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> My current theory is there is some employee at Meta that's ultimately stealing the account

This happens all the time, there is no recourse. Instagram employees are constantly taking usernames for themselves.

Some, yeah. Mostly ones with bad carfaxes though.

>When I'm abroad, and I want to buy a car, I look for one that was manufactured and sold also in the USA market so that it meets NTHSA standards

This seems like a super reliable way to purchase a totaled vehicle, no?

Sure, they're not following the rules. Why would that affect the validity of your contract with them if you purchase good from them? Why would this contract not bind the seller?

In Germany you can enter into a verbal contract without any exchange of personal details. Why would a website be treated differently? I'm curious.

As far as I understand German law is very flexible about what constitutes a valid legally binding contract.

info@buskill.in

"Operator of buskill.in" does not seem like an unknown party?

I don't think anyone is arguing that the transitory periods aren't difficult, but the reality is that very few people would choose to trade their current existence for the life of a pre-industrialization peasant if they actually knew what that implied.

You are describing some speculative future that doesn't really correlate with historical progress. Same could've been said about the industrial revolution, but somehow it did end up dramatically benefitting all of humanity.

>Terminals are run as root all the time. I would guess any mainstream ones are well reviewed to not have such exploits work

This is a really ridiculous assumption.

Yep, just use a better shell

  ~  echo f43f3f*gsdgds
  zsh: no matches found: f43f3f*gsdgds
  ~  bash                                                                     
  user@debian:~$ echo f43f3f*gsdgds
  f43f3f*gsdgds

It's very well documented that the arrest of Assange took a lot of orchestration.

Did you speak with twitter directly? Who provided you with this excuse?

There are no useful facts to provide, outside of strictly regulated markets banks pull these fees out of their asses. The receiving bank might charge various mystery fees, so even if your bank is playing nice they won't be able to tell you how much will actually arrive.

It's just almost impossible to know the answer to the fee question beyond "probably a lot"

And to offer some deniability, the heavy use of which can be seen all over this thread.

You're being deliberately obtuse. It obviously doesn't end at "patriot". Read the guys post on substack. Look at his Gab(!) profile https://gab.com/NancyTracker

This isn't hard stuff.

Yeah, why not. "States' rights" would be an easy example.

You're trolling, right? Everyone knows that there are generally no "actual numbers" available for this kind of transfers unless you're a BigCo or a private banking customer.

You'll send $1000 from your Nigerian bank to the Peruvian bank, $937.65 will arrive after a week+. Most likely nobody will be able to explain where the money went.

>Can you point to an actual application of crypto that touches the real economy? I will be very interested!

Yeah, cryptocurrency effectively replaced Liberty Reserve & co.

Ransomware was a viable business model before cryptocurrency. The beginning of the winlocker boom slightly predates cryptocurrencies, ransomware was already the hottest thing on cybercrime forums before cryptocurrency appeared.

Crypto as in cryptography? Maybe.

Do you have numbers to share? That sounds really hard to believe.

Can AWS Spot Instances really beat this? https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax

UBO registries are kind of a solved problem, everyone will just lie.

The part that must really fuck with him is that at this valuation recovering the hard drive would be an entirely realistic endeavour if he simply got the permission to do so.

>I'm just wondering what that would look like. It seems a Sisyphean task at best, like seeking a needle in a haystack. And how do you make sure you don't accidentally damage a hard drive with an excavator? What makes him think the hard drive is not already damaged because it has been driven over or just the weight of garbage crushing it? What if his hard drive went through one of those conveyor belts with a giant magnet above it to separate metals?

Sorting out all the hard drives within the proposed quantities of trash seems well within the realm of what's possible with modern waste sorting robots.

Hard drives are really sturdy, it's unlikely that the data would be unrecoverable if you were able to identify the correct hard drive remains.

Of course the tremendous precision comes at some cost, but I think the fact that these machines are as reliable as they are is already incredible. The engineering challenges involved in managing the fluid dynamics of inks in order to reliably shoot out picoliter sized droplets with incredible precision must be massive.

> Brother has that too, though, and is reputedly even more precise

Really? I don't think Brother really offers products in this space. They have the Innobella line that can do 1.5pl droplets, the same as the Epson unit but with far less colors. However, none of the Brother printers supporting those cartridges seem to offer a very high DPI. The smaller drop size will primarily manifest as improved color reproduction, as blending becomes easier.

Sorry, I'm not interested in taking part in your weird struggle against Tether.

I am obviously not defending Tether, I do not have a single good thing to say about Tether. But unlike you seem to be, I'm not emotionally invested in what happens to Tether.

I was simply calling out the obvious bad faith argument presented by wmf. Even if Tether isn't violating any laws, the US government is going to go out of their way to get them.

>You seem to believe this is a bug, while every other citizen views this as a feature.

I have said precisely nothing that could be interpreted by a person of ordinary intelligence to suggest such a belief. This is something you have created inside your own head. I wonder why?

Binance and Bitfinex definitely let you do this, so that's not why.

Tether is obviously the kind of business the government fundamentally doesn't like. Whether or not what they're doing violates any current laws doesn't matter, they are yet another Liberty Reserve enabling large scale money laundering.

Even in an imaginary world where Tether is a completely legitimate business not operating in violation of any existing laws, there would be no way for them to make government investigations go away within any reasonable timeframe.

It is simply ridiculous of you to suggest that we could expect the government to play fair when dealing with Tether.

> but usually good actors have an abundance of mitigating evidence at their disposal

You must be joking. That's not how it works when the government has you in their crosshairs.

>and it's usually just easier to say "here's the evidence, we're not guilty".

And then the government will spend years and millions of dollars trying to poke holes in that evidence of innocence.

Anyone who follows the news has seen this repeated over and over again. Various government authorities routinely engage in witch hunts with little evidence.

Maybe Mansoor Adayfi should've just provided evidence of his innocence after being shipped to Guantanamo Bay? They would have immediately released him, right? What a stupid guy he must have been that it took the government 14 years to release him.

The idea that one could just "clean up" government investigations is downright ridiculous. That's not how it works, no matter how innocent you may be.