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China's 'Shadow Banking' And How It Threatens The Economy(npr.org)
5 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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How the Bitcoin 1% manipulate the currency, deceive its user community(blog.p2pfoundation.net)
33 points by npalli 13y ago|28 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Thank you. It also appears that there has been some aggressive filtering of the Snowden topic on reddit so we have all those "discussions" spill over here and turn this site into NSA news.
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by npalli 13y ago
Exactly right. Even worse, looks like Snowden was played for a fool (whatever his motivations). The HK/Chinese extracted couple of damning statements about NSA spying on Chinese and then tossed Snowden away. I doubt Snowden saw this co
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by npalli 13y ago
>>My opinion of the HK SAR, which has always been quite high, just went up a couple of notches. How so? For the past 10 days we have been hearing non-stop reports of the infamous extradition process that will drag on for 10-15 years i
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The nigger wake-up-call(davidsimon.com)
5 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
They used to dominate mainframe computing. They still do. Its just that the tech industry has become much much bigger than it used to be. PCs, internet, Mobile etc etc. You surely don't expect a single tech company to dominate the enti
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Edward Snowden is no hero(newyorker.com)
10 points by npalli 13y ago|2 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Summarization is one of the least effective methods of retaining what you have learnt. According to an extensive study [1], the two most effective methods of retaining what you have learnt are Practice testing --- Self-testing or taking pr
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by npalli 13y ago
Interesting, thanks. I thought Max Levchin was trying to get you pregnant. Just announced yesterday at D11. http://allthingsd.com/20130529/max-levchins-new-plan-to-get-...
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by npalli 13y ago
How long is Max Levchin going to milk the Paypal story. For crying out loud, it was 12 years ago - an eternity in the industry. How come all these great ideas didn't work for the next 12 years he has been trying to build other companies.
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by npalli 13y ago
what is that a surprise? He has been working with Mary Meeker on the trend reports for quite a while, since Morgan Stanley days. http://www.kpcb.com/partner/liang-wu
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by npalli 13y ago
This link includes the video that was used on the participants. You can see and check your own IQ. http://www.businessinsider.com/iq-video-test-university-of-r...
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Google plans to fund, develop wireless networks in emerging markets(online.wsj.com)
3 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
As an older guy myself, some thoughts -- 1. Take a break if you feel you are burnt out. 2. Shift into a new area. I suggest healthcare. You have seen the entire cycle of the PC/Internet era and understand how companies are built. You can pa
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by npalli 13y ago
Very good essay with lots of wisdom. A couple of nitpicks, only because they keep popping up when I discuss this with people 1. The beginning has an overly technical explanation of wealth in relation to hours worked. Sort of PG's law of con
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by npalli 13y ago
Ok thanks. I guess I'm confused about the gains with asm.js. Looks like it is in the same ballpark performance wise as regular JS (and slower in some cases). So, why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript and get norma
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by npalli 13y ago
BTW, C/C++ code that is compared has multithreading and SIMD capability disabled. In the third page they benchmark asm.js and native with multithreading and SSE enabled. It shows upto 50x slowdown! Not exactly sure what the point of a bench
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Union Square gets 5,000% return on Tumblr(crainsnewyork.com)
107 points by npalli 13y ago|66 comments
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There is no such thing as a tech company anymore(qz.com)
5 points by npalli 14y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 14y ago
This is a perfect example of buzzword driven technology recruiting. Imagine this person writing this essay in early 2008, objective-C has all these negatives against it -- ranked about 50 in the popular language index, funky syntax that peo
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Impossibility of tablet native journalism(blogs.reuters.com)
4 points by npalli 14y ago|1 comments
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by npalli 14y ago
The article states that the link between will-power and blood sugar is weaker than commonly accepted. "What about the glucose idea, which seems supported by so much science? Dr. Baumeister and Mr. Tierney describe studies showing that givin
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by npalli 14y ago
It would have been great if apple introduced a regular macbook pro with an IPS screen. I have a hi-res 15.4" macbook pro and a 1080p Dell XPS 16. Both are non-IPS. I recently picked up a Lenovo 12.5 HD IPS screen which is lower DPI than eit
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by npalli 14y ago
How do you explain Java's massive uptake. It can't be it that it solved some problem uniquely that no other language did (whatever that was in 1995). Without the massive marketing and development by Sun, IBM and Oracle who wanted to use it
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by npalli 16y ago
Well sure, I mean there is always the possibility that there is channel stuffing. But why take the pessimistic view that all the shipped tablets are on the shelf when you don't have any information. Things to note -- 1. at amazon.com, the o
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by npalli 16y ago
Yes, but motorola doesn't own any retail stores unlike Apple. So they don't have visibility into sales until a couple of months. Unless you are looking at a very high return rate, it is a good proxy for sales.
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by npalli 16y ago
There is a wifi only model but that was introduced towards the end of the quarter. Agreed on the extremely expensive wifi/3G model.
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by npalli 16y ago
Here is the installation document for Honeycomb. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-... It clearly talks about using the Xoom for testing purposes. So, Google released Honeycomb as a finished product, used Xoom as
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by npalli 16y ago
Bogus numbers, the report is based on an analyst who predicted between 25,000 to 120,000 sales. The company reported 250,000 shipped in their earnings. Not an iPad killer for sure but not as dire as reported either. Most importantly, the wi

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