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by hos234 7y ago
Well India has 20-30 odd states that are each, as distinct as countries in Europe. So answers to your questions lie in understanding how they have stayed integrated inspite of all the differences.
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by hos234 7y ago
Competition between telcos is the answer. In many developed countries the Telco wars/market capture happened long long ago. In most cases there were just one or two winners, who then had no great incentive to upgrade infra. In the mark
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by hos234 7y ago
Similar to HN in some ways. There is not much small talk happening here. And no obligation for anyone to talk about some preassigned subject.
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by hos234 7y ago
Learning takes time. Most 5th graders have access to all the info 10th graders have, that doesn't mean they are ready to solve 10th grade problems.
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by hos234 7y ago
My kids have access to the comp in the living room when their devices get confiscated. The punishment being they loose their privacy while still having access.
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by hos234 7y ago
Good attitude. What I don't like is Adults telling kids, it's all on them to make things better. It's not on them. These Adults are the kind who don't know what else to do, and no one should be paying attention to them.
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by hos234 7y ago
It's a fragile kind of power. If Xi croaks tomorrow morning, god knows whether the current power structures will stay intact. There are lots and lots of factions that have very different interests.
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by hos234 7y ago
He is right in the sense when local bodies have decent leadership good things happen. But who wants to go work in local govt? There lies the problem.
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by hos234 7y ago
The only difference today is the number of platforms and browsers your code has to run on. And there are a zillion JS libraries to simplify that problem. The main thing is to just pick one that is popular and has been around for a couple ye
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by hos234 7y ago
> Maybe a stupid question but why would they be anywhere near the missile during the actual testing? They are Russians https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3604355/
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by hos234 7y ago
Top mind at work here. How can we isolate it and increase world productivity?
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by hos234 7y ago
It is news because everyone else (Europe, Japan, Russia, India) have started RLV projects to catch up with SpaceX. And it shows who is moving fastest. No surprises that it's China. Just watch how long it takes for the rest to get to th
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by hos234 7y ago
Maybe Glial cells are playing a role - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222427.h...
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by hos234 7y ago
This reads like a prologue to the Cambridge 5 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spies There too an empire was in decline.
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by hos234 7y ago
Once upon a time that was called a chat room. You entered when you wanted to socialize and left when you were done. Which is more in tune with natural group interactions in real life. This group chat BS was cooked up more so app devs could
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by hos234 7y ago
So govt bureaucrats are driving innovation? To the point where they create market leading mega corps. Is that the claim? Sounds like magic if you have ever met government bureaucrats.
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by hos234 7y ago
It's possible. The counts (like/view/click/retweet/upvote etc) effect what content creators produce. It's the Control Variable in a Feedback Process. Just like the news shows, radio/podcasters and comedian
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by hos234 7y ago
Freeman Dyson's essay "Why is Maxwells Theory so hard to understand" is worth checking out. Words are usually not the best medium to talk about abstract stuff.
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by hos234 7y ago
It has to be done as a group. Both at family/work/friends circle. It started with my team at work getting together one day (almost a year and half back - some Trump BS was unfolding) and saying, if it gets too bad lets decide as a
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by hos234 7y ago
I was responding to your framing things as a choice between a 5 year time frame Vs a 20 time frame. How can anyone asses without proof a 5 year time frame is possible? So I said don't fall for people who claim they can do things fast w
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by hos234 7y ago
If it's a solved problem show me the fixed roads and clean water and I will buy what you are selling. Do it in one town. There is no need to debate and discuss anything more if you have proof for the simplest case.
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by hos234 7y ago
Tim Cook agrees - "The hardest decisions we make are all the things not to work on. There is lots of things we'd like to work on but we can't do everything great. Most companies do larger and larger portfolios because its so
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by hos234 7y ago
> change the purpose of life We are not sophisticated enough to get roads fixed and keep the water supply clean. Long way to go. Don't fall for people who tell you it can happen faster, until they have fixed the roads and cleaned th
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by hos234 7y ago
To get the juices flowing don't focus on "all the roadblocks" just focus on putting in Time - 20mins to 1 hour a day - same timeslot everyday (early mornings work for me). Doesn't matter on which issue. Its about buildin
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by hos234 7y ago
You can also ask for directions, where to buy stuff in the neighborhood, is that take out place good etc. For some mysterious reason, it makes most people feel good, being of use to others.
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by hos234 7y ago
I should have phrased that better. Didn't mean only doers matter. People who bring attention to things matter. But there is a line above which discussion does not matter. And I think news/social media and internet forums push thin
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by hos234 7y ago
Discussion in todays world is highly over rated. There are people who build hospitals and there are people who stand around talking about who should build hospitals. The former group in any population in any country is very small. The latte
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by hos234 7y ago
Well described and true. It's the way of the world. If they don't do it, what abilities they do have, won't get funded. Right now to get funds, employees, partners what other route exists, given the competition for all three
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by hos234 7y ago
True. It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search. That said Google shifted priorities from Search to Empire Defense many many years ago. And that has had many unintended "evil" conseq
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by hos234 7y ago
My point is simple - things take time. I am not a fan of Sunday afternoon paper readers. They are not the people who contribute to Science. If people want to study a subject deeply and contribute to progress, it's going to take decades

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