RealGeek

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by RealGeek 10y ago
These FDI restrictions were placed for multi-brand retail stores like Walmart. I guess Apple stores are considered multi-brand because they sell some products from other brands as well. These restrictions are only for foreign companies. An
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These tips usually don't help in India. If you look poor and nobody, the police could even beat you up for no reason. If you look and act rich & influential, then police and Government officials play nice with you.
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Apple sales are weak in India because iPhone is overpriced in India, prices of Apple products in India are a lot higher than US. In 2015, over 100 million smartphones were sold in India. Apple sells iPhone 6s 16 GB for $920 in India[1], whi
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I am Indian.
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Vendors like Spice and Intex are Indian companies. Companies can sell imported products in India, they just have to pay import duty on it. India have FDI restrictions in retail sector to prevent big box retailers like Walmart from destroyin
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My personal car was stopped by octroi officers near a state border in India. They searched my car, and then said that I should have paid octroi tax on the personal computer I was carrying in the car. I told them that all taxes were paid inc
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by RealGeek 10y ago
I've built a plug & play app for Web Push Notifications. It comes with an analytics dashboard and an interface for users to manage their subscription. If anyone is interested to try it, you can see the demo at https://w
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by RealGeek 10y ago
A professor doing maths is weird?
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> I am afraid it would cost $2M to try to pay back $1.7M How much did it cost them to issue tickets and collect that $1.7 million? Do they use the same logic while issuing tickets and collecting fines?
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White men frequently commit mass shootings in schooled and movies. Should we report suspicious activity every time we see a white man around school?
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Most of the abusers of H-1B are such body shops and consultants. A simple solution is to disallow consultants from sponsoring H-1B. Only the direct employer should be able to sponsor H-1B. One of my friend was recruited by Tata in India, an
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Tens of thousands of foreign students come to US every year for education, majority of them are among the top of talent pool. They have to be top performers in their country to be able to get university admission and visa to come to US. Aft
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Have the hackers left the building?(medium.com)
1 points by RealGeek 10y ago|0 comments
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by RealGeek 11y ago
I just built a plug & play app to enable push notifications on your website. Please contact me if you are interested to try it. My contact info is on my profile.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
I use Mailwizz. It lacks the polish of MailChimp, but works well. It is multi-tenant and you can have sub-accounts with their quotas. You can even use it to roll your own SaaS with the included user management and billing features.
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A lot of BMW owners frown on the idea of electric car, which could be a reason why BMW is not so bullish on electric cars. Tesla and BMW are selling to a completely different audience. Tesla does one thing very well, and that is to make gre
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by RealGeek 11y ago
I heard about Chinese Govt. subsidizing logistics on a news channel a while ago. I Googled about it yesterday and found this insightful article instead.
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The United Nations is helping subsidize Chinese shipping. Here's how(fortune.com)
6 points by RealGeek 11y ago|1 comments
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Just searched and found this http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...
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> Then I shut up! What if the cop feel threat to his life by your long speech and verbal resistance?
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China's Government subsidies logistics to increase exports.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
9/11 terrorists were not from Iran or Iraq, they were Saudi nationals.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
93 victims were unarmed, 33 were armed with a toy, and 27 unknown. That is a lot more than Americans killed by terrorists in US.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
He built an impressive prototype, considering he hacked it together in a month. This is just the start, not the end.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
Apple Maps once lead me to a highway ramp on the wrong side.
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by RealGeek 11y ago
Glad you were able to break the vicious cycle and build a career. What job do you do now? What skills / education helped you get the job?
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by RealGeek 11y ago
I run XBMC on Nexus Player, which costs less than $50. You can install Kodi from Google Play store. It can smoothly play 1080p videos from NAS or USB. It also runs most of the video add-ons available for XBMC.
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> What's next? Ban Internet because terrorists use it to communicate.
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Roku took money from Dish to kick and block all other international content competitors.
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He didn't compare any Android TV box. Nexus Player is a very compelling option. Android TV have most of the popular video apps, and Chromecast support. It can be bought for less than $50, which is a great value. I am able to control Ne

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