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I use reddit spordically - [this]( https://www.reddit.com/user/FirstToday1/ ) is my account. I got my job from something I posted on reddit so I still feel a little indebted to the…

That is creative :) Although I imagine when you have an upvoting ring you want to avoid the participants being linked together as much as you can

Yeah I think I would have been more successful had I just bought some aged accounts with 50-100 karma. If you're "morally flexible" and willing to work with some unsavory types the…

I tried to do something similar but couldn't get karma very quick (using a paraphrasing API on other people's comments and submitting news from RSS feeds). I think I had a chicken …

You're not serious, right? You clearly haven't seen some of the latest unlicensed money transmitter prosecutions. The resourceful agents over at HSI have come up with an incredibly…

"Terrorism, regime destabilization, and policy change related objectives are by far more often assessed as failed, as compared to the other policy objectives. Overall, the average …

Not available to Americans (at least the ones unwilling to use BTC and a VPN), but Pinnacle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Sports ) is happy to take sharp bettors. If you…

It upsets me that we've ceded control of a nontrivial part of our lives to a bunch of opaque risk scoring algorithms. No one knows how they work and even if they did they couldn't …

Ironically, yes. Casino sites can also do the same thing (although obviously if you deposit 1.215179 BTC from one address and then withdraw the exact same amount to a separate addr…

The article doesn't come out and say it, but what they really want is for Binance to "de-risk." This could mean any or all of the following: - Banning users from 2nd and 3rd world …

How much revenue will this actually raise? The previous threshold was $20k which makes me think this new policy will mostly just result in the IRS catching the neighborhood bike re…

When the $10k (~$70k today) reporting threshold for cash deposits was set in the 70s, it was taken to the Supreme Court. Now we all celebrate "compliance." Interesting change.

I read stuff like this (not this book specifically) from the OCCRP or ICIJ occasionally and I'm beginning to have my doubts about all of it. It's always based on innuendo and insin…

In these groups it's probably mostly driven by desire for internet fame/prestige, a sense of belonging, and competition with other pirate groups. But a lot of piracy I think comes …

I'm not sure there's some rigorous ethical justification but it's only available to people who have a Hulu account so they could just watch the movies on hulu.com instead of downlo…

I did one of these for Hulu ( https://github.com/chris124567/hulu ) a while back. It didn't take very long to write. Most of these programs are just using the pywidevine library al…

I think the problem is mostly that mass popularity is sort of at odds with the cowboy attitude of a lot of Linux desktop users. Creating a "standardized experience" like Windows us…

I have not tested this but it looks like it should work: https://github.com/Gryffindor8/Netflix-videos-downloader

Author here. I worked on this for a couple of weekends and hope someone finds it useful or interesting. I'm probably going to have to take it down in a couple of hours though. The …

The party will come to an end soon. There are people at Treasury (FINCEN and OFAC) who find the idea of people being able to transact even thousands of dollars without them knowing…

The more likely scenario rather than this faux-altruism is that she just wants to get whistleblower status to collect 30% of the settlement Facebook will make with the government.

Lebanese reserves of USD and other hard currencies are rapidly dwindling and going LBP -> USD at the official rate is now only permitted for "essential imports." Essentially the ce…