puranjay

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by puranjay 6y ago
What democracies do you think are capable of meeting India's vast demand for consumer goods? Anything in the developed world is going to be prohibitively expensive. Anything outside is most likely a "democracy" just in name,
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> However, US is not about expansionism I love how the world paints China as an aggressive power while conveniently forgetting the completely unjustified and unwarranted invasion of Iraq by America. From a neutral POV, China has only &#x
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Personally, as an Indian, I don't see this situation escalating too much, especially not anywhere close to a nuclear war. Indian and Chinese leadership is mature enough to understand that a serious conflict will hurt both their ambitio
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Will never happen because Indian governments are stuck in an unceasing bureaucratic quagmire. A tech solution, especially one that has to be culturally relevant and edgy to appeal to young people is absolutely beyond the scope of the Indian
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I think the poster was saying that sarcastically - a variation of the "Orange Man Bad" meme
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I used to be a little obsessed over maximizing my own personal metrics. I'd track the number of hours I'd worked, the number of days I'd hit the gym, and even the number of hours I'd spent on hobbies. Then I got burned o
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I got into vinyl last year and have been buying up albums. The experience is so different than streaming. There is a physical element to it that's incredibly rewarding. You also notice how tracks flow in a good album so much more when
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I'm not in a vulnerable age group, but it's the constant stream of stories of patients experiencing everything from seizures and strokes to chronic fatigue and even diabetes that has me on edge. I don't want to get it and end
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Anecdotally, I run a website for a specific hobby that's monetized by Amazon affiliate program. I saw holiday season-like traffic and revenues in April (before Amazon cut the commission rate). Was thr strangest thing because I had alre
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I really wonder what the long term economic impact of a chronically fatigued population will be. It's clear by now that a) the virus isn't going away, and b) a lot of, if not most, people will get it. If a substantial portion of t
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When I was in Russia, Yandex's image translation was miles better than Google's. Maps, too.
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At this point I don't even know what's their main chat/video product. Meet? Hangouts? Duo? I have all three on my phone for some reason but still end up using Zoom and Whatsapp
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That depends entirely on where you are and what time you started looking. Three weeks ago if you'd asked me I would have said the same things as you. Since then, cases in my city have started increasing drastically. And now, I have at
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China has already been doing that at scale. Look up the Thousand Talents Program [0] 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan
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Tip for making better yogurt: use a clay pot if you can find one. I can't tell you why, but somehow it creates smoother, richer yogurt.
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I suffer from pretty bad motion sickness. Can you share the sort of dosage and/or brand you use?
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I haven't checked in a while but on mobile, responding to threads would collapse the text completely on itself in the new layout. The problem persisted for months and I ended up dropping Reddit from my reading list altogether. Incredib
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Google has also been pushing sites that do on-page SEO right heavily in the SERPs. Which basically means that SERPs are now filled with copycat content that reads like crap but has all the right headings and keyword densities. The search ex
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Here in Delhi, the streets were completely empty during the lockdown. But now, it seems like everyone has forgotten it already. Saw people mingling, sniffing, touching the same fruit at the vegetable market yesterday. Everyone is wearing ma
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I don't know if Asian countries should be patting themselves on the backs yet. Here in India, it seemed like we had everything under control in the first 6 weeks of the lockdown. But now, our cases and deaths are rising fast, just as w
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Are the borders open? That's the litmus test - can the cases be controlled with no travel restrictions?
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Can this virus even be controlled? Or rather, beyond a point, does it even make sense to try - without dismantling our current economic structures completely? As soon as you open international borders and ease lockdowns, regions and countri
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More on Roman fish tanks if anyone wants to read about this topic. I thought this was very insightful: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/08/what-roman-ruins-rev...
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I'd traveled to St Petersburg, Moscow and Tashkent last year precisely to satiate this fascination. Stayed in an Airbnb in central Moscow in an old soviet-style apartment (most of which are now luxury apartments with BMWs parked out fr
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We've come to a point where the tech and UX has been commoditized enough that putting together a functional app with rock solid payment infrastructure isn't technically challenging. VC money might have pushed smaller players out o
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Cruise line customers generally don't have hundreds of nearby restaurants to choose from.
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I've said this before but I really don't see any reason whatsoever why UberEats has to be a nationwide, or heck, even a statewide thing. This market can benefit a great deal from local players who serve just one or a handful of ci
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While I agree with the sentiment, operating at scale does mean that consumers often get lower costs. Smaller players would also be far less likely to enter less lucrative markets.
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Is there a genetic factor to it or just different social norms among Latinos (say, extended families)?
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You NEED to find a vocal coach. At least for the first few months. If you try and learn through online courses, you will never learn what you're doing wrong. Worse, without the feedback of a teacher, you can easily neglect a major weak

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