bluelu
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Either you want to be a customer or you won't.
Using a friend's paypal will get you banned for sure.
Why not just provide the passport if you want to use their service, jf that's their requirement.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, it is exactly that.
Comment · 2 years ago
It says here that fraud happened on german side. The chinese company reported that documents have been modified on the german controlling side without their approval, and that potential fraud is happening and they should investigate. However nothing was done.
"Dabei waren die Gefahren Geld nach China zu zahlen für solche Projekte dem Bundesumweltministerium eigentlich bekannt. Zuletzt im April meldete sich ein chinesischer Öl- und Gaskonzern von selbst bei dem von Steffi Lemke (Grüne) geführten Umweltministerium und erklärte deutlich, dass von Betrugsfällen auszugehen ist. „Wir vermuten, dass es eine hohe Wahrscheinlichkeit gibt, dass Dokumente gefälscht wurden und wir bitten dringend, dass Ihre Behörde dazu ermittelt“, teilte der chinesische Konzern dem Ministerium mit. Dieses wimmelte wohl ab, wie die Welt berichtet. Deutsche Prüfstellen haben anscheinend einige Daten der Anlagen des chinesischen Unternehmens geändert und ohne dessen Zustimmung verwendet. "
Comment · 2 years ago
Hi,
It's marked in the thread you referenced that Marcus only excepts US based customers.
I assume it is best to close your account with them and let them transfer the remaining balance to your European bank.
Not sure how you can achieve that now, since you probably lied/faked to them before that you were still living in the USA, and your account is flagged now.
I also don't believe filing will complaints will help, since you seem to be at fault here, and they have to lock your account for compliance and security reasons.
When you unlock your account, I strongly also suggest that you use your local bank to exchange the currency (or Marcus and make a € transfer). IB currency exchange is meant for trading purposes, not for exchanging currencies:
See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivebrokers/comments/ywj5hw/...
What do you think will happen when a transfer in $ comes into a newly opened account, you convert it to €, and then cash out to a European € account. All alarm flags will probably go off, as this is classic money laundering. I would definitely ask their ok in advance and provide them documentation on where the money comes from, before trying to exchange money through their platform.
Depending on how large your transfer is, any european bank will flag the transfer and you have to provide proof of the source of wealth. It's best to provide that documentation beforehand, because otherwise your funds will be blocked for a few days too before you can access them.
Also, in case you have signed a "compromis de vente" without a suspension clause (e.g. that the contract is void if the bank doesn't finance the acquisition, or something similar), then yes you are on the hook for the 10% in case you don't go to the notary in time to buy the house/appartment.
Good luck!
Comment · 2 years ago
They explicitly added an exception later on for newspapers (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114111)
Comment · 2 years ago
I had a similar bug more than 10 years ago, also while building a search index through Lucene. It would crash after hours of running with an impossible nullpointer exception. It always appeared after running for hours, and running that specific iteration would not trigger the exception, so hard to reproduce.
Turned out it was a java jvm bug which was triggered when the jvm decided to recompile that code part since it was used more frequently.
Try running your code with the -server flag and see if that makes a difference.
Comment · 2 years ago
Common sense
Comment · 2 years ago
There is no fair use for copyright in Europe. That's the reason why we don't have any google here, and won't have any AI company here.
Comment · 3 years ago
I called for homelander to help and he incinerated the puppies with his laser vision while sporting an evil grin
I survived too, even though it was a desperate attempt :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Newspapers in europe are allowed to do so too, why shouldn't facebook?
Comment · 3 years ago
Pay or to be tracked is only allowed for newspapers...
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't understand why this only applies for Facebook then.
2 1/2 years, ago they opened up a loop hole for newspapers that they are explicitly allowed to do it (Either you pay, or when you use their free version, you must accept to be tracked for behavioural advertising).
Are they any better than facebook?
Some example news sites: www.zeit.de, www.spiegel.de
More information on this:
https://www.heise.de/news/E-Privacy-Verordnung-EU-Rat-fuer-V... (german)
And https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/press/press-releases/2021...
Look here (referenced pdf in the above url): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6087-2021-I...
(21aa) In some cases the use of processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment and the collection of information from end-users' terminal equipment may also be necessary for providing a service, requested by the enduser, such as services provided in accordance with the freedom of expression and information including for journalistic purposes, e.g. online newspaper or other press publications as defined in Article 2 (4) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, that is wholly or mainly financed by advertising provided that, in addition, the end-user has been provided with clear, precise and user-friendly information about the purposes of cookies or similar techniques and has accepted such use.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm no expert, but I think this was accepted 2 1/2 years ago and is already implemented?
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...
Look here (referenced pdf in the above url): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6087-2021-I...
(21aa) In some cases the use of processing and storage capabilities of terminal equipment and the collection of information from end-users' terminal equipment may also be necessary for providing a service, requested by the enduser, such as services provided in accordance with the freedom of expression and information including for journalistic purposes, e.g. online newspaper or other press publications as defined in Article 2 (4) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, that is wholly or mainly financed by advertising provided that, in addition, the end-user has been provided with clear, precise and user-friendly information about the purposes of cookies or similar techniques and has accepted such use.
They have a different approach to lovable, replit, etc... They don't let the gpt models translate directly into program code, but into an intermediate language which is then compiled by a compiler. Generation speed is blazingly fast, and so far results look great.
I really like that I can work on an app without having to wait between my prompts and can see the results nearly instantly.
Apparently it's safer too, as code generation is deterministic. But I did not check that yet, as I only recently got access.