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by vijayr 11y ago
We are almost at 2016. Shouldn't something as important as this be maintained under version control, available for free for everyone in easy formats, updated as frequently as needed, with a proper API etc?
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death in general, if you are not prepared Sadly, most people aren't prepared for life either. There are so many people without proper health insurance, no backup plans for anything (career, immigration, children etc). So much of peop
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web dev, NJ/NY
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Ask HN: How do you find remote jobs?
27 points by vijayr 11y ago|11 comments
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I am conflicted - on one hand it is a great hack, no doubt. But they also screwed over the producers, who trusted them and paid them for their work.
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Your site is quite interesting. I don't understand one thing though - don't you need permission to post photos of someone's office?
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In that case, all the American companies have to do is make the robots in China but have the factories that use those robots in the U.S :p
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They went to robots in China. One interesting thing to watch in the next few decades would be this - if more and more robots are going to be used, then countries like China will no longer have the advantage of cheap labor. A robot in the
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by vijayr 11y ago
It is not just the tax code - one can be honest in everything, but the most likely result would be the person is left behind and becomes bitter and unhappy. Because others will break, it at least bend the rules if they can get away with it.
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haha, one of my colleagues used to do it. somehow his phone number ended up on these lists and he used to get 2-3 calls a month, at work. Everytime he got a call he would ask us to be quiet (we have an open office) and then the fun would st
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by vijayr 11y ago
millions in legal fees :( Can they sue Vandersloot for legal fees? If this was a small magazine or newspaper, they wouldn't have had the resources to fight back and would've lost
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by vijayr 11y ago
It can be rolled into nice wads and used as props in ganster movie Apparently Escobar kept most of his money in cash. He had warehouses of cash (!!!!) and was spending a few thousand dollars on rubber bands a week to wrap the cash. Plus
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Ask HN: Anyone working on non-profit startups?
2 points by vijayr 11y ago|0 comments
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even if food is not. Good food is not cheap. In NYC, we pay 8$ for a decent sized watermelon - almost all fruits are expensive, and most vegetables too. Only shitty food like chips, soda, candy, fast food etc are cheap.
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If you give just enough, you'll keep the poor subdued. One could say the same about salaried employees - give them enough to stay. Too little - they revolt or leave, too much - they save the money and still leave after they've s
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Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
3 points by vijayr 11y ago|0 comments
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by vijayr 11y ago
sure that happens - on Amazon's scale, does it matter? As a consumer, I like a few honest reviews vs thousands of reviews that contain useless/dumb/rant type reviews. I'd have to weed through those reviews to find honest
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by vijayr 11y ago
I really wish Amazon reviews are restricted to those who actually purchased the product - Amazon does add verified purchase tag, but why allow me to review an item if I haven't purchased it? I can understand if they were a small e-comm
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by vijayr 11y ago
It will be very difficult to do this in the U.S mainly because of cultural reasons. I've a colleague who works 10-12 hour days routinely, for absolutely no reason. He could achieve his goals by simply planning better and working less
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by vijayr 11y ago
I've been told my quietness makes people uncomfortable I've been accused of being rude just for politely asking to reduce the volume (imagine playing music at full volume in a car, windows closed) - most people don't have a
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by vijayr 11y ago
Know of any interesting examples/fun projects where this data is used?
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At what point do we go from "nothing personal, just business" to pure unadulterated evil? Isn't there anything that can be done about this? It is not the first time this is happening and will not be the last unless something
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by vijayr 11y ago
so unionize Easier said than done. Most people don't realize they are getting screwed out of their wages. They just think they need to work harder/smarter to get ahead. They also think unions are socialist/communist etc. Th
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by vijayr 11y ago
There is this book called "Elephant Whisperer" - amazing story about a guy who is given a family of wild elephants and it takes him more than 2 years to gain their trust, one small step at a time. He used to travel and every time
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by vijayr 11y ago
Just curious - why can't the organizers of these startup weekends have some kind of legal agreement to protect all parties, especially developers as they seem to be the ones who get screwed most of the time?
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At some point they will do it - when they "grow up" and they can afford to crack down. Tumblr cracked down on porn once they became big. Yelp didn't care about fake reviews, but now they do as they've become big. And so
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by vijayr 11y ago
Yes, writing fake reviews is illegal. False advertising is a misdemeanor crime Does this mean those Amazon affiliate sites are illegal too? A lot of these sites review products as if they have used the them, but there is no way they could
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Ask HN: Best resource to learn react and react native?
3 points by vijayr 11y ago|0 comments
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This is a good idea. Someone should start a kickstarter like site, exclusively for dealing with shit like this. If it is run correctly, it might even