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by vageli 5y ago
> “Civil forfeiture” does not and has never meant “fiat forfeiture.” If the government tells you to forfeit your assets (justly or unjustly!), you can be certain that they will not be amused or deterred by attempts to hide those assets v
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by vageli 5y ago
> Expressing disapproval against people behind the facts, and not merely the facts, is important. The platform is in a position to actually help beyond denouncing but they abstain. It is lip service nothing more.
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by vageli 5y ago
It certainly doesn't sound legal to invalidate your gift card balance, and it seems at least in one case a banned person received reimbursement in the form of a check. > “All open orders were canceled, I just could access digital co
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by vageli 5y ago
Aren't the calls recorded? That would make this kind of deceit actually encouraged by management?
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by vageli 5y ago
> I contact support (which is now next to impossible to find in the UI) and they tell me they can't refund me unless I send the item back and they also won't be sending me my actual purchase. If you receive something in the mai
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by vageli 5y ago
This becomes obvious when you consider that the government auctions the coins they seize. They either have to give the keys to the buyer or create a new transaction on the chain. The interesting thing in this whole conversation is assuming
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by vageli 5y ago
> Florida’s theft laws make it clear that theft of any type is illegal, but recently one Florida court has put a different spin on the situation. In the case of T.D.W. v. State, 42 So. 3d 959 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), the juvenile defendant (
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by vageli 5y ago
Doesn't an employer need your consent to run a background check on you?
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by vageli 5y ago
Many places in Europe require ID [0](I realize this may not be the most accurate source). [0]: https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
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by vageli 5y ago
> Legal enforcement legitimizes crypto as property. It expands the definition of property by institutionally conferring the status of "owned" to a functional configuration of bits distributed over thousands of computers. Isn&#x
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by vageli 5y ago
Is the ledger wrong in this case? Does the entity holding the key have access to the coins?
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by vageli 5y ago
The ledger says whomever holds the keys owns the coins. The government now holds the keys. How is this something against the crypto ethos?
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by vageli 5y ago
With that much at stake, it seems easier to try a public spectacle like the guy who is digging up a landfill to find an old hard drive with a btc wallet. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hard-drive-lost-bitcoin-landfil...
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by vageli 5y ago
Where can you swap BTC for monero while avoiding KYC? Via wrapped versions of both coins on the eth blockcain or something?
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by vageli 5y ago
> But Code is Law in cryptocurrency land, and it's not clear what "intent" means when philosophically the code and not a human has the final say. I don't think courts would feel the same way. For instance: https:&#x2
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by vageli 5y ago
> "We didn't know we where training kill-bots" We knew all along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge_(2004)
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by vageli 5y ago
> That is something you can and always could disable. I would however not want someone with a buggy system in some of my networks which makes this choice have side-effects in some scenarios. Could you expand on this? Why wouldn't yo
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by vageli 5y ago
Has the legality of a warrant canary ever been tested? Commenters on this site often mention that the law is not executed by machine, and so it seems a court would see through this charade.
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by vageli 5y ago
> Surely it's lost to the sky, having fallen to the earth as rain? > This is like one of those things people overlay on an image of a flower or a cloudy sky and then post to facebook. But the substance of the cloud is not lost, j
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by vageli 5y ago
> But Bitcoin options on e.g. LedgerX.com are securities (edit: regulated ones, that is), and anything that affects Bitcoin’s price is going to affect those derivatives’ prices. But the SEC doesn't regulate mortgages even though the
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by vageli 5y ago
Google Fi does everything you ask for (and works with more phones that just those that Google manufactures).
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by vageli 5y ago
> All that's left unique to us is cooking. Seems we may not be the only ones that cook after all. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/ch...
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by vageli 5y ago
This seems like such a strange addition. My use of signal is primarily group chat or as an SMS replacement. It is hard for me to see the benefit of adding stories like this to what to me is a tool for directly messaging specific individuals
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by vageli 5y ago
In this case, I think it means to clarify the nature of the business and is a play on your exact sentiment. The article is providing legibility to buy now pay later businesses (like Klarna). Likely the word was chosen to match the initialis
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by vageli 5y ago
> I don't understand where this bizarre notion comes from that if you commit a crime while not physically being in the country and not being that country's citizen, this somehow nullifies the crime and means you shouldn't
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by vageli 5y ago
Not the person you responded to, but at the very least host processes can still access the internal network which may be undesired.
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by vageli 5y ago
> Am I missing something here? > Shouldn‘t the other driver pay you personally? That still means the burden is on OP to sue the other driver since their insurance company was not paid to represent them in this type of case.
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by vageli 5y ago
So where do you draw the line? Is there no sense of personal accountability? If someone screams doctor in a restaurant, I don't hold myself out as one. It's hard to feel sorry for people signing their names to attestations they kn
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by vageli 5y ago
Alegria is mentioned in the third paragraph in the article you linked.
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by vageli 5y ago
>If my code submits 1 fake application to each open position, once per hour or once per day (which is well within what I can do manually), and that code is shared between thousands of striking workers (and their supporters), and that res

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