Jagat

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by Jagat 7y ago
Also, lawn maintenance was labor intensive and you needed a dedicated staff to keep it trim and watered. Just like with any other thing, middle class tends to emulate the aristocrats once it becomes cheap enough, and end up rationalizing th
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by Jagat 7y ago
It's all about the cost. Cleaning is more labor intensive than recycling, and if the cost of cleaning is less than the cost of recycling, you'll end up cleaning it. This is only possible in developing countries where it's mor
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by Jagat 7y ago
Having used all three of Alexa, 'Ok Google', and Siri, I'd have to say Siri is the worst of the three. It's extremely far behind the the other two. Try your voice searches with Google and it's very likely you'l
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by Jagat 7y ago
and do what? This is what makes him feel alive and purposeful. If you're suggesting he sit on a beach and sip margarita, people like him can't do that for a long time without feeling the opposite of alive.
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by Jagat 7y ago
Everyone knew that was going away the moment they sold the app that had 1 billion users for 19 billion dollars. The founders were being disingenuous when they said the data wouldn't be used for ads.
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Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill eBay(medium.com)
1 points by Jagat 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jagat 7y ago
They used to charge $1 per year after the first year
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by Jagat 7y ago
If the comments are non-blocking, I usually accept the diff and leave it to the submitter to do as they please with the review comments.
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by Jagat 7y ago
Also, mothers didn't have to keep an eye on the kids all the time past infancy. It was fairly common to leave them on their own with other kids to play, only ensuring they're fed on time. And once they reached a sufficient age (10
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by Jagat 7y ago
I think he's just mocking certain people who claim that setup to be the best 'IDE'.
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by Jagat 7y ago
- Level 4/5 self driving cars will not happen. Investments will dry out pretty much in the next few years and the scope will be limited to freeway lane assists and adaptive cruise after a few accidents caused by software bugs becomes m
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by Jagat 7y ago
Enforcement is going to be pretty hard. It's the thing that Bill Gates talks about when talking about philanthropy. If everyone in the world gets $30 - warlords in Africa, and landlords or local gangsters in other impoverished nations
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by Jagat 7y ago
You're decrying inequality, and supporting the ridiculous SV salaries in the same paragraph. >> Do you think SV salaries would be as high as they are if they could import any workers hassle free? There's nothing great about
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by Jagat 7y ago
Filing a lawsuit can be quite profitable for the lawyers involved. What's preventing someone from trying to extract $3M in settlement money from a rich company that doesn't want its reputation tarnished in a long running discrimin
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by Jagat 7y ago
Yeah, but it's not likely they're going to sue you regardless of what reason you give for not accepting their offer. There's asymmetry from the other side too.
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The first 3D-printed neighborhood is being built in Mexico(cnn.com)
1 points by Jagat 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jagat 7y ago
This. Calendars, TODO lists, reminders, alarms. These things free up my mind so I can focus on other things instead of worrying about what I should be doing right now because I don't have it written anywhere.
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by Jagat 7y ago
"until it wasn’t" => After the AI winter, we had to wait for the phone revolution which enabled data collection at scale, and google et al's big ad dollars in order to fund speech recognition. Moreover, speech recognition
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by Jagat 7y ago
I was quite bullish on self driving cars about 5-6 years ago. As time passed by, and venture funding and media optimism seems to be drying out in silicon valley, I've been increasingly thinking level 5 is not going to happen in the nex
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by Jagat 7y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. People move farther as it becomes easier to commute. Hence the suburban movement in the last 50 years or so. Here in the bay area, real estate in the farther areas of east bay (e.g., Livermore) have been in h
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by Jagat 7y ago
My favorite is 'Multipliers'
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by Jagat 7y ago
Is it just me or did anyone else read the title as: FBI asked Sony for Playstation users in order to sell cocaine to them.
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by Jagat 7y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by Jagat 7y ago
"It’s a pointless subscription that Google is trying to lazily ram down my throat instead of improving its offering,.." It's now fashionable to shit on google on HN, but Youtube premium is one of the best investments I'v
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by Jagat 7y ago
Are you talking about 'The Story of Us' on Netflix?
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by Jagat 7y ago
This is such a well written comment. Often what starts as 'simple' turns into spaghetti complex over time due to the lack of foresight. It's a hard task job and requires a lot of experience to create systems that are simple t
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by Jagat 7y ago
Here's what I propose we should do to figure out the causality 1. Split Microsoft into three parts, each with its own exactly equivalent market. 2. Have Satya Nadella as the CEO of one of them, Steve Ballmer as the CEO of the other, an
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by Jagat 7y ago
What google considers success is not the same as what others consider a success. $10m revenue is huge for a lot of startups. For google it's just a distraction that needs to be culled.
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by Jagat 7y ago
Depends on whom it's good for. For the 80%(?) of the young entrepreneurs who fail, not so much. For the city/country that produces a massive company founded by young risk taking individuals - a lot. (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Face
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by Jagat 7y ago
Saw that one when we were in louvre. It is so good you have to sit there and just look at it for a while.

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