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by thisisit 8y ago
I got curious about the role of Whatsapp in this whole incident and googled the actual incident: https://in.news.yahoo.com/google-engineer-beaten-death-over-... From this story it looks like Whatsapp was only used as a comm
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by thisisit 8y ago
Companies come up with all sorts of reasons to fire people. Especially after they go through years of excess. A friend who works at ANZ tells me that they have come up with another way of culling jobs. They have embraced Agile wholeheartedl
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by thisisit 8y ago
> ways that will help us further enhance how we serve customers Further enhance? Why?
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by thisisit 8y ago
Was this written by a bot or something? Because this is simply a mix of multiple articles instead of sticking to Lightspeed's investment. The quoted a16zcrypto.com is not even real. And it's even more baffling - How did this even
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Third, people do shoot the bearer of bad news. As someone who has been a bearer of bad news, this is a sound advice. Most of the time you are told - "At least give it a try". And even if you tell them - "I did try but st
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Industrial Robot Sales Hit Record in China(sputniknews.com)
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HBO's new chief wants increased customer data collection(nytimes.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Wasn't this discussed yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17490990
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by thisisit 8y ago
Interestingly I can't find the 'impractical' quote. Just found this one: > His equipment is technologically complex and advanced, but we cannot bring it into the cave for this mission
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by thisisit 8y ago
Yes, thank you. Tried to find the relevant article using algolia but couldn't remember the exact thread.
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by thisisit 8y ago
I hold an even more unpopular opinion - socialism doesn't help the poor which it actually tries to. Take a look at how China, Russia and even India's elite have amassed wealth. Purely through a socialistic system which is supposed
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by thisisit 8y ago
Over time I have started to dislike long read articles. Most of the time articles all over the place and inundated with useless fillers.Stuff about length of hair or type of earphones are just fluff. And the article confuses the message as
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SEC Knifes Its Whistleblower Program(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Lets agree that if the mining price goes up, it will be always cheaper than public cloud I am confused. Let's say your price is $x while public cloud is $x+y. When cryptocurrency price rise the incentive is to increase your pric
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by thisisit 8y ago
> we figured out that there's a way to run Neural Network inference and crypto-mining simultaneously without hurting mining hash rate I understand that you figured out the technical side of things but curious about the human nature
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For China, Tech Giant Tencent Is Both a National Champion and a Threat(wsj.com)
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Zuckerberg and Bezos Don’t Give Away Enough Money(slate.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
It might also have to do something with demand and income levels. As both of them rise people who could afford buying unadulterated milk meant the vendor had bigger demands to meet. Now he could either raise the price, something which might
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by thisisit 8y ago
The Total Addressable Market is huge in any developing country. The only problem was that the previously internet penetration was very low and not many people had computers to get online. Cheaper and more mature smartphones has changed all
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The tiny union beating the gig economy giants(theguardian.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
IMO, perceiving and have hard data are two different things. If it was proven by data then they might have to give way to all kinds of lawsuits. Without data they can steadfastly claim to be neutral even if they are perceived otherwise.
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Did This Jeweler to the Stars Commit the Biggest Bank Fraud in India’s History?(bloomberg.com)
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Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as Bitcoin feels pressure(cnbc.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
Given VIN data is public, I think it's more about boons of recognizing public data scraping and presentation. I am sure there companies out there collecting and building profiles of even private companies based solely on publicly avail
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by thisisit 8y ago
When is Tesla's quarterly call? Anyone knows their dial code. Because this is going to get interesting and I really want to listen to the live call.
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by thisisit 8y ago
Wasn't it Tesla which set itself to fail? They set a self-promoting deadline of 5000 per week back in Q3 2017 and missing it twice. And for that you don't need a scraper, just read past quarterly reports from Tesla. One can certai
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by thisisit 8y ago
There are many reasons why they are not converted. For one, the business with Tether started when Bitfinex was hacked. Secondly, AFAIK many exchanges including Bitfinex had trouble letting people withdraw USD. I am not entirely sure if that
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by thisisit 8y ago
This is interesting. Lot of people complain when Tesla bad news are reported. The refrain being - this is clickbait and will media make a news out of this if it was another company or ICE car. But in this thread I see no complains about why
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The Consultants Are Eating Madison Avenue’s Lunch(bloomberg.com)
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by thisisit 8y ago
> Is severely damaging another online vendor really a failure for Amazon? Yes because while Etsy stock dropped by 60% to less than $10 it has recovered back 42 dollars about 3 years later.

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