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by puranjay 7y ago
Appreciate the post and kudos on the product - looks great. Just to counter your argument though - getting into the NBA is the only way to be a successful pro basketball player. Getting into Navy Seals is the only way to be an elite spe
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by puranjay 7y ago
Countries that don't have reliable currencies are countries like South Sudan and Somalia. Do you really expect illiterate people (3 in 4 women in Somalia are illiterate, 1 in 2 men) to use Blockstream? You can tell that Bitcoin, and it
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by puranjay 7y ago
> We have countries that have no reliable form of currency at all, again bitcoin solves that problem Countries that don't have reliable forms of currency also don't have reliable power or internet access.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I don't even know what problem Bitcoin is solving anymore. I haven't seen a single website accepting Bitcoin as a payment in the last whole year.
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You're conflating craftsmanship with art. There are literally factories in China where painters paint replicas of classic art works at scale. They paint hundreds, even thousands of such pieces every year. They're undoubtedly very
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by puranjay 7y ago
The irony is that the 1000 year old 10th century art we do care about today looks like it was drawn by a child.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Imagine you're a wealthy man in late 19th century Europe. You own a nice neo gothic home in the fancy part of the city. Like other wealthy men, you too dabble in collecting some art. You own a few romantic pieces with exceptional craft
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by puranjay 7y ago
HN is also fiercely pro privacy. I'd say that in such cases, privacy wins out over the coolness of the technology. Personally, I find this a little too creepy for too little convenience. What can waving to the phone solve what I haven&
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by puranjay 7y ago
> Soli is aware of your presence. I can't wait until I get my official Google-Amazon Big Brother living room portrait with built-in Soli and Alexa
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by puranjay 7y ago
I never really understood modern art until I a) saw it in person, and b) saw it in the context of its time. I was at the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg. I'd done museum tour after museum tour in both Moscow and Petersburg. Nearly al
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by puranjay 7y ago
I understand the cynicism, but at this point, Transferwise isn't a scrappy startup and I can't see any reason why they'd want to pull off such a PR stunt. They're valued at $3.5B. $3.5B companies don't "fake lo
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by puranjay 7y ago
This is such a strange argument. We didn't have social media 20 years back. We still weren't reading 200 books every year then.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire s
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by puranjay 7y ago
I don't know how we came to this point. Laptops in 2019 certainly suck across the board. A good keyboard is almost impossible to find and reliability isn't a thing we even consider. In contrast, I don't think there has ever b
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by puranjay 7y ago
I pretty owe much my career to a couple of forums. Learned so much. Probably wasted a lot of time too.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Extraordinary that we're coming full circle with the internet. Slack is the new IRC and "communities" are the new forums. Makes me think how much collective human knowledge we're losing as all the old forums go extinct (
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by puranjay 7y ago
Shouldn't these Windows-like update issues NOT be happening in Apple since it's a closed system? Apple knows exactly what hardware their shiny new OS will run on. The premium you pay for Apple used to be precisely to safeguard aga
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by puranjay 7y ago
I don't really think Apple is serious about power users anymore. The company seems to have embraced the Starbucks crowd fully, leaving serious users dealing with crappy keyboards and increasingly poor operating systems. Whatever hardwa
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by puranjay 7y ago
Badly managed, yes, but how is WeWork a fraud? They have a product that's well liked and used by thousands of people. They have real revenues and increasingly, assets they own. The founder did a lot of shady stuff, yes, but maligning a
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by puranjay 7y ago
I think MacOS fails very badly at basic window and file management. Finder is still broken. Not being able to preview an open application by hovering on its icon (as in Windows) is a big productivity bottleneck. Minimizing/maximizing i
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by puranjay 7y ago
Did your Windows laptop have a SSD or HDD? I'd been using a laptop with an HDD (but otherwise great specs) and the experience was trash. Then I upgraded to an SSD and its an entirely new OS.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I'm an amateur musician. Somehow all my best musical ideas pop into my brain right when I'm about to fall asleep. Lots of other musicians I've spoken to say the same thing. Why is that?
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by puranjay 7y ago
I found his blog on another HN thread a few months blog and binged through it for weeks. I highly, highly recommend going through all the posts. I had no idea some of these countries and landscapes even existed.
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by puranjay 7y ago
Would you say that Trump's trade war has also forced Xi's hand? China could afford to ignore these issues when its economy was still growing. But a shrinking economy has forced China to consolidate power and clamp down any dissent
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by puranjay 7y ago
I can't understand why anyone even expects better PR management from Blizzard after that "you all have mobile phones, right?" fiasco
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by puranjay 7y ago
I wonder how much of this is because they know there is going to be a crash soon and need to consolidate power and control the narrative internally before it happens
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by puranjay 7y ago
They're also instrumental for electric cars, which, provided cleaner electricity generation, might have a massive positive impact on the environment
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by puranjay 7y ago
I've learned to ignore the dark patterns. Still use them because their free cancellation booking process takes a lot of the pain out of picking a hotel.
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by puranjay 7y ago
I don't know how much value this "entertainment" has. No one I know feels truly good about their social media usage. A good movie makes people walk out of theaters with a smile. Yet most of my friends who are heavy social med
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by puranjay 7y ago
This is not the kind of comment I expect to see on HN

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