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> 3) I hope that Stripe has a legal setup that is compatible with RBI regulations regarding the filling up of SOFTEX forms. There are some restrictions which in my understanding prohibit Indians from using international gateways like fastspring.

What exactly are the restrictions? Curious to know as I was planning to use FastSpring until Stripe made the announcement.

The bigger problem is the strict RBI regulations. Especially when dealing with FIRC/e-BRC and filing of SOFTEX forms. I don't understand why these forms are even required to be filed as everything is recorded electronically (bank wire transfers and other modes of transfer: NEFT/RTGS/IMPS). It's almost like the RBI doubts the intentions of Software Exporters.

> Paypal and Transferwise have procedures to get FIRCs, but when you approach their banks they either don't respond or come up with hundred reasons to not issue one. Citibank absolutely sucks at this. I really hope that Stripe just charges me whatever they want and couriers the FIRCs to my address automatically.

The thing is that Citibank doesn't provide FIRC (unless you receive an FDI). It instead provides "FIRC Advise". The Authorized Dealer (the Bank you hold your Current Account in) has to issue you the FIRC based on the FIRC Advise provided by CitiBank. But the AD Bank will insist on getting a NOC (No-Objection Certificate) first! So it's a long drawn out process! And once the FIRC is issued, getting eBRC from the AD Bank is another headache (as you guessed, it requires certified SOFTEX).

I just don't get the reason for all these ridiculous regulations. The real problem, I guess, lies in the fact that RBI is treating all Software Exports similar to exports for other Goods/Services. Purchase Orders are needed as proof for certification of SOFTEX forms when you and I both know that in SaaS or other software product sales there is no necessity for a PO (unless a big corporate wants to purchase in bulk) for export to take place.

Also, please sign these petitions:

1. https://www.change.org/p/finance-ministry-of-india-rationali...
2. https://www.change.org/p/shri-arun-jaitley-finance-minister-...

and if possible, do spread the word!
sure it's true for goods and services if sold to a single state, but if you sell across state boundaries you're required to register and pay your vat to each state where the sale happened and track those transactions along with the source
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It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has.

Movies, while extremely popular, don't generate that much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That's the entire industry.

Apple alone makes that much money in three weeks' time.

Amazing, that you can apply such pressure to politics, with so little.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/187069/north-american-bo...
Are you sure about that last claim? There's a huge load of substandard, fake or not certified electrics coming in, also thanks to big online webshops that send directly to consumers. And the consumers don't care, they have a basic expectation of quality and no idea of things like electrical safety, fire risks or RF emissions.
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Going to the /export/pdf link shows access denied. My quick 3min workaround was to use FF dev tools, settings enable screenshot, click through and save each page.
the guy I was replying to was saying a ponzi scheme is how markets work, which is definitely not true.

a) this is valid point, but bitcoin is failing currency. if there was a central authority then its value would have been stabilized. never gonna happen with bitcoin.

b) expected income. for bitcoin, it's nil for ever. don't confuse investment with speculation.
I hope this doesn't sound too snarky, but as far as I know, the WHATWG standard is live, consistent and always up to date (including corrections), while the W3C recommendations are outdated snapshots of the WHATWG standard, which are labeled by arbitrary version numbers instead of the snapshot timestamp, for whatever reason.

EDIT: Apparently even that description was too charitable towards the W3C (see gsnedders comments).
> I think any government of SPD and Greens will wiggle out.

What is this supposed to be based on? SPD and Greens were those who sent troops to Yugoslavia and the Greens had some values back then. Here is a statement by them supporting the sanctions: https://www.gruene-bundestag.de/presse/audiovideo/statement-...

Besides that, both SPD and Grüne and SPD and Linke are far away from forming a government without CDU. Not even mentioning that SPD doesn't even take Linke serious.

> If Russia plays the Russian-minority-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-Crimea-shenanigans with the baltic state, yes.

This didn't even work out in the Ukraine. They are still losing big money there every day and they are stuck just like in those other regions at the end of the world you've mentioned as signs of strength.

> Russia is seen as the victim of the Ukraine crisis. 50% of SPD members/voters -....

Where do you get this from? Why not provide source for this? Instead you come with a 2014 source on Crimea.

Adding to my Russia is weak and support for Russia is low even though Germany suffers from the sanctions: http://www.rp-online.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/russland-sank... Pay attention to the third last paragraph:

> Die restlichen 91 Prozent kämen zustande, weil keine Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten in Russland mehr für den Import bereitstünden.

