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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I thought Disney+ rollout would have no hiccups, because I thought Hotstar (I think it is mostly India based content) owned by Disney did quite well during the cricket world cup, in terms of live streaming (which I thought is more complex t
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I'm so glad his parents are focussing on ensuring he gets to be a child. degrees can be done later. not Childhood.
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Two friends wanted to by a cheaper car, so their loan is now 66K? Looks like WSJ is skirting around the issue of subprime loans made to rideshare (Uber/Lyft) drivers. lost track of the number of unhappy uber/lyft drivers I have ch
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Not saying whether they can build or not. Will they have enough demand? There's nothing like a Supercharger network to make people buy so many non TSLA electrics. So, how will VW have so much demand to create so much capacity?
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Agreed they are larger. But, VW has lied proportionally more than Tesla.
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
how reliable are these projections? Replace VW with TSLA and the Tesla naysayers / TSLAQ will claim the company is doomed...
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Very true. And I believe the same is true with conventional media "Newspaper / TV News Channel isn’t free speech, it’s non-algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage"
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Number of Americans moving from middle class -> rich and poor -> middle class, is also proportional with reduction in taxes isn't it?
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
At times I feel, if there's no recycling programs, people will automatically buy cheap products with plastic because it'll guilt trip them into using less plastic. When a country like India is taking steps to ban single use plasti
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
My biggest issue with this documentary was how they glossed over CA's effect on Indian elections, and it's catastrophic failure in 2014 Indian general elections. The documentary even has a poster of the Congress Party of India, (n
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I agree
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Do you mean, replace just the nuclear with solar in 2 years, but keep the rest of the infra (Coal and other source of power generation) as is? If so, it can only mean exponentially more coal/gas power generation to supply power during
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
This is a win for Uber and Lyft. (wasn't Uber lobbying for this in all big cities?) Once it becomes the norm, Uber/Lyft can continue jacking up prices.
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
This settlement itself is a scam. It looks like a cunningly smart settlement announcement. Offer something that looks like a worthy settlement, drive millions of people to get the cash option, then claim that too many are going for the cash
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I think the problem with people with lower income buying crappy food boils down to the infrastructure they can afford for their food purchases. If they rely on packaged food / edibles for everything, it’s probably because they don’t ev
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
after feeling the "buyers remorse" for every charitable act (small as $5 or large as $1K), I have given up on the concept of Charity. I either feed a person who is hungry, or I dont do any charity (other than volunteering to help)
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Bottle neck: commute between ship and land. How do you factor for that?
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
This is an age old hack. I'm not sure why this is being reported as new. They did this since the early days of Surge Pricing.
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
This article is published by an entity/author obsessing over SEO, CTR, CPM, CPI (basically ad $$$)
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
As a full face helmet proponent and user (since I started riding motorcycles in India), your comment really makes sense. This is something I used to do almost on instinct,usually at lower speeds (because the helmet had a sort of an intake a
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
True. Not disagreeing with that. But it was interesting to know the foundations of the transition being laid from day 1 with Nadella as CEO. The book is more like a little bit of a background of Nadella (his life in India and early days in
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Having read Nadella's book Hit Refresh as soon as it went on sale, Microsoft performance since then doesn't look surprising at all. Having listed what's wrong (with their product focus, company culture etc), and where they pl
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I kind of agree with your point. The way I foresee it is, if extracting every bit of value from manual labor becomes costly, for a business, that means comparatively the automation option is becoming cheaper. Subsidies / tax breaks etc
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
I don’t see anything wrong with this. Most of the warehouse operations will get automated soon. So it’s better (from the laborers’ perspective) to keep manual labor as efficient/profitable as possible, otherwise they’ll make it attrac
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
At what point did it become apparent that adding more pipeline stages to boost the GHz number wasn't going to help? Wast it at 180 or 90nm? Seriously asking, because just "xyz did N GHZ" makes no sense in this era.
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by calvinbhai 7y ago
Totally agree. As it is, Indian diversity is already lumped together into one nation. No one says European cuisine, European language, European culture etc when referring to something specific. As a person from India, who lived more than a
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by calvinbhai 8y ago
> By what metric are they the best democracy? I'm not sure what else you meant by that.
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by calvinbhai 8y ago
I think that's true in many places in the US, not just SF. Mostly cities though.
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by calvinbhai 8y ago
TBH, I'm not aware of this org. This org as well as many more out there may be doing genuinely good work. I'm not an American but I'm skeptical about US politics, of which "Philanthropy" is a huge part. So any thing
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by calvinbhai 8y ago
I'm glad they don't. Philanthropy is a great way to undermine democracy and is often the way real, govt lead development projects stall. It's a nice facade for those who want to get things done without being an elected offici

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