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Heresiarch posted:internally apple pay is a pretty radical departure from existing payment systems and it's worth reading about, it's not like google wallet which is basically just a wrapper around the usual credit card systems but but but i can get coupons for using it coupons valuable coupons
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jony ive aces posted:
because someone else is getting to the arbitrage before he is, duh
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Werthog 95 posted:idk how someone in the year 2014 doesn't just assume that every single thing they do on the internet is being monitored i don't either, but you would be astounded at the dumb poo poo people will put in their email basically if you're ever working for a company that might ever get sued just make a habit of using the phone. not just if you're doing something bad, even if you are a perfect angel (though it wouldn't hurt to send emails backing up you're a perfect angel of course) i know of people who have endured a decade of litigation because of one poorly worded email and know of someone who probably wriggled out of federal charges because they don't use email ever so if he did it there's no paper trail
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laffo he cracked and confessed everything the instant they looked at him funny:quote:In court, federal prosecutor Kathryn Haun said that Benthall was likely to flee and should not be released. "He was found with over $100,000 in cash at home," Haun told the court. "He has a passport. We're not aware of whether that was secured. In addition to all of the detail, Mr. Benthall did admit to everything after receiving his Miranda rights—that he was the administrator of Silk Road 2.0. Our principle basis is flight risk at this point."
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Dren posted:do they even have to say how they got access to a server that is not in the united states They asked local law enforcement to do it.
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:oh yeah and laffo i'm guessing either these idiots hire anyone who wants to join or there's a lot of loving bugs in the tor website thing because that is quite the haul
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The Management posted:I'm guessing the fbi doesn't get much traction in the Russian Federation these days. no but I doubt you want to be running any sort of criminal enterprise there without giving the appropriate people a cut
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unpacked robinhood posted:self driving cars are the dumbest loving theing and much like bitcoin introduce way more problems than the non issue it tries to solve there are approximately 33,561 problems per year as of 2012: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
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Nov 15, 2014 18:56
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The Management posted:holy poo poo, better stay away from automobiles i drive all the time, not saying we shouldn't drive or anything but there's obviously a lot of room for improvement there
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Nov 15, 2014 19:08
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:Actually, if you could get all the vehicles on the road to be self operating and coordinate with each other we could have much higher speeds on highways and more efficient flow during high traffic volumes. This does require a centrally managed system with set standards and monitoring though, so the opposite of what is happening with Google in practice it's much easier to go current cars -> google cars -> centralized control of robot cars than to just skip the middle step entirely as you're not going to be able to just flip a switch, robot cars have to coexist with human cars
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Nintendo Kid posted:theres just about nowhere that high speed rail is useful though. because you: 1)can't get from any nyc airport to manhattan in 30m reliably (no idea about Chicago) 2)can't get off a plane instantly 3)can't get a last-minute plane ticket without paying through the nose 4)have to go through security significantly increasing how early you need to get to the airport to be sure to make your flight with a sufficient degree of precision once you factor in all of the time-wasters with flying it stops being as competitive for shorter flights if there's a good train available and once they're around the same time a train is like infinitely more convenient (plus you can get up and wander around a train) that said the best situation for high-speed rail is the boston <-> dc corridor and that is indeed more an issue of better tracks than top speed of the train, but that's part of what a high-speed train is: better track infrastructure
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QuarkJets posted:You can't do this with trains, either. Or at least that was the case when I lived in Europe. You might be okay in places where the trains are owned and operated by the government amtrak if it's not Thanksgiving or Christmas I show up at the station and by the next train to boston/dc/nyc and never have a problem, and it's like $20 more at most than if it was prebought
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I have heard talk that Karples is actually earning money as a consultant to the Mt. Gox. estate, which would be incredibly hilarious if it was true.
