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by puranjay 7y ago
You can't organize a protest if no one knows about it. In order to get the word out, you have to use platforms that everyone already has access to.
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They're invaluable for democracy. Right now, there are a number of anti government, pro democracy protests taking place in my country. All of them are being organized and spread via Instagram and WhatsApp
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> McDonalds recently released in New Zealand - it's a deep fried, crumbed mashed potato patty with other vegetables in it too Has the McAloo Tikki made its way to New Zealand? My bias is obvious, but I really feel the world needs to
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by puranjay 7y ago
I might be biased since I'm a marketer, but more businesses die because of bad or absent marketing than bad or absent design.
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This is the real product landing page: https://fibery.io/connect The other one is probably just trying to be cheeky :)
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Borat wouldn't be able to recognize the Kazakhstan of today. I went on a mini tour of the "Stans", covering Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Chinese money has radically transformed Kazakhstan. Their per capita GDP is nearly the sam
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by puranjay 7y ago
Again, countries like Singapore are poor models to follow simply because of their size and population. It is drastically easier to govern a country you can cycle across in a few hours, than a country like India or China.
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It's a software review site and yes, he does use the products he reviews.
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Qatar and most middle eastern countries are anomalies in that they have access to the world's most important resource.
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As an Indian, I just hope fake meat can become good enough to stop the widespread adoption of real meat into Indian diets. India is largely vegetarian (eating meat, even in non-vegetarian households, is like a once-a-week affair) and that h
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Our evidence from the 20th century shows that the only countries that are successful are democratic. The list of authoritarian countries that crashed and burned is longer than the list of democratic countries that did the same.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I had to make a payment in Bitcoin for the first time in years. I honestly can't see the average person dealing with this complexity. Even the basic math is hard to grasp for the average Joe. Try asking a normal person to quickly add 0
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I worked with an entrepreneur who runs an affiliate site that pulls in about $100k/month, has zero employees, and no office.
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Design offers an easy path to a profitable career. A specialization in UX design would easily earn your child a lucrative position in any tech company. Even writing - something I pursued - offers a path to a stable career if you move toward
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And Pininfarina itself is owned by an Indian conglomerate!
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WeTransfer's users are localized in the creative fields. Their website even features and promotes new artists and musicians. It's massively useful when you want to send a track (which can often run into hundreds of MB even after c
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by puranjay 7y ago
I do music production as a side hobby. Virtually all the producers and studios I've worked with use WeTransfer. It's fast, efficient, and free. I can't see any reason to switch.
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I can't really speak to the financial or tax advantages of this setup - I've never been particularly good at these things. But the big advantage to me is behavioral. If I have just a limited amount of money to spend in my account,
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Can I at least see what the email will look like or how you'll pull all this data without signing up?
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My setup wouldn't work for the majority of people, but I freelance and have set up a corporation. I pay myself a salary that's about 2x my rent. The rest of my funds stay locked in my business account. This forces me to limit spen
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Clippers might be fine, but it'll take a brave man to try this with a pair of scissors
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In 1991, the number of deaths in air crashes was also nearly 5x the number of deaths in 2017. A plane crashing in 1991 was, for better or worse, just news. But today, a plane crashing due to an engineering failure is rare enough that it mak
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Neanderthals were a distinct human species in the way that lions and tigers are distinct species. They are distinct, but not in any particularly remarkable way
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The usedness of the mattress is masked by the niceness of the room. Used mattresses, when they are sold on Craigslist or otherwise, tend to generally not be in the most pleasant of surroundings. I bet you can move a lot of used mattresses i
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Canada Geese is the species. Canadian Geese is any geese that's Canadian
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To be fair, when ATMs were first introduced here, most people struggled to use them too
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The problem with the examples the author shared is that they only work in professions where your work and skills are easily demonstrable, aka "portfolio jobs". How would you demonstrate a skilled manager's capabilities withou
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When I look at the early history of flight, I find it so fascinatingly absurd that inventors simply jumped from high cliffs on the *promise" that their invention would work. No one else had mastered human flights. Designs similar to th
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That's the thing - smartphones are surveillance devices as well, but their utility makes them a necessity. It's possible to argue that you'd submit to the surveillance if you're getting all that you get from a smartphone
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Of course, but the convenience of a smartphone does outweigh the potential surveillance. I getwork done on my phone, book cabs and flight tickets, get food delivered. I've tried living without my smartphone but it's not feasible.

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