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by nafey 6y ago
This a gem of a line: "Coding up a simulation and having a computer torture it until it confessed the results you wanted certainly takes talent, but it is arguably a different kind of talent than thinking deeply about the problem itsel
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by nafey 7y ago
Isn't the holding company based in US? Aren't the majority of stockholders in US? Apple manufactures a lot of stuff in China so it a chinese company?
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by nafey 7y ago
Sure, one example of the offerings of Yes Bank was inter bank transfers api which allowed you to settle money instantly between accounts at great scale. Beyond that there was virtual bank accounts, virtual UPI IDs, e mandates etc. If you ar
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by nafey 7y ago
A lot of transactions that happen in India (especially UPI transactions) have very small value and are not able to make a bank profitable by itself. Lending is a major driver of success for banks in India currently. As it happens Yes Bank t
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by nafey 7y ago
As a person currently working in fin tech industry in India, I had the opportunity to closely watch the situation unfold at the ground level. There is a lot of disarray as Yes Bank powers a lot of innovative payment systems across India. Fe
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by nafey 7y ago
The Trisolaran home world
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by nafey 7y ago
This book reads more like a thought experiment than a novel. And it's bone chilling how convincingly it argues for it's vision of the future.
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by nafey 7y ago
I googled what you are talking about. Check this intercept article on Google: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/09/yahoo_data_thaft/
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Josh Wolfe on Soft Bank(twitter.com)
2 points by nafey 7y ago|0 comments
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by nafey 7y ago
With this and soft Bank going to great lengths to ensure WeWork IPO's, I think we will see more desperate moves by the investors in coming weeks.
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by nafey 7y ago
What is expected outcome of this? Can Google be expected to be broken up like Bell Corp?
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by nafey 7y ago
Well that is probably naive view of the matter. People with money cultivate such relationships to influence the discourse ever so slightly in their favor. Please look up Anand Giridharadas who had written quite extensively on this.
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by nafey 7y ago
Well let's revisit this statement in 500 years. Every decade has brought the world closer. Even the recent developments (brexit, trump) are reactions to increased pace of integration. You can find kfc, coca cola in socities as diverse
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by nafey 7y ago
The GP was about software architecture styles proposed/endorsed by Fowler et al and not their general contribution to software. Keeping this in mind its fair to ask for data/studies backing their claims.
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by nafey 7y ago
Not gonna lie I had the impression that Amazon was gonna get wiped out in a matter of weeks considering the amount of attention this story has been getting.
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by nafey 7y ago
What I believe Google would say: "Closing your JIRA ticket"
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by nafey 7y ago
Nothing such as absolute trust. It has to be a relative comparison. For me it is Apple, Google, Facebook in that order.
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by nafey 7y ago
This reminds me of Gervais principle. Basically sociopaths use clueless managers as pawn. More details here: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by nafey 7y ago
This looks really interesting. Has YouTube ever published their URL generation technique? Any one has a guess how this was done? If they use a one way hash over metadata and content if video does this not mean that someone has figured out t
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by nafey 7y ago
As a portion of Indian GDP this is miniscule as it is the 6th largest economy in the world. India has lifted around 100 million out of poverty in last ten years.
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by nafey 7y ago
Was the interviewee Anand Giridharadas? I have been finding his takes particularly enlightening.
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by nafey 7y ago
It is not just about saving "brain power". It is also about saving time.
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by nafey 7y ago
70s and 80s were relatively quiet on the tech innovation front. We might be headed for a couple of decades like that.
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by nafey 7y ago
Feels like Wile E. Coyote who has sped off the cliff but will keep going until he inevitably looks downward.
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by nafey 7y ago
Perhaps more cynically the job of universities is not to train students but to rank them. If you are the top of the class at some ivy league school there is a likelihood of you being good a good paper shuffler at mid level management posit
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by nafey 7y ago
Check out Dave2d's YouTube video about the same topic. Essentially it is argued that phones are going to become a commodity like printers. But he concludes that Apple is likely to escape that fate due to their ecosystem. Regardless tim
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by nafey 7y ago
The other side of the coin is that a lot of very talented people congregate in places like Silicon Valley, so you rule out the potential of hiring/working for/working with them.
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by nafey 7y ago
There seems to be a dogmatic insistence on the potency of the the widespread epidemic that happened after the first contact. The assertion seems to be: 1. There was a drastic fall in the population density of the natives 2. There is a criti
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by nafey 7y ago
I dont think Facebook is merely a scapegoat. In the sense that the very existence of Facebook is threatening to the establishment. More than any other company in US, Facebook has (or used to have considering the declining active users) a di
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A fantasy world where spells are written like code(twitter.com)
3 points by nafey 7y ago|1 comments

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