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by pavanred 9y ago
I had just moved to USA from the other side of the world as a student. And, most of the sports I follow like F1, tennis, cricket, football (soccer) were happening mainly in Europe/Asia/Australia, and that means most of the live ac
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by pavanred 9y ago
What surprised me was that almost every news report/pleas on tv shows to help seemed to mention and emphasize that these people are American citizens. I didn't see the same thing happen with the other hurricane coverage. Is awaren
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by pavanred 9y ago
Everyone seems to be making the assumption that all the work IBM India does is outsourced from US. IBM India is the biggest domestic IT player in India with clients like Airtel, Indian Railways, HDFC etc.; IBM India also services clients fr
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by pavanred 9y ago
> Apple makes pennies on the headphones compared to what they make from the iPhones airpods cost $160 and beats headphones aren't cheap either. I doubt that's making pennies on headphones either way.
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by pavanred 9y ago
I am incredibly excited about such missions and love reading/following them but really, why "should" we explore space? Edit: Let me clarify why I ask this, I had once seen some documentary where a marine biologist makes a poi
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by pavanred 9y ago
I guess question is less of was it successful but rather was it necessary and did the move do any good at all? One thing I can't understand is, when I look up all the countries/regimes/dictators in history that have tried dem
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by pavanred 9y ago
Probably less plausible than you think. What incentive would company X have in denying service to someone based on unrelated parameters? That's just going to reduce business and profits. With credit scores, its a bit different. Credit
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by pavanred 9y ago
I guess I was trying to paraphrase the comedian there, I guess I can just remove the "valid" qualifier and use embarrassed instead of offended, but the point I was trying to make pretty much remains the same. My point, shame has a
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by pavanred 9y ago
Honest question. If it really smelt, would you still be offended? I am genuinely curious. I watched Bill Burr stand up comedy routine recently and he touches upon a similar topic. Though its comedy, I thought he made a good point - shame is
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by pavanred 9y ago
To me that sentence reads as a factual description devoid of judgement. EDIT: I am surprised so many feel strongly about this and it didn't strike to me as insensitive at all. Just makes me realize that being sensitive to others is qui
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by pavanred 9y ago
What's unreasonable is the cost of repair which was quite conveniently not mentioned here. And, this is not just Apple. I owned a Moto X and my display cracked after over a year and half of use. The warranty doesn't cover it anym
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by pavanred 9y ago
You fear what you don't understand
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by pavanred 9y ago
Exactly my point. Myanmar got their freedom. Now, there is another problem and the current establishment isn't doing enough. And, what you shared is, again, the world media covering these lapses. Suu Kyi did a lot right in the fight f
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by pavanred 9y ago
It's definitely more than just publicity. There's a difference. Being on the cover of a Time magazine is publicity. But a Nobel Prize (or similar recognition) is not just publicity. It's elevating a person to the same stature
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by pavanred 9y ago
We can't just simply discount the effect of the Nobel prize and world media coverage of Liu Xiaobo. I am reading the book Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle, it's about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. And, yes there were a lot of Burm
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by pavanred 9y ago
Many simply don't know. For instance, Liu Xiaobo was banned from public speaking and it was banned to publish his writing. I won't be surprised if he was better known outside China than inside.
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by pavanred 9y ago
I know a couple who had their second kid while they had a small child already. They share the same feeling about it being very hard. But, their reasoning had something to do with how they grew up and how their kids would. Both of them had s
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by pavanred 9y ago
This seems to be a pretty common sentiment here. But, here's my question, if you start up doesn't have big data now, then should you assume it will not have big data tomorrow. I work with a start up which currently doesn't ha
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by pavanred 9y ago
A quick search about the village, Marottichal, and it's chess obsession will lead you to a lot of other publications about this topic. I found similar articles which included pictures of men and women enjoying chess. First the observat
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by pavanred 10y ago
I tried Inbox for a few weeks but then reverted back to Gmail. I used labels quite well too. I loved Inbox classifying my mail, it was a breeze to find emails from trips etc, removing clutter, I liked the remind me later feature too. After
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by pavanred 10y ago
I don't understand this sentiment. And, I am surprised to see it on HN this often too. It's saying - I care about X, till problems with X are all solved, any effort on anything else is snarked upon with judgement of wasting effort
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PSLV-C37 / Cartosat -2 Series Mission Successfully Launched All 104 Satellites(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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by pavanred 10y ago
Can we not use an inverter, convert to AC, step up and use the existing infrastructure for transmission. Besides, I guess there should be an added advantage to monitoring and using (charge/discharge) the batteries better than letting t
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by pavanred 10y ago
Here is a similar solution but with an AWS Lambda function in Python and using a cloudwatch event to trigger the lambda function on a schedule. [0] [0] https://kerneltrick.in/aws-lambda-cronjob-schedule/
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by pavanred 10y ago
Isn't a new thing, is it? There have always been new ways to test/differentiate candidates, but soon candidates identify the advantage and prepare for the test instead of actually becoming better at what they do. The scores of &qu
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by pavanred 10y ago
I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the "alternative facts" comment/incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news
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by pavanred 10y ago
Some online services (e.g. Doordash) which ask you to pay a tip upfront even before the service irrespective of the quality. And, the default option is pre-selected to 15% of the cost on the checkout page. This after a specified delivery ch
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by pavanred 10y ago
Agree, I sometimes wonder how much of this is just a manifestation of our fear of the unknown. Consider, the world before the internet when the postal services was doing all the heavy lifting for communication. Once we got internet, a huge
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by pavanred 10y ago
While that is the intention, I am guessing it would lead to having legal involved in the editorial process. And, legalase-ish news to avoid prosecution traps, perhaps. Am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
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by pavanred 10y ago
Or say your government claims X has WMD and that we need to go to war, now. And, the press prints it as factual news. Turns out there's wasn't any and the government just misled (could be willful or ignorance or negligence). Now,

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