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by r0h1n 13y ago
I'm really impressed - and curious - about Priceonomics' ability to come up with such well-researched and well-written (getting both right isn't always easy) posts on such a wide plethora of topics. Especially because the aut
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The extraordinary promise of the new Greenwald-Omidyar venture(cjr.org)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Since the headline was "reinventing the web" (a pretty ambitious, even bombastic goal), it would be fair to expect the solution to be open-source and/or free. Of course had the headline been "improving the web" or
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Oh please! Paul "Google me!" Carr is nowhere near the league of a Glenn Greenwald. Which is not to say that he or NSFW may not be interesting (they may). http://valleywag.gawker.com/pandodailys-threatening-email-me
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by r0h1n 13y ago
> In less than five years, Google did what seemed impossible: Launch and succeed with three new platforms, in categories Microsoft dominated: Browser, mobile OS and PC OS. It's disingenuous to say Google has "launched and succe
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by r0h1n 13y ago
I'm a neutral party, neither American nor Russian. To me it was very clearly a very well produced and written story about life along a 12-hour train ride between two cities. I concede that my views might have been different had I been
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by r0h1n 13y ago
How is it propaganda? Are any of the facts mentioned false? Is the author implying that all of Russia is like this? As a journalist I find it very surprising when people react to specific articles (often "negative" to their own be
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by r0h1n 13y ago
In other words, the NSA is no different from private Internet companies like Facebook and LinkedIn who think its perfectly fine to furtively copy their user's email address books in order to mine them. Remember Facebook's "Sh
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Your initial comment was knee-jerk and symptomatic of the typical response that greets advanced space/rocket programs from a developing country like India - namely that it has other more pressing issues like poverty, hunger, economic d
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Soap Opera: Amazon Moves in With P&G(online.wsj.com)
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People Consume 10x More Music Than Sports, So Why Does Sports Make 6x the Cash?(evolver.fm)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Related: NYT just a few days back on "London's Great Exodus" - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/londons-gre... >> The gap between London prices and those of the
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All dried up(economist.com)
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Apps for tracking workers' productivity(economist.com)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
> the biggest problem is that there is usually a gap between what people tweet and what they really think I think that's a great feature, not a bug. Thank God there are aspects to our personalities that algorithm cannot predict base
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by r0h1n 13y ago
> Flat, marriage and family – 3 reasons why young Indians don’t turn entrepreneurs! Um, the whole point of the post is to blame those three reasons - all external, societal or environmental - for personal decisions that educated and yo
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by r0h1n 13y ago
I'm sorry but I don't agree. Cultural notions and societal pressures exist in all cultures, and India is no different. Yet in a world that is being "eaten by software", if young, educated and ambitious software developer
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Why do Indian devs feel compelled to blame their parents, families, wives, society for everything? Come on guys, this is 2013 and not 2005. There are tons of product startups in Delhi/Bangalore/Pune/Chennai. If you don't
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The Fight for Digital Sovereignty(epw.in)
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GCHQ accused of monitoring privileged emails between lawyers and clients(theguardian.com)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
In India, where penetration of tech among SMBs is abysmally low (and is also a massive opportunity), cloud based accounting software is distrusted because it is transparent, rules-based and off-premise To avoid taxes, most businesses fudg
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Biologist blogger silenced after revealing publisher's sexist response(dailydot.com)
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The Average American Man's Body(theatlantic.com)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
Since you couldn't be bothered to read the article before leaving what must apparently be a wisecrack: it was a controlled experiment using groups. > Blattman, an assistant professor of international and public affairs and political
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The African Holocaust(tehelka.com)
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The Perils of Premature Deindustrialization(project-syndicate.org)
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WikiLeaks Releases Fifth Estate Challenger: Mediastan(wikileaks.org)
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Video: Edward Snowden wins Sam Adams award(wikileaks.org)
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by r0h1n 13y ago
I love the way Internet cos, led by Facebook and now Google are progressively conditioning us to different interpretations of online privacy. First it was "Like or +1" anything you like. Don't worry, it's all private. Th
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by r0h1n 13y ago
It would be great if you could add some context for readers who don't know about NFPA, or about how the US standards system currently works. Otherwise I'm (from India) having a hard time trying to figure out why public works stand

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