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by achow 6y ago
Mine has '5is' instead of your 'efo'. So mine is 91xxxx.wa.5is@bankname as compared to your 91xxxx.wa.efo@bankname
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by achow 6y ago
In India and I have WhatsApp Payment enabled for more than a year (if I remember it right). I guess I was one of their early beta tester. While it is convenient to send money to another person using WhatsApp but I have used it only few time
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by achow 6y ago
TL;DR - Do not have to balance child care and job duties. - Have refined time management skills over the years and developed the ability to separate work from the rest of their lives.
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by achow 6y ago
True. Was in Google for a brief while; the pull of free and great food wore off very quickly when I had a realization that I actually should be eating 30-40% of what I consume any given day. And to rustle up something for that 15-20% is no
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by achow 6y ago
Good point. Maybe this one was visible and behind the scene the big firms are still at it? This lawyer was probably was working on some specific local cases but was also 'more accessible' by the criminals for intimidation?
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by achow 6y ago
The commissioners said it did not meet the standard for meaningful consent. "An individual would not, while using a mall directory, reasonably expect their image to be captured and used to create a biometric representation of their
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by achow 6y ago
Not really. I could switch to Figma from Sketch very easily because I could upload my Sketch files in Figma and Figma could deconstruct them into layers and elements with even layer names intact! Vice versa? No. Even Photoshop files .PSD ar
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by achow 6y ago
Fan of Figma, but would switch to a better one in a heartbeat because of the following huge downside.. Once you are in Figma, you are trapped forever. No way to get out your original editable artwork files. Buyer beware!
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by achow 6y ago
The justification is spelled out literally few words down the line - to unify the visual language . If that is not clear, here is an example of Microsoft Office's excellent execution: https://medium.com/microsoft-desig
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by achow 6y ago
Well, perhaps we are conflating two facts inaccurately.. The TechCrunch article says "First I should say that I understand Google’s intent here, to unify the visual language of the various apps in its suite." The need for redesig
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When Providing Wait Times, It Pays to Underpromise and Overdeliver(hbr.org)
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Ask HN: Has anyone implemented Amazon Worklink to access intranet page on mobile
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by achow 6y ago
Very recently this startup WhiteHat Jr. was acquired for $300M by another EdTech startup Byju (valuation: $11B!). Byju is known to be very aggressive in sales and marketing.. and they have been controversial. https://www.moneylif
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by achow 6y ago
Affinity is the answer. "I've switched all my work to Procreate, Affinity, and Final Cut."
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by achow 6y ago
The chart inside says "Google captures over 92% of world-wide search traffic" - which I assume would include mobile or any other device (speaker etc). If yes, then the headline is misleading. (Mobile only headline is fine - 95%).
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by achow 6y ago
'Holding' is the key part of the offense. ..would allow police to take immediate action if they saw a driver holding and using a phone at the wheel. Motorists will still be able to use phones to pay for goods or services at d
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Snapchat's Lens Studio 3.2 for Lidar-powered Lenses for the new iPhone 12 Pro(lensstudio.snapchat.com)
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by achow 6y ago
From March
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by achow 6y ago
Photoshop and 'morphing' did not lead to deluge of claims and counter-claims around fake pictures. Why? Do society and human behavior adopts to new reality?
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by achow 6y ago
In 1998 'United Nations Peacekeeping Forces' [1] won the peace prize; and this particular winner (org had people from multiple countries) is true embodiment of the point - "it takes much more than a single person..". [1]
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by achow 6y ago
Any pointers on locally hosted Whiteboard application? In our company we cannot use Whiteboards on cloud.
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by achow 6y ago
You have to adjust the timeline - top left calendar icon. Select some period between 2018 and 2019.
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by achow 6y ago
How does it matter? Take away is the money offered is not trivial and looks like much beyond the money needed for splurging on a nice new German car. Kudos to the OP on taking a moral stand. How many would do that?
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by achow 6y ago
Except the fact that Amazon's office in Hyderabad India is the their largest in the world [1]. We are not talking about contractors - they are employees like any in their Seattle one, many actually do relocate back from US to India off
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by achow 6y ago
> A half billion apps sound way more than needed.... 'Half a billion' figuratively speaking is not much, if you account for all internal apps in enterprise (ex approval flow for weekly cafeteria menu). If there are millions o
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by achow 6y ago
Well at the risk of sounding pedantic, things on rails - railways, metro/subway etc. are not in same category.
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by achow 6y ago
Another perspective: USA uses 322 billion gallons of water everyday. [1] 240,000 swimming pool contains 120 billion gallons. USA would survive approx 8 Hrs on the moon. [1] https://medium.com/ensia/america-uses-322-bill
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by achow 6y ago
> ..but at the big company, the feeling of satisfaction from running into random people who have used what I made would still be somewhat infrequent. Online forums, discussion groups etc. can makes them very frequent, global, profound
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by achow 6y ago
I guess both can be achieved - electronic voting along with a mechanism of having a verifiable 'agreeable consent'. How electronic voting machines have improved India’s democracy https://www.brookings.edu/blog&#x2F
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by achow 6y ago
Google Wavenet sounds much more natural than this. https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech#section-2

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