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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
or Maps
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am sorry to say this but your friends should really give a thought to why they are still working there. I understand that people have families to feed and mortgage, but they should at least consider changing jobs if they are software engi
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am tired of a social equilibrium where the default state of things is that companies or governments will do ridiculous, abhorrent things and then maybe if there is a loud enough backlash or protest they might revert some of it. Like this
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
IANAL so please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't counterfeiting imply that the scamming party is claiming to sell something else while actually selling fake goods? Such as passing off their random shirt as a Gucci shirt? Or mixing
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Did you mean to say "more homogenous"
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
While that is true, I think that some of these things are tied to local culture too, which is why the Coastal distinction does have some merit. If you generally are in the Bay Area or LA you rarely see the level of obesity you see in say Ho
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Coastal America and rest of America might be a better way to cut it.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Sounds like a bit of an unpopular opinion in this thread but I think pay-for-what-you-use plans with reasonable per GB charge and a slightly higher per GB charge above a certain number seems reasonable, irrespective of your opinion of Comca
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am in my late 30s. Our generation had very little access to computers growing up but we used what we had to tinker and experiment with them. I mean sure many people just played games but there was enough to do for those of us who were int
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Getting locked out of my money because automated algorithms miscategorized some activity by my account on some completely unrelated Google product as 'spam'? Thanks but no thanks.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
That is true for all lawsuits. The more damning implication is that Apple, one of the world's most highly valued brands, a brand name that has historically commanded 50%+ gross profit margins on commodity goods sold as luxury goods, is
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
TikTok is a social media app that focuses on 'creating' interesting content 'in the moment'. Instagram is about interesting content but more in a very curated museum sort of way. "Look at me when I am at my best&quo
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
[1] Purely merit-based admissions [2] Very selective, with a total enrollment under 3000 [3] They focus much more on the hard sciences. They are primarily a technical institution.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Reformatting your hard drive and installing a new operating system is just the beginning of it. Such a drastic change of OS basically disrupts your whole workflow while you get used to the new one. Everything from where to find things to ke
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> we are talking about Google today We were talking only about Google yesterday and probably will tomorrow too, but sure "we are talking about Google today".
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> We are talking about a a) political unit governing the lives of 450m people and b) a company. No, We are talking about a a) political unit governing the lives of 450m people and b) a company affecting the lives of 2 billion.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Apple iCloud
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
This is a completely legit reason to not trust Google with your data, but won't it apply even more when the service is free?
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
aka "1/3 will use Baidu and 2/3 will use Bing"
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Apart from what others said, Sundar Pichai was a management consultant at McKinsey before he joined Google.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Surprised to see the level of anger here about this. This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and d
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> It doesn't make any sense to compare niche productivity tools to it. It makes complete sense to compare because Apple likes to claim that it imposes its rules and guidelines perfectly uniformly.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Both of these factors are less relevant than the fact that almost every internet connected Indian uses Whatsapp.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
True. Say or think what you want about them, they know how to build, deliver and maintain good end-to-end products. Google, otoh...
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
People who are not from these countries (Kenya etc.) might not know that the following are already true— [1] Many people buy phones on loans, because even cheap phones are quite expensive for the average Kenyan. [2] These phone companies _a
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Section 5.1.2(iii) of the App Store Review Guidelines has a special exception for Apps with a 1 billion install base from a country where the government doesn't give two hoots about your App Store Review Guidelines.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I mean the only reason this seems sarcastic is because the web predates the App Store by a few decades and so we are used to the web working this way. If the concept had come up after the App Store had been published, Apple would have done
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
True, but none of these things exist in isolation. Culture is created by people, it is not a geographical feature like mountains or lakes. The Silicon Valley wasn't nominated as the tech hub overnight, it became one through an organic
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
It will work out well fiscally because giant companies will suck it up and pay, but it looks like a bad strategy from a forward-looking point of view. You want to incentivize future growth too, and you want to make sure that 20 years down t
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
No they are not. The average job profile might be a bit lower but FAANG has plenty of high paying job opportunities in India.

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