puranjay

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by puranjay 7y ago
> This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported c
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by puranjay 7y ago
Personal experience shows that poor results from targeted ads is usually because of a) poor product, b) poor audience targeting, c) poor creative, or d) poor testing and tracking. There's an entire cottage industry of marketers (especi
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by puranjay 7y ago
With the number of ads I see, I doubt they don't make money
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by puranjay 7y ago
Wasn't YouTube a separate entity under Alphabet, and not a part of Google? That alone would be a $100B company
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by puranjay 7y ago
The captivity killings can be explained by the psychosis brought about by keeping an intelligent, social animal in isolation inside a pool
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by puranjay 7y ago
We can't taste pretty good either. We're all muscle and bones. Not enough fat, especially on the kind of people who might be in their feeding zones (say, surfers).
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by puranjay 7y ago
The brain facilitates social grouping and pack hunting. The latter is just about the most effective predatory strategy in nature.
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by puranjay 7y ago
It's even worse in my line of work because most governments, mine included, have just not caught up to the modern model of work. The legal frameworks for dealing with products that might be hosted in one country, have payments processe
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by puranjay 7y ago
People also underestimate the sheer legal and regulatory BS you have to deal with as an employer. The employee doesn't have to worry about keeping books, filing quarterly taxes, or dealing with any legal entanglements (and for larger c
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by puranjay 7y ago
This is just about the most perfect marriage of domain and website I've ever seen.
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by puranjay 7y ago
No way a SEO-focused blog is paying $1M for a weekend project. That's enterprise acquisition multiplier territory
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't see how Yoast needs any more exposure. They're the equivalent of Coca-Cola in the WordPress world - everyone's heard of them, most use them already.
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by puranjay 7y ago
My brother bought a Leaf and loved the thing so much that he drove it over his BMW. He's now getting a Model 3 because Nissan has nothing else in its stable that's above the Leaf.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I have a Ryzen 3700x on my new PC. First PC I ever built by hand. Mostly used for music production. 10 instances of Serum in Ableton with 50+ tracks and the thing barely crosses 15% CPU utilization
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by puranjay 7y ago
> The page "Understanding Urbit" also says that Urbit OS "can never show you ads". I don't understand this dogma that "ads = bad". At most, they're an annoyance. Not evil. They can influence purcha
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by puranjay 7y ago
But this market influences purchase decisions at an enterprise level. You get the enthusiasts on your side and they'll recommend you over others when the CIO needs to find a new vendor.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Sorry, I meant 3960x
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by puranjay 7y ago
Ads are massively effective. My friends and I launched a physical product over the weekend last week. I put together a basic landing page and bought some Instagram ads. We spent about INR 250 (around $4) before I stopped the ads to do some
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by puranjay 7y ago
And good luck if you want to try and resolve a problem. There is no customer service to speak of. I really wish there was a competitor to Google. They're one of the most opaque organizations around as far as their primary revenue strea
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by puranjay 7y ago
The 3950x Threadripper numbers make Intel look like a chump. The only areas where Intel still has an edge is single core performance. In anything multicore, AMD's numbers are downright outrageous
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by puranjay 7y ago
Congrats :) It's something extraordinary, isn't it?
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm thankful for my wife. I fell in love with her when I was 17. I'm 32 now and I haven't stayed more than a week away from her. It's the single greatest source of happiness in my life. I'm thankful for stumbling in
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by puranjay 7y ago
I was burned out until about a month ago. Here's what I did: 1. I went on a week long vacation. No work, no screens. Just read a book. 2. I started waking up early and working out every day. I was skipping my workouts frequently becaus
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by puranjay 7y ago
That's a really smart tip. Thanks for sharing!
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by puranjay 7y ago
It's a cool idea but the thought of receiving 600 emails just to read Moby Dick is somehow making me very anxious.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't see any situation where Uber retains its current volume if it increases its prices. I'm not a particularly price sensitive customer, yet I find myself taking auto rickshaws more and more. The gap between their fares and Ub
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by puranjay 7y ago
3D printing, when it was at the crest of its hype wave, was posited as a replacement for shopping. That you'd just buy a design and print your shoes and shirts at home. It was going to change consumer behavior completely - or so we wer
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by puranjay 7y ago
For a lot of non tech people I meet, AI is just a fancier term for "Excel magic".
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by puranjay 7y ago
I often wonder if all these projections about self driving, VR, and before that, 3D printing, are essentially wish fulfillment for and from a biased audience. I'd want to say that self driving cars are just around the corner, because
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by puranjay 7y ago
I got a 1tb SSD. I remember a time when 250mb Zip Drives were the stuff of science fiction, or when I thought they'd never top the 128mb storage on my first digital camera. Incredible how cheap storage is now.

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