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by achow 5y ago
> Netflix has barely tapped its global potential (partially more and more users of countries come online world-wide).. The problem with this argument is it is not thought through. Expanding to newer markets is not about simply enabling
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by achow 5y ago
Earlier had posted on wrong parent comment. Rectified it. The point is usability trumps. The TV is working great, screen and sound is very good. Youtube anyway had ads, and that's OK by her as she expects that when she was watching fre
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by achow 5y ago
Recently bought a Samsung Smart TV for my aged mother. It was life changing for her. She watches YouTube mainly; she selects videos of her interest areas using voice (button less remote with Mic). Mainly watches exotic and local travel dest
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(Study) Tech Exodus out of California is a Myth(brookings.edu)
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by achow 5y ago
I do the same. The diff between HN & Twitter is voting mechanism at HN. Voting mechanism when all is said and done, has kept things sane and of high quality (though there is a echo chamber kind of vibe going, to the detriment of diversi
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by achow 5y ago
Web1 was read only (ex. blog) Web2 is Read+Write (all interactive apps - email travel booking, stock trading etc. However, the content of these are owned by mega or small corp) Web3 is Read+Write &'Own' your data. By virtue of
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Google buys Micro LED startup Raxium for AR displays(arstechnica.com)
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by achow 5y ago
Is it because earlier there was no display of numbers (ex in rotary phones)?
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by achow 5y ago
Absurd. It is about passenger safety. The article itself mentions that people are stranded late night and one driver after another refusing to pickup the rider. Think women, emergency,.. etc.
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by achow 5y ago
Not necessary. In India there is law that if you are running cabs on govt license then you cannot refuse passengers. If you as a cab driver do refuse (for whatever reason) then traffic police can take action (article mentions this). There
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by achow 5y ago
Related: 310 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30465227
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by achow 5y ago
On the other hand, in India canceling of rides by drivers is creating huge pain to riders. Commuters are up in arms over the increasing number of cancellations on app-based services such as Ola and Uber. More often than not drivers, after
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Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing parts of the app(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by achow 5y ago
Interesting. A month back Microsoft was exploring this acquisition. Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant Inc... Mandiant shares surged 18% in New York, bringing its market val
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by achow 5y ago
I guess there must be incidences which we are not aware of. Why is this forum so toxic? https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/36957067/Why-is-this-foru...
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by achow 5y ago
I wish Amazon had released one in this size. This goes onto to show how bad monopoly of Amazon is for e-reader category.
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by achow 5y ago
Corollary: 1 square kilometer (0.4 sq miles) patch on top of a sea can sustain 1 million families' needs (~3 million people)!
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by achow 5y ago
Because of inflation, the value of $1K in a decade or so will be way less.
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by achow 5y ago
The employees are doing fine.. --------------------------------- Samsung doles out 11 months' bonus pay as talent war heats up. Samsung Electronics' strong earnings have padded the wallets of employees at the world's top chip
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Spotify's $89 'Car Thing' Music Player Now Available in the US(newsroom.spotify.com)
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by achow 5y ago
Armed person with the hostage can be seen in this video.. https://twitter.com/philip035050/status/1496170773467340806
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by achow 5y ago
Who remembers Macbook's 'Staingate'[1]. I had that and was refused service multiple times. I managed to get it repaired only after it became a big issue - there were many (thousands or more) affected customers who started mak
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by achow 5y ago
The notice of the legal action [1]. AI seems to have a fair concern - risk of data theft. [1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL1w0J7aMAYsKfC?format=jpg&name=...
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Belgium approves four-day week(euronews.com)
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by achow 5y ago
Sorry. Overlooked the first part of the question.
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by achow 5y ago
Well, 10x was never a target, they were happy with 2x return from Nvidia acquisition.
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by achow 5y ago
Question was "are there any major success in their portfolio?", time period was not specified.
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by achow 5y ago
How it 'backfired', if it is going to do an IPO? Post IPO its market value could be much higher than acquisition price of $31B. Failure to sell to Nvidia at 2X the acquisition price is not a failure, it was an honest attempt to ma
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by achow 5y ago
Yahoo, Alibaba?
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by achow 5y ago
This is from 1998. Better writeup (2012).. The command that had been run was most likely ‘rm -r -f *’, which—roughly speaking—commands the system to begin removing every file below the current directory. This is commonly used to clear out a

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