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Improbable Lobster posted:there are a bunch of <verb> Lobster usernames but luckily mine is too long and unwieldy to be mistaken improbable isn't a verb, way2grammar
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Nov 20, 2014 23:27
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The Management posted:how is this number derived? I want to use it to mock a bunch of idiots talking about the greatness of blockchain technology mining is paid for by transaction fees (comes from miners) and creating new currency out of thin air (in essence, comes from everyone on the network through inflation of the currency) you have to factor in the block reward when you talk about how much a transaction costs and once you do, you have the total money per block. you divide that by the transactions in the block, and you have what each transaction cost to process bitcoiners like to ignore the block reward part but without the block reward transaction processing does not happen
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Nov 21, 2014 16:41
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haveblue posted:question: why does "true and correct" appear so many times in these court documents It means you're saying it's a genuine copy that hasn't been altered or the like and that the court can treat as evidence. You could just say that, but 'true and correct' has been used so long that a court might think it was odd if you used more normal language, plus you know exactly how it will be interpreted by the court when you use that phrase.
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Sweevo posted:A legal doublet is a standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language which consists of two or more words which are near synonyms. The origin of the doubling — and sometimes even tripling — often lies in the transition of legal language from Latin to French. Certain words were simply given in their Latin, French and/or English forms, often pairing an English word (or a more archaic Anglo-Saxon word) with a Latin or French synonym, so as to ensure understanding. Such phrases can often be pleonasms.[1] this is incredibly neat, i always assumed it was just someone being repetitive to make sure that they covered all their bases
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Boxturret posted:
as a reminder he is probably collecting a paycheck from the mtgox estate to work as a consultant
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text editor posted:Karpeles loaned himself and his companies tons of money out of mtgox funds You missed the best part: Tibbaine Co. Ltd has taken the position that the loan "was not intended to be repaid" according to the Trustee's report which is the reason they're refusing to pay it back (also disputing the amount, but that's not as hilarious).
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fun fact: despite the fact tibainne co ltd. owes 6m to the estate the estate has still been paying tibainne for various services to the estate in actual money instead of writing off debt 
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theflyingorc posted:I've always wondered where the real flag on those was. Obviously 999 is still bad, but that just makes 998 the new point, so it must be like 952 or something That's obviously pretty secret. I also assume that even if you don't trip the flag the first time, if you keep having transactions close to it the flag lowers. So one $29k transaction is fine, two maybe, ten has set off sirens.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I kinda imagine that unlike freeman on the land logic there isn't a single computer program algorithm that does it in some absolute certain way. I bet every set of transactions in a big range just go to some guy at a desk and he looks them over and uses his imperfect human mind to think what looks good or not. well AMA laws have a $10k threshold (if it's over 10k, you have to disclose a lot of info about it) and banks must comply with them, they cannot just send every $8k and up transaction to A Guy they've got to have comprehensive algorithms to look for "structuring", where you're doing transactions under 10k to avoid that reporting. So that has to trigger for a few things: 1) transactions that are just below $10k (e.g. $9,999.98) where sure it's not over 10k but come on we know you're trying to avoid this single payment being flagged and you took a slight discount to do it 2) a series of transactions that indicate that a single >10k transaction was split into many. these don't HAVE to be near $10k: if I deposit $2k 100 times in one day you better believe that's a single transaction I am trying to avoid scrutiny on every bank is theoretically liable if someone evades their AMA controls so they should have put quite a bit of effort into these
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more like dICK posted:this is the biggest and most complicated part. the important thing to know is that every stupid trick that bitcoiners try to use to get around AML checks has been done a million times before by smarter people, and the banks know about it. my favorite thing about structuring is eliot spitzer, former governor of new york, got his start in politics as a prosecutor and prosecuted criminals caught for money laundering because they got flagged for structuring how did he get caught paying for hookers? why, he kept all his hooker payments just under $10k with really obvious structuring payments so the bank flagged on his transactions and the fbi started investigating why a sitting governor was laundering money then they figured out why, and told everyone 
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:It's astounding how much Dumb VC money is out there. I mean I know money =/= intelligence but you'd think they'd have been scammed out of their funds long before they hit the '$100k Angel investor' phase. I imagine that the existence of twitter makes a lot of VCs throw up their hands at the idea that just because the idea is stupid as all loving hell means it won't make money.
