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4y ago
there are many medium size banks that have a mainframe or two at the heart of their system.
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The question is about precision of my explanation, unlike you I have not figured out life, so bit of self-doubt.
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No country especially the ones with decelerating economies should compare themselves with USA. The rules apply to US differently. I m not going to list them, Brits should realize this is not 1921.
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I do not know if I can explain it, but the point is the article is mocking an imaginary version of capitalism at the same time the publication is flashing me a Sale pop-up which is real capitalism. The America media pretends at the intellec
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Even before I could chuckle at this tardy piece of comedy, the Champagne Socialist publication New Yoker starting annoyingly soliciting about their "Cyber week Sale" with a big enough pop-up that a libertarian would consider '
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India is neither a 'Nation of creed' like US or a National-Security state like Russia or Pakistan. It is a nation of insurgencies though, so look elsewhere if Privacy to holy to you, cause it ain't going to be India's fo
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Look at the website - https://cop27.eg/#/ - look at the Sponsors and supporters with an exception of Siemens energy not a single energy company of heft. I would have taken COP27 seriously if they at least had Glencore
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According to N.N.Taleb, Elon over-paid for twitter. $44 billion for a company that is according to Taleb ~15Billion. Now that cheap money era is over, Companies esp. in tech have to spend based on their cash-flow and profit instead of valua
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I do not know, Apple must be having monthly material science break throughs, esp. when your current manufacturing base in China which is notoriously spews more CO2 than the entire developed west and your future manufacturing base is India w
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Ah! the whole theory that Reliance is a BJP's poodle. Go back and look 1986 Cricket World Cup and what is it named.. and .. you got it right, Reliance Cup. The Ambanis are no one's poodles all Indian Politicians are their poodles.
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Do not forget most of the labor for those Stadiums is bonded-labor/slave labor from Indian sub-continent.
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Everyone plays a long game until the cost of debt and debt servicing comes home. There are just too many Zombie Unicorns, it is matter of time. If your company is not profitable consider yourself jobless 6 months from now.
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There are no natural advantages for Pakistani firm over other when it comes to global expansion. On top of it, this is a start-up with almost all operations in Pakistan. I am not VC either, but even I know that you have to size the market b
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For an astute investor it matters even if global expansion is on cards in the future.
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Deep in the article the Investors names are revealed. You can find who they are. Investing $85 million and valuing a company $275 million in an economy of $275 billion. I cannot comprehend what the VCs were thinking, but if some who is seas
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Much of it coming from US does not mean more than 50% of it coming from US, it means a lot of wood chips are going to EU from US.. that is it. The qualitative aspect is open to interpretation. My second point, If imports from US are to be s
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4y ago
If you want to go into the rabbit hole, here you go. https://www.youtube.com/c/Cyborg4Life
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Nah Bro.. RRR beats all the 3rd rate movies you have mentioned for global audiences.. this coming from a guy who loved Pushpa more than RRR.
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Indian Cinema and esp. Telugu Cinema has its own style of story telling, remember this is make believe. I find it refreshing as a Telugu speaking American that they are staying true to their traditions. The Bombay production houses have gon
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Because you would have signs of glacial melt ahead of time. You would know in may if not June. Not in end of august.
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With all due respect why are Glaciers melting in August.. or July or June. April and May are hot as hell in Indian Subcontinent. edit: glaciers melt in summer, I am surprised why they are melting in rainy season. No matter how you vote, jus
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It did start good and the presentation format was impressive. The problem ended up being the author lacks self-awareness of her own biases and getting tribal in her own way in the later half. A fine opportunity missed on a topic of importan
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Hey Zack, I was about to plug your channel. Good work bro!
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I heard the Punjab has a great irrigation program and that is the reason why they do not suffer floods like Sindh, outside of the usual regionalism are there any constraints in developing similar irrigation and flood control apparatus in Si
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Looked at SNAP stock market analysis.. Net Income: -487.96M Public companies that cannot turn profitability will be under microscope during the 'current/coming' recession. Yanking 20% staff is not going to turn SNAP profita
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Anglicized v. Localized Bombay = Mumbai Madras = Chennai Calcutta = Kolkata Bangalore = Bengaluru Localized is Lindy.. but damn those Anglicized names for some reason sound better.
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"Simplify to succeed, complicate to profit". That brings the choice down to C++ / Rust. Rust seems to have the wave, ride the wave. I know people will say, this is blasphemy, may be it is, but financial incentive is important
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Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
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I do not know -- but when I talk about High Quality Quartz, I am talking about the raw material that is needed to manufacture Silicon Wafers. https://www.waferworld.com/post/9-things-you-might-not-have-...
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May be you are right, but can you add some color and context to your commentary. Like a good article link etc. I am more than happy to chance my mind, if provided evidence.
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