@your Ninja Edit [2]:

> Gleichzeitig äußern große Mehrheiten – in der Regel zwei Drittel und mehr – die Erwartung, die Vereinigten Staaten würden militärische Gewalt anwenden, um das bedrängte Land zu verteidigen.

So short of half of the people don't want to go to war but most expect the US to do it for them. You would have to twist this like hell to interpret that those people support Russia in any way. Further down there is a 23% support for Putin in Germany. Which contradicts your assumptions above and covers pretty much the radical left and right party voters/members. They are by far no majority and this is already the highest number in the EU.
I doubt plants will replace desk lamps. Maybe only very dim ones.

Even larger organisms like humans aren't powerhouses, we only need about 100 Watt (25 Watt for the brain), imagine you also had to power a 20W lightbulb. You'd have to suddenly increase your daily food consumption by 20%.

While this sounds easy for a human, it's not going to be that healthy, even less so for a plant which probably consumes less than a couple watts and a 20 Watt light output will probably exceed any other energy usage of the plant easily.
You "explained" nothing, you just asserted.

>do I need to go into details how being presumed "by default" to be non-trustworthy and potentially a criminal/thief can seriously impact your lifetime opportunities?

Yes, please do. When you do, take into account that "per default" means "as long as no other information is available", which only applies to people that you are completely unconnected to and have never interacted with.

Also, please try to incorporate this into a model of the real world with tradeoffs. So for example weigh my/your/his/her right not to be victimized, and everyone's duty to take care of themselves and others, with the right of someone not to be viewed with suspicion.

> the instinctual response to criminals is to avoid &"isolate" them

Citation needed.

> tendency to auto-isolate themselves

Citation needed. Aren't you stereotyping here?

> help towards actually solving the problem

What is "the problem" you refer to? What would you see as a solution?
I subscribed to Amazon Prime, thinking that I can stream series and movies that I was interested in, only to find, that only things that I could watch were shows produced by Amazon itself(Man in the High Castle etc), channels and movies were restricted content because of my location. I don't understand why it's still an issue.
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He was running a website that revolved around violating millions of copyrights. Why shouldn't he go to jail? What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the exclusive right to sell their own work.

Copyright is both a criminal and civil matter. The civil court system is useful for many things, but it is limited to monetary damages, which is not very helpful when the damages are in the millions and the defendant isn't very wealthy. The penal power of the criminal system is not appropriate for individual people downloading music, but it certainly is for a sophisticated operation involving the illegal distribution of millions of copyrighted works to hundreds of thousands of users.

== Edit ==

Some responses, since I'm rate-limited:

>In most cases i read about it's more a matter of the current copyright holder versus the facilitator. Not a matter of the creator versus the actual downloader.

Two points.

1. How do you think the current copyright holder got the copyright? They acquired it from the creator by either paying in advance or after the fact or as part of some ongoing deal.

2. If you run a market that you know is used almost exclusively by people selling contraband, do you think that's legal just because you're not the buyer or the seller? In case you don't know, it's not, and you'll go to jail just as if you had sold the contraband.

>If the defendant isn't wealthy after distributing all that content, is the content worth millions? Or is the government-enforced business model worth millions?

Yes, intellectual property isn't worth anything without government enforcement. But we've decided to, as individual societies and as an entire world by treaty, to provide such enforcement, because we think recognizing such property rights is good for our society.

And as for the first point, how much you make by violating other people's rights isn't that relevant. If I steal a truckload of iPhones and give them away for free, I still stole them. I realize IP is very different from physical property, but the profit of the crook isn't that relevant in either.
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What you describe is exactly what the research shows: people aren't stupid. They use stereotypes (=generalizations) along with other information to assess situations and act as best as they can.
It's true. Alternatives like Proof of Stake, Delegated Proof of Stake, Proof of Importance, etc., try to fix the energy waste problem. They follow similar reasoning to Proof of Work, using financial incentives to keep miners honest. They don't require centralized authorities. However it's early days for Proof of Stake, we'll see how it develops.
Wtf, no. The person stealing the car is of course punished as a thief. (Unless he doesn't get caught, obviously.)
thght noreferrer value was already a standard.
Proably with Russian tanks in Poland

The Americans are not interested and the rest of NATO can't scrape together anything that could stop the Third Shock Army anymore. The UK can't even put a single armoured division into the field anymore. The NATO air patrol of the Baltic States isn't even a full fighter squadron.

