arshsingh

Yea this happens to me too. The other person probably gave facebook access to their contacts.

Are you prepared to travel to Tallinn and visit local banks in person to try convince one to open you a business account?

This can be deferred though. You can open an account with Transferwise or Holvi online and recieve payments/pay yourself a salary. You only need a bank account once you want to pay the share capital or withdraw dividends.

Also, if you use leapin.eu they get you a "pre-acceptance" from LHV bank _before_ you travel to Tallinn

If you pay a dividend at the end of the year, it’s taxed as capital gains

Really ? I'm not in the EU but I would assume dividends would be taxed at regular income tax rate or a special dividend tax rate (and the company would pay corp tax). Only if you sell your shares in the company, the profit would be taxed as capital gains.

Aren't we already doing this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11611868

https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

What if i run tor on my computer and apply a system wide proxy through that port (9050 by default), is that any different from your setup ?

check this out : https://prism-break.org/

Yes, actually I built a prototype for myself but I suck at design so I dropped the idea. A clean,minimal tv guide would be a nice thing to have.

Yes, mozilla mentioned this in a blog post when someone here on HN pointed that they should move persona out of the U.S. Being a U.S. company they have to follow the U.S. law regardless of their servers' location.

I am in the same boat (built a couple apps, threw one of them away, decided to rewrite the other one but never finished doing that). I've been looking for someone to build side projects with. If you would like to collaborate on a project, shoot me an email (arsh.zingh at ymail).