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by gst 13y ago
If you don't find a bank account you could always operate a P2P-style exchange like bitmarket used to: The exchange acts as an escrow for the Bitcoins, but the fiat transaction happens directly between market participants. Once the fia
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by gst 13y ago
Why not? Many European countries don't extradite their own citizens [1]. So you only need to comply with the local laws, which are often much less strict in terms of AML provisions. Of course you wouldn't want to do any internatio
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by gst 13y ago
So now let's assume I'm selling something on an auction site and someone pays me with coins where I assume it's likely that they are stolen (but I don't have any definite knowledge about that). For some reason I now need
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by gst 13y ago
Many international exchanges don't really care about US AML provisions and/or about transacting in US dollars. And as long as they don't maintain US bank accounts they probably also don't care about being sued in the Uni
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by gst 13y ago
And how would this work in practice. Let's assume you have one "clean" Bitcoin and I have one stolen/flagged Bitcoin. I'm now sending you 0.1 Bitcoins and you don't know that those are flagged. So how would thi
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by gst 13y ago
While many people in the Bitcoin community claim that this is limited to Mtgox (due to their withdrawal issues), let's not forget that Mtgox still has the majority of the trading volume. Once Mtgox enables withdrawals their cheap coins
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by gst 13y ago
While I haven't used Google Glass yet, I can't imagine being productive (or being able to relax) while using it. I usually try to disable as many potential distractions as possible when working. I don't have mail notification
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by gst 13y ago
While I agree with him on some points most of his arguments are just absurd. Javascript is now a bad thing too, because websites don't license it under the GPL? I wonder what his opinion on Postscript is, given it's a turing compl
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by gst 13y ago
You mean like 2 months ago?
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by gst 13y ago
I've used the Gmail export feature weeks ago - this does not appear to be anything new.
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by gst 13y ago
You can't really compare a small densely populated country such as the Netherlands to a huge country with large rural areas such as the United States. If you live in an urban area here (such as the Bay Area) you get excellent speeds as
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by gst 13y ago
This really depends on the particular tax treaty. Do you have to file taxes? Most likely yes. Do you have to deduct taxes? This depends: Some tax treaties specify that you only have to pay the "difference" in taxes, i.e., by deduc
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by gst 13y ago
I used TurboTax in the past, since a few years I'm using a tax advisor as this is essentially cheaper. With TurboTax I always ended up being not 100% sure if I'm eligible for certain deductions. So I could either not claim them (a
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by gst 13y ago
Unless there's a tax treaty between the US and the country where you reside.
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by gst 13y ago
In related news: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/uni...
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by gst 13y ago
But that's exactly what happened: 1) He was in handcuffs, so apparently not free to go. 2) Police told him he can't contact a lawyer because he's not arrested. 3) Police forced him to undergo a medical procedure (still, witho
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by gst 13y ago
I wonder if and how such a bill would be legally enforceable. He never requested any services from the hospital and he also never got into a emergency condition where the hospital was forced to safe his life. It's like if a random pers
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by gst 13y ago
So the let's suppose the cops answer "You're not detained. You're not free to leave.". What do you do now?
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by gst 13y ago
It appears still to be the case on my Nexus 5. Or are there any hidden options to fix this problem?
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by gst 13y ago
Android's encryption is pretty useless, as it forces you to use the same key for the encryption and for the screen lock. So either you have a secure encryption key and a way too complicated screen lock key, or you have a reasonable scr
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by gst 13y ago
In which part of London do you get an apartment for £425? I had the impression that you have to pay at least 3x that amount to get a reasonable apartment in a somewhat central place.
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by gst 13y ago
Meanwhile everyone who obtained the movie illegally could watch it at home without being harassed by anyone. At times where less and less people actually go to movie theaters, harassing the people who do so, doesn't look like the best
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by gst 13y ago
But the sample of people that your friend saw is biased. She only saw the people who talked to the police and ended up in prison, but doesn't know about the people who showed to the police that they are innocent, and who then left, wit
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by gst 13y ago
One of the main advantages of ASICs is that they prevent botnets from mining your coin. Also, specialized hardware prevents attackers from using general purpose hardware (e.g., by just renting a "few" EC2 instances). Only disadvan
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by gst 13y ago
Why don't you just throw a runtime exception inside the catch block?
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by gst 13y ago
In the same situation I'd probably acted the same. Yes, it's likely that the actual sentence would have been much lower. But there's still a very significant chance of spending the rest of your life in jail.
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by gst 13y ago
Are all of those data brokers located in the US? Otherwise they probably won't care much about US law.
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by gst 13y ago
As far as I know in the US such records never disappear. Also, it seems common that for most tech jobs a criminal background check is done (I don't know how it's in other areas outside of tech).
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by gst 13y ago
So with Amazon I'd just return the product if it arrives too late. Does this work with Coinbase too?
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by gst 13y ago
It doesn't need to work for the "general populace". As long as it's useful to a small set of people it will be used by this small set of people.

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