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by harigov 11y ago
The idea that partially-structured or unstructured Facebook could be a _serious_ competitor for a website that enforces some structure and provides services that can only work with that structure sounds a little stretch to me. It seems to m
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That definitely looks expensive to me. All those underground tunnels need huge amount of money and effort.
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What else do you think technology is for?
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My view is somewhat different. Ultimately, all the progress in technology is to make us live better lives, and to accomplish more of what we aim to accomplish. Transportation, energy, computation, etc., are all trying to accomplish the same
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by harigov 11y ago
What does HN think of negative interest rate? I just cannot understand how this works in a growing economy. It could be looked at as a tax on savings, to push people to spend or invest more, but is there any other way to look at this?
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Negative 0.5% Interest Rate: Why People Are Paying to Save(nytimes.com)
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I know Google is making large bets but I am not sure they can make so much of progress that doctors and insurance companies need to worry about their survival. If we ever reach that point, everyone in the population will face the heat.
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Maybe. I think the market will be big enough that there is room for all sorts of configurations - stand-alone, one needing computer, one needing mobile phone, etc.,
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Or maybe security trying to detect if someone is in stressful situations. Or maybe in some sort of augmented reality device. May valid use cases.
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Good job. I think it is way too introductory, tbh. A few examples of working distributed systems while talking about why they are the way they are, might be useful. Also, unless you have plans for updating it in the future, you might get mo
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by harigov 11y ago
In fact, this would actually force people to block FB. The worst thing to happen would be for someone to post important information related to company on their personal feed by mistake. If they can login to both the accounts, this is very m
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by harigov 11y ago
Maybe you are right. However, please remember that economy is as much dependent on public outlook as it is on other fundamentals like infrastructure, literacy, health, etc., If people think that the country is going somewhere, they will be
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by harigov 11y ago
Urban, but I am also not well informed on social issues. I don't deny the existence of whatever issue that the article mentioned but I just find it interesting that they don't showcase any progress India makes in these regards.
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by harigov 11y ago
I am not sure what's going on at NY Times. They seem to write a lot of articles focusing on negative things about India. In a country as large as India, you can always find something exceptional. This article about Indian women is as m
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At a certain level, I do agree with you. However, the reason why we have such drastic differences in how people perceive and solve problems between different domains is because of specializations. They affect our abilities to communicate wi
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by harigov 11y ago
No, more like replacing judiciary/lawyers with programmers and software. Imagine that law is encoded as a program that validates the conditions and gives out a judgement. Lawyers from both sides get together to program what happened in
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No, I didn't. What is that?
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I think programming evolved from math oriented folks, which is why we find it unnatural to reason about law and other societal constructs using a programming language. I wonder how it would look if it were built for an entirely different pu
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by harigov 11y ago
Better way of sharing the state of the world (upgraded news sites and/or journals) - If you open newyork times or any news website, its clear that they are stuck in the 19th century. They are organized on the basis of time rather than
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by harigov 11y ago
Policy enforcement and law automation - It's ridiculous that we spend so much money and time dealing with legal issues - both in terms of creating new laws, and in terms of enforcing those laws. Because of the delineation between those
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by harigov 11y ago
Learning through experiences - One of the hardest skills to ever master is the art of putting oneself in others shoes. It's hard to imagine how it feels to live like a woman in a man dominated world because you can never experience tha
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by harigov 11y ago
Research on organizations and possible improvements through software - An important aspect of organizational building is to structure it in a way that enables free flow of information, while at the same time, enable people to accomplish the
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by harigov 11y ago
Aren't politicians using a lot of data driven techniques to come up with their speeches? Basically have a focus group answer questions that let data analysts pick the right set of words that enables politician to reach out to targeted
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They are sharing ideas. A lot of these technologies have research roots that are published in open journals. Although the companies are competitors, people behind those companies are scientific minded individuals interested in furthering th
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Actually, a lot of these changes have already been made, and now only you hear about them in the news. Satya delivers. Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
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I believe some consolidation helps them reduce costs and improve efficiency. I guess every market consolidates into two to three big players eventually.
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by harigov 11y ago
Yeah, and I am not sure if storage space is the biggest problem that needs to be solved. I rarely if ever heard of anyone complaining about it as much as their battery capacity or lack of updates.
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by harigov 11y ago
I think the newer agile software development process requires companies to focus more on monitoring rather than testing, in order to understand how software is being used and also to figure out what needs to be improved/fixed. Microsof
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There are two sides to this problem. One is that - making meditation to be a game where in, you don't understand exactly what you are paying attention to and why it matters but just that you need to increase your "game" score
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by harigov 11y ago
Can you recommend some books on this? I have been trying to learn to think in systems, and find that to be the most useful skill to have.

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