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by yc1010 11y ago
When my money was frozen by 6 months (they didnt tell me duration back then) I rang the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman who resolve issues with banks and various financial services. When I mentioned Paypal I was basically told they are a
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by yc1010 11y ago
The thing about paypal is that when it works its fairly nice service, and people do not understand (or read terms) that it is not THEIR money displayed by digits on screen, but money held by a private company who does everything to not be r
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by yc1010 11y ago
the word Weave reminded of Google Wave, anyone remember that?
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You could also setup tinyproxy ( https://banu.com/tinyproxy/ ) to proxy http/https via your linux VPS (and limit connections to only your ip) or even better just run socks5 thru ssh http://straightedgeli
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by yc1010 11y ago
"The US is no different or infact worse" is a typical argument used to justify various Putinite wrongdoings and deflect discussion. Just go to /r/worldnews for a taste on reddit. * Russia aggressively annexing its neigh
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Not really. I was born and lived during the dying days of the USSR in 80s (left in mid 90s) Under communism everyone knew the system was a failure and everything was a sham, hell the jokes being made were hilarious. Now on the other hand in
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by yc1010 11y ago
Replace "Vietnam" with "India" and "USA" with "British Empire" and you be reading from the same template few decades earlier.
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It is The Guardian a left leaning UK newspaper, that should give you an idea of why the article might appear unbalanced. One does not read the Guardian to get a balanced story for the very same reasons one would not watch Fox News Tho'
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Looks great, ive been using Putty Connection Manager since forever when stuck on Windows but its not being maintained for years.
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"Error!Your quota (50 queries/12 hours) has been exceeded" I only checked 2 ip addresses.... seems like a bug ;)
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As a straight Irishman with a family and kids I am very happy that for once there was such a large voter turnout for a referendum,especially among the newly registered voters. Of course I am also happy for the LGBT community since there is
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Google Fiber Sends Automated Piracy 'Fines' to Subscribers(torrentfreak.com)
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by yc1010 11y ago
You view bitcoin as as "investment" not a "tool" there in lies your problem. "Why would anybdoy buy into Bitcoin when it means only fattening the pockets of a few (already rich) mining syndicates?" Replace Bitc
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by yc1010 11y ago
The whole article seems written around "Stellar good, Bitcoin bad" premise, when the author ignores that Stellar is basically Ripple with another name, and we know how that ended up eh
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The arguments we hear about bitcoin are in similar vein as what was said about the WWW in 90s "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." -
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by yc1010 11y ago
Amazon marketplace is significantly cheaper and cleaner. Here in Europe a lot of eBay sellers are 100% not paying any VAT either it is only a matter of time before they or ebay endup in serious trouble over that.
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I think PayPal has been instrumental in illustrating to people that their money once it is in the paypal system is no longer THEIR money I had trouble before with paypal holding onto funds for months nearly killing my business, when I conta
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by yc1010 11y ago
I had paypal almost kill my business a few years back by freezing thousands of €'s for 6 months and telling me bye bye despite me providing all the relevant business and personal documents they required. I haven't bothered with pa
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by yc1010 11y ago
psa: "Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay?" is the title of the article (enter the article page via google search if hit with a silly paywall / register page) Anyways ... ... in my opinion, there is no way Google can outdo Ama
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by yc1010 11y ago
I see so this works similar to how blockchain.info site works in the browser, with the server used for encrypted backups and to retrieve blockchain data. Thanks for answering
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What exactly does "Zero-Access" mean?
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"0% company income tax means more money to invest" https://e-estonia.com/e-residents/services-and-benefits/ I dont get it, does this mean there is 0% corporation tax in Estonia? What are the taxes on wag
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by yc1010 11y ago
I have traveled thru' most of the lower 48 states on several occasions, and have to say these were the most memorable trips of my life (I am from Ireland). I have been to all of Europe + some of middle east & far east & latin a
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by yc1010 11y ago
No one touched on it but what if "civil forfeiture" style of theft is being ignored all the way at the top since it helps push people from using cash to using credit and hence gives more power to the state and banks. In the past i
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Hehe the "adblock detected" popup on this page is witty
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The article has a billboard (is it for real btw?) with "RMB: NEW CHOICE, the World Currency" yes RMB is a quite tightly controlled currency when compared to the likes of USD, EUR funnily enough I do a lot of trade with SE Asia, an
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by yc1010 11y ago
Uhm I would love a Tesla (if they ever start selling right hand drive versions in my little backward western european country) but at an equivalent of €100K price tag (that means I have to earn ~€210K before tax, to be left with that amount
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by yc1010 11y ago
Aha :) good stuff, sorry I was only checking your site in a hurry and didn't notice
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Why don't they add a bitcoin option as well? it would cost them anything to accept bitcoin via bitpay (0% fee) and they completely eliminate their chargeback risk webmasters are a fairly tech literate lot and I am sure alot of them al
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by yc1010 11y ago
You don't need to "sell" bitcoin to me :) I use it almost daily since 2011-2012 ;)

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