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YouTube Restricts, Demonetizes Videos with Libertarian, Conservative Content(youtube.com)
3 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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The Value Added Tax – Building Trade Walls(nytimes.com)
1 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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Pew Research – “Muslims and Islam: Key Findings in the US and Around the World”(pewresearch.org)
1 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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The Evolution of Competition(salientpartners.com)
3 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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Life on the Farm Draws Some French Tired of Urban Rat Race(nytimes.com)
1 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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by rm2889 10y ago
After I discovered Pandora back in 2010, I haven't looked back. While it lacks ability to play a song on demand, where it truly outshines are its recommendations. Maybe its the nature of their recommendation algorithm - they call it th
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Steve Jobs’s worst decision was promoting Tim Cook(qz.com)
16 points by rm2889 10y ago|3 comments
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Wall Street Clearinghouse to Adopt Bitcoin Technology(nytimes.com)
2 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans(nytimes.com)
1 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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by rm2889 10y ago
> The cutoff was not given by me Yet you used that data point to call the move a categorical success. > But you are again trying to tie an economic move like demonetization with something inherently negative No, I'm not trying to
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by rm2889 10y ago
> "Why is it "morbid"? Did you call out the OP for associating the death of a 100 people due to an economic move like demonetization morbid?" I call it morbid because "not enough people died hence its a success&q
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by rm2889 10y ago
Your metric for success seems to be "not enough people died relative to previous such moves, hence its a success", which is rather morbid. Also your point about "major move that directly affected the entire country but did no
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Ray Dalio – Reflections on the Trump Presidency, One Month After the Election(linkedin.com)
4 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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The Intellectual yet Idiot – Nassim Taleb(medium.com)
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The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus(nytimes.com)
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by rm2889 10y ago
My sentiment's the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012700
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by rm2889 10y ago
Unless the government cleans up its act, people will keep trying to store their wealth in other mediums and will avoid paying taxes. I question the premise that all untaxed money is evil based on the past performance of any Central/Sta
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by rm2889 10y ago
This was flagged within 1 min of posting. Good job at trying to promote intellectual diversity Hacker News. https://twitter.com/rm2889/status/796966398366912512
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Donald Trump – The Elites vs. The Basket of Deplorables(geopoliticalfutures.com)
2 points by rm2889 10y ago|0 comments
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by rm2889 10y ago
Brilliant. We need to introduce more Indians to the ideas of individual liberty and conservatism as it exists in the United States. By that I mean personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty. The government
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by rm2889 10y ago
Hmm as much as I'd like to agree with you, don't think its necessarily spurious on the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India From another perspective, the Rs 1000 note was demonetized in 19
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by rm2889 10y ago
While this sounds great on face value, I doubt this'll solve the root of the problem. Why did we have so much black money in India? Coz people didn't want to pay taxes. Why didn't people want to pay taxes? Because they got no
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by rm2889 10y ago
All those trees. Sniff.
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by rm2889 10y ago
Who was it? Maybe we can shame them to action via twitter, etc. Or at least make them aware that this isn't cool
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Nassim Taleb's criticism of GMOs [pdf](fooledbyrandomness.com)
4 points by rm2889 10y ago|2 comments
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by rm2889 10y ago
Nassim Taleb has been very vocal against GMOs. Here's a summary of his beliefs. http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/FictionAndFacts3.pdf
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by rm2889 10y ago
Carbon footprint and particulate matter are two different issues. The US has an enormous carbon footprint, but the air quality in the US is much better than India's. This also includes densely populated places like Manhattan. Increase
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by rm2889 10y ago
Zerohedge merely copy-pasted the original article from gallup http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/195680/invisible-amer...
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by rm2889 10y ago
Here's some counter narrative to this article based on data out of gallup http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-20/we-havent-seen-grea...
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by rm2889 10y ago
I live in India and despite some improvements, the level of antibiotic abuse here is shocking. They're available over the counter and people self-medicate with antibiotics all the time. The attitude is, "if my sore throat doesn&#x

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