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by ajays 13y ago
To follow along, there's also Flickr and a search for "Istanbul" and "Gezi" : https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=istanbul+gezi&s=rec
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by ajays 13y ago
"- does Yahoo have free IMAP or POP? No" Hmm... then how does the iPhone client fetch mail from Yahoo? "- does Yahoo have a decent SPAM filter? No" I get more spam in my INBOX in my GMail account (which I have protected quite steadfastly) t
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by ajays 13y ago
"While none of these is the very heart of Google (Search, AdWords), ..." Think again. AdWord/AdSense came out of "Applied Semantics", that they bought in 2003 for $102MM. Here's the full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_
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by ajays 13y ago
"Gmail in particular has made Yahoo's products look like Detroit's cars in the 70s and 80s." Have you tried the Yahoo Mail mobile app?
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by ajays 13y ago
"The guy . . . . could never have spare the five minutes to throw some beans in a slow cooker." If you just throw beans into a slow cooker without boiling them, you can risk haemagglutinin toxicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_v
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by ajays 13y ago
I think this single piece of legislation has done more for California's startup scene than anything else.
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by ajays 13y ago
Anecdotally, I think it is the case that if you're a Pro user, and someone else is viewing your photostream, then they won't see ads next to your photo. This probably doesn't apply to your photos in other groups, etc. So we both may be righ
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by ajays 13y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that it's not just that you don't see ads; it's also that others don't see ads on your photos. The latter can be an important feature for those who use Flickr to create professional portf
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by ajays 13y ago
My undergrad advisor had a similar story. He was working on an old open problem for his dissertation, and his advisor (quite a well-known figure in the field) kept giving him ideas. Nothing worked. This went on for 4 years. Then one day he
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by ajays 13y ago
Sometimes I wonder if both sides of such analyses are written out beforehand (for/against). Then, if the prevailing sentiment is for the event, they publish the against version; and vice versa. Just to offer a 'counter opinion" and garner p
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by ajays 13y ago
You must be new around here (said in jest). HN has had an anti=Yahoo bias for a long time; the reasoning behind the bias keep changing ("layoffs", "delicious", "WFH", etc.), but it always seems to be there.
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by ajays 13y ago
When I started out here in India, I was paid 10,000 Rs per month at a call center. If it makes you feel any better, I started at Rs 1500 per month in a top IT firm.
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by ajays 13y ago
I dunno... how many techies are there in the Marina? I thought the techies dominated SOMA and chunks of the Mission. Marina feels like the playground of the trustafarians, not nerdy techies.
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by ajays 13y ago
That's irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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by ajays 13y ago
Sure, you can hire an "SE" (and I use the quotes deliberately) for $15/day also; but you won't get much use out of her/him. Decent grads from a good school regularly get Rs 100K/month offers, from what I've been told (which works out to abo
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by ajays 13y ago
I believe there isn't currently any mechanism for the U.S. FDA to restrict number of pills sold of OTC medication There are exceptions (but I'm not sure if they're from the Law Enforcement side, or the FDA). For example, you can't buy Sud
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by ajays 13y ago
What the heck did you link to? :-D (cut-n-paste gone wild!)
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by ajays 13y ago
It appears that the elder brother got disillusioned/pissed-off (I guess he came here in his late teens, so didn't get the chance to adjust). He got angry. Maybe he felt that he belonged in the Olympic team and didn't make it. Whatever. But
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by ajays 13y ago
People are bringing up "market forces", etc. The solution that I think would work in SF is as follows. Charge a flat rate (say, $50K/year; though a Dutch Auction might be reasonable too) for leasing out a permit to qualified drivers. You qu
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by ajays 13y ago
"Medallions exist for a very good reason: they prevent a tragedy of the commons from creating gridlock and pollution in major cities by limiting the number of cars circling around doing nothing on city streets." You're missing a huge piece
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by ajays 13y ago
I once asked a cab driver how much he made (in SF), and after humming and hawing, he implied that he made close to $90K/year, mostly tax-free. Take it for what it's worth (sample size == 1), but there are a lot of people who would love to b
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by ajays 13y ago
That's assuming anyone would want to live on the barren North Slope of Alaska. Just because it's land doesn't mean you can live there comfortably...
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by ajays 14y ago
For marijuana: you deliver the physical product here, and have the money deposited in your offshore account.
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by ajays 14y ago
They also like Mauritius.
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by ajays 14y ago
Isn't there such a thing in downtown Ithaca?
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by ajays 14y ago
The title is misleading, to say the least. I occasionally suffer from lower back pain. From experience, tight hamstrings seem to be the cause. If I regularly stretch my hamstrings, I am without back problems. If I stop stretching, then, aft
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by ajays 14y ago
India is trying to be a "great power" in the 50s Soviet-era style. Today's world is about soft power. India is woefully lacking there. It is beset by internal strife (the entire Northeast has been under some form of "martial law" (AFSPA) fo
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by ajays 14y ago
I used to work at SUNY too. Every January, when this list came out, my boss (a professor) would send his secretary to the library as soon as possible to get this information. Then he would use it to pester the dean.
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by ajays 14y ago
I don't understand something. How can she find a dongle joke in a private chat offensive, while make a phallic joke herself a day later? Sure, she can say that they broke the conference's rules; but people break such rules all the time. Gra
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by ajays 14y ago
Other, viable (and possibly clean) solutions: Solar electric. Solar thermal. Thorium. Not every source of energy _must_ involve burning stuff and releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere.

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