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by npalli 11y ago
The NASDAQ plunged from over 5000 in March 2000 to about 1100 in two years. That was a bubble. People getting laid off is not a bubble, if so, then we will keep having these 'bubbles' every year making the whole term meaningless.
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by npalli 11y ago
The auditor has clearly stated that it has doubts about the company as a 'going concern'. This is a technical term in auditing that implies the auditor has doubts that the company will survive (i.e, will have to liquidate) another
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A “just and liberal” vision of war(lareviewofbooks.org)
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by npalli 11y ago
Developed parts of India made up about 10% in 1947. Today Urban india is almost 35% and the population is 4 times larger. So effectively an increase of 14 times in number of people that are urbanized. Highly doubt the British system would s
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by npalli 11y ago
No you don't get it. Tableau is for people who can't hack (or don't want to hack) d3js or crunch billions of records or whatever techie thing you seem to be so proud of. The mission is supposed to be self-service business int
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by npalli 11y ago
The underlying data is from 2012, pretty sure it is wrong for 2015. Asia (China, India, SE Asia) have seen huge investments in the last few years (post 2012).
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Memory capacity of brain 10 times more than previously thought(kavlifoundation.org)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
Actually the decline is far worse (21.1%) for the classic slate form tablets. Even though they are included in tablets, the iPad Pro or Surface Pro are closer to a laptop in spirit than a tablet. > IDC argues that the biggest trend to wa
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by npalli 11y ago
70% of the revenue and (maybe) 80% of the profit of Apple comes from a single product - the iPhone. Apple themselves have given lower guidance going forward. There is a limit to the number of people buying iPhone at huge margins every year.
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by npalli 11y ago
> Much of the reason the cost has outpaced inflation is the subsidizing of the tuition price But is this really true? Student tuition debt would say otherwise. In any case, you should follow the money and see where all this cost increase
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Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart? – Especially When Things Are So Good(fool.com)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
> The US is out of demand How is the US out of demand? Peak consumption years of population are between twenties and fifties and the biggest cohort of US demographics - the millennials - is just getting started. They crossed over the Boo
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by npalli 11y ago
This is what Persian Biryani looks like, pretty sure it is nothing like Indian Biryanis. I was pretty surprised when I saw it on a cooking travel show. http://www.kosherdelight.com/Iran_Recipes_Beryani.gif http:/&#x2F
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by npalli 11y ago
Indian/Pakistani Biryani is derived from Indian Pulao and not the Persian Beryani which is a meat patty with no rice. Korma/Naan are turkish or central asian in origin. Jalebi is semitic possibly arabic in origin. Gulab Jamun in P
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by npalli 11y ago
With cuisine you have to be careful in ascribing a unique origin to a word. For example, just glancing at the article I found two words that have a much more nuanced origin. The article mentions that Candy comes from the Persian Qand, but Q
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by npalli 11y ago
Here are three vendors that provide a good TTS apis. Have you evaluated the performance. What did you find lacking? 1. Nuance 2. AT&T 3. IBM Watson
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by npalli 11y ago
As productivity numbers go, 2% is huge!!. The actual number is 2.46% (from Bob Gordon's own figures) [1]. To put this in perspective, this is one of the highest growth numbers in the entire history of the US. Decade wise the only perio
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by npalli 11y ago
Well, if it depends on the microprocessor then investments in that field peaked in the '70s. So, we are way beyond the cycle at this point. > The dot com crash caused a loss of $5T Paper losses. Actual investment was in the 10'
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by npalli 11y ago
I totally believed Perez' thesis until the iPhone came along. So what constitutes the current cycle 1. Mainframes/Mini computers 2. PCs 3. Desktop internet 4. smart phones 5. Mobile broadband 6. Cloud 7. Machine Learning 8. AI&#x2
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by npalli 11y ago
The book author, Robert Gordon has been on this "economic growth is over" Jihad since forever. I found a 1988(!!) paper where he is complaining that productivity has been slowing down for 20 years (in 1988), that despite the vast
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by npalli 11y ago
It might be useful to look at Microsoft and their history with C#. C# was announced in 2000, the first really useful version C# 2.0 came out in 2005 and even today Microsoft apps written in pure C# are few and far in between (just UIs for v
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by npalli 11y ago
Your choice is quite clear as of Jan 2016. Almost all of the latest tutorials/books/online courses and other learning material have moved to Swift. So, if you are looking to develop for iOS 9 and Xcode 7 and above it is Swift. Eve
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Working as a Barista After College Is Not as Common as You Might Think(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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by npalli 11y ago
Well, even in that case, the 2014 salary was a 6.4% raise over 2013. Unusually large increase. So, it certainly "didn't add up over time". Also, strange to read about software profession being dead in water. Pretty much all e
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by npalli 11y ago
For CS graduates, I see the 2014 Salary as $62,103 and the 2015 Salary as $65,004. Which is actually a 6% increase. The 2014 was a 6% increase over 2013. So more than 10% increase in two years. What are you seeing?
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by npalli 11y ago
Well, Google was the No. 1 employer last year.
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Socialize American Housing in 3 steps – No private housing(thenation.com)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|2 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
> Because it was basically invented by white folks in the last 150 years This is astonishing. Can you let us know which buddhist principles were invented by white folks (and by whom) in the past 150 years.
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by npalli 11y ago
I don't know if the govt. is massaging numbers, but the very first 'problem with GDP' in the list makes no sense. GDP is calculated on net exports (exports - imports). So to evaluate the increase or decrease in GDP you need t
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by npalli 11y ago
> I would be surprised even in 2030 if India surpasses UK I would be surprised it if didn't surpass the UK by then. According to IMF[1], the 2015 GDP of UK and India are 2864 and 2182 Billions USD. All India needs to do is grow abou

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