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pdb123··on Ask HN: Possible to legally form a startup as a digital nomad?
I'd guess the exact legality varies state to state. Practically speaking you just need an address. Most registration procedures can be done remotely, but one big potential annoyance is getting things notarized as this is often quite expensive at US embassies.
pdb123··on Ask HN: How much do you spend on SaaS a month?
I just checked out tarsnap. It's $0.30/gb/month. I currently do a backup to S3 which is a fraction of the price. I wouldn't mind having another cloud service. Why did you choose tarsnap if it's so expensive.
pdb123··on $100K free payment processing from Amazon Payments and AWS
Can anyone with more context describe how this compares to Braintree's $50,000 offering?
pdb123··on Stripe Checkout
It's awesome that you've tested Checkout and are confident that it helps conversion. Would you guys consider releasing the experiments that your ran? I think it'd be a great lesson in testing out products pre-launch.
pdb123··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
As another American, I completely agree that this is wonderful. We both like this behavior because it's in accordance with our culture and values. But the example of Asian culture that you bring up is interesting.

Japan (and to some extent China) are undeniably successful countries/cultures. Yet I'd guess that if a student acted this way there, he or she wouldn't be able to find a job. How do we know that having undue respect for hierarchy is objectively a bad thing?

pdb123··on Show HN: Make your own gif mashups. All client-side, hosted on S3
How did you get client side download set up? I'd check the source but it's minified.
pdb123··on Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game
Not a question about gameplay, but I have mixed feeling about the affiliate links on a show HN post. Maybe it's not the place for profiteering?
pdb123··on Log in to Yahoo by July 15th to keep your email address
Yahoo should be desperate. After fading into irrelevance for the past decade they need to make unusual/risky decisions to have any hope of turning that around.