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by saimiam 9y ago
(Not an economist. Current h1b visa holder about to leave the US to grow my company in India.) A country whose indigenous population growth is stagnating, whose indigenous population does currently not pick up all available jobs, whose econ
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Ask HN: EUPL question
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by saimiam 9y ago
> re-read Love this idea! I'm going to try that too. Very soon, I'll be quitting my day job and should have a bunch free time which is currently taken up with busywork. Time to re-read and get more out of my books.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This is one of those regrets where you aren't losing anything either way - one outcome was that you now have a surefire way of falling asleep. If it had worked, you'd have a surefire way of massaging your brain with good content.
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by saimiam 9y ago
1-2 a week when the mood strikes. Last year, the goal was to read 52 books - fell well short at a shade under 40 but it brought back my reading mojo. I'm back for round two in 2017. https://ramachandr.in/2017/01&#x
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by saimiam 9y ago
> multiply it by 49 Increase by 49 or multiply by 50, no?
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by saimiam 9y ago
Why are jumping from imagining a specific use case (1:N file share) failing (with little evidence that the product doesn't/can never recover from failures seamlessly) to calling into question the entire product? Give the product a
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by saimiam 9y ago
By this logic, a renter has no right against unlawful searches on their own place of residence. The police just needs to ask the landlord for permission to search a rented property. I'm just asking, not challenging what you're say
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by saimiam 9y ago
I want to understand this a bit better from an operational perspective.. Say my DigitalOcean VPS hosted in Germany provides a service X which can be subverted for illegal purposes. Will the police have to me to ask for data or can they go t
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by saimiam 9y ago
If OP is using a vpn to route traffic, they should call it out. Our adblocker uses a much less intrusive idea than VPN to block unauthorized IPs from hitting 53.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I want to know this too. FD - I recently launched an adblock as a service (listed in my profile.) Edit1 - maybe it's security through anonymity. Don't tell anyone your DNS server address?
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by saimiam 9y ago
Can you share some more details? I'd like to learn more. Any tools for such spycraft for everyday users?
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by saimiam 9y ago
Like the story of the 40 thieves, maybe the answer is to hide in plain sight. Throw so much data at them that they can't meaningfully process all of it. Fuck! This subthread is making me angry/ier.
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by saimiam 9y ago
The revolution could be to get off the internet or to use it only for cat videos, go back to using cash, reconnect with local friends only etc etc
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by saimiam 9y ago
I fucking hate everything about the way the world is trending. We need a proper grassroots revolution which throws these idiot ministers in prison for crimes against humanity.
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by saimiam 9y ago
> Why only them? I did initially question their path to success but I later made it clear that I saw them becoming dividend paying, slow moving utility type companies. I said that same thing in multiple ways in my reply to you. The compe
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by saimiam 9y ago
> thousands and thousands of false positives. Or, for Iraqis from 2003-2007, one truly egregious one.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Maybe I need more coffee but I don't quite understand your comment. Can you elaborate?
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by saimiam 9y ago
> system level adblocking I invite you to try my network level Adblock @ https://Datajoy.us . Block ads for all devices on your wifi with one DNS change. We launched early July and the response so far has been encouraging th
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by saimiam 9y ago
Apart from your point about Netflix selling access to content rather than content itself (which I'll get to), I feel you are making exactly the same point as I am without your realizing it. Netflix is trafficking in a commodity over wh
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by saimiam 9y ago
This is just crazy talk @ The Chinese treat their people like animals. Millions lifted out of poverty. Nationalistic fervor. Chinese tourists traveling abroad (shows affluence.) I'm no China apologist but we could do with less grands
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by saimiam 9y ago
A product like Netflix cannot actually monopolise its marketplace because at the end of the day, they are selling a very well understood, easily replicated goods - namely content. Unless we went back to the big studio era when talent was lo
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by saimiam 9y ago
I see a lot of very cogent arguments defending Apple as only following the law when it comes to VPN laws of China. I'm not old enough to know this first hand but I believe the anti-apartheid movement against South Africa was started by
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by saimiam 9y ago
How are they not ad companies? Together, FB and GOOGL receive a massive proportion of online ad spend.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Just yesterday, someone on HN was moaning that they wished they could just hire someone to do their marketing for them!
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by saimiam 9y ago
In this day and age, marketing is not limited to cold calling or posting on Facebook to one's inner circle of friends. You need to wear your engineer hat to do very tightly focused marketing. Say you are making a widget for wordpress w
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by saimiam 9y ago
There are businesses which will sell/lease you a new car just to get you into the car-share business. If such companies exist, I'm willing to bet people are buying new cars to start driving for Uber.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I only experienced this resistance to splitting bills in New York. Where I live now, largish city in the South, they'll gladly split the bill any which way you want. Same with Midwest cities - no issues splitting.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I really want to decipher this statement but I just can't wrap my head around it - > I know 2+2 = 4 but how do you know that how do I learn to know that! Did you miss some punctuation?
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by saimiam 9y ago
Hah, playing the player.

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