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Baby factory opens in India - USD 8,000 for surrogacy(metro.co.uk)
1 points by ashray 13y ago|0 comments
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by ashray 13y ago
Sad to see this site go. Looked like a great project. So just out of pure curiosity, where would someone go to legally acquire lyrics for a particular song ? (sorry to say this but this sounds absolutely retarded to me.. what exactly are yo
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by ashray 13y ago
It's unlikely that the US will ever really default in the near future. Why ? Well, the global economy is becoming more and more linked as time passes. A US default will trigger a collapse in the larger global financial markets. Do US c
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by ashray 13y ago
Do you have any citation to support your claim that Switzerland is not a high cost country ? A simple google search shows Switzerland as one of the most expensive countries in the world. Usually following Norway or Denmark. So why am I fact
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by ashray 13y ago
First of all, I didn't down vote you. Secondly, all I suggested was that the OP take cost of living into account for his calculations. This is hardly senseless considering that cost of living in most Swiss cities is higher than most ti
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by ashray 13y ago
Just bear in mind for your calculations that in Switzerland a cup of coffee often costs $6 as does a can of coke. Cost of living is extremely high. But still, this does look like a decent deal. Zurich is like San Francisco in terms of expen
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by ashray 13y ago
Hey no worries. Thanks for pointing it out, I just (wrongly) assumed that since the show was over everyone around the world had watched it. But definitely go ahead and get to it because it's incredible :D The parallels between the show
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by ashray 13y ago
His money is in bitcoins. Not sure if they'll be able to seize it but that would be an interesting situation in itself.
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by ashray 13y ago
He was apparently really careful about connecting to the server. The docs state that he logged in through a VPN provider and he logged into the VPN provider at an internet cafe (which was apparently close to his house). However, the documen
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by ashray 13y ago
I went through the evidence portion of this (page 24 onwards) and found that inspite of a pretty deep look into everything there isn't much to tie this guy to the Silk Road operation. There are a few things that could tie them together
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by ashray 13y ago
It took a little while but I'm thinking the main point here is that you store your content in the Osmek system. Then the content can be published to multiple sources such as an iOS app, website, tablet app, mobile website. I just don&#
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by ashray 13y ago
Rails and Django have moved from the obscure into the mainstream. 5 years ago if you wanted to hire a Django developer it was pretty hard. It's still way harder to find Django developers compared to PHP devs. As a company, if you push
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by ashray 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed responses. The above comments really cleared some stuff up for me. I'd like to add that the US IRS is known to be one of the most (if not THE most) aggressive departments in the world. They have banks around the
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by ashray 13y ago
Why didn't you continue running your website while in college ? I did that and it worked out okay for me.
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by ashray 13y ago
This isn't specific to Indian culture. There are several cultures that will emphasize college degrees over entrepreneurship. I know this is hard to understand from a fairly successful entrepreneur's perspective but the cold hard t
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by ashray 13y ago
This I found a bit condescending: This extra-long workday has given us some fun Spanish cultural quirks, like the 9 p.m. dinner hour and the two-hour lunch break. I know that folks in the US, Germany and some other countries eat at or aro
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by ashray 13y ago
How does that work out after tax ? I imagine 200k USD would attract a ton of tax. Is there a more tax efficient way to structure it ?
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by ashray 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed information. That certainly clears things up a bit. I've been using Paypal micropayments for the past year or so and it's been the best bet for $2 transactions (I pay 6%+$0.05 for cross border payments). En
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by ashray 13y ago
This looks really awesome. Funny enough I was just considering moving to Berlin for some startup work when my wife said "Why don't you go to Hacker School for a few months ?" (I had mentioned it earlier this year to her but t
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by ashray 13y ago
I'm more interested in micropayments but this interchange stuff seems a bit complicated. How would a $2 payment work out with interchange included ? I mean, what fees would apply for a $2 credit card payment ?
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by ashray 13y ago
This is a real problem. I was traveling last year in South America and suddenly found that I was looking at my phone while on a wonderful trek or while climbing a pretty amazing mountain. I started doing 'no phone days' or 'n
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by ashray 13y ago
Yes, you're right. But the idea is to take everything away + impose fines/penalties (but not like those $1 million per download kinds of fines). I just think that jail time seems overboard for this kind of thing. Even a fine that
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by ashray 13y ago
Well, if you really didn't commit the financial crime for monetary gain then what was it for ? Just trolling the copyright industry ? There needs to be a deeper look at the situation in this case because the law being discussed right n
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by ashray 13y ago
6 years is way too much for a non violent crime. There are rapists and murders and drug dealers who get by with less at times. It's amazing what the right kind of lobbying can do in this world. On the other hand, I personally see this
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by ashray 13y ago
I'll tell you what will happen. I would pay for it! tunes.io is great!
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by ashray 13y ago
Grooveshark is amazing. They have the best library out there hands down. Yes, they got it through piracy yadda yadda but they have more music than any of the legit services out there (I pay $9.99 for rdio per month..). The thing is that I c
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by ashray 13y ago
Maybe the rich are more comfortable with taking more. Or the notion of 'I deserve more'. Maybe that's why they got rich ? Maybe pushing the boundaries is what it's all about - whether that means not stopping for pedestri
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Responsception - Elements respond to parent size(github.com)
1 points by ashray 13y ago|0 comments
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by ashray 13y ago
MtGox has put a lot of bitcoin users at huge risk. I've had a huge USD withdrawal from Mtgox pending for over 7+ weeks now (8 weeks on 21st September). Every single time I email them asking how much longer it's going to take they
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I became a digital nomad – it has its challenges, but it’s worth it(bkpk.me)
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