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by shreyansj 13y ago
The could start by introducing pay-to-send within their own network. If it gets traction, other carriers may follow suit.
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by shreyansj 13y ago
The subsidy is recovered over the term of the contract. What does carrier unlocking has to do with it? Even if I unlock my subsidized phone outside of official methods, I still have to fulfill my end of the contract.
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by shreyansj 13y ago
Every discussion on H-1B visas always misses the point that it is the only way for a non-US citizen student, graduating from a US university, to work in the US on a long term basis. For a more meaningful analysis, it is important to conside
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by shreyansj 13y ago
I was under the impression that the books sold in India (and some other Asian countries) are low-priced international editions of those books. This is specially true for college textbooks with foreign authors.
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by shreyansj 13y ago
Why do you feel that foreign investment into e-commerce is the solution?
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by shreyansj 13y ago
> We should not allow a computer to do things that can kill people Should we not allow computers (auto-pilot) to fly airplanes?
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by shreyansj 14y ago
You can extend the deadline by n number of days and perhaps give extra credit to those who still submit by the original deadline.
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by shreyansj 14y ago
No. EB5 category allows you to start your business but it has it's own conditions. You get a provisional EB5 visa during which you must invest $1M and employ 10 people to qualify for a permanent visa. Up until recently, VC funding was not a
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by shreyansj 14y ago
The staggering implication, as someone mentioned in another reply, is that it brings us one step closer to answering whether the existence of water led to existence of lifeforms, alive or dead.
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by shreyansj 14y ago
IMHO, the groups who to that, are doing a very noble thing. But dipping this in the silicon valley startup sauce is quite insulting to the homeless individual. What OP should be doing is working hard and contributing to these groups/organiz
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by shreyansj 14y ago
I couldn't help but chuckle a bit after reading this blog post. I am not sure if I should be cheerful about this app concept or hang my head in shame. >> Find/geo-locate the closest beggar near you How? Homeless people are not stati
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by shreyansj 14y ago
No BitBucket for Source Control. No Cloud9 for web-based IDE. No BugZilla for bug tracking. No XNA for Game development. This is a weird list.
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Your probability for Scenario 2 is very low to almost nil. Why is that. You are aiming for R-1 university but you are not confident of getting into MSR etc? And you can still switch jobs while your Green Card application is pending. I think
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Are you sure that the finance industry is tanking because of too much government regulations? I am not sure if the housing crisis (leading to a poor economy) came about as a result of over-the-top government regulations and interference as
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by shreyansj 14y ago
I think another solution could be to link the Organ Donor programs together. I think several US states have DMVs that register Organ Donation options. It could be a good starting point to get Donors matched up with Recipients. On similar li
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by shreyansj 14y ago
You are missing the key difference between Google's Youtube app and Maps app. The key differentiating factor is that iOS 6's built-in Map app maybe sufficient for, let's say, 50% of the casual map users, whereas pretty much everyone who wan
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by shreyansj 14y ago
I feel that Problem 3 is a more legal and socio-political issue than a marketplace issue. How do you control organ trafficking from poor undeveloped countries?
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Could you describe the use case? Do you walk in to the room and document the condition so that you don't get charged with fraudulent damage charges later on?
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by shreyansj 14y ago
I think you design is quite nice. I have a suggestion though. What if you simply put context sensitive buttons on the search results themselves. For example, if you search 'Mike', the contact result would display a Phone/Message icon; if yo
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Does that mean that when you implement visualization of voting data (in Part 2), there will be a small delay between the votes that have been cast and the votes that are being visualized? I have no experience with socket.io, so I am just as
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by shreyansj 14y ago
If someone had done it, that someone would be pretty damn rich right now!
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Isn't the content that is being generated coming primarily from journalists. Even if there were more amateur writer producing content, there is still no guarantee that the content is free of bias. Aggregation can only help so much that the
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Perhaps someone should file a patent for assigning values to a variable!
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by shreyansj 14y ago
What if you market it as some high end service? I mean exotic cars and luxury handbags have a pretty small market too, right?
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Learning to walk/bike is in no way comparable to learning to code. Learning to walk/bike is primarily a physical muscular action to train your body to keep it's balance etc. Once you have learned to walk or bike, you have learned it. Learni
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by shreyansj 14y ago
I made a small and simple web app to complement wikitravel.org - http://www.picitravel.com . Motivation for this site was that I wanted to use it as a complementary tool for wikitravel.org site. Wikitravel has tons of useful data but not t
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Yeah, although the Samsung tablets did got banned in EU by a German court.
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Licensing patents is not called collusion. Edit: Source http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/apple-licensed-de...
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by shreyansj 14y ago
Yeah, sometime a few images slip in that are not travel related. It mostly happens because that image is tagged with one of the travel destinations in that search query. In this case, the image was tagged as 'Beijing'. Nevertheless, I will
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Show HN: My project to complement wikitravel.org with pictures.(picitravel.com)
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