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by ashray5 7y ago
Reminds me of Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point.
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Using Gossips to Spread Information [pdf](stanford.edu)
3 points by ashray5 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Box vs. Dropbox
1 points by ashray5 8y ago|1 comments
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by ashray5 8y ago
Putting aside the accounting/tax rules, why should a corporation be taxed heavily? So the government can decide to squander the tax money? I'd rather have the money go in the pocket of shareholders (pension funds, individuals, ind
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by ashray5 8y ago
Financial Times (UK version of Wall Street Journal) is reporting the same. Let's not build a conspiracy theory and ignore the hard evidence.
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by ashray5 8y ago
Tremendous pessimism on this thread. It's time for an intelligent investor to buy.
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by ashray5 8y ago
The good news: number of working hours decreased from 2000 to 2017 for pretty much all the countries in this report. A sign of overall development in my opinion.
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by ashray5 9y ago
It's amazing that you remember the emotions you experienced at the age of 3 and 4.
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by ashray5 9y ago
“All of a sudden you can have the idea that an hour-long commute is actually a big perk because instead of driving and having to sit and focus and lurch through traffic, what if your car is a rolling living room? What if you get to spend th
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by ashray5 13y ago
I don't think people should attribute today's FB action to the Oculus acquisition or its price/terms. A slight negative chatter (Read: "Amateur CEO wasting money on useless toys") could easily make big momentum rev
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by ashray5 13y ago
unrelated comment triggered by looking at the link, why are Indian websites at large so crappy and appear to be from 1990s? Just like with the insane lawless vehicle traffic, people have become used to crappy websites in India.
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by ashray5 13y ago
" I can't imagine the value proposition for a new iPad 2 is at all attractive at that price point.. " Its interesting how most people here assume that the world at large makes same choices as themselves. Consider iPhone prici
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by ashray5 13y ago
Its interesting how $1000 is a psychological number for a lot of people, $1000 number makes the Google stock join some "prestigious" $1000 club according to CNBC. Some people now think its too expensive because of its $1000 and F
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by ashray5 13y ago
I fail to understand why the new opaque icon makes it "much worse" compared to the icon in previous iOS versions.
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by ashray5 13y ago
Very impressive indeed. There is a disproportionate ratio of Jewish people serving as CEOs of large corporations as well. I heard on Freakanomics radio that parenting and nurturing does not contribute much to the later success in life. Its