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Re:Internet Credit Union on Thursday June 27, 2013 @10:46PM (#5955909)
One neat perk is that they're super excited about supporting bitcoin. It doesn't really talk too much about it on their website, but they were at the bitcoin conference this year.
Re:Internet Credit Union on Thursday June 27, 2013 @10:43PM (#5955903)
No, you don't have to live there. As part of the account creation process, you donate a small amount of money ($5, iirc) to one of their local partners, and that satisfies the "participates in associations" aspect of the rule.

EDIT: See "Persons participating in programs to alleviate poverty or distress that are located in the approved area" on the members page

Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @03:12AM (#4354345)
It's two of the top three in the most snatched list, though!
Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:07AM (#4354193)
if there's something you want torrentized that's not, feel free to post here too and I can poke it.

edit: assuming it's in one of the collections we're currently testing on. (all the opensource_* ones) (etree and netlabels _should_ be all torrentized [we hope])

That doesn't mean they "endorse" it.
This isn't really an HN topic, is it?

Also, anyone can fucking donate to whoever they want. Notice in the "name" column it says "Brendan Elch", not "Mozilla, Inc." What he does with his money is his business.

Re:Google Video Distributed Archiving System Writeup on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:59PM (#2472840)
Feel free to ask any questions you have below!