pratyushag2

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by pratyushag2 4y ago
Love Paprika for meal planning, saving recipes (and eating them), allows for easy modifications of recipe as well as web imports, and great interface for groceries. Definitely worth the price.
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by pratyushag2 4y ago
Funny. At first I laughed and the googled [0]. The response would suggest that either chinese teens are immune or china is blocking it in most of china. Or something else, but we know that the users are not in china. 0: https://w
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by pratyushag2 4y ago
Agreed. I used Instaweb to clean it up and make it printable. Then I sent it to my Kindle because it was still 30 pages.
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by pratyushag2 8y ago
Would the costs and development be much lower and easier if the focus was augmenting humans strength in physical work? Would that still qualify as a robot company?
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by pratyushag2 8y ago
Why do you wish that you had bought the house despite accurately predicting and waiting for the downturn? Didn’t you get a significantly better deal or did it just get offset anyway? Curious because it’s a similar decision now. A recession
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by pratyushag2 8y ago
Burn I wonder if that’s really a problem because in 3 years, if GOogle Cloud becomes a billion dollar company then most wont question its financial importance to Alphabet.
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by pratyushag2 8y ago
Yes, Sleepio is very helpful!
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New Incentives (YC S16 Non-Profit) Is Hiring a Program Manager(new-incentives.breezy.hr)
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New Incentives (Non-Profit) Is Hiring a Data-Driven Program Manager(new-incentives.breezy.hr)
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by pratyushag2 9y ago
It’s 2m cells, not 400k.
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by pratyushag2 9y ago
Thanks for your well researched comment!
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New Incentives (YC S16) is hiring in operations for scaling to 100+ (Remote)(new-incentives.breezy.hr)
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Evidence-based Non profit that saves lives, hiring for managing operations(new-incentives.breezy.hr)
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by pratyushag2 9y ago
Your board members are crypto enthusiasts so I would recommend getting somebody who is very knowledgeable in crypto to 1) assess if crypto is a good fit for the company 2) if yes, then how to go about executing it in a way that it's le
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by pratyushag2 9y ago
Maybe I’m understanding incorrectly: 13k in teacher salaries would be per course taught by a teacher right? Which really means cost should be 1/4th. 52k per student for a 5,000 student college is 260m per year of claimed expenditure. T
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Twitter should own the utility of being a messaging forum for the public. This means a communication layer that can be easily used by many different services for different purposes. From there on, it should open up this message level integr
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
These are incredible pictures. What kind of camera did you use to click these?
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
New Incentives (YC S16) | SF | REMOTE | Full-time New Incentives is a metrics-based non-profit that is creating one of the most cost-effective ways of saving lives. We are looking for a senior engineer who will lead the development of tools
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New Incentives (YC S16 Non-profit) is looking for its lead engineer. Remote(new-incentives.breezy.hr)
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Google alerts. Just insert the journalist or topic names that you're most interested in. Does an incredible job of not only research papers but of informing you pre-publisihing, which has advantages.
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Google and Facebook provide tools to help people implement their dreams. For example, our nonprofit heavily relies on Google's services (email, drive, sheets)for everything. In fact, sheets doubles as a database that can be used for al
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
We founded our own organization in Nigeria to be able to do this, all the employees are hired directly by our organization. Women are enrolled at the clinics by our team and then called to give the cash transfer code (codes are redeemable a
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Obstetric fistula is not one of our focus areas.
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
We haven't had this problem yet and no clinic has reported this as a potential issue either. From what we have seen, these mothers care about their babies A LOT!
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
This is the cost to the government and NGOs. Basically, this leads to a lifetime of consuming drugs which often need to be subsidized by the government and other orgs. Naturally, it also increases the probability of more people getting infe
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Good question. Clinics are more hygienic (reducing the chance of blood transmission during birth), provide ARVs pre-birth (reduces HIV viral count), and give Nevirapine at birth (giving this to newborns immediately after birth is the bigges
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Thanks Jayme! Svetha (CEO & co-founder) came across conditional cash transfers (CCTs) while doing research in effective ways of giving AID in developing countries. CCTs have seen incredible success in Mexico, Brazil, and several other c
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
The main problem is not that they cannot afford to have the baby but that they are not delivering it safely at the health clinics. Instead, they are delivering it with traditional birth attendants. This is especially a problem because it ca
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
Hi HN, I'm a Co-founder at New Incentives. Happy to answer any questions. -Prat
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by pratyushag2 10y ago
New Incentives does conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in West Africa. CCTs have a lot of research behind them as the parent comment noted. GD's one-time, large transfers help achieve concrete benefits. Super excited to see the basic in

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