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Airports use loyalty programs and discounts to compete against Uber and Lyft(cnbc.com)
1 points by nishantvyas 8y ago|0 comments
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The 'single most important open problem' in math solved after 160 years(amp.thisisinsider.com)
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Corporate venture investment climbs higher throughout 2018(techcrunch.com)
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VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be(techcrunch.com)
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
Winter is coming?
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Ray Dalio: the economy looks like 1937 and a downturn is coming in two years(businessinsider.com)
19 points by nishantvyas 8y ago|4 comments
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No Apple Presenter Speaks for Longer Than 10 Minutes(inc.com)
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
Well my point was not to show flash as superior but to point out the development in that area... every use-case has reason be it flash or Magnetic... author choose to paint Magnetic as better alternative to Flash (in capacity dimension), wh
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
While, Intel Introduces "Ruler" Server SSD Form-Factor. "Intel on Tuesday introduced its new form-factor for server-class SSDs. The new "ruler" design is based on the in-development Enterprise & Datacenter Stora
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
I guess that's not the problem here. Problem is combining ignorance with confirmation bias and then multipling it by distribution engines like FB, Youtube, Podcast etc.... unfortunately information is NOT absolute. it's asymmetric
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
Diffusion of Innovation always has "Laggard" All of us have been in different part of spectrum for various innovations... when the innovation/trend is irreversible, everyone eventually converts.... remember rotary phones, VCR
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
"I don’t want to live in a world where the best language humans could think of for working with data was invented in the 70’s. I refuse to let that be my reality." ---- re-play the same sentence for c/SQL/ENGLISH --- I d
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
every-time I go nearby store it's mostly empty... (price/sq.ft. ratio) I'm also not happy with their price match... I had a BB gift card so went there with Costco headphone deal to price match, which they did with shipping of
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
W/O going into the war of I'm better than you (Python vs JAVA)... Python is built to make it easy to write good programs... where as JAVA is built to make it hard to write bad programs.... same objective but different thinking&#x2
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
Any fears of oracle stewardship? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.infoworld.com/article/32841...
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
Problem is, "Find and follow your passion" social expectation from very early in life. In reality, 1) "finding passion" early is hard; Before one turns 12, brain is not fully develop to logically understand the true like
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by nishantvyas 8y ago
You also have to account the rise in population, which translates to higher demand. Not sure Japan had similar Demand/Supply to SF before bust. The average annual gain in SF since 2010 came to 11,173 persons, and the median is 10,824.
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
I really liked the CareCoach approach for solving, probably, one of the most profound problem of care taking. Good way of giving the human touch to AI. Also intelligently lowering the bar of AI expectations thru an Pet avatar... I’ve never
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Tech care of elders(wired.com)
3 points by nishantvyas 9y ago|1 comments
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
When I buy/sell bitcoin on Coinbase, am I considered part of network? Yes the transaction will be part of the blockchain but I am not participating directly rather using proxy (in this case, coinbase for it). This is what I meant by po
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
Yes. when building product (more so for consumer product) there's only two important rules, how to people find you when they are looking for the value your service/product is creating (DISTRIBUTION) and how would they know if they
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
who will mange the per use-case blockchains (the distributed ledger for a given use-case)? I like decentralization... more power-to-all...but the reality is eventually there will be power-brokers (for example, miners in bitcoins or exchange
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
My take based on my experience is, #1. People get hired for what they are good, their skills and then get promoted (to management) for same technical/IC skills not for the MGMT skills. No MGMT ramp-up. No MGMT tools. No MGMT framework.
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
#1. People get hired for what they are good, their skills and then get promoted (to management) for same technical/IC skills not for the MGMT skills. No MGMT ramp-up. No MGMT tools. No MGMT framework. You are now tasked to lead a team.
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
Agree. AWS aurora is closest to spanner and would work for 95% of use-cases... master-master, cross-colo or geo-replication is great problem for less than 2% of companies...
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
Dropbox has come a long way... Kudos to them! My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 Dropbox launches (YC summer 07) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134
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A major Bitcoin conference is no longer accepting Bitcoin payments(businessinsider.com)
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by nishantvyas 9y ago
Wrong. it’s counter intuitive... similar to animal rights... why do animal needs any right? shouldn’t it be survival of fittest? answer is NO... and that makes us human... our ability to express emotions and “human kindness”... though it’s
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by nishantvyas 13y ago
Pandora of Youtube Videos.