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blugu64 posted:I hear what you're saying, but isn't twitter losing money every quarter? it went public, meaning the VCs who invested in it had money trucks back up to their swimming pools
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Magrov posted:the BFL docket has updated! it looks like bitcoiners couldn't figure out in that thread that the proposed order that bfl filed (docket no 188) is not actually an order the court entered, it's them saying what they really really really hope the court says they have a bunch of posts bemoaning that bfl won until someone notices that's not an actual court order
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suffix posted:is it normal to submit a 20 page fanfic complete with snarky footnotes "from the judge"? that is not typical, no you generally submit the order you want so the judge can give you exactly what you're looking for if you win, but you just do basically a bare-bones order that is basically "for the reasons stated at the hearing and in [your party]'s brief, [the exact order you want] so they'd usually submit a like two-page order that denies the injunction and dissolves the receivership if the court wants to write out an involved opinion where they call someone a cocksucker they'll want to write that themselves
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Proteus4994 posted:lol you're actually right the extension school gives actual harvard degrees though, not harvard* degrees
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Proteus4994 posted:like, the degree might come from actual Harvard but if it says "Harvard Extension" anywhere on it, it might as well be toilet paper it doesn't, a harvard extension school diploma is indistinguishable from an attended harvard normally diploma, it's pretty well known in cambridge and boston how this works but not elsewhere so if you want to run this scam be sure to apply outside of boston that said yes anyone who thinks you went to the real thing is going to be mighty peeved and not really interested to hear how this wasn't actually lying you have the literal diploma you put on your resume you just got it a different way than everyone assumed 
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infernal machines posted:so with bfl it's a case of a some true believer fremen-on-the-lam going no, gently caress you dad to the court/ftc/receiver? bfl won http://ia802308.us.archive.org/32/items/gov.uscourts.mowd.117531/gov.uscourts.mowd.117531.201.0.pdf court denied preliminary injunction, will wind down the temporary recievership, and while bfl has to file weekly status reports and the FTCs lawsuit can go forward, the status reports won't be public and nothing will happen in the lawsuit until the FTC wins (if it wins)
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theflyingorc posted:that is not the result i was expecting, what's the reason given? basically the ftc didn't show it would win, and that even if they had the ftc's primary case was that bfl lied about delivery dates but since they're not taking preorders anymore theres no need for a reciever and an injunction just to protect customers the ftc hosed up bad, they didn't do a good job explaining that bfl was actively lying, not just thinking it could meet deadlines, and they never remembered to tell the court that 'third party profitability calculator' was owned by bfl and pre-set to be deceptive  also they should have been stressing the history of bfl's execs using the company as a piggybank and looting assets that should go to customers and they seem to have utterly fallen down on that point because that's a solid reason for an injunction
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Boxturret posted:seriously star citizen could turn out to be the most amazing game of all time and it still wouldn't excuse them charging over ten thousand american dollars for about a dozen ships, most of which only existed as a single piece of concept art and none of which you could fly at the time i disagree when you can make someone part with $10k that easily you have a moral obligation to scam it out of them for a video game spaceship before someone else scams them out of it for something else after all that money's going into the wrong hands somehow you might as well make sure it's hands that will just spend it on hookers and blow
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im not sure once they're finished spending money on the lawyers trying not to break the law on this dumb scheme if there will be anything left of that 5m
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indigi posted:when do the reward payouts actually happen? do people who find blocks that are eventually orphaned get anything out of it? They get nothing, according to the official blockchain they never solved anything
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poty posted:dont worry im sure they take a huge commission that even those currency exchange booths at airports would consider too much. theyll sell your butts on the exchange for 310 bucks and give you 280. its funny because those places also claim to charge no fees* This is how they should do it but they don't seem to be. Even in that situation though they are still exposed to market risk.
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surebet posted:with fair warning that i've yet to put any coffee in me, with the current price it's more like 42%, and i'd be interested in digging up how many miners bfl sent out just to drag that optimal efficiency way, way the gently caress down basically the thing to remember is that if you assume that the miner dumping is causing the decline, then the price is going to get hosed and stay hosed because it's a feedback loop miners dump coins to cover electricity costs, they're dumping more coins than the market can absorb so prices go down which causes miners to need to dump more coins to cover electricity costs because the old number doesn't cover electricity anymore so their dumping increases and so even more bitcoins start flooding the market, and prices go down even faster at some point you might have enough miners leave to slow the cycle or "cheap bitcoins" prompts the USD entering the market to increase but the former means the network gets hosed and everyone who would do the latter bought in long ago 
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DAT NIGGA HOW posted:only on paper, he doesn't really lose anything until he sells his coin for usd he lost the entire purchase price the instant the government cashed the check
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