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by puranjay 7y ago
I've made it a point to look up any study mentioned in the media. In almost all cases, dramatic conclusions are drawn from sample sizes in the low xx digits. There is absolutely no way such tiny sample sizes can be conclusive
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by puranjay 7y ago
I have a 3700X that I use primarily for music production and it runs flawlessly. Prices, at least on NewEgg India, haven't budget even a cent in 4 months though. I would recommend getting a different cooler though. The stock cooler, wh
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by puranjay 7y ago
People are looking at the fatality rate as a % of total infected, which is a misleading statistic. A better metric would be fatality : recovery rate.
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by puranjay 7y ago
At present, the iPad is simply not powerful enough for pro quality music production. Serious, ready-to-release songs usually have 40-50+ tracks. That really stretches powerful processors on desktops. I produce some music as a hobby and whil
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by puranjay 7y ago
iPad will always remain stuck between being a consumption and a creation device (a "creasumption" device?). Anyone who seriously attempts creation on the iPad will eventually want to move to more specialized hardware. Garageband o
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by puranjay 7y ago
I've switched to DDG. I'll take slightly inferior results if it means a more open web. Google's results are now nearly all ads above the fold. The ads are also deceptively marked. Really scummy tactic. The sort of thing you&#
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'd say that there isn't as big a language barrier in understanding Indian politics. The English language media landscape in the country is thriving and there is a massive, vibrant internet presence. India's democratic roots
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by puranjay 7y ago
Keyword: were We can't be yoked perennially to the past.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I've lived in India all my life and there has never been a single instance in my life where a religious minority has benefited at my expense. I was never denied admission to a college, a job, or a rental apartment because of my religio
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by puranjay 7y ago
Most such models tend to fall apart when scaled to 1.4B people
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by puranjay 7y ago
I just think most people simply underestimate how many people 200M really is. They also grossly overestimate the number of people on "their" side.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I dream of a day when India isn't perennially hyphenated to Pakistan. How does it matter to India how Pakistan treats its minorities? How is that a yardstick for our morality? Shouldn't the yardstick be a more successful nation a
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by puranjay 7y ago
He isn't some foreign affairs expert. He made the decision to support Chavez based on the information he (and we) had access to at that time, much of which painted Chavez favorably. We, of course, came to know later that the house was
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by puranjay 7y ago
I really struggle to understand the Indian right wing perspective. There is absolutely no practical way to achieve their goal of a theocratic nation with the country still being intact. As much as they might want to fantasize about it, you
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by puranjay 7y ago
Everyone needs to know that every Softbank round is essentially a Saudi Arabia round.
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by puranjay 7y ago
How is it ab absolutist either/or situation? You can have public buses as well as a private fleet of self driving cars.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm really excited about this. I can't even imagine how much public space we will reclaim with zero car ownership.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm convinced that most A/B testing is harmful in the long run. It moves metrics that makes investors look good but often at the cost of long-term brand likability and, for the lack of a better word, the company's "soul&
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by puranjay 7y ago
Nah, Google has never been good at B2B enterprise sales. Microsoft has a massive enterprise sales network already and will find it easy to push Azure. AWS has first mover advantage. I'm short on Google Cloud.
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by puranjay 7y ago
That's what happens when MBAs and not engineers run your tech company
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by puranjay 7y ago
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts. The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque in
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by puranjay 7y ago
In my country, the stock market is at an all time high, even though gdp growth is at a 13 year low and unemployment is the highest in 40+ years. Stock markets often don't reflect the actual state of the economy
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't see any argument where a boring machine (Elon's or otherwise) isn't "tech" and "engineering".
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by puranjay 7y ago
I have the same urge to make quick quips. I just make sure to add them only to lower level comments so that they don't derail the rest of the discussion.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I used to laugh at the idea of playing games on a tiny screen, especially AAA titles. But I was gifted a Nintendo Switch and I've used it almost exclusively in handheld mode. I played the entirety of Breath of the Wild on planes, morni
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by puranjay 7y ago
Apart from a few niche-specific closed forums, I've had consistently high quality discussions on HN. Somehow the HN culture stops the proliferation of low-effort comments and trolling so prominent everywhere else.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'd prefer "I DDGed my name"
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by puranjay 7y ago
When I was in Russia, I was constantly surprised by the quality of Yandex's services. Their map data was far superior to Google Maps and their cab app felt better than Uber.
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by puranjay 7y ago
True. You can convincingly argue that Facebook et al are a net negative for our society
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by puranjay 7y ago
It's more nuanced than that. Did WhatsApp and Facebook help elect right-wing autocrats? Yes. Are WhatsApp and Facebook also helping protestors against right-wing autocrats organize and protest? Also yes.

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