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by prvit 4y ago
This isn’t the “average person traveling through Heathrow” forum. This is a forum run by a big VC fund for startup billionaires and temporarily embarrassed startup billionaires.
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by prvit 4y ago
Oh, I’ve never been asked questions at the VIP terminal. Just a quick look at my passport and they tell me I’m good to go. Regular LHR border control on the other hand used to quiz me all the time. What are you doing? Where are you staying?
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by prvit 4y ago
People making more than $300k/yr TC aren’t exactly a small minority on HN. While the VIP service at Heathrow is unusually expensive compared to other airports, it’s really not a crazy price to avoid some very stressful hours.
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by prvit 4y ago
Well yeah, but the prices for those have actually more than doubled in the post-COVID world. Makes more sense for bigger groups, but hard to justify for many individuals who’d have previously flown private.
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by prvit 4y ago
Protip: Just book VIP to avoid troubles when arriving/departing at LHR. https://www.heathrowvip.com/ Same goes for Schiphol https://www.schiphol.nl/en/page/schiphol-vip-service/ For rela
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by prvit 4y ago
In the case of darknet markets, value is created for all participants, otherwise the deals wouldn't happen. There's no coercion involved. The externalities are debatable, but I think we can accept that drug trade in the onionland
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by prvit 4y ago
Even if the outcome isn't net positive, that doesn't mean that there is no value created.
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by prvit 4y ago
So?
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by prvit 4y ago
Given that there are voluntary buyers and sellers choosing to engage in these exchanges of real products, the suggestion that no value is created directly contradicts very basic economic theory.
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by prvit 4y ago
There's no scam. The fundamentals of DOCK didn't change at all, temporary fluctuations in the value of the token aren't realized losses.
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by prvit 4y ago
That decentralized digital currencies provide no value is the extraordinary claim. It's a statement that is obviously false to anyone who's been following mainstream news in the past years. Darknet markets exist, are not a big sec
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by prvit 4y ago
A search warrant will generally not compel you to open doors for law enforcement, it simply authorizes them to kick your door in.
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by prvit 4y ago
For example, darknet markets deliver very real value.
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by prvit 4y ago
Indeed, this is downright hilarious. And in the end, there were no victims. Nobody lost anything, all the investors got to keep their DOCKs.
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by prvit 4y ago
If the warrant is to search your premises, you may not be obligated to decrypt your servers that automatically shut off on unauthorized entry. Generally, but not always, a separate court order would be required to force you to decrypt your
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by prvit 4y ago
There's also the very real fact that most of those scammers can barely speak English, so they don't really have any other option. Even if they source a well written starting email, the facade will fall apart immediately once they
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by prvit 4y ago
>the kill switch should be disengaged so they have full access. Only when you’re legally obligated to do so, which is probably often not the case.
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by prvit 4y ago
Huh? 3D printed guns work very well and are super common among criminals in Europe. Lots of FGC9 based designs for sale for 2-4k depending on how fancy you want. Especially common in the Netherlands.
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by prvit 4y ago
I’ve spent the past couple of months on Cote d’Azur, Russians and Ukrainians everywhere. You hear Russian music playing all over St Tropez.
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by prvit 4y ago
Well yeah, Nice isn’t particularly nice. It’s a budget holiday destination. There are nice places in the vicinity, like Cap Ferrat, but people going there mostly avoid Nice.
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by prvit 4y ago
I wish. I occasionally have to take the tube, and it’s awful. The temperatures and humidity can get super high, turning everybody on the train into a sweaty mess.
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by prvit 4y ago
>there is the tube and driving in the city is quite dreadful It’s not that bad, at least in Westminster/RBKC. Westminster has super liberal parking policies, so you can park anywhere except TFL red routes without getting your car to
533.
by prvit 4y ago
I think I’d rather have slightly inebriated drivers than people letting their kids drive them home.
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by prvit 4y ago
Yeah, good luck getting into PTP or BTN now without putting in hundreds of hours of work into it (and even then, probably not gonna happen). There’s a reason those accounts sell for upwards of $500 Best bet for most people is finding a plex
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by prvit 4y ago
> I hope you're not genuinely convinced you can't find similar bliss for an order of magnitude less than what you paid I’ve got extensive experience commissioning various garments in workshops around the world, buying furs from
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by prvit 4y ago
It’s the most comfortable garment I’ve ever touched, every moment wearing it is pure bliss. The fur is hardly visible to the outside, so little signaling value.
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by prvit 4y ago
I have many individual pieces of clothing worth more than that. Nice cashmere is expensive, but soooo soft. A basic sweater from Loro Piana can easily run a few k, but is absolutely worth the price. Sky is the limit when it comes to outerwe
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by prvit 4y ago
And coinbase acquired this because they need it to address compliance concerns. Might as well sell it to third parties too.
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by prvit 4y ago
Some weird impact assessments here. LPE from OpenVPN user to root is not high impact, these are VPN servers, they don't host anything else.
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by prvit 4y ago
doh.mullvad.net definitely does not route through Singapore for me.

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