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by Riod 11y ago
Wrong. From wikipedia: Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj,[1] "raj," lit. "rule" in Hindi[2]) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously take
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by Riod 11y ago
Quite possible too. They compete with FB for ad revenue. Social networks tend to be winner take all/most. If Twitter continues to be small, then it has to have a small valuation
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by Riod 11y ago
You need to re-read what you said. You will never have a counterfactual proving that India was not able to embark on an industrial revolution, because the British seized the country and stymied all growth that was not beneficial to them. By
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by Riod 11y ago
The interesting thing about the luminaries of tech is that they are willing to publicly display their prejudices and ignorance. You don't see leaders in finance or airlines doing this with similar regularity.
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by Riod 11y ago
No no you're absolutely right. Great justification isn't it?
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by Riod 11y ago
There is a reason why Britain industrialised first. A lot of it had to do with barring Indians from making manufactured goods in their own country and importing raw materials at artificially low prices. Also Indians were not allowed to own
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by Riod 11y ago
Britain first used their military power to seize India. They then blocked the Indians from manufacturing a vast variety of manufactured goods and forced farmers to produce certain cash crops (like cotton), to be sold only to the British at
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by Riod 11y ago
Honestly I think this reflects a fairly common sentiment amongst westerners. Not the first time I've heard this; doubt it would be the last. I've even heard white south africans in the west say that south africa would have been be
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by Riod 11y ago
Not talking about employees. You can release whatever message you want internally. It's the external message where upside downside needs to be a consideration. By which I mean whatever you say in email can be printed and quoted. Dissem
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by Riod 11y ago
ADP has the same thing.
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by Riod 11y ago
Maybe. But for most people, twitter, like Facebook, competes for our free time. And for most people Facebook is a better distraction. You can't force users to see the product a certain way; it has to be intuitive.
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by Riod 11y ago
This was rather clumsily written. Even if your company messed up, shoving your CEO with a boot up his ass is bad for morale. The reason why most communiques are generic is because there's very little upside to being abrupt publicly.
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by Riod 11y ago
Curious, who would that provider be? We are a smallish company too
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by Riod 11y ago
Oh yes. Best sashimi I've had was horse sashimi in Asakusa. This family has been running this restaurant since the late 1800s. http://www.luxeat.com/blog/miyako-sushi-3-michelin-quality-m...
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by Riod 11y ago
Watson is quite impressive from the outside atleast. It's sort of the opposite of the Palantir approach to unstructured data; which is to say Watson processes and outputs the conclusions as opposed to aiding humans. Is that getting any
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by Riod 11y ago
Does AWS approach enterprise sales the same way IBM does? I know IBM offers the one point of contact approach (contact your rep; she/he takes care of it).
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by Riod 11y ago
AWS does cater to enterprise customers, but do they have the same one point of contact style service that IBM has historically provided?
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by Riod 11y ago
Does it mean its core revenues are more stable? Are enterprise customers moving away from it?
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by Riod 11y ago
Since its March 2013 high. Their revenues have been decreasing for 14 straight quarters
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Ask HN: What's going on at IBM?
128 points by Riod 11y ago|74 comments
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by Riod 11y ago
That's not a management philosophy? Berkshire Hathaway is notorious for being hands off. The corporate HQ has 20 people working in it. Buffett controls the money but the CEOs are free to run the business as they see fit.
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by Riod 11y ago
Or maybe the US and pals placed Vietnam under an embargo from 75-94, and war only really ended in 79 after China got booted out? 94-16 isn't really that long. Check back in 20 years. I'll bet my bottom dollar their standards of li
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by Riod 11y ago
I've been in and out of Vietnam since the 90s. It takes a long long time to bring up the working class. You could substitute your statement for Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; all of which have had democracies for a long time. All co
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by Riod 11y ago
What? He has historically given up his proxies over to management.
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by Riod 11y ago
Pretty spot on
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by Riod 11y ago
That's why minimum wage got bumped 13-15% in 2015? Geez. Thailand and Malaysia have barely progressed since 2000. Vietnam's growth has been off the charts.
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by Riod 11y ago
No. They're the second base for manufacturing after China now. Their economy is young, relatively debt free and growing. In a few decades they will overtake most of their ASEAN neighbours
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by Riod 11y ago
That's woefully poor analysis. Thailand did not fight wars from the 50's to the near 80's. That's a bit like asking the former Yugo states why their economy looks nothing like Turkey's.
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by Riod 11y ago
By the body count metric, the Nazis beat the Soviets.
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by Riod 11y ago
Agree. But the alternative would be a diem-type junta that also killed people in large numbers but didn't care for the 90% of the population that were peasants. You'd probably get something closer to a central african state where

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