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It would be pretty ironic if the Cyprus bailout of 2013 will noted in history books as the event that lead to the collapse of 21st century banking (next up bank runs). Is it probable? No. Is it possible? Maybe.

Here is another "artist" who claimed free speech[1] so calling yourself an artist is not blanket protection against prosecution. Also libel is not covered under free speech although I too ANAL.

[1] http://betabeat.com/2013/01/2-girls-1-cup-creator-sentenced-...

Blackmail, extortion, defamation, libel

How would they proof that the original comment wasn't libel? I doubt the have cross refrenced commenters IP addresses with the numbers listed. And if you relay libel (especially with malicious intent) it is still libel or maybe even blackmail.

Sounds straight up illegal to me

FWIW addressing point 1: The difference in pricing when using Cloudfront for serving 10.000.000 files (in the US) over HTTPS opposed to unencrypted is 2.5$

@niggler, I guess it's kind of hard to provide such a number but let's see:

- Just entering YC will generate promo for your product, it will put you in-front of the eyes of thousand of tech focused people.

- Free job postings on HN

- Incredible alumni network of actually successful founders

- Demo day will be covered by major news outlets and attended by lots of investors

- 150k of convertible credit [1]

- Only 10 percent don't raise any money after graduating [1]

- 90% raise an average of 700k USD [1]

- "The average valuation of Y Combinator-backed companies, according to co-founder Paul Graham, is $45.2 million." [2]

Looks way more valuable then 170k of dumb money to me.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/02/01/y-combinators...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator_(company)

EDIT: I'm not saying HackFWD is dumb money, with regards to money smartness they are definitely better then most other European accelerators. My original (GP) statement is not about HackFWD but accelerators in general.

true, but my point is that YC will add WAY more value then the 190K diff.

I was thinking of HackFWD though to be fair after a quick Google check they offer you about 70k for a one person, 110k for 2 people, 160k for 3 people in exchange for 30% equity. [1] https://hackfwd.s3.amazonaws.com/system/documents/4bd586/e2e... [2] http://hackfwd.com/

I think incubators (except for truly valuable ones) are doomed because have these options:

a) raise seed money from an angel

b) develop a mvp, show some traction and raise money from VCs

c) bootstrap a profitable product

or d) go to an accelerator

from my expirience almost all accelerators have will present you with a bad deal (say 10-20k and office space) and claim to provide you with more value by helping you out with their expertise in other areas. In exchange they want a 20-30% equity cut. BUT the value add through their network (for most accelerators) will be negligible that's why it is a bad deal. Every other option is better:

a) Angel -> can be a vocal defender and loyal partner or early adopter of your product

b) VC -> You get money at a fair valuation

c) Bootstrap -> Keep all the equity and stay hungry

So for what it's worth I think reducing the number of accelerators would not be a bad thing for the startup eco system.

I believe pro football is a full time job hence occupies more than one day a week.

ad hominem much?

For people who like me are not familiar with the debt problem Cyprus is facing and would like a little more info: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/business/global/in-cyprus-...

The webfont doesn't load for me because I have Ghostery installed (it blocks remote tracking scripts) so the page is all blank except for the code snippets (because Adobe Typekit is blocked). You should consider adding a fallback font.

Also Android, I'd vote for Android over Google Reader every day and associated services like Play/Google Play Music (which is awesome by the way you should check it out) and hardware (Nexus 7). Oh and Go(lang) and Chrome with V8 which lead to Node JS being borne.

yes I'm on Windows and I get to see the Nimbus Sans font. But looking as to how my comment has a rating of -2 I suppose people disagree. Honestly I didn't mean to be a dick, just hoped to provide a little constructive criticism.

Here is how it looks with Win 7 Chrome: http://imgur.com/EAZ7DBk

congrats for providing a textbook example of a non constructive answer

Looks impressive but would I be wrong to assume that disk write performance will go down as GCE adoption spreads? As far as I know providing virtualized storage is not something that you can consistently limit like RAM for example. Still competition is always a good thing and especially if the giants are fighting it out (Amazon, Google, Microsoft)

Im sorry for the OT but looking as to how a developer/designer working at/on Grouptalent could read this: I really dislike the typography on the site, the font is way to thin, small and low contrast hence I had a hard time reading it, even when zoomed. It made me only skim this article even though it seems interesting.

yup, 8 Gigs of RAM should be mandatory. Also a i5 3720 has a excellent performance/price ratio.

1) Bitcoins are easily transferable (P2P)

2) Bitcoin transactions are irreversible

3) No third party is involved for the essential transaction (in this case the exchange of Bitcoin(s) for a ticket)

If you use Bitcoins as a method of transporting money you can cash them out as soon as you get them (which is within a few minutes) and getting Bitcoins isn't as hard as people make it out to be.

Wuala.com does aswell (not mentioned in parent). They are a Swiss company and don't have a lot of traction in the US.

Is that actually the case? I'm a Amazon Prime user (I mention that because I buy almost everything from Amazon :) and I whenever I got in touch with Amazon (Germany) the support was top notch and my issue was resolved very quickly. I am just a buyer though.

Thats just an error, if you check the IPs they all belong to EuroVPS who in turn seem to lease their lines from Leaseweb(Netherlands). Maybe Eurovps office used to be in Kyrgyzstan and the whois data was stale at the time this was mapped. (e.g. http://whois.domaintools.com/77.235.32.0) Same thing for the one in Almaty, Kazakhstan which is actually located in Belgium (http://whois.domaintools.com/89.106.244.21). Another example 46.37.160.114 maps to Vladivostok, but it actually belongs to BurstNET London.

you could say that the transaction went through but don't send an actual order confirmation by email to fraudsters. As far as I know carders will quickly try out a bunch of credit cards to see whether the charges went through but they won't stick around and wait for a confirmation email if the checkout screen says that the card has been successfully charged.

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Not American, but even I feel annoyed by your tone.

I have a German Visa card and for me it works by creating a seperate password for online purchases (once). This prevents a lot of fraud because the verified by Visa password resides on the servers of Visa (or the bank, I don't know) and is not compromised when a shop get's hacked. Also I don't have to enter it every time I use my credit card but rather I'd guess about 10% of the time.

Books I could see, but only expensive academic material. I'd guess the market for those is fairly small.

You don't need to get behind TOR to buy fake clothing (ioffer.com comes to mind, pretty sure there are tons of other sites around who would love to sell you fake clothing straight from a Chinese factory)

And why would you buy physical copies of pirated movies if you can get them for free?

pretty sure thats sacracsm

To be fair Bradley Manning was prosecuted because he bonded (they had very long chats) with the guy who was supposed to relay that information. If you read the chat transcripts you can tell that Manning was very troubled at the time and wanted someone to talk to. IMHO this does not necessarily apply to someone who works at the DOJ and uses an anonymous channel to submit confidential documents to e.g. Cryptome

Either that or freak people out by printing messages from ghosts stuck in their printer.