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by somberi 12y ago
I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business. It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to c
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Dear Graycat, I really enjoy your posts and your writing style. Thanks much. I am currently working on some math problems as a part of a business that makes accessible to Indians who do not have access to structured banking services. Would
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by somberi 12y ago
Quoting Woody Allen: "Confidence is what you have, before you understand the problem".
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There is no past or present Govinda. Everything has reality and presence. - Siddhartha (Herman Hease)
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What the author forgets to mention, either intentionally or not, is that the drivers of Lyft are also millennials. Both drivers and passengers participate in a bottomed-out value chain, where the driver and the passenger cannot afford anyth
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@Greggman - I like your Heart/Mind example more approachable variant of Bertrand Russell's "The way forward for humanity is compassion guided by knowledge".
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Asking to learn. How is this better an an online polling software - like surveymonkey or polldaddy? From reading the press release, it seems like it is a data collection software from patients. Is there more to it?
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In India, McD is "Luxury-cool-young" food. It has to be seen to be believed, the amount of young people that flock McDs here. The food is neither cheap nor expensive. They have some unique variations - grilled Paneer (ala Haloumi
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by somberi 12y ago
This is my personal experience. So take it as a sample of one. A CTO, a decade younger to me, sought my advice on a similar situation - Founder-CEO divvied up equity in new and unfair ways without telling the CTO. The CTO wanted to raise h
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by somberi 12y ago
On a similar note, about NYC infrastructure design (not just data connectivity), I highly recommend Kate Ascher's "The Works: Anatomy of a city". http://www.amazon.com/The-Works-Anatomy-Kate-Ascher/dp&#x2
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Your shopping habits are uniquely identifiable(theverge.com)
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When I spoke with some senior Google search guys, this is what I walked away with: Be a good player. Provide good content that your users care about. Positively add to the Web. Google will find you.
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by somberi 12y ago
I live in NYC and have eaten in Shake Shack a few times. I believe they are popular because they pedal, greasy, unhealthy food. And customers buy into the "Hand-crafted / All-natural" marketing. Comparison of McD Burger and S
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by somberi 12y ago
I think 3 hours is an exaggeration. From LGA to Columbia University (The north end of Upper West side of Manhattan) by M60 bus route takes 45 minutes (as of Google maps at 6am today) and the worst I have had is 90 minutes. And the cost of b
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by somberi 12y ago
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." - Mia Hamm (For who do know who she is, she is a ex-US soccer captain)
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by somberi 12y ago
A related and useful article from The Economist (Link at the end). I have reproduced parts of it that I found interesting (Heavily edited for telegraphic brevity): "Like many of America’s new generation of users, Ms Scudo's ddicti
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I like the UI a lot. Content-wise, it lists "Enough" and "Murder by Numbers" as gems. Hmm.
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I am 40. Now it seems to me like humanity is the meta layer - their greed, desire etc manifesting through varying sub-strata like technology, wealth etc. I do work now and then with some non-profits in the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa and India
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May be its me, but her style reminds me of Asterix comics.
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I, too, will gladly pay $20 success fee, but not if you cannot find me a better deal. On a separate question, where do you get the hotel inventory and pricing data from? I only ask because you had mentioned that this was a small side projec
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by somberi 12y ago
I understand that there is another company called beyondpricing, that is doing something similar as well. Remember seeing it in HN a while ago.
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Instacart prices are consistently more expensive than having it delivered from the stores directly (including a shipping fee). Here in NYC, where grocery prices are already expensive, it aches me to pay even more. Seems like NYtimes (1) had
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by somberi 12y ago
At least here in NYC, I see the same drivers driving for both UberX and Lyft. The only difference is that they have to attach the pink mustache in the front if they are responding to a Lyft order. In their mind, and mine, once I am in the c
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by somberi 12y ago
We are meaning making machines. The longer we live, the more the "meaning-making" and hence it reflects as compressed time. However, meditation does "stretch" time back to how it felt like when I was a kid (in my memory
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The Json file shows 900 images. The author might have manually clicked and mapped the x,y for each of the images and then applied Vornoi.
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A related (somewhat humorous) article from The Economist: Quoting the article: "The first principle of skiving (or shirking, as Americans call it) is always to appear hard at work....The second principle is that information technology
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by somberi 12y ago
@blumkvist. I own and use Argus (on the Iphone), FitBit and a Garmin Forerunner and in that order. The way I "teach" Argus is to first create a sample set of data and add it as an "new" exercise. In your case, I would co
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by somberi 12y ago
Quoting an article from The Economist.com: "... Strikingly, one-third of users discard their devices after six months, according to research by Endeavour Partners, a consultancy. Some industry insiders speculate that the true number ma
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by somberi 12y ago
Quoting from Pubmed (via nih.gov): "The present study compared the effects of caffeine on subjective arousal among introverts and extraverts.... caffeine improved the task performance of extraverts but overaroused introverts and thus i
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by somberi 12y ago
Thank you.

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