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    Comment #7394340

    My CPA opened me a bank account in the USA (he's from USA too) without me having to visit the states, is this legal? Or is there any risk to this approach?? I'm in the same case as…

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    Comment #7391944

    Call me stupid, but the only reason why I incorporated an LLC in the States is because I wanted get access to the Stripe API for production (yeah, it's a huge compliment to the Str…

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    Comment #7136053

    This is the author's prejudiced opinion spun into an article. I could write the exact same thing for Ruby, Javascript, etc. PLus, if you are starting a company, the last thing that…

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    Comment #7107147

    When is Stripe coming to India? An estimate would be really nice! The only way Indian startups can get to use Stripe right now is by setting up an LLC/LLP in US/UK and accepting pa…

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    Comment #7080920

    Also, watchout when you bad mouth them on HN, they use shady tactics to downvote comments written against them (I was a victim once; their employees downvoted me in groups). I don'…

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    Comment #6987863

    Well said. For the first time I agree with you....unless I'm downvoted into abyss for expressing my agreement :P

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    Comment #6985099

    Yes, this was in India only. But please don't mistake all of India to be the same, this was a very specific incident and a case concerning a bank with questionable ethics and it's …

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    Comment #6985080

    The person bugging me was actually the Citibank employee, not the affiliate store staff, thus has a lot to do with Citibank.

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    Comment #6980514

    Citibank is one of the worst banks I've dealt with. Once, one of their affiliate's employees offered me a Credit Card for free and said "it had no strings attached" and I don't nee…

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    Comment #6701056

    Hey guys, can someone tell me what exactly is an SDK, or rather how do you design one? Case in point: Does the Amazon SDK include their source code? So, let's say if Amazon offers …

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    Comment #6700605

    Their docs say they do it automatically, but for me sometimes they don't, which sucks and breaks my video player (flowplayer) on my sites. :(

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    Comment #6700334

    Thank you!

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    Comment #6700260

    One more important thing about these custom URLs: 1) Your Google+ profile is publicly indexable by searh engines. 2) Having a custom URL means anyone searching for your name on Goo…

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    Ask HN: Escaping the nightmare of server administration?

    Hi HN, I would like some insights on how you actually escape the woes of server administration while actually focusing all your attention towards building the actual product? I und…

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    Comment #6684203

    Sometimes they don't resolve properly too. And for vide, it's worse, they don't set the Mime type sometimes, which is quite irritating, for example say Mp4, because the video tag n…

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    Comment #6682570

    Prospective Rackspace customers - Avoid the cloudfiles offering from Rackspace at all costs. Their support is good, but we used to average out atleast one user who were getting acc…

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    Comment #6675944

    >You definitely have a unique knack of 'kindly' offending and abusing people. Well, it's much better than spreading false rumours about you just because I don't like you. (Which is…

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    Comment #6675508

    Why are you challenging deepGem when he is confronting based on first hand experience and facts while all you have are just mostly assumptions? I understand you intend to win the a…

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    Comment #6572958

    Yeah right, there are no incidents of people getting shadow banned due to personal vengeance/ stuff they disagree about, on Hackernews. /s And 'running it free' is not like they ar…

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    Comment #6572860

    I expect you to be shadow banned without reason in 3..2..1... :D

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    Comment #6571218

    You are talking based on your own experience. I am talking based on mine and 12 others I know of. No offence, but you get the point, right? :)

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    Comment #6570925

    SSD's are not there yet, if you ask me. I've been running on a custom SSD on my Mac mini, with restarts required once daily after crashing (mostly due to chrome). A dozen friends o…