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by thesimon 9y ago
N26 has got a quite decent REST API if you are willing to use your dev tools for a bit :) Edit: Most banks also seem to support FinTS [0], but it seems a bit of a PITA. Edit 2: figo might be worth a try as well, though I don't know the
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by thesimon 10y ago
You could get a cheap prepaid travel card ( https://revolut.com/ )
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by thesimon 10y ago
Most people probably expect a high level of privacy.
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by thesimon 10y ago
As long as you get a free raspberrypi and free electricity.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>In most parts of Europe, PayPal is pretty much unheard of Thats depends a lot on the country though. Not accepting PayPal in Germany would probably be the same as not accepting credit card in the US. In the UK however only offering cred
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by thesimon 10y ago
Probably getting a e-money license in the UK as they are easy to get.
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by thesimon 10y ago
Foreign banks tend to not deal with customers with US tax residence though due to FATCA requirements. So it might be a burden even if you are under the threshold.
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by thesimon 10y ago
The letter says "Automatically generated captions were inaccurate and incomplete, making the content inaccessible to individuals with hearing disabilities." So it seems like they need to be quite accurate.
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by thesimon 10y ago
The Department seemed to be aware of it though. The Department found that [...] many had automatic captioning generated by YouTube’s speech recognition technology. In March 2015, the Department selected 30 videos. [..] for review
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by thesimon 10y ago
> Source code can be verified But how often is that really done? And to be honest, it can be quite hard to spot critical bugs or backdoors, just look at http://www.underhanded-c.org/
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by thesimon 10y ago
>Editd They rebranded to "Edited", but I can confirm that they have an amazing culture.
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by thesimon 10y ago
> This article is two years old but most of the things are valid still today. Would you say the salary levels are still accurate? Just making a back-of-the-envelope calculation using your numbers for food, immoscout24 for rent (used a 2.
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by thesimon 10y ago
The funny thing is Germans love loyalty programs tracking their exact purchases but don't want their bank to know the purchase amount.
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by thesimon 10y ago
As a German I would say some of the negative aspects are: * Always afraid of innovation * Contactless credit cards are regarded as very dangerous * Even debit card payments are bad because they cost the seller money and the gove
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by thesimon 10y ago
This may sound strange, but maybe even Visual Basic or C#? It allows you to easily create GUI applications and I assume thats what's interesting. Switching to other languages is easy enough, but capturing interest is key.
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by thesimon 10y ago
A bit surprised as they quite recently emailed me to let me know EU customers can now buy bitcoins.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>Masking on a demonstration has recently been turned from an Ordnungswidrigkeit ("contravention" according to Wikipedia) to a felony in multiple states. I'm pretty sure you are wrong. §17a VersG has been in place since 198
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by thesimon 10y ago
Because reselling your devices should not be allowed?
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by thesimon 10y ago
Downside: You are not going to get op-ups.
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by thesimon 10y ago
> instead of implementing their own universal system that undercuts Sofortüberweisung's merchant fees (0.9% + €0.25 per transaction) is beyond me. Well, they are trying with wasting 300 millions so far on Paydirekt. Their rates are
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by thesimon 10y ago
>as they would "hinder the adoption of innovative FinTec". Which is not surprising considering the banks have their own similar scheme giropay/paydirekt and not allowing competitors doesn't seem that fair. > IMHO w
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by thesimon 10y ago
Luckily EU regulation now requires most banks to open a (basic) bank account. Just need an ID and a proof of address. Some banks even allow opening the bank account over the internet if you are a EU resident. (I know your pain though, opene
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by thesimon 10y ago
>even when not respecting a democratic vote The "Brexit" vote was nothing more than an opinion poll. There is no direct democracy in the UK.
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by thesimon 10y ago
> Clinton _is_ a poor choice I agree, but the other choices are even worse.
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by thesimon 10y ago
A user on reddit put it like this >Apple used to be focused on making their devices better, now they're just focused on making them even thinner. Think that is really accurate.
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by thesimon 10y ago
>. Why should Uber be allowed to skirt around these laws? What makes them special? They have an app and are cheaper. Same reason why airbnb obviously should be allowed to skirt around these laws.
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by thesimon 10y ago
> They're literally all the ports, currently with adapters, If a notebook has got a HDMI port would you say it has a DVI port, because all you need is an adapter? > eventually likely out of the box Nope, only power cable and char
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by thesimon 10y ago
For the average German retailer it's around: 0.23% EC 0.5% Maestro/VPay/MasterCard Debit/Visa Debit 0.8% MasterCard Credit/Visa Credit 2.5% Amex But of course that depends on the size and the negotiation skills of t
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by thesimon 10y ago
I am aware of that, but the biggest German banks only use their own scheme instead of Visa/MasterCard which doesn't support contactless at the moment. Visa/MasterCard debits are extremely rare in Germany.
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by thesimon 10y ago
> Can you elaborate Not sure about the high impact of the US. German troops and the resources were quite exhausted (malnutrition and bad equipment) and the Brits were effectively blocking the seaway. France was also able to encrypt the G

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