L_Rahman

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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I grew up in Bangladesh. I had a 12kbps internet connection and access to used bookstores a 1.5hr rickshaw ride away from where I lived. My parents can barely speak English and my dad was a cab (now Uber) driver in New York City. I had no t
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
That's my mistake, I included a paragraph that wasn't relevant to this specific topic but was covered in the article itself.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I'm not the GP but here's an example of larger trend that they might point to in support of their argument: Excerpted from Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles&#x2
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Most of the things that skyscraper needs in order to be a viable structure - electricity, data, water, sewage - lie underground in systems that will not survive extended submersion beneath seawater.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Here's a paper that lays out a plan to switch the US to 100% wind, water and sunlight based power by 2050 and 80% by 2030. There are non trivial problems to solve, but the core set of technologies already exist or are experiencing Moor
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
The difference is that Facebook already has a captive audience and G+ never did.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
This is what Twitter was supposed to be - the social graph, identity, trust, and payments layer for applications to build on top off. With Facebook going the closed garden route, there was a real opportunity for a network player to play the
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
This seems unfair. According to the NOAA, New York's annual possible sunshine is 58%: https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt Some cities that we conventionally think of as sunny and
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Automating the payment would be a really bad idea, but the workflow of receiving the contract/invoice, running it through internal systems, negotiation and legal could use some software help.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
@urschrei: Seconding the request for Glaeser criticism.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Yes, monkbent is Ben's handle on HN.
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I thought so too, especially given that you devoted a considerable chunk of "The Cost of Monopoly" section to explain why you're actually concerned.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Thompson specifically says that he doesn't trust Zuckerberg with that power. Even though Thompson suspects that he and Zuckerberg probably want the same global outcomes, he is inherently suspicious of any centrally controlled entity. &
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Thompson would be the first to agree with you. He would in fact point to his very own business as an example that he believes in well-researched, expensive to produce content. He would then go on to argue that similar content sources will h
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I am very interested in this problem as well and have been doing some digging. The surface level answer from some real estate people in NY is that the ROI from condos is just better than any mid-priced living. 1. I don't know if that&#
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
If you're interested in infrastructure or business backend improvements like the ones described in the article but: - are at a smaller and more local scale that don't attract attention from the likes of GIP - the process improveme
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Ah, interesting. I kept going hitting the recruit option and looking for someone with a law background, but that was likely too specific a skill for the game to acknowledge.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Ah, but it's a mistake to think of HN as representative of the Valley in any way and even if it were it's hard to gauge whether your perception of it matches what it really is. What I've discovered (thanks to helpful nudging
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I'm not sure why that's happening either. Is the point that startups just lose lawsuits against patent trolls not matter how hard they try? That's probably true, but also sad.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I can explain the first quote. In a universal donor scenario, the T-cells are engineered, error corrected and tested once. From there, they can be multiplied pretty cheaply. Most of the cost is in the initial engineering. In a patient cell
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Another child post has addressed your concerns about the lack of scientific training in journalism, so I won't address it other than to say I was incredibly amused to see this charge levied at Gawande of all people. But on your point,
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
The problem is the American ideal of what a home looks like - detached from other buildings, front lawn, backyard, large kitchen, large living room. Given the density in cities that you mention, properties like that simply don't exist
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
But this is true only if there's enough public infrastructure to support that kind of living. I'm in the East Village and I have these subways in a 10 min walk radius: 4|5|6|N|Q|R|B|D|F|M|L I can make a no transfer trip to anywher
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
You should be! I'm one of those millennials. I moved to the East Village last year and plan to attend to my first Community Board meeting early next month. From a quick glance of what the board did in January 2017: http://ww
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
It's shocking just how good the Ubiquiti gear is. My setup at home is: Motorola Surfboard SB6183 Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X Uniquiti Unifi AP I set it up once and the only outages I've had were when my provider (Time Warner in NYC) had
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
And here I thought Americans were the only ones with a chaotic set of transit agencies serving the same region In all seriousness though, I'm very curious about the structural incentives at each of these places. Presumably, the people
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Would you pay for a publication that maintained something along these lines but for a variety of topics - energy technology, human lifespan, US healthcare systems, etc? Assume that the pieces are well researched and the journalists have dom
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Is there a particular reason you were running the controller regularly with just one AP? I used the controller once to setup my AP and haven't touched it since.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
This is fascinating. I want to turn as many of my biases as possible from unknowns to knowns, so I appreciate you pointing this out. An exercise I've now decided to undertake is as follows: Every time I see something that I feel is &qu
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
That this is the top comment on this post gives me a lot of faith in this community. The general tone here can at times feel like an uncritical adoration of the valley ecosystem. I'm glad that some of us react differently.

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