If Russian tanks roll NATO will look the other way, because it has no choice. It won't change soon because of years of underinvestment that can't be made good overnight even if huge budgets were suddenly available. Which they aren't.
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Yes. The message is in the system logs of the router.
Every enterprise has to earn a decent amount of money to survive, let alone succeed in a financial way. They'd just start out as a NGO otherwise.

WRT dumping Patreon and the like, I'd rather see community-efforts and enterprise compete. That has lead to some very high quality products from both (e.g. clang vs. gcc, chrome vs. firefox).
Is it?

I haven't seen any allegations of this (and I follow it reasonably closely). Wikipedia doesn't have any obvious links[1].

I've seen this story elsewhere years ago (back around when the linked WP story was posted).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest

[2]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...
The donation to Watsi will provide life-changing surgeries in the near future, and will potentially save hundreds or thousands of lives. You might be able to do more good in the future with a larger sum of money, but if you made this choice, you are condemning the smaller group of people to suffering and death. If you met with the smaller group of people and learned all of their names and faces, you probably wouldn't want to let them die. If you could somehow travel to the future and meet with the larger group of people, you might decide to sacrifice the smaller group in order to save millions of lives instead of hundreds. You could also try to find a balance between the two extremes. I guess this is a variation of the Trolley problem [1].

However, there's a few additional variables that are very important.

1. The price of Bitcoin may fall dramatically, or your business and investments might fail. Now you can't help anyone.

2. By saving the smaller group of people, you will alter the course of history. Some of the people in the larger group might never experience the disease or accident that required medical intervention. Some of them will never even be born.

I think it's better to choose the predictable outcome that is guaranteed to ease suffering, instead of gambling with people's lives.

P.S. I just finished watching the first episode of 11.22.63 [2] a few minutes ago. (It was incredibly good!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2879552/
> hosted outside of any jurisdictions

I'm curious about this - does it mean hosting in a country that "doesn't care", or is there some other option that I'm unaware of?
So I see that you run https://eggerapps.at/ , where you sell various pieces of software that I'm sure you've spent a lot of time creating and perfecting.

How would you like it if I set up a mirror with cracked versions of all of your apps, and then successfully diverted all of your sales to it?

And then when you sue me, how would you like it if I openly mocked you? I'll post your takedown letters on a section of my site where I call you a fool, do the digital equivalent of spitting in your face, and continue to flagrantly violate your rights.

That's exactly what the Pirate Bay does and I don’t understand how someone who sells their painstakingly created intellectual property could support that, let alone admit to participating in it.

Edit: na85, and what if I only divert 10% of the sales? Why should I now be totally innocent?
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> 36. Section 2.1.2 of the GLA contained a critical promise from Defendants that they would not develop the Star Citizen video game using any other video game engines.
It's because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers/labels.

This perhaps because once the cassette recorder, never mind the VCR, came to be, most nations on the western side of the wall decided to not go full police state and thus added a "friends and family" clause to their copyright laws.

This meant that a person could create a copy, if it was meant for a direct friend or a relative. This avoided having to park a copyright cop in every home in the nation.

Never mind that producing analog copies from tape to tape cause of a noticeable loss of content with each generation removed from the original.

But the computer, never mind the internet, changed all that. It made mass copying not something that required massive machinery in a warehouse, but something every kid could do in their own home. Especially as bandwidth and storage capacity kept improving at a massive rate.

And digital copies do not degrade like an analog one does.
They link to the source: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
What did you last slave die of?

I'm not sure whether there's something you actually disagree with - or you just want to "be right" by creating unreasonable burdens of proof. If so - here: you're right, I'm just a random dude making baseless affirmations, please ignore me.

> Aren't you stereotyping here?

Yes I am. I thought you're a supporter of the idea that stereotypes are true more often than not?

[edit] And to clarify, because it seems to be needed: by 'harmful', I mean harmful to the victims of the stereotype. If you discriminate someone, you're not necessarily harmed - but the other one may be. This isn't a "slavery was harmful to ranch owners" argument - it's not even a "slavery was harmful for the US society" argument. It's just a "slavery was harmful for black people" argument. I'm honestly flabbergasted that someone would honestly demand proof for that sort of statement.
Not only that, but the people running TPB has earned millions from advertising revenue, literally earning money off other peoples' work.
Just in case anyone else also enjoyed that nice Ethiopian Magical Emoji there: https://imgur.com/a/JnlH6
it exists since 2000 and it's a fully owned company of the government. I was being sarcastic and you're applying too much logic. Nothing about the Reichsbürger movement can be described with what we'd consider logic.
Curious, as this will start to affect my family soon: is TurboTax and its ilk not up to this task yet? (That is, a net nil return on foreign income given a double-taxation treaty.)
I ask a question and get a downvote.
Nice introduction, but I really don't see how "2 years of headbanging, so you don't have to" applies.
Yeah. Only it's possibly WHATWG's proposal. Copied over with names changed and multiple errors here and there.

