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by carlosjobim 1064 days ago
I don't really get the sentiment on tax fillings. Experts in most other fields manage to do the odd job here and there for a few hundreds, why shouldn't programmers be able to? Either on the books or off the books.

> people can and will fuck with you just because they can or because they hate you for whatever reason. Anything from mass reporting you to Paypal over death threats to outright SWATting you.

That sounds like straight paranoia. All businesses are online today on Google Maps etc. Does your local hot dog stand get swatted on a regular basis?
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mschuster91 1064 days ago
> That sounds like straight paranoia. All businesses are online today on Google Maps etc. Does your local hot dog stand get swatted on a regular basis?

I've been on the Internet for decades and seen pretty nasty shit. If you want to know what German trolls are capable of, search for "Drachenlord". Additionally, I'm an active antifascist and received my fair share of death threats. So yes I'm biased.

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carlosjobim 1064 days ago
I think those are two very different sides of the internet.

There are easy solutions for the problems you listed. The easiest being to not use your real name to accept SEPA payments. You can put anything you want there on the invoice, the banks just care about the account number.

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mschuster91 1064 days ago
> The easiest being to not use your real name to accept SEPA payments. You can put anything you want there on the invoice, the banks just care about the account number.

Is it wise though? Absolutely no. All that is is asking for a lot of trouble. Alone because a SEPA identifier is enough to cause people to order an awful lot of bullshit using it and you'll be stuck unwinding fraudulent pizza and dildo deliveries pretty much forever until you change the bank or have them create a new account.

I have a lot of shit to dunk on Bitcoin and others, but the one thing these got right is that no one could simply claim they had an authorization to your funds.

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carlosjobim 1063 days ago
What? The only thing people can do if they have your bank account number is send money to that account. There's nothing else they can do.
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