anilshanbhag

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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Congrats on launching ! Two questions: 1) In the example you show above, how are you figuring out which twitter accounts are linked to the channel ? 2) API integration is a one-time effort and largely done using libraries. Do you have a rea
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Wall Street Journal is reputable and I subscribe to it. It is probably the best one for US business news. However it has a long history of publishing sensationalist articles especially about Tesla. I remember the articles about executives s
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
This is just speculation. The story constantly says 'suppliers' when it is just one person at one supplier who has corroborated the story. "Some suppliers contacted about the request said they were unaware of such a demand.&q
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
One important thing people miss is that majority of US exports are commodities. Take soybeans for example. Global soybean market has supply and demand balanced. US exports largely to China and Brazil to Europe. Now, due to tariffs China has
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
New York Times with its typical anti-capitalist spin. Amazon Basics doesn't sell because its Amazon or they used ‘Data That No One Else Has', it is simply the same product at a cheaper price. The same is true at Kirkland at Costco
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
The right way is to improve education in neighborhoods with black/hispanic communities. Instead if we just introduce quotas, the system is not going to improve. Having 50 more blacks admitted to Harvard does not change anything for mi
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Well sure lets put 28000 people out of their jobs. It's a perfectly good company with a bad management. Management is being replaced, fine is levied, enforcement is done to prevent future mistake, life goes on.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Print magazines are on a secular decline. Conde Nast would want to re-organize => layoff some people is because the revenues are going down. When there is growth, they would be hiring not firing people.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
This reminds me of Weight Watchers ($WTW). The idea is crazy - people will pay for advice and some instructions I guess. $WTW is a $5B company now.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
This can happen on the stock market too. When bitcoin drops to around $5k, you get margin called and bitcoin will get sold on the open market.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
I still fail to understand why people shop at Whole Foods. Whole foods store are smaller, have lesser choices and are significantly more expensive. Every grocery store sells organic food. Even with 10% discount, their prices will be higher
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
How is IP and browser personal data ? If you think it is, you should not be on the internet.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
There is close to 0 percentage this company survives. The stock has fallen 40% each day for past few days. AMC head says they don't discount tickets and average moviepass holder watches 3 movies a month paying average $12 per ticket. T
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Both apps don't urge users to go review their app on the play store. On this assumption, since both serve similar demographic of users - the average number of reviews written per week has to have a strong correlation to number of new u
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
This the wrong metric to look at. If you look at number of app reviews per week on Appannie, Flipkart averages roughly twice the number of reviews as Amazon with better average rating (4.6 vs 3.9). ~85% of India only accesses internet via m
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
Change cannot happen overnight, it is a gradual process. Saudi has improved: two major improvements - woman being allowed to drive and opening of the first cinema in 35 years ! I expect more changes to happen over time. The situation in Yem
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
It sometimes amazes me that people switch their phones so often. I tend to have a phone for 3 years. Many of my friends change every year ! One step to towards reducing global warming is reducing consumption.
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by anilshanbhag 8y ago
TMobile is a real 3rd player. AT&T and Verizon are just happy if their net adds in a year are positive vs TMobile which is adding a million+ every quarter for past 10 quarters.
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
Accounts payable is a rotating line i.e. there is turnover. The first X gets paid and a new X comes in. It did not grow $1B qoq. The burn rate of of $1B+ would need to go to 0 to be called profitable + cash flow positive. Profitable => N
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
Before claiming he is stupid, you need to read the balance sheet. They have enough cash in hand to pay the maturing debt. If they are cash flow positive, technically they don't need to raise money. However, Tesla wants to expand to sta
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
After reading multiple reports, I am confused if anyone really knows if it is profitable or not. Do you have a source for your claim ? UPS and Fedex have operating margin of ~6%. They have spent 10's of billions of dollars into optimiz
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
I don't believe the numbers. Clinton outspent Trump 2 to 1. She had the most sophisticated ops (including Groundwork (Eric Schmidt-backed startup)). How could Clinton campaign have spent half the other when it was their area of compete
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
It is pre-mature to say this. Why would they say "AutoPilot seems to have made a grave error here, and steered the car into the barrier." if it is possibly not their fault ? If indeed it was auto-pilot's fault, they will like
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
The bloomberg tracker predicts a rate of around 2000 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/ I wouldn't say they are laughably behind. Projects do get delayed. My own projects got delayed by mu
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
Bloomberg has an entire page to track Model 3 production. The production ramp is there: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/ Credit rating agencies have defined rules and many institutions have p
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
The public pension system is flawed. Unions hold significant political sway and no politican will want to go against them. There was a multi-year standoff between the governor of Illinois and the house on this. The governor of Illinois trie
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
This argument goes both ways. If you look at the trade equation ( https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peo... ) - US imports 3 times it exports. So, for every $ of tariff that China imposes, US c
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
I sort of agree. However note that when you pull data about friends, you don't get information about friends who have a higher privacy setting. Also, you can't get personal information about these friends through the api, however
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Ask HN: Did Facebook really do something wrong?
37 points by anilshanbhag 9y ago|27 comments
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by anilshanbhag 9y ago
There are two parts: - Is the idea interesting ? Yes possibly. The idea of making it easy to create tokens is interesting. I can see twitch streamers giving away tokens to their subscribers / viewers. - Does it need to be on blockchain

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