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by puranjay 7y ago
John Cusack in his podcast with Joe Rogan made an interesting point: that BlueOrigin's slow and steady approach might be counterintuitive to space flight. He said that you want to be fast and test out as many crazy ideas - moonshots -
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by puranjay 7y ago
I didn't buy a single one. I was gifted all three by different people. And they likely bought it because it has the highest brand recall of all fitness trackers outside of Apple.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't even understand how they're able to charge as much as they do. I've owned 3 Fitbit devices and they perform uniformly worse than a cheap as dirt Xiaomi Mi Band I received as a free prize. Their battery life tops out a
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by puranjay 7y ago
At this point, nuclear power needs to be rebranded to be viable. The tech is fantastic but 50 years of apolcalypse porn has ensured people see mushroom clouds as soon as they hear "nuclear". A name change should be the first prior
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by puranjay 7y ago
The strange part is that even if all climate change scientists are completely wrong, what do we really stand to lose by switching to renewable sources and just polluting less? If you could replace a coal guzzling, smoke spilling power plant
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by puranjay 7y ago
Their losses increased from some ~1300cr to ~3000+cr while their revenue grew by 8% Not sure where you can draw a path to profitability from that.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Ather Energy will have stiff competition from Bajaj's new offering. Bajaj already has decades of manufacturing experience, tons of capital, and a trusted brand name.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Flipkart has already had a successful exit. Though if I'm honest, I don't see a path to profitability for PayTM and Ola.
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by puranjay 7y ago
It helped that Rogan is a self confessed Quake nut. If someone didn't have exposure to those early id software games, they might not have been as much at home with Carmack.
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by puranjay 7y ago
At a personal level, I'm not a fan of this generalization that being an IT admin (or any other boring job) is inherently inferior than, I don't know, skateboarding or playing the guitar for a living. Different people like differen
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by puranjay 7y ago
The breadth is what I really come for. Like he interviewed John Carmack and Chuck Palahniuk, two people I've admired immensely but who come from two very different fields. Sure, he only covers surface level stuff, but if you knew nothi
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by puranjay 7y ago
I thought his recent interview with John Carmack was great. Though a lot of that has to do with Carmack himself being a great communicator.
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by puranjay 7y ago
One of my favorite interviewers is Sean Evans from Hot Ones on Youtube. Fantastic questions every time. Most guests also remark how good his questions are.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm a frequent listener and the only subject I assume Rogan is an authority on is martial arts and nutrition. I ignore much of what else he says, but I respect his knowledge on those two topics. Other listeners I've spoken to feel
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by puranjay 7y ago
Nothing totally proven but you might find this interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
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by puranjay 7y ago
You're a smart man. I wish I had done that.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I worked with a client recently who ran a successful site comparing products in a very popular and lucrative industry. His affiliate income was in the high six figures annually. He runs the entire business by himself Personally, it might no
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by puranjay 7y ago
Is there any site where I can learn about quantum computing without feeling like a dumbass?
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by puranjay 7y ago
Does anyone here any experience running an Estonian company from India? Any links to good tax lawyers?
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by puranjay 7y ago
America's banking system is the best example. My clients still pay me via ACH that takes 2-3 days to clear. Meanwhile in my local market, I can send/receive money instantly for either zero or a fee capped at less than $0.10/t
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by puranjay 7y ago
Tim Cook is 10 steps behind if you look at the rest of the board members list. Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Nadella, all have already found a spot on the board.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't say about Saudi Arabia, but in general across the developing world, the people who inherited power from the colonial masters were either connected to or influenced by said colonists. There was no real dismantling of the old pow
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by puranjay 7y ago
How does the trackpad perform compared to Macbooks? That's one area where I haven't found a Macbook equivalent
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by puranjay 7y ago
I love how my work is now about 99% OS agnostic. I've been working from home a lot lately. There are times when I want to do some deep research and I don't want to do it on the desktop. So I just get my MBA, plop on the recliner a
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by puranjay 7y ago
The people that matter - the investors - valued WeWork like a high margin software company. Then WeWork itself tried to value itself like a high margin software company in its S-1. Because WeWork's margins and revenue are similar to an
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by puranjay 7y ago
I agree. The one problem is that static sites are uniformly faster than even the best configured WordPress installation. I've found that the extra fast loading time can make a difference in conversions.
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by puranjay 7y ago
It's an incredible mix of hubris (on the startup's part) and delusion (on the investors part) to call some of these "tech companies". Like WeWork. It's a real estate company that should be valued like a real estate
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by puranjay 7y ago
That 3hr highlight reel they dropped last week was such a flex. I'd get it just to get all their old animation movies. Disney's library is stronger than anyone else's and they know it
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm very sure the drones would have cameras to catch the culprits. You wouldn't want to destroy property owned by a $800B corporation.
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by puranjay 7y ago
My man saying that someone like Picasso did not have skill or talent is just the height of absurdity. All of these guys went to some of the most prestigious art schools around. They had all the raw skills to paint like any of the classicist

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