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DesiLurker
10y ago
C & assembly, bit of bash scripting.
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10y ago
I have the same experience, it seems everytime I open my win10 laptop the damn thing does updates for many minutes. my windows desktop is more well behaved though. it seems it needs to be actively used so it always stays updated. not an app
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10y ago
as an ex-Amzn (but goog exp from friends only so possibly hearsay) I can definitely say the reasons to leave amazon & google are very different. one is push other is pull :-)
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10y ago
with grid tie-in your grid is the battery.
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10y ago
seriously! thats from EIA their entire focus is on traditional not renewable sources. plus its misleading to quote prices from 2013 knowing fully well renewables have made a lot of cost reduction owing to economies of scale in last few year
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10y ago
same here, 15 years of solid experience in a bunch of startups & many successful projects from scratch but all they seem to care about is warm bodies that can solve their weird interview puzzles. nothing from core expertise area at all.
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10y ago
you mean most of them who are required to be provided bank accounts under various govt scheme prior to demonetization. or perhaps you mean all 1 Billion mobile subscribers who dont have access to an electronic payment platform, Right? 
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10y ago
> There are multiple sources that cite the 6% to 10% figure. If you have a good reason to call this article BS, please explain. > You make some other remarks about all non-salary income being unreported, and people complaining about t
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10y ago
Apologies for delay in response.. work firefights >>What do you think happens to the 60/40 real estate transactions after this? > A more interesting what happens to all those expensive flats your dearly middle class bought? &g
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10y ago
>> one by one my dear, one by one. atleast you'll agree that this move makes most of the cash traceable, right? > Last time I checked its still legal to trade in cash. They didn't ban cash, they just swapped notes. And bu
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10y ago
one by one my dear, one by one. atleast you'll agree that this move makes most of the cash traceable, right? Also, businesses are corrupt because they dont have a choice, running you businesses clean & paying taxes does not preclud
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10y ago
Nothing, except that they cannot make any big purchases (like land/gold or cash deposit) with the vast amount of bribe money they make. To think of this as a fix-all solution is misguided ( & for a good reason, pls see my other lar
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10y ago
Ya this article is total BS. the estimates I have heard are much larger than that. Just a case in point, when you do any land/real-estate transaction in india its common understanding that about 30-40% of the sale will be cash outside
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10y ago
like your name
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10y ago
the other reason would be the whatever you subsidize you just get more of that. So in an market based system prices generally rise until they have balanced out the gains from tax deduction (interest & prop tax). Also, given the amount o
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10y ago
not really, once you have kids in picture its a whole different math. also the whole buying vs renting thing. to drive the seriousness of this home, Elizabeth warren did a study back when she was a prof & found that for every 10 point d
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10y ago
this. I always say this, the real credit for success of open source software goes to gcc (egcs for old timers) which allowed developers to make executable code unencumbered with NDAs & royalties. sometimes I wish somebody with deep pock
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10y ago
you kinda already have an instance of IPFS from the creator of bittorrent, its called btsync. totally p2p. Tho somebody needs to make a 'Solid' layer on top of it. as far as social net is concerned I'd settle for a middle gro