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by gst 8y ago
Are the fees also capped for foreign cards? I spend significant amounts of time in Europe each year (multiple months) and some of my US credit cards don't charge foreign transaction fees and also earn cashback on transactions done in E
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by gst 8y ago
The Alliant credit card is a great investment if you need to pay estimated taxes: The cheapest IRS payment processor charges 1.87% to pay taxes via credit card, which is much less than the cashback that you receive from Alliant.
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by gst 8y ago
Same thing happened to me with Simple (the banking startup). After they got acquired by BBVA they moved their customer's checking accounts from The Bancorp to BBVA. As part of that process they re-verified their customers and closed ac
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by gst 8y ago
> If you somehow managed to clone the security key, services would notice that your nonces are no longer monotonically increasing and you could at least detect that it's been cloned. At least a year ago or so (last time when I check
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by gst 8y ago
I'm surprised that he didn't try to relocate back to Germany years ago, as Germany doesn't extradite its own citizens. Did any of the court orders in New Zealand prevent him from (legally) leaving the country?
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by gst 8y ago
> The speeds are theoretical and plummet as spectrum utilization increases. If everybody replaced their xDSL/DOCSIS/FTTx connections with 4G/5G and utilized them the same, the speeds would be terrible. The provider A1 in A
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by gst 8y ago
Same in Austria (but 20 EUR instead of 10). LTE is a competitor for ADSL and Cable here and LTE providers sell WiFi routers that use LTE instead of ADSL/Cable as uplink. I recently replaced my home ADSL connection with LTE (for 20 EUR
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by gst 8y ago
Yes.
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by gst 8y ago
> The decentralization narrative will go away. Only a few people will have enough storage for the blockchain and you will go back to having to trust someone. With a pruning client you only need to store a small subset of the blockchain a
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by gst 8y ago
> Same here in Austria. Per capita, the people employed in the banking sector is significantly higher than in other countries. Yet it's usually a hassle to find an ATM in Austria (which is the most important thing related to banking
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by gst 8y ago
Also Bitcoin has been declared dead 299 times already: https://99bitcoins.com/obituary-stats/ Maybe the futures will have some impact, but I wouldn't be surprised if in hindsight it will turn out that futures didn
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by gst 8y ago
> I'd offer a much simpler explanation. The buzz around Bitcoin reached a critical mass where people at home with no knowledge of cryptocurrencies or blockchain technology suddenly got caught up in a bubble. As the interest increase
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by gst 8y ago
Somewhat related: Since a few weeks I'm regularly getting a Facebook ad with the title "I want to work at [company name]. Can you help?" from someone who seems to be interested in a job at the company at which I'm workin
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by gst 8y ago
You can use ACH trial deposit verification with Robinhoodas alternative to Plaid.
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by gst 8y ago
IB is not European but based in the US. I would also recommend it but tax could be somewhat more complicated (W-8BEN form, etc.).
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by gst 8y ago
If you have larger sums to invest (or if you trade a lot) Interactive Brokers could be an option. Also there are a number of other European brokers - e.g., DeGiro and Lynx.
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by gst 8y ago
The one feature that I'm really missing from Robinhood is selling based on Spec-ID instead of just FIFO. FIFO means I won't be able to tax-loss harvest making Robinhood effectively much more expensive than the alternatives (as the
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by gst 8y ago
> What Google should do is just build a shared messaging API that can integrate multiple services into one app. You mean something like XMPP? (On which Google's original chat service was based).
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by gst 9y ago
Same here. I've been using btrfs for years so far on my personal laptop and never had any problems.
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by gst 9y ago
That's only for US debit cards where a debit transaction requires a PIN code, but a credit transaction prefers signatures. For credit cards with PIN preference it shouldn't make a difference, as it's up to the card to decide
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by gst 9y ago
Depends on the restaurant. Most of the times the terminal doesn't support PINs and so it falls back to signatures. But some restaurants use PIN-capable terminals in which case that issue occurs.
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by gst 9y ago
I travel a lot between the US and Europe and the cultures are very different: In the US I have my real signature at the back of the card but I just draw a straight line when signing the receipt. No one ever complained about that. In Europe
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by gst 9y ago
Most European cards use Chip & PIN with pin preference: If the terminal supports it the card will ask for a chip instead of a signature. Chip-based signature transactions are only used as fallback if the terminal doesn't support pi
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by gst 9y ago
Palm detection on the new MBPs is extremely good. You can rest your palm on the touchpad without any accidental clicks. It's far ahead of any other touchpad I used so far.
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by gst 9y ago
1) Tax laws are completely different for each European country. 2) At least for some of the countries (the once where I'm aware how taxes work) this is not the case: Even if you exchange one cryptocurrency for another cryptocurrency it
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by gst 9y ago
No. But I trust that the Signal binaries for Android match the source code that is published on Github: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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by gst 9y ago
Azul's builds are also TCK certified. They currently look like the best choice if you use Java and if you don't want to depend on Oracle's builds.
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by gst 9y ago
It looks like Oracle will only provide binary releases for the LTS versions (after the regular 6 month release window) to paying customers: https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b8... .
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by gst 9y ago
Vanguard allows me to exchange one mutual fund for another mutual fund (without having to explicitly sell and re-buy). Do you think that's something that shouldn't be taxable? Where's the difference to the cryptocurrency exam
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by gst 9y ago
> That said, the consensus I've heard from my audit colleagues (I work in public accounting) is that no one has the slightest freaking clue how to audit crypto. Shouldn't the crypto part be trivial for Tether? You'd just n

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