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by sremani 8y ago
It will change the geo-political realities of world. For example, Petro-States will not wield the kind of influence they do now. Energy changes Geo-politics of the world. Even Shale revolution in US changed many things around the world incl
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by sremani 8y ago
This is good news, esp. given the context from this spectrum article why we need some technologies like these.. https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-re...
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by sremani 8y ago
For the last 20 years or so, Microsoft lost a lot of mind-share. They are good at developer tools and GitHub provides them with the venue for the community. Unless Microsoft sees amazing value on the Community platform of GitHub they would
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by sremani 8y ago
One thing I found about most laptops out there is Linux power management is not really great at least last time I tried. There is a perceivable difference in Windows power management and Linux unless the laptop is explicitly supported.
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by sremani 8y ago
People buy Apple products blindly too and so do they buy Pampers (diapers). Indian markets are notnascent. How many people who do diddly squat research but swear by the soaps in Whole foods? Are these people any different? The whole world i
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by sremani 8y ago
May be they have lucked out or may that is their ethos, that lets not use some of these optimizations until they have survived test of time. There is nothing wrong to be proud about esp. given how things have turned out.
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by sremani 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. My kid is not yet at school age, but even though I live in suburbia which is good ISD, people are sending their children to Charters. At some level its a status thing, but for me I am for charters for one reason, because
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by sremani 9y ago
I would be really interested what you did with your kids'(if you have any) education. Tell us what you practiced.
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by sremani 9y ago
We do know some one in US put a lot of effort, esp. was behind sending three aircraft carriers into the region. Has done enough posturing but had incredibly held back so the situation does not escalate and talked with Chinese to impose and&
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by sremani 9y ago
I am not a branding expert, and that's a good thing, because it took a full 5 minutes to really figure out what the heck they are doing here. They wanted something "Simple & Speed" to be associated with Go which are certa
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by sremani 9y ago
Getting stuck in a market that is 23% of world GDP is not so bad.
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by sremani 9y ago
Retail in general is thin-margin. That is why you see Amazon try out all sorts of things from cloud to videos, because their core is so thin margin, that any non-core looks more like an opportunity rather than spreading out resources, say i
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by sremani 9y ago
I can envision a cryptopia when we have city-states with commerce as the engine of interaction and integration. I do not see cryptopia when Nation-States and their huge navies/armies lumbering around the globe.
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by sremani 9y ago
Well, hind-sight is 20-20 but let me post-rationalize. India's biggest problem is unofficial economy and low tax base, and is trying to expand tax base and trying to get more and more people into formal economy. Cryptocurrencies are no
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by sremani 9y ago
This is a tough one, Google is walking into a semantic quagmire - how do you differentiate "business of war" from "protecting our troops/homeland". You are going to piss of one half of the country at least by even e
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by sremani 9y ago
We as engineers or tech oriented are almost too functionally focused and miss the emotional aspects. There is emotional value in all the mentioned goods, mostly in niche groups.
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by sremani 9y ago
Taleb's incerto. [Anti-Fragile, Fooled by randomness, Black Swan, Skin in the game] Scott Adams' [How to fail at Almost every thing and still win big] Meditations by marcus arelius
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by sremani 9y ago
Complicit of what? These smug generalizations, if you did not vote for X, you are racist! If you are not for A, you are for Genocide! are not going to win you over people that are not already in your camp.
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by sremani 9y ago
One thing for Tesla, its a halo brand. One thing against Tesla, their valuation demands impeccable execution to the T. If Model 3 has some sort of massive recall, they will be hit very hard. Would I short it? Not yet!
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by sremani 9y ago
If 'Murica gets criticized for unintended "collateral" damage, may be it is deserving 'Murica gets credit for unintended kindness. aventured has a point, actually has more than point. Your cheap ideological glasses are b
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by sremani 9y ago
Geopolitically U.S. sees China as a potential challenger but that is not the main problem, an emerging China will make Japan militarize. While the world is focused on Xi's power grab, Abe is taking steps for militarizing Japan. Its too
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by sremani 9y ago
Its very close to port of New Orleans which is the only place in South the British attacked in 1812 war and its capture by Union forces in early half of civil war was pivotal for the outcome of that war. For strategic reasons its absolutely
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by sremani 9y ago
also Google CEO himself being ... well, I will not go there! But the absence of Telugu font in talking about Indian fonts is eerily disconcerting.
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by sremani 9y ago
>> predominantly affluent (and yes, white) masses We know this argument is incorrect to an extent because at least for the top-tier films their world-wide collections overshadow the US collections. US itself is not as white as it used
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The relationship between Education and Prosperity is funny one. Argentina and Egypt are good examples of societies that got educated but did not see economic returns. (source: nntaleb). A prosperous country gets more educated but an educate
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If money does not buy you happiness, then you don't know where to shop! - a wise man.
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by sremani 9y ago
I went to Ft.Worth downtown few years ago, there is this place called.. Hell's Half-acre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Half_Acre_(Fort_Worth... I would not be surprised Texas to have legal gambling and li
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by sremani 9y ago
>> Data centers are ridiculously efficient. The latest generation of data centers from the big cloud providers have PUE in 1.07 territory, which would've seemed like pie-in-the-sky ludicrousness even 10 years ago. Every CPU cycle
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by sremani 9y ago
Are you an entrepreneur? Have you built a business? When things are done to extreme sure.. the slimy salesman or the spammy robo-calls are a nuisance. Take a list of the world's 400 billionaires and ask them who has NOT Cold-Called? My
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by sremani 9y ago
The Great Recession. The current demand flatness is only temporary, esp. when we are ushering into the world of Electric Cars and 3D printers. There is a hungry beast lurking its called "The Data Center". As the Data Center count

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