mirajshah

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by mirajshah 6y ago
you forgot: Amazon, 1,528
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by mirajshah 6y ago
> How it works in general is that the business visionary has a close relationship with one bank, and the ability to sponsor a lot of friends and family in the old country. in both this article about donut shops and the article about Bay
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by mirajshah 6y ago
definitely exists in India to a large degree. I personally find it annoying that actual refusals don't carry much weight, because they are most often interpreted as rituals of politeness towards an eventual "yes". sometimes,
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by mirajshah 7y ago
the same reason you trust external companies to do all sorts of other stuff for you: specialization. in the average case, they can probably do it better than your developers because it's their primary business.
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Not sure if you read the linked article: > The 70 kilogram remote sensing satellite is to be used for agricultural, climate, mining and environmental observations, allowing the Horn of Africa to collect data and improve its ability to pl
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Your friends are probably not the best source on the matter. Go on YouTube and listen to interviews with actual sex workers in places where it is institutionalized (e.g. Amsterdam, New Zealand). There are plenty of Vice documentaries e.g.
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Yes, I think you haven't been following Linux closely enough. Ubuntu, at least, has been very aware of this problem for years now. Their "software center"/package management is probably close to as seamless and mature as
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by mirajshah 7y ago
mods (@dang) can you do something about this unsubstantiated and inflammatory comment
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by mirajshah 7y ago
I think you assume that the insurance market is competitive. In the U.S. it is not.
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Yep, also I think the barriers to entry for the insurance market are extremely high. Not only is there a huge fixed cost of actually negotiating rates with every individual doctor/hospital, there's also the fixed cost of getting i
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Don't you have to adjust Amazon's 2.8 billion for inflation?
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by mirajshah 7y ago
Dry pasta likely cannot be made to hold up to a hot beverage though, can it?
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by mirajshah 7y ago
If you or anyone else are not generalizing how are WiFi SSIDs relevant to anything?
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by mirajshah 8y ago
The paper assumes that innovation is incentivized by the "top" income received through it by the innovator. Under this assumption, since taxation reduces "top" income, it thus disincentivizes innovation. The introduction
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by mirajshah 8y ago
Check out my comment below about Dobbie and Fryer 2011 (AEJ Applied Economics) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878703
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by mirajshah 8y ago
I think you need to source the claim "There is no educational / societal intervention that can reverse its impact on Black kids' education" Consider, just as one example, the paper "Are High-Quality Schools Enough t
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by mirajshah 8y ago
previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17761104
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by mirajshah 8y ago
Would you consume news from the BBC, a government news network?
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by mirajshah 8y ago
Interesting! But it seems like gentrifying the area around the school is probably not in line with his vision of having at-risk children benefit from the school.
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by mirajshah 8y ago
A difficult technical problem, for example, is Google search. It's not just managing the completely of PageRank, it involves creating fundamentally new algorithms to deliver better search results. Another way to think about it is that
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by mirajshah 8y ago
Breathe, it may seem like the world is falling apart, but you will be OK. You should be able to start a low-skill job to make ends meet. If you're in a city, start driving Uber and Lyft! The hours are flexible so as to give you time to
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by mirajshah 8y ago
If you are in RI, MA, or NY state, the website https://www.zencare.co/ might work for you. It comprehensively listed all of the mental health professionals near me that were on my insurance provider's search portal, wi
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by mirajshah 8y ago
Ethiopia seemingly has an incredibly good relationship with China. The lion's share of FDI in Ethiopia is from China, and much of it goes towards large infrastructure projects. Flying through the airport in Addis recently I was surpris
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by mirajshah 8y ago
thanks for sharing... It's crazy that Berkeley (such an awesome institution) has come to this... The US/CA govt's owe it to the university to increase funding.
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by mirajshah 9y ago
Check out the demos by Gamalon: https://gamalon.com/technology/ (I have no affiliation to Gamalon)
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by mirajshah 9y ago
You probably shouldn't use the service, simple as that.
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by mirajshah 9y ago
Inflammatory troll commenter spotted...
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by mirajshah 9y ago
It runs Android Go, a highly-optimized version of Android that is built by Google.
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by mirajshah 9y ago
There is what I believe to be a common misconception about the economic term "rationality" - it is actually devoid of morality. In economic theory, rationality is defined only as: when faced with a decision over many choices, the
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by mirajshah 9y ago
Here is the link to the paper: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2017....

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