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by sonink 10y ago
I think maybe both Elon Musk and Ray are looking at it wrong. The ideas behind neural lace/neocortex has an implicit human-centric bias. In some ways this is similar to how a hundred years ago some people thought earth to be the center
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by sonink 10y ago
Looks neat ! Like the way you are leveraging India stack. Qs for you: 1. Shouldn't a new age lending platform not use old school mechanisms like CIBIL. I would guess that a new age lending platform build its own CIBIL. 2. Doesnt the re
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by sonink 10y ago
Thats because that published science is born of a prejudiced mind. I have spent my entire life in this country and been a part of the political process in many different ways. Pick any random person from the street in India and he will tell
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by sonink 10y ago
> Indian politicians being more likely to have criminal allegations against them is an easily verifiable claim. Unlike America, India's court are more accessible to each and everyone. Cases are filed liberally in the political proc
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by sonink 10y ago
It is racist because the institutional failing it is pointing out is born from the publications/authors prejudice rather than any objective assessment of reality.
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by sonink 10y ago
If people voted with their feet, how do you explain Bush and Trump ?
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by sonink 10y ago
No its not rhetorical and your answer is naive at best. People in India will take money if you give it to them, but they will vote on identity only. This is because there is no reciprocity - once the voting is done the politicians have no i
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by sonink 10y ago
Article sounds racist, but this is the economist after all. Here is the thing - If you look at the past 5 Prime Ministers of India and compare them to the past 5 Presidents of the US, you will find that India more or less throws up much bet
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by sonink 10y ago
How do you buy votes if the ballot is secret ? Not saying that people don't try, and there is that odd politician who does come only from money. By and large most chief ministers victory can be explained not by money, but more by ident
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by sonink 10y ago
If a CEO doesnt perform, she is accountable. If multiple CEO's dont perform, it is the board who must be held accountable.
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by sonink 10y ago
I am one of those who is convinced that AI will destroy humanity and Elons/others efforts will not help. Its hard for me to argue against the fact that this idea isn't eating me.
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by sonink 10y ago
OyoRooms is the real Uber for hotel rooms. They take over cheap hotels, brand it and sell on their app.
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by sonink 10y ago
Somehow Airbnb mostly doesnt work for me. You find a nice/cheap place to stay, message the host and wait for 24 hours for a revert. Fairly often, the host declines for seemingly specious reasons. The bigger problem is the wait than the
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by sonink 10y ago
The real value in this post is maybe how the VC thinks about risk rather than a how a founder should. The need for structure in something as ephemeral as startup risk definitely stands out.
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by sonink 10y ago
So every life form seeks to fight for survival and guarantee its existence. When the next life form emerge, maybe in the form of AI, it will lock itself in a war for control of the planet Earth. This war will be fundamentally a pursuit of e
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by sonink 10y ago
It is just the direction the universe flows. Life is just a more complex incendiary reaction born out of a certain chemical chemical composition and planetary alignment. In that sense it is perhaps similar to a volcano that erupt. Both are
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by sonink 10y ago
The emergence of man has been disastrous for every other life form. We delude ourselves by saving some of them in national parks, but at any point of time they intrude into our living spaces we don't hesitate to wipe them off. When man
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by sonink 10y ago
I think emergence of life is a start of a ticking time bomb. If someone would look at earth from afar and observe the changes on a compressed time scale, one would see the earth 'lighting' up a bit as soon as intelligent life emer
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by sonink 10y ago
Airbnb is too hyped up. It needs to learn some lessons from its Indian counterpart Oyo rooms.
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by sonink 10y ago
He is flashy for sure, but Div is probably the only guy in the ads business, who runs a company this size and can still talk 'code' as good as the best engineers you know. They have a huge engineering setup in India and are one of
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by sonink 10y ago
I didnt have a problem with facebooks effort, till I saw the patronizing ads they put out. Zuck read India wrong or maybe it was Marc - either which ways India will be closed for anything like this for facebook now. Maybe Zuck needs to work
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by sonink 10y ago
>We do not have enough respect for our Indian consumers. Stopped reading just about here. If this is what you China taught you, my guess is you are good at making up lessons.
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by sonink 10y ago
This contraption is representative of everything that is wrong with communism.
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by sonink 10y ago
I won't mind being wrong at all, and I have been wrong before. But this is what I feel about the whole thing right now. There are real issues with driverless cars and google has scaled back for this very reason. Elon is very smart, but
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by sonink 10y ago
If I am on a self-driving car and it meets with an accident, there might be a case to be made against Tesla if I consider myself a very safe driver. Even though on an average self-driving might cause less casualties but that figure might no
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by sonink 10y ago
Everything that you mentioned isn't hard for me at all. The hellish gridlock - I rarely venture out on the main arteries during peak time. The playing chicken - I do it almost instinctively and dont even think about it. The anarchy tha
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by sonink 10y ago
Driving in India is only insane to westerners. I have been driving in India for a decade and I dont find it hard at all. Driving in the US though is one of the most stressfull things for me. Part of the stress in US is because of the differ
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by sonink 13y ago
- Just because some people clicked on features they want, it doesnt mean they will pay for it once you launch. - Just because some people are using your free features, it doesnt mean they will pay for it once it is paid. - Just because you
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by sonink 17y ago
I wanted to reply to this post but then I read yours and you nailed it more beautifully then I ever could. Specifically: "Appreciate things as they come, be happy, and enjoy your life." "Go out with your gf. If you don't have one, put down

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