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by ashray 14y ago
You're right. However, the difference in India lies in the fact that the lower-income people are .. middle class. Poor people in India are without any real income. Most of them struggle to get two meals a day. A lot of them live on under $2
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by ashray 14y ago
Not even 0.005% of the Indian populace can afford the things I mentioned as examples. Maybe the problem is that we take our cues of what is considered upper class from international standards and therefore fail to acknowledge our own privil
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by ashray 14y ago
The difference is that you acknowledge that you 'have' money. Also, you possibly acknowledge that you had certain opportunities that other people could ill afford and therefore have this money. Unfortunately, the difference in opportunity i
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by ashray 14y ago
In a country where the majority of people live in under $200/month - owning an SUV does make you elite. Part of the problem is that the privileged in India don't recognize how truly privileged they are.
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by ashray 14y ago
Ooh, no comments, I'll bite. The last time I said something negative about Indian society I had my personal details thrown all over HN. Wonder what's going to happen this time. So here's the thing. This article is pretty spot on. We, the pr
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by ashray 14y ago
The Indian rupee is not a free float currency. That means that the reserve bank of India tries to make sure it doesn't fluctuate too much in value. While India is trying to move the currency towards free float, it isn't done yet. Basically,
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by ashray 14y ago
What exactly causes reasonable doubt here ? If 80% of bitcoin sites unrelated to each other are down at once, there's obviously some sort of attack going on. Several unrelated sites (but sharing a common theme) don't normally go down ... un
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by ashray 14y ago
All bitcoin sites, whether they are forums or exchanges went down. It was a widespread DDOS on pretty much anything bitcoin related. For example: bitcointalk.org was also down.
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by ashray 14y ago
Yes, but that's because those governments have allowed their currencies to be free float currencies or something like that. Buying and selling an Indian Rupee for example is quite heavily restricted. Probably to prevent instability caused f
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by ashray 14y ago
If you do have a verified account at both, yes, it should be fairly simple. As of now though it's unlikely that your trades will go through. Also, the price has started falling on BTC China as well.
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by ashray 14y ago
Before crying wolf, understand that bitcoin exchanges are unfortunately not battle hardened internet businesses. Two of the largest exchanges MtGox and bitstamp are both under DDOS. This may be an attempt by someone to make a large buy at a
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by ashray 14y ago
I've added live rates to the site now so that there's no confusion. You'll see exactly what you'll be paying in BTC :)
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by ashray 14y ago
It's very hard to buy bitcoins - unless you're in the US or a tier 1 european city. You need a verified account at an exchange (mtgox is the biggest one) and then need to wire them money, etc. It's complicated. The easier ways to get bitcoi
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by ashray 14y ago
Thanks for pointing out that UI confusion. I will fix it :) You pay the equivalent of $74 in BTC according to the live exchange rate. So you pay USD 1 less. It's not a ripoff, it's a discount. example: Right now, you'd pay 0.3333 BTC. Again
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by ashray 14y ago
10k bitcoins would be a very large amount at the current price of bitcoins. However, today someone sold around $100k worth of bitcoins and the price stayed steady.. of course 100k isn't much but right now it's a significant portion of the b
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by ashray 14y ago
Not nearly enough. I decided that it's important to let people actually spend their bitcoins. That's why I started http://bitcoinsaresexy.com - Basically selling amazon gift cards and Paypal USD transfer in exchange for bitcoin. Response
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by ashray 14y ago
I know them especially since I took digital electronics in university. However, I've never had to use them so far in anything I've built. I could use them if required but unless I get into some kind of video processing or high end optimizat
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by ashray 14y ago
Thanks for clearing that up. I read the commit notes but it wasn't 100% clear and I was quite sure there's more to it considering this was all so hush-hush!
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by ashray 14y ago
I'm really happy that the PostgreSQL team was able to fix this so quickly and it does appear to be a massive security issue. However, on the flip side, in 13+ years of web development work, I've never really seen a database name beginning w
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by ashray 14y ago
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I always wondered what tax was along with cost of living because to me Silicon Valley salaries look ridiculous! But I can see how being in the valley can be important for many companies and therefore the
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by ashray 14y ago
Just trying to understand but what does that 190k look like post tax in the valley?
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by ashray 14y ago
I don't get this. If there are 21 million bitcoins but they're infinitely divisible - you can send 0.0000001 BTC to someone.. Then how is there a hard limit? Countries have done this many times by dropping zeros when their currencies devalu
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by ashray 14y ago
None of them are visa friendly per se. It's difficult to find a startup job with international hires for the same reasons that it's difficult to find them in the US. Tech culture is very subjective. Most valley companies are in the business
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by ashray 14y ago
Visa issues in the US can be very hard for companies to deal with. Established companies normally have good protocols and departments for overseas hires. However, startups barely have departments, let alone a dedicated department for overse
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The realtime flightfox review(bkpk.me)
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by ashray 14y ago
Yes, but I wasn't being specific for that very reason. It's one thing to say "My dad was a senior official and had so and so experience" and it's another to have other people post personally identifiable information. But in retrospect, it's
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by ashray 14y ago
Well, I would have rather not shared all this information but at the time my father was an AVM (i.e. a two star general) and was also the head of the air wing of the border security force. As head of an entire fleet, he pretty much had the
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by ashray 14y ago
The entire border security force falls under the home ministry. They buy large amounts of defense equipment. Get your facts straight before making a mountain out of a molehill. Recommendations at that level are the same as endorsements - an
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by ashray 14y ago
Fake persona ? I'm a regular at HN and use my real name here. Hardly a fake persona. You seem to be taking a rather emotional standpoint here for no valid reason.
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by ashray 14y ago
I'd rather not share any details even though my father passed away earlier this month. Rest assured, when I say senior pilot, I mean at the highest echelons of the forces. Yes, General Rank level indeed. Maybe you don't know how deals work

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