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by saimiam 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. Same with airline security theater, identifying citizens using biometric markers (Aadhar card in India), pernicious internet monitoring in the UK...the list goes on. I guess the idea is to use the dragnet to catch
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by saimiam 9y ago
Looks like you've read The Divide by Matt Taibbi. Excellent book, imo.
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by saimiam 9y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Illusion-Little-Created-Wo...
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by saimiam 9y ago
I know the US is not the world but since we are discussing Iron Yard, it's worth pointing out that the private sector in the US is almost exclusively at-will employment.
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by saimiam 9y ago
> unfathomably large grid of bank safes The size of the grid makes encryption work.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This book I'm reading discusses the ill-effects of stock ownership by huge hedge funds. The authors call it grey capitalism where nameless, faceless money managers deploy huge swaths of capital to own companies but don't actually
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by saimiam 9y ago
Any details you can share? I'd love to hear how you discovered your niche and whether you have product-mkt fit.
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by saimiam 9y ago
As a whole, broadcast and cable TV is (used to be) a captive market. It was very possible for channels to synchronize or nearly synchronize their commercial breaks which meant that they could get away with charging for content AND showing a
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by saimiam 9y ago
Oh man, if you haven't seen that black mirror episode, you should stop any other binge watching and watch it. It's amazing.
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by saimiam 9y ago
The history of you.
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by saimiam 9y ago
For the lazy: --- 2008: DuckDuckGo was founded[15] by Gabriel Weinberg,[16][17] an entrepreneur whose previous venture, The Names Database, was acquired by United Online in 2006 for $10 million. This is most relevant snippet I could find a
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by saimiam 9y ago
Amen! And this is what we are trying to do with Datajoy.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Print has a natural limit - you cannot expect to print and deliver unlimited sheets interspersed with ads. Websites can show you content from a decade ago with ads thrown in if the content is relevant to you. Print ads can be skipped far mo
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by saimiam 9y ago
Like the old adage goes, they won't do this because their livelihood depends on it. A single user can be exposed to 3-4 (or more) ads per page. Each ad can earn them some money depending on the relevance of the ad to the viewer. In thi
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by saimiam 9y ago
Huge shoutout to The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu who invented the term "net neutrality." He's also an engaging correspondent if you write to him. I cannot recommend a better business book, bar none.
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by saimiam 9y ago
Sin of omission vs commission.. When a cop doesn't explicitly read you your Miranda rights because they want you to incriminate yourself by delaying access to counsel, they aren't lying per se. You are expected to know that cops c
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by saimiam 9y ago
For breakfast, I decided to stop trying different cereals and stick to oatmeal. Been a horse for about 2 years now. Same with lunch - find 5 reasonable choices in the office caf, repeat. For work clothes, I have 5 decent combos which I repe
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by saimiam 9y ago
My day to day decisions are mostly automated - what to eat for breakfast? what clothes to wear any given day of the week? when to walk my dog and for how long? When to leave work and which back roads route to take to get back home? Lunch op
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by saimiam 9y ago
This is such a good point. Personally, I'd rather not copy to win but in business, it's easily possible to copy poorly and fail hard. There's a saying in Hindi - you need brains to copy well.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This is me right now on my iPhone. Apart from an ssh app, a openvpn app, and my bank's app (which could probably be handled on the browser using KeyChain), I use the browser for everything. It's glorious.
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by saimiam 9y ago
I wish I had enough karma to downvote pieces like this. There should be some sort of heuristic that HN uses to penalize such softfocus, PR-lite type articles about a company if they get posted multiple times a week.
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by saimiam 9y ago
The calls app is probably not even in the top five apps used everyday by a large swath of the mobile population. My guess is that FB, Mail, Whatsapp, Twitter/insta/Snap, and news apps make up the top 5.
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by saimiam 9y ago
This a false equivalence. The internet was designed from ground up to be borderless and untrammeled. Free trade was an initiative to tear down barriers around trade. The US government never had to request any other government to link up to
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by saimiam 9y ago
> You need to sell the sizzle not the steak. > the more risk you can absorb the better. Wow..I needed these reminders.
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by saimiam 9y ago
You're missing something really fundamental here - You are visiting this site with a dispassionate eye of an observer. The usual demographic visiting a travel site is a lot more invested in actually finding a travel deal that works for
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by saimiam 9y ago
I feel I've been MVP-ed by your website (not that there's anything wrong with this.) Every link led to a 404 but since I clicked on every link to see if that were the case, I'm guessing my site visit didn't tell you anyt
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by saimiam 9y ago
Way to you go, OP. That's four new people who never you existed who now care about you (as ephemeral as this may be.)
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by saimiam 9y ago
I'd take the opposite approach if anyone ever asked me what my business was - every interaction is an opportunity to refine and tighten the elevator pitch. Just do it and ask forgiveness if someone moans about being OT.
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by saimiam 9y ago
> finance doesn't scale Scales well enough for grameeb bank and the micro lending industry. Scales reasonably well enough for p2p lending. Scales beautifully for kickstarter style platforms. If Wall Street and VCs wanted and their H

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