Jagat

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by Jagat 8y ago
A blindspot mirror costs $5. I'm really surprised it's not mandated by law in the US.
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by Jagat 8y ago
So how long before this is sunset?
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Google Kills Allo(gizmodo.com)
2 points by Jagat 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jagat 8y ago
Honest question. Why doesn't the lender require the borrower to explain how they plan to repay? Or why do they continue to lend large amounts for degrees where there's a low probability of getting a good salary after graduation. O
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by Jagat 8y ago
Btw I just noticed that he's the same guy whose work on GAN was used by an art collective, and the resulting image sold for $14k. https://twitter.com/DrBeef_/status/1055285640420483073
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by Jagat 8y ago
He's not talking about being fired. He's talking about getting killed/injured in action.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Roomba is a great product. I've one that I've used for 4 years thrice a week without any problem. Another one that I've found indispensable is litter-robot. If I pay someone $5 to clear the litter of two cats, I'll have
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by Jagat 8y ago
"precise timestamps" from two phones is a hard distributed systems problem. If timestamp and geo were the only things that the app used, I wonder if it worked well only because there weren't too many people 'bumping&#x2
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by Jagat 8y ago
The other player at the moment happens to be Amazon. So any competition is a good thing.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Reminded me of the pepsi logo redesign document (that talks about 'relativity of space and time', 'galaxy', 'gravitational pull', among other things). https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content&#x2
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by Jagat 8y ago
It works well, and has most of the features we need from a paging solution. Not sure what you were missing.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Would echo that. Life changing indeed. Had an issue within the warranty period, and the service was amazing.
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by Jagat 8y ago
"More ethical generation" "More civilized societies" "Barbarians" "Taming the savages"
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by Jagat 8y ago
If it's a forgotten feature, it's a potential security risk. It'll go away.
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by Jagat 8y ago
I have a few wild hypotheses on this 1. "Experiences over objects" is driven by the need to share it on social media. Photos at the Eiffel Tower garner more likes than a new BMW car. 2. Peer pressure: Experiences of others being s
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by Jagat 8y ago
Let's not conflate correlation with causation. It's industrial revolution that caused the increase in irrigated land. It's possible that in the absence of British rule, Indian kingdoms would have found a way to trade its reso
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by Jagat 8y ago
Indian railway was built with Indian taxpayer's money to transport raw goods for exporting to British factories. India had a highly developed set of kingdoms even before the British invasion, and in an alternate history where British h
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by Jagat 8y ago
If there's just one track, will other zillion-1 cars behind my car stop, while it loads me?
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Almost Nobody Is Using Amazon's Alexa to Actually Buy Stuff(gizmodo.com)
3 points by Jagat 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jagat 8y ago
Like another commentator mentioned, dinosaur started appearing ~230m years ago. If you go back ~200m years, you'll see that India, Africa and the Americas are all fused together into a supercontinent.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Awesome! It's great to see India move northward between 50m and 35m years ago, and smash into the Eurasian body, creating what is now the Himalayan range.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Completely agree. I was responding to OPs assertion that even that is not necessary.
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by Jagat 8y ago
I find it hard to believe that people would just band together and volunteer to build things without a monetary (or an equivalent) incentive. Say, we're at the beginning of the neolithic age, and our village has just discovered agricul
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by Jagat 8y ago
You're overestimating the effect of intelligence on one's food choice. You're also conflating intelligence, ability to earn, and education. Network effects and marketing have a much bigger role to play here. It's very co
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by Jagat 8y ago
In India, KFC, McDonalds, and Dominos have started creeping up. They're expensive, relative to middle class income. So people have started associating it with classy upper class food. It's good they're expensive though; most
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by Jagat 8y ago
>> most independent content creation does not seem to be paywalled, so people who do not have the means to support the content can still enjoy it Another hypothetical scenario: I make videos of mobile phone reviews, and I'm an am
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by Jagat 8y ago
If you're reliant on ads, you tend to optimize your content to attract more advertisers and eyeballs. If you're reliant on donations, you tend to optimize your content to cater to the richer (or upper middle class) segment of soci
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by Jagat 8y ago
It's possible. Controlling for grit and time spent not resting, being the best at anything demands a significant time investment in that activity. If you had just one hour a day, you could spend it either playing basketball or doing ma
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by Jagat 8y ago
I'm currently hooked to this free book "Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors" https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Go-Very-Short-Authors-ebook/d... Each story is <1000 words (5-10mins)
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by Jagat 8y ago
Except that a few accidents and news coverage will bring out the suburban and anti-big-corp folks with banners. That'll put enough pressure on the regulators to impose draconian safety rules on the self-driving cars, slowing it down su

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