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by akshayB 8y ago
Companies want low salaried employees to cut down cost and they use H1 for it by giving an excuse that there is no equivalent talent in US and we need to import talent from other countries. When it comes to Tech. it all boils down to $&#x2F
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Internet to remain free and fair in India: Govt approves net(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by akshayB 8y ago
Companies hoard cash because they want to ensure continuity. I loose respect for companies which go an extra mile to exploit loopholes. All companies do it. For example - Apple borrows money to pay dividend to stock owners even though they
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by akshayB 8y ago
Buybacks generally benefit top 1% or the C-level and make them richer. The impact on 401k of common is just a gain in few percentages or maybe some extra dividend. Also there is a conflict of interest CEO's are paid in stock and the on
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by akshayB 8y ago
Unless they master some sort of hive/swam worker architecture which works in an autonomous way the timeline seems very aggressive. Sending humans to space that far out on asteroids can be super expensive project to get materials availa
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by akshayB 8y ago
Public transportation is vital especially for low income families who may not have enough money to buy a car. It should act as a cheap alternative to owning an automobile. This can also help in reducing traffic as well.
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by akshayB 8y ago
I hope the researchers some how finds a way to treat brain injuries, diseases or disorders, especially if this is something that can be achieved in few days.
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by akshayB 8y ago
Tesla's market cap is $55B If you do a quick math let's say they sold 400,000 Tesla (which they haven't yet) at an average of $100,000 each (which is probably lower) its net worth comes around $44B. I feel like company is way
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Charitybuzz – Extremely Rare “Duston 2” Apple-I Computer(charitybuzz.com)
1 points by akshayB 8y ago|0 comments
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by akshayB 8y ago
There are multiple theories on how planets could have been migrated in/out or they came into existence in our solar system. But the problem is this cannot be reverse engineered and verified because early on when solar system was gettin
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by akshayB 8y ago
It is always great to read stories about obsolete technologies and how people put lot of effort, thinking and energy into solving the roadblocks. This provides a great prospective of history and how things evolved over time which kids these
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'Cost per Hour' Is a Terrible Way to Judge a Video Game(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by akshayB 8y ago|0 comments
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by akshayB 8y ago
There is bit of a weird standard when it comes to censoring because of the nature of content, audience, culture and location. There is no perfect solution to this problem. Example - If anyone shares gun videos on social network from a place
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by akshayB 8y ago
The industry got greedy over Ads money which transformed into a revenue generation model and destroyed the user experience in so many cases. Go to NFL or MLB and I find it extremely ridiculous that you have watch 30 seconds of video ads bef
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by akshayB 9y ago
Who controls/regulates this piece of the internet? Because this is more like internet for the planet.
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by akshayB 9y ago
There are 2) big problems here: 1) This could have been done long time ago 2) People or bots can still share content as images and there is still lot of fake news being spread in that way. This will probably help but definitely not a sustai
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by akshayB 9y ago
Companies make things that they can sell in a marketplace it is necessarily not what that place needs. For example social media companies just want to sell their social networks in any country with internet irrespective of that country have
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by akshayB 9y ago
One of the reasons that is not tracked here is the fact that in developing countries as more and more people get educated. They tend to have 1 or 2 children and they try to ensure their kids have good education and upbringing. These parents
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by akshayB 9y ago
This practice is pretty much rampant across all industries ranging from cellphones to luxury cars. One simple answer is big companies just want to extend their profits. Another reasons is they want their distributors or dealerships or middl
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by akshayB 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzy5vRmN8Q Days of common sense are totally gone if fast food chain is educating people these days on how internet works
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by akshayB 9y ago
I still cannot believe why something as serious as Media consolidation & net neutrality laws are pretty much in this guy's hands.
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Need Input – Mysql Database vs. Redshift
1 points by akshayB 9y ago|2 comments
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by akshayB 9y ago
yeah I am ultimately trying to avoid collision and because other route for code refactor is not an option
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Using prime numbers to avoid cron task collision at sametime
2 points by akshayB 9y ago|6 comments
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by akshayB 9y ago
This is not a celebrity news website
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India’s transport minister vows to ban self-driving cars to save jobs(arstechnica.com)
2 points by akshayB 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple has updated the MacBook Air, but you still shouldn't buy it(businessinsider.com)
1 points by akshayB 9y ago|0 comments
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India just launched a record-breaking 104 satellites into space from one rocket(washingtonpost.com)
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by akshayB 10y ago
I am a developer and I was a fitbit premium user for long time but I cancelled my subscription. I went over all their APIs but failed to get data where I can export my detailed workout and cardio stats. My main purpose was train myself for
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by akshayB 10y ago
Even if you are a premium fitbit user and use their customer API you don't have access to some data point for heart rate, cardio time-frames and performance stats. They not only need to catch-up but also provide people their own health

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