See the full story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5swe9b/what_is_...
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The WHATWG is for browser vendors. It's in a constant state of flux as new changes get proposed and those proposals get changed through implementation.

The W3C is for web authors. It presents a more stable recommendation and provides advice (based on research) for authors.
It does read and look like many of the Russian propaganda sites. It was my instinct too.

Whilst the "new documents" aren't actually attributed on page 1, they're linked to on page 2.

Definitely set my russian-propaganda alarm off, but in this case it appears to be legit.
How typical. Downvote anything it happens to challenge your beliefs or interests without providing _any_ proof of why they (your beliefs/interests) happen to fall into the right side of things.

One more time @HN admins: Please remove downvote capability. All it does is poisoning the conversations and putting HN community into a downward spiral of adolescent behaviors.
How is that? Crytek aren't suing without reason. According to the complaint they lost money and tech from a breach of contract. It's a perfectly reasonable reason to sue.
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Tell that to all the SJWs trying to force people to do what they don't like.
This website is awfully damning considering the game was supposed to be released over a year ago:

https://starcitizentracker.github.io/

As you can see, development has stalled and very little progress is being made.

To answer your question: they chose a game engine to create shiny demos and carefully crafted videos. They have no intention of releasing a fully playable game. They just need to keep the hype going to keep selling virtual spaceships and virtual land.
Exactly, is it problem with smaller countries feeling continually threatened by Russia or with Russia itself who just recently annexed big chunks of Ukraine?
A more quantitative, in-depth article on the topic was published by Bloomberg in early November.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/
They're not dealing with a lawsuit because they're using a free engine. They had a very specific contract with Crytek which they breached multiple times.
Lots of people with good (and bad) intentions have tried to “solve” the Roma problem with very little success.

I don’t have any useful suggestions other than the observation that when Roma immigrate to countries like the USA or Australia they completely changed their culture and have been absorbed into the general population.
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Woah, woah. He was a co-defendant at the trial. He was more that just a dude who bought some ad space.
If IoT botnets become more prevalent (and it doesn't seem like IoT makers have incentives to make their devices more secure), I wonder if ISPs will just start monitoring the traffic patterns of their customers for possible DDoS activity and possibly throttle or cut off their internet connection to stop the attack at its source. Probably would even be compatible with most net neutrality regulations around the world, since it's a security issue.

You could probably hide DoS traffic from a single device by making it very low volume, but if the ISPs coordinate, they still know that the device recently sent packets to a victim of a DDoS attack, making it suspicious.
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Hi, creator of the Pineapple Fund here (pineapplefund.org/verification.txt)

I am actually quite sad to see the current state of the cryptocurrency community, and how people in it these days widely misrepresent the risk and intricacies of bitcoin/crypto.

When I first got into bitcoin, most people were there because they were fascinated in building a decentralized currency. Profit seeking was always a part, but not the predominant part.

I'm a little bit sad to see where crypto is today. But I think the original faction is still alive.
That reminds me of the fanfare up in the cold north when Netflix expanded their offerings those shores. Only that once one checked the catalog on offer, it was downright anemic. Several TV series lagged by multiple seasons for example.

Never mind that since then Netflix have lost the right to distribute quite a few movie catalogs that may hold hidden classics, as they shift their focus onto producing their own content and the copyright holders wants to keep the percentages that Netflix got for themselves.

This however leads to market balkanization and drive people to once more consider alternative sources.
The Americans are not interested ... If Russian tanks roll NATO will look the other way, because it has no choice.

This is why the US has forces deployed in Poland and Estonia[1]. They are there to die, just like the US forces in Berlin were.

In the cruel calculus of war these soldiers have to die to make sure US public opinion supports US intervention.

I'm not sure, but I think NATO doctrine is sill to go tactical nuclear if the tanks roll.

[1] https://www.army.mil/article/194380/
Full story here: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5swe9b/what_is_...

tl;dr: Ignore w3c's HTML "standards" as they are (often poor) copies of WHATWG's standards.
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There's a lot to hate about Trump, but I'm confused by that example. Property development is building, in perhaps the most literal sense. Trump Towers are actual things that provide tangible value. I don't know if their valuations are sane or if the processes used were ethical, it that what you were aiming at?
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Surely if what you say is true, the courts would have found him guilty, no?