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by puranjay 6y ago
Content marketer here. While you're correct that in many mainstream industries, every idea, every keyword, seems to have been exhausted, there are still opportunities for new formats and angles. If there are already exhaustive articles
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This sort of "marathon" thinking isn't appreciated enough. You'll learn and do more with 10 hours/week of something for 10 years than 60 hours/week of something for 6 months. The latter severely underestimates
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With our current technology, yes. But we're talking about an alien race capable of traveling light year distances. I'm sure their planet searching capabilities would be far ahead of us as well.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I wonder if we're just too uninteresting to be visited by extraterrestrial life. Maybe there is a part of the universe that's teeming with life and resources that extraterrestrials prefer to visit instead. Going by our own immedia
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by puranjay 7y ago
I've seen this problem constantly with new entrepreneurs. They don't know when to switch off. They have dozens of ideas and they want to do them all. I did the same thing and failed at everything. So I decided to simplify: just on
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by puranjay 7y ago
The real estate sector hasn't made sense to me in years. No matter what happens, prices either stay intact or go up. Nothing seems to move the prices down.
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I just watched the curry recipe. It's funny but far from being anything close to authentic (bell peppers was the first sign).
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by puranjay 7y ago
This study used cycling sprints. I wonder if a similar effect would be observed with say, a set of pushups or squats every hour
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To be fairly honest, lots of extremely competent people hold some batshit insane opinions about a lot of pretty important things. I posit Steve Jobs and his alternative therapy beliefs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
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What bothers me more than anything else is the unpredictability of it all. We don't know how this thing will pan out. There is way too much conflicting data about it. Will it burn out and mutate into less lethal strains? Will we get it
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Heck, we've been hosting online improv shows. It's not the real thing but it's fun. Honestly surprised by how quickly we've adopted to the constraints.
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Can someone help me understand why the broader stock market is actually up compared to six months ago despite all these dire numbers being thrown around? Heck, Boeing stock is up today! The economy looked very rosy in October 2019 and NASDA
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Except these people would never get loans without Uber's backing. Indian lenders are notoriously risk averse and make it very hard for self-employed people to get loans. Moreover, without Uber's (formerly) juicy carrot, they would
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by puranjay 7y ago
Uber pulled off a massive bait-and-switch in India. Offered drivers incredible bonuses, baited them with "rumors" that the bonuses were permanent, encouraged them to apply for loans to buy cars and even has a financing program of
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by puranjay 7y ago
To be fair, 2020 is proving to be the year all those long heard warnings are coming true
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Oil in most countries pays the producers and some subsidies to farmers, truckers, etc. Oil in Saudi Arabia pays the entire country $8.98 might be the breakeven price for Saudi Aramco, but for the country, the breakeven point is, iirc, $80&#
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by puranjay 7y ago
I think it briefly went negative! Let's add that to the list "Things I never thought I'd see but 2020 happened"
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That didn't stop UAE from attracting nearly 16M tourists last year. Only Saudi Arabia beats them (barely) in the Middle East, and that's mostly from religious tourism to Mecca
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Won't comment on the idea but I love the execution. The design is cheerful without being maudlin, clear without being cluttered. Super impressive!
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Incredible that someone actually thought a new splash of paint and a big red brand can make up for the complete lack of culture, training, and motivation at the bottom rung of India's hotel industry. Did no one realize that they'r
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by puranjay 7y ago
I don't think there is any startup with more ill will among customers than Oyo. The brand is completely toxic now, especially among India's younger millennial customers.
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by puranjay 7y ago
While I've been following all Covid-19 related news and keeping track of the numbers with near morbid fascination, I've found that being in lockdown has made me happier. It has also given me perspective on life. As cliche as it mi
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Airbnb is in a LOT of trouble if this pandemic fear persists for a while. Forget the obvious drop in casual travel, it's going to be hard to compete with hotels that can claim 100% control over their properties. I can already picture t
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by puranjay 7y ago
How do you reckon social media will impact your models? Rumors and information - real or fake - has never been easier to spread in the world (Wuhan's data becomes less relevant here). We've already seen calls for defiance of lockd
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So many of the models I've seen focus on the efficacy of lockdowns in controlling the spread of the disease. Most treat the length of the lockdown as a mathematical variable - X week lockdown leads to Y infection rate. My point is that
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Complete lockdowns across multiple countries and cessation of all economic activity certainly is unprecedented.
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I fail to understand how you can reasonably model an unprecedented event in modern history. We have no data on how people will act under a weeks, even months long lockdown. Will they stay indoors and follow guidelines? Maybe. Will they watc
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> I always thought Canada was so much bigger than the US but they're about the same size - 3.5m sq miles That's because the largest state, Alaska, appears like its a part of the Canadian landmass
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I wonder what fossil treasures are sitting beneath the ice in Antarctica. Most people don't realize how massive the continent is since it doesn't show up fully on maps - it is nearly 1.5 times the size of America. If it was a wett
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I picked up this habit because of widespread pollution in New Delhi

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