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by thetruthseeker1 10y ago
The author agrees with Gladwell that to become pretty "good" at anything you will need to work hard at it(10K hrs). But the theme of the book is 'outliers', and Gladwell over simplifies saying that all it takes to be an
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by thetruthseeker1 10y ago
I am not cynical about humans living longer etc as this article seems to claim. However I am cynical about the approach of calling everything a moonshot. For Moonshot, there were clearly measure-able goals before you were able to land on mo
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I do think ambitious & driven Indians can do very well in a global market place. I think the stiff competition in resources have made the cream of India very competitive at a global level and we see things like Indian at Microsoft CEO p
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
In general I understand the principle of the argument, that the government is not as driven as private sector because there is strong incentive structures in private companies. But with some good management decent incentive structures in go
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
This article talks about how companies over inflate the value of the work tech workers are providing almost to the extent of feeling like being in a cult - which was something I was thinking all along but didn't want to say out of fear
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I am an immigrant in America. I have had problems with my bosses(American) when I challenged some of their decisions at work. When I challenged their decision in every quantifiable metric, they could not defend it in any way and relented, b
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
No matter how you feel about the whole legal immigration thing, If it is true that immigrants who form significantly less than 51% of the working population found 51% of the startups there is an interesting insight statistically speaking (T
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Even though the contents of iPhone is encrypted, the government agencies have been able to get that out of iCloud with the help of Apple in the past. So it is not entirely true that the whole encrypted content is off limits in all cases. Ma
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Or in the 1990s in the age of DeepBlue (IBM super computer), do young chess prodigies of countries that formed the former USSR have a future?
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Bin Laden wanted to fight climate change- who would guess!(reuters.com)
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I find the argument really odd. For eg: India's borders were drawn by the British in 1947. Is the British responsible for the staggering growth rate of India or any success attributed to India since. Same thing with Saudi: US or any o
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Not sure why I got down voted for this! I hope I am not down voted just because people disagree with my view point? I thought the guidelines clearly said that you only down vote when I say something that does not add value to the discussion
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Sounds extremely straight forward and sincere(many bad decisions are also taken with utmost sincerity) but I would think it would be a bad idea to provide FBI this ability. For one, it is forever weakening the security and privacy of your i
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
This reeks of condescension. I don't believe US made Saudi Arabia, but I do think Saudi Arabia benefited from US and US from Saudi. The partnership was a good one for both probably, but America through it ingeniousness and also through
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Are iphone hard disks (and the files within it) and cloud content encrypted based on this single private key that is stored in the secure enclave on iphone?
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I dont know if there can be a practical solution based on what you said. If an FBI agent could do it, he could lose that methodology due to him getting hacked or he could do that on purpose with malicious intent( theoretically speaking).
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Note in the USA, Verizon does not ding uses of their data cap if they use Verizon's video content Go90, however it does if the users use YouTube. It is interesting that in India the net neutrality has been taken to a much higher degree
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
The title of the article wasn't very worrying to me, so I read the whole article, and I was trying to figure what in this article is actually a cause for concern. I actually didnt find any "significant" cause of concern. I ha
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I dont agree with the way the title is worded: as if to indicate that it is wrong in principle to build a stadium for NFL team. I think this is a case of a bad business deal or contract. The NFL clearly had a better contract here. If the de
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
It reminds me of the GoT dialogue " Chaos is a ladder, my friend" : What I mean is the products that are 'shitty' and are thriving is because probably each one of them were created to solve a problem where absolutely not
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Yeah, I have seen this. I think the reason being, evaluation is not objective or quantitative. I think it needs to be. If people game the system, then you have to tweak redefine those criteria over iterations to get it right.
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I agree with jholman and Sreemani here. I dont see the pharma analogy, because rest of the 20% of the internet users are not forced to pay for something (Even though there may or may not be questions about anti-competitiveness, but that is
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I think your argument makes no sense. I am all for helping people etc, but just because Facebook is rich by your definition, the poor people are not entitled to its money. FB will do what is needed to promote its self interest and in that p
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I am not sure how this can be implemented effectively in a globalized world! Lets say we take John McCain's advice and corporations give america a back door to read encrypted data, what would other countries do? Would they make laws fo
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I kind of agree with Zaidf, in countries like India it might not come as quickly as you think. But I think FB and Indian Govt should be given a chance to iterate over this plan, see what works and what doesn't and then regulate again.
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
The article gives one point of view. The argument seem to imply that, this free internet is worse than no internet at all. I am not sure I buy into that yet. What I do think will be great is if the Govt of India and internet.org can quickl
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Lets assume that your plan works first year and there is almost zero gaming the system. Companies like BoA or Wells Fargo, the ones who are clients of TCS/Wipro etc, what do you think they will do to account for the change in landsca
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
Lets look at this problem. 20K visas are gamed every year. Lets assume polices in place made them unable to game the system, we might have save as much as 8OK jobs say here in the USA (assuming 3 jobs from India are also moved back to US in
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I disagree. Was Yahoo search innovative? Google search came later and just did the search in a better way, but people still called Google search innovative! Yahoo search did make money with banner advertisements, and when that was doing wel
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by thetruthseeker1 11y ago
I want to down vote this comment, looks like I can't. Sometimes success of a product also depends on being in the right place at right time. It is not binary

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