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"unashamedly advertising all sorts of tax-haven services. Just... weird."

Why would anyone be ashamed to advertise tax-haven services???


Because they're fundamentally about maximizing personal gain regardless of the cost to society. This is in direct violation of the covenant upon which societies are founded. Most people take this violation as an immoral act.


Are you implying that public officials and the public sector is not trying to maximize their personal gain (regardless of the cost to society)?

Which covenant is the founding of societies based upon?

Please enlighten us.


Most people in my country deem high taxes immoral.


By 'society' here, I take it that you mean the interests of large, highly taxed countries?


Shame and phrases like “violation of the covenant upon which societies are founded” are tools used by people to try to convince you to do things that are in their best interest.


"Zuckerberg created Facebook in bad faith (as a hateful hot-or-not site)"

What made the original Facebook hateful when compared with other "hot-or-not" sites?



You seem to believe "fascist" is the opposite of "democratic".

How would you call a Communist state? Democratic? Fascist?


Could you please recommend an Android library for displaying vector maps?


Mapbox GL is pretty great, as I'm sure the Mapbox guy will inform you. The performance and image quality is top-notch.


" And everyone here is suffering from an unofficial economic embargo enforced by the US on us ever since."

Lol. USA is pumping up every year more than 1 billion USD into Egypt.


Because books write themselves.


No, because blaming the author for unnamed transgressions is not a fundamental aspect of not liking a book.


It looks like you're confusing your startup (which is a company) with your web site.


I was banned by Quora for not agreeing to repeated edits to MY OWN question. Reason? VANDALISM. Mind boggling.


That's a whole 'nother can of worms concerning participation / nonparticipation elections by various services.

And the question of when a service ought / ought not allow participation.

I'm strongly in the camp of controlling my own personal online interactions. Which is somewhat curious in the case of HN as that's not possible -- there are no user blocks. HN's moderation policies and practices ensure that this is virtually never necessary.

However I've got issues with how and why various online services draw the line at participation. I agree with some of the groups banned from Reddit, for example. I take exception to Imzy's banning my account (largely for being hounded, misrepresented, and harassed by others on the service). I'm exceptionally critical of Google, on Google+, but that's not resulted in repercussions (there are times when an adversary's belief in "the marketplace of ideas" is an advantage).

I'd prefer a world in which relying on access to other's soapboxes and spaces wasn't so necessary.


"did you take a look at the plugin store?"

There is no link to any plugin store from your website.


The plugin store can currently only be viewed from within the app.


A secretary working for a VC firm and a GP are both part of the VC world.

Please make clear which part of the VC world you're targeting. The path to become a clerk at a VC firm is way different tha the path to become a GP there.


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