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by ashray 13y ago
Is the standard of living really growing for everyone ? Or are there more people now (%wise) in poverty ? This is an honest question as several people have mentioned the standard of living argument before on HN. I've read however that
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by ashray 13y ago
I think the takeaway is that life would be best spent finding out what it is that truly makes you happy and then pursuing that. A lot of people think 'more money' is the answer to that. More money is just a way to be able to pursu
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by ashray 13y ago
Thanks for your response, the Quora thread is very interesting. Another question, and this is a little more personal. Also, I don't mean to be accusatory at all or anything of that sort so please don't take it that way. Do you fee
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by ashray 13y ago
Great post Paras. However, I wish you would have addressed what you do with your new found financial freedom. I suppose running your business takes up most of your time. That's fine as long as it's enjoyable I guess. The question
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by ashray 13y ago
This sounds terrible. I just jailbroke my phone. What's the best path backwards ?
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by ashray 13y ago
Well, I don't know the dev perspective on this but most things do not readily have .ipas available. For example f.lux is an application I use all the time on my Mac. But I haven't been able to get it into my phone for a while. Cou
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by ashray 13y ago
Finally! I've been waiting for an iOS jailbreak to finally be able to use bitcoin related stuff on my iPhone and iPad. It's been a pain so far. This is the first time that the iOS walled garden approach REALLY started to bother
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by ashray 13y ago
How I WISH I had access to this kind of material when I was studying high school/pre-engineering physics. These lectures are brilliant just so very easy to understand.
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by ashray 13y ago
It doesn't matter. There are plenty of good things about Bitcoin which folks need to do <5mins of research to find out about. The vitriol on HN shocks me though. I would've thought this community would love something like bitco
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by ashray 13y ago
Not all bitcoin usage is speculation but you are right, most of it's current value is probably reflected through speculation. Now there are two things that give bitcoin it's value: 1. Usage / Adoption 2. Speculation Right now
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by ashray 13y ago
You are right. Bitcoins and bitcoin businesses in general have taken a very American twist. The entire 'bitcoin foundation' had turned into nothing more than a lobby group which is what Gavin happens to belong to. Large bitcoin bu
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by ashray 13y ago
I honestly doubt that much of this is going into buying and holding bitcoins. Institutional investors are already trading big numbers of bitcoins via Second Market. They don't use regular exchanges and certainly wouldn't need to g
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by ashray 13y ago
Hey I just switched over from rDio to spotify. The reasons are that spotify lets you sync different songs/playlists to different devices and rDio does not. Spotify has a better library than rDio. However, why can I not browse/sync
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India REcriminalizes homosexuality(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by ashray 13y ago|7 comments
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by ashray 13y ago
A shameful day in India for sure :(
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by ashray 13y ago
Spot on. Every single month there is a drop in Indian Rupee value when oil importers sell rupees to buy dollars. It's possibly one of the main things that drives rupee value down and dollar value up. We had managed to reach a deal with
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by ashray 13y ago
You pay the same price for coffee but you will certainly pay more for coffee beans, the market will only absorb the difference for a while. I wasn't drawing an analogy between bitcoins and debit cards. I was taking about how a bank let
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by ashray 13y ago
No, my arguments do not fall down. You are making the terribly flawed assumption that bitcoin will always be this volatile. Bitcoin is less volatile than it used to be, and with greater adoption will continue to decrease in volatility. The
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by ashray 13y ago
Unfortunately the barrier to this has been counterparty risk management. The players in the payment space are limited by their contracts with Visa/Mastercard/etc. and therefore have to manage risk accordingly. This is what increas
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by ashray 13y ago
You're doing well with your credit card because your bank allows you to do so. Just a few days ago my debit card was blocked because I was traveling internationally and the bank suspected that it was stolen. That's great, they&#x2
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by ashray 13y ago
It helps when there are drastic spikes in PM levels outdoors such as during rush hour or during high pollution events like Diwali. (people burn fire crackers en masse during Diwali, creates a ton of pollution) Also, we do have air purifiers
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by ashray 13y ago
The article makes decent points but these things are known to most people who understand anything about money, whether that money is Bitcoin or USD. I have to say though that the opening line of the article is absolutely terrible : B
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by ashray 13y ago
Had the exact same problem with my parents in New Delhi. Father was suffering from lung disease. Wanted to sit outside on the balcony - fresh air, apparently. I tried to explain to him that the air is laden with dangerous levels of particul
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by ashray 13y ago
There is a purpose. Several sites that depend on document submissions of different formats (like pdfs, ppts, word docs, etc.) might need an efficient way to render these document previews on a page. Those sites can use an api from scribd, d
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by ashray 13y ago
Also, I'd like to add that most of the FATAL FLAWS (TM) that the mainstream press is discussing today were discussed in great detail on bitcointalk since 2009. It just happens to be a community that has had a great interest in creating
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by ashray 13y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but just incase.. Exchanges are not banned. They are being regulated with KYC/AML for customers. They also need to register with the telecom authority.
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by ashray 13y ago
I'm confused about what constitutes a payment institution. Does this mean that credit card processors cannot price in bitcoin ? Or does this mean that Starbucks cannot price in bitcoin ? There seems to be a distinction between a busine
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by ashray 13y ago
The restrictions appear to be placed on banks and other financial institutions creating any bitcoin related instruments (ETFs, etc.) or dealing directly with bitcoin (eg. exchange RMB for BTC or the reverse). Also, it would essentially prev
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by ashray 13y ago
Those options are expensive. Why should the rich and powerful give up profit margins for better public health and so that other countries don't get typhoons ? Unfortunately, money is much more powerful than any other motivation. The go
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by ashray 13y ago
From a climate change perspective, yes. But from just a general air pollution perspective, a lot of effective regulation needs to happen for industries to stop pumping noxious gases into the atmosphere. There are hardly any limits on indu

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