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by ryanlol 5y ago
So what?
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Without any arbitration mechanism this kind of escrow seems fairly useless. The buyer always loses to a malicious seller who is now able to keep the funds locked up forever. Oracles can’t really be trustless.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
How does zero-trust escrow work? Seems like this would have a very limited set of applications without an external source of truth.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Not if the hackers use monero.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
“relatively fancy” :) Embassy gardens is very fancy compared to how most Londoners live.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
One of my favourite things about living in London is that you don’t have to live in constant fear of the tow truck. The city of westminster does not remove vehicles for parking violations. https://www.westminster.gov.uk/park
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by ryanlol 5y ago
The prices are almost half of what they’d be on the other side of the river for comparable developments, it’s a reasonably short drive to central london.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
He’s also a guy that lives in a relatively fancy area of probably the most desirable city in the world.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
It really isn’t true for US domestic either. Where are you seeing this?
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Passenger planes don’t have ejector seats.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
You wouldn’t want to be using a 30 year old TV now, would you?
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Do you normally keep your phone in the DFU state?
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by ryanlol 5y ago
This is not true.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
UK specific article. Anyone who has worked with payment processing can tell you how rare debit card chargebacks are, this is because they’re usually vastly more difficult.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
It is not unreasonable to speak of Europe as a whole. Credit card transactions are common where I live, but not in most of Europe.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
s/consumers/americans/ In Europe credit cards are not very common, and debit card transactions are often not reversible.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Hard to prove a negative. It’s not like this is prevalent enough that there’d be large scale testing of weed going on.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
It is scaremongering. Synthetic cannabinoids are commonly sold, but they are not commonly sold as cannabis as berndi suggests.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
This is utter nonsense scaremongering. Synthetic cannabinoid products exist, but they’re not commonly sold as anything but synthetic cannabinoids.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Don’t be lazy, this is easy to google. https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/uae-introduces-changes-t... https://apnews.com/article/dubai-united-arab-emirates-honor-... https://www.t
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by ryanlol 5y ago
2016 was 5 years ago. These laws have been struck since then. And in any case, we don’t know the specifics of what happened there.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
2008 was 13 years ago. The past 13 years in the UAE have been nothing like even the past 30 years in the west. The difference between now and 2008 is incomprehensible, it’s simply not the same country. In the past week I’ve visited a gay ba
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by ryanlol 5y ago
... in 2008. I don’t think you really appreciate how fast things have been changing here. Might as well talk about how things weren’t so great for women in the west a little over 100 years ago. Despite what you might read in the Daily Mail,
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Oddly enough nobody is bringing up gitmo or police murders in response to all the comments recommending the US. At least nobody gets shot for being black in the UAE. Even prisoners are treated well here and not used as slave labor like in t
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Not true for expats, so approx 90% of the population.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
At least it’s better than the big north american country running overseas torture camps. Estonia is probably your best choice if you’re particularly worried about human rights.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Not true. Very hard to open a bank account only if you aren’t willing to spend approx $3k to facilitate everything. It’s also easy to start an “onshore” company now
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Be more specific. Compromised how? Which places?
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by ryanlol 5y ago
Dubai is a pretty easy option. Friendly tax regime, convenient location, good infrastructure.
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by ryanlol 5y ago
None of these routes were within Schengen, of course you’re going through border control when flying to the UK.

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