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by tonfa 5y ago
If you're from the US, that might explain the misunderstanding. The apps in Europe (EU+other countries) have standardized trusted certs roots. So being able to create a qr code doesn't help at all, it won't pass the verifier
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by tonfa 5y ago
This seems odd given that EU+CH did implement things properly wrt to cryto and trusted certs, but yes I guess there's a possibility that UK messed it up :)
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by tonfa 5y ago
They're not based on public key crypto like in the rest of the world?
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by tonfa 5y ago
They've been doing data sharing for a few years already, banking secrecy is only for swiss residents now.
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by tonfa 5y ago
> Travel restrictions anywhere are ridiculous at this point. The virus is everywhere already. It can increase the spread though, here (CH) a large fraction of local case are tied to people coming back from holidays. Mandatory quarantine
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by tonfa 5y ago
> There's no capital gains tax Wouldn't you still pay US tax as a green card holder or citizen? After decades in the US would be surprising if he wasnt. (And even if not, does the US have an exit tax when giving back green card
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by tonfa 5y ago
Then I understand parents comment even less :)
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by tonfa 5y ago
> Do you think drugs won't be advertised like how cigarettes and alcohol is being advertised Many countries ban advertizing for cigarettes. So while it's not banned the cost on society and public health is large enough that it&
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by tonfa 5y ago
Same context, same anecdote here.
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by tonfa 5y ago
How do you handle giving access to your keys to your next of kin?
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by tonfa 5y ago
Zero risk likely doesn't exist, especially not without the backing of a lender of last resort. In practice many stable coins are similar to money market funds or eurodollar banking, so mechanisms and risks are somewhat well known.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Isn't Pfizer mostly handling manufacturing and distribution for biontech?
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by tonfa 5y ago
Sounds like one is exhibiting features of a currency and the other isn't. I don't think you're supposed to store your wealth in cash if you want to preserve it (diversified equity holding are a popular investment too in case
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by tonfa 5y ago
Note that in the case, it's a dollarized country that made an announcement. (And it would indeed be a lot more suprising if that was a country that's more in countrol of its monetary policy that made a similar announcement).
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by tonfa 5y ago
It's all highly leveraged on all sides, margin calls will amplify things if things start crashing (which will then risk not covering the initial investment, trigger a run, and amplify further).
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by tonfa 5y ago
> So why can’t banks provide higher yields with simple savings accounts? If it’s got nothing to do with federal fund rates or middle men? Because banks are regulated (to avoid systemic risks), so they need to balance deposits with risk f
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by tonfa 5y ago
That might be fair, but should be applied uniformly (that's a very different internet than the internet of the old days though). Would end up with every digital company having to register in country before accepting any user from that
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by tonfa 5y ago
Isn't it a subsidiary of a US company (in the end)? That was the main change of the TCJA, it stopped companies from doing the deferred taxation trick.
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by tonfa 5y ago
I'm not from US. And it works the same for most countries, it just happens that those companies are based on the US and very visible, but if there is a EU corp that's heavily successful and all the development is done in EU why wo
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by tonfa 5y ago
Isn't the US levying corporate tax on worlwide income anyway (since the last tax reform). So it's "only" a matter of deciding whether those taxes should be paid in US vs. other countries (and if the intellectual property
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by tonfa 5y ago
I guess we're not worried about the long term effect of the virus either? Planning on avoiding getting infected for the next 10y so that we can learn more about it as well? Especially ironic if it ends up that the virus was escaped fro
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by tonfa 5y ago
> Why can't this be purely client-validated like passport chips? From the diagram this looks similar. The client-server is to fetch the certs and revocations, and handle the signing infrastructure.
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by tonfa 5y ago
> I also find it funny that a country that can't even level-set taxation within it's own 50 territories wants to dictate taxation for the world now. Historically that proposal was pushed by EU states and the US wasn't onbo
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by tonfa 5y ago
Which is why banks are highly regulated, have reserve and capital requirements and central banks acting as lender of last resorts.
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by tonfa 5y ago
Nothing about code review or working with legacy code?
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by tonfa 5y ago
> And quite a few exchanges are offering crazy interest rates (up to 10%) for USDT deposits, which strongly implies they're getting some for free I'd think the 10% is due to the high risk of default. (Someone else receives it,
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by tonfa 5y ago
Aren't reserve in US dollars typically just an account at the Fed? (Eurodollar are one way to bypass it tho)
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by tonfa 5y ago
It's pretty significant right? Island typically procure claims over a large surrounding area, and there's quite a bit of resources in the arctic.
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by tonfa 5y ago
I might misremember given that with covid I haven't seen a movie in ages, but iirc same in switzerland with de/fr. (Or maybe it's only for the trailers, not the movie?)
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by tonfa 5y ago
> And it’s impossible with Bitcoin. I'm sure bitcoin purist will hate it, but afaik there's a lot of btc being held at exchanges (e.g. coinbase). Technically instead of holding BTC there, you could be holding cBTC (value in a c

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