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by pratyushag 12y ago
Finally, somebody being smart enough to give unlimited storage. One of the primary reasons gmail took off was unlimited storage, at a time when people were very space conscious and had to keep deleting emails.
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by pratyushag 12y ago
I don't see why it would... ebay would still hold a significant percentage of paypal and influence such decision making. The main benefit will come from large competitors choosing Paypal as it becomes a less biased payment service and
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by pratyushag 12y ago
Great decision, allowing PayPal to grow beyond the virtual ceiling placed by being governed by a marketplace company which rightly has its own agenda before PayPal's.
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by pratyushag 12y ago
It often takes leaving SV to understand what you're saying here.
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A story of reducing the cost of HIV from $380,000 to preventing it for $200(newincentives.exposure.co)
5 points by pratyushag 12y ago|1 comments
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by pratyushag 12y ago
I think YC has a lot to learn and will need to invest time before learning how to better pick nonprofits. There are a ton on foundations and competitions that look for nonprofits using technology to innovate the sector. The issue is that ve
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by pratyushag 12y ago
A few things that come to mind: 1. Giving cash to individuals or targeted groups in need is called cash transfers in the nonprofit sector. More specifically, conditional cash transfers or CCTs and governments spend more than $50 bn a year o
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by pratyushag 12y ago
The clause of being able to promote apps that are made by the same publisher will have a very significant impact on the industry and could even lead to more consolidation and a significant disadvantage for independent developers. In fact, I
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Google Pays $500M for Satellite Maker Skybox(recode.net)
2 points by pratyushag 12y ago|0 comments
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by pratyushag 12y ago
Companies might use wired internet but residential places without cable will likely move to mobile. This is exactly what is already happening in Nigeria.
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by pratyushag 13y ago
Yep. Although they apologized publicly for it and came out being a much stronger organization. Their apology (not half bad): http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings Deceit in lending is not uncommon among microfinan
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by pratyushag 13y ago
This makes YCombinator look bad. Did they know about this before investing in Zidisha? If not, maybe consulting the likes of GiveWell could be a good idea.
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by pratyushag 13y ago
For some discussion about Zidisha vs GiveDirectly search "Zidisha" in the comments of these two articles: 1) http://blog.givewell.org/2012/04/26/microfinance-and-cooksto... 2) http://blog.
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by pratyushag 13y ago
It's unfortunate that patent sharing is not covered by anti-competitive laws.
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Turntable.fm... last day(mashable.com)
2 points by pratyushag 13y ago|0 comments
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One of the World's tiniest, poorest countries is redefining HIV care(theatlantic.com)
2 points by pratyushag 13y ago|0 comments
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Google saves and remembers all your passwords(s3.amazonaws.com)
6 points by pratyushag 13y ago|3 comments
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Google remembers all your passwords(tinypic.com)
4 points by pratyushag 13y ago|2 comments
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by pratyushag 13y ago
For people who care, I support New incentives - an organization that's actively trying to help constrain AIDS in Africa and that has managed to do it in a very cost effective and transparent way.
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Ask HN: We asked for tech IPs when they didn't exist, and now it's a problem
1 points by pratyushag 13y ago|0 comments
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by pratyushag 13y ago
New Incentives is an organization that only gives money through CCTs and has seen exceptional results!! newincentives.org.
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Ask HN: How should I promote a non-profit that gives cash directly to the poor?
1 points by pratyushag 13y ago|0 comments
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by pratyushag 13y ago
Do what you think represents you most. Depending on the size, creative resumes can really help. Smaller ones prefer more creative people that show an ability to be more versatile IMO. Good luck! PDF is almost always the safest choice and ma
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by pratyushag 13y ago
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049060/ballmer-strongly-hint...
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by pratyushag 13y ago
I don't know how much credit the post deserves, but something to think about: A lot of very strong companies had already started capturing the smartphone market before Apple came out with the iPhone. I think it's clear that people
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by pratyushag 13y ago
I couldn't find Kathmandu, Nepal on it. Thanks, pretty cool site!
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by pratyushag 13y ago
Stop complaining and game the damn thing i you think it's that easy!