the surveillance state than I am. And yet they caved in instead of putting out some resistance.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
You can become a customer on reddit by purchasing subscription. I did. I like reddit. Doesn't matter. They want your passport.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
reddit started asking KYC yesterday. You (and me) can bitch all you want, but reddit has well prepared for us whining and being sad will change nothing. Mark my words: KYC will be required on HN in about two years. Not because dang will wan
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> Looks like it is not Ok to receive salary if it is a notch above poverty level, too. Oh yes of course I meant that the only salary it is okay to receive is a small one. One shall never ever be permitted to feel wealthy.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
As I see it, the general philosophy of taxation in old Europe is this: any euro that you take home is a theft of state money. Ideally you should pay 100% of your income and then some. It's okay to receive salary though.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> If you don't like the laws/rules then just leave Germany Or change something. But yeah, I agree that leaving a country that you don't like is a good solution. I did that myself. > There is no justification for tax eva
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by egorfine 4mo ago
It doesn't really matter. If you do business in Germany you are evading taxes just by the fact of doing business. Everything and anything you make belongs to the government. It is an unfortunate loophole in the law that temporarily per
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Can confirm. JDG registration took like a couple of days and I didn't need to get my ass off my chair.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Yes, offline, in person, in the bank. But regulators will want more. So I fully expect a deeper KYC for the digital euro.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
It's negative selection applied to you. And you have dodged a bullet here.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Out of which €106bn are to be spent on regulations and environmental assessments.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
I reckon it will be KYCed as hard as imaginable - and then some.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> how this would affect my day-to-day (private) payment experience You will need to pass KYC at every counter.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
One should also bear in mind that the technical difference between Debit and Credit cards is quite blurry in the EU. Like, a card can officially be of the Debit kind, but have all the features of a Credit card enabled. Which is actually and
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Obviously. Because why would a rental company turn down > 90% of the customers?
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> what is your proposal? None. I don't see a solution. I'm silently rooting for Chinese models here.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> how does it not help solve the problem How does it? Online KYC is a procedure to verify someone's documents and face. And that's it. What does it have to do with the actual usage of the OpenAI account and the code that is bei
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by egorfine 4mo ago
>> The company has no way of knowing > That's what KYC is for. No, KYC has nothing to do with that problem. KYC doesn't help at all here. > I'm not in the US, nor America for that matter, I'm in the EU. Same
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by egorfine 4mo ago
As a society we have collectively decided that these numbers are money. Thus different rules apply. And I'm happy to pass KYC in person, so I do have accounts in different parts of the world. It's the online KYC that's not
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> how can an ongoing dialogue be past tense? Easy: it can be considered past tense in case "ongoing dialogue" is a corporatespeak for "f..k you". Which I believe is the case here. But that's an opinion. > Know
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by egorfine 4mo ago
So we should expect even more AI bullshit in Windows 12.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
I read this news as white noise because there is no scenario in which I will be allowed access to this model. First, I happen to be a citizen of a country that is not the USA. What's more shocking is that I'm not even located in t
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> possibly inform I'm not sure about that. People on HN are generally well in the know, while laymen don't event understand the substance of the matter in question.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> exposing the hypocrisy of the Danish government Does that change anything?
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Because this someone wants to know location of everyone in the country while his own location should be of course private and protected.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> a bit surprising and problematic Not it's not. Evil companies like to do business together.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
> they won’t let you retry Why would they care about _you_ when they have just a bit short of a billion users and they are up for a huge IPO? Of course they won't even bother implementing a retry.
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by egorfine 4mo ago
Yeah. Take a look at the docs. So much niceties
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by egorfine 4mo ago
I'm not sure deno has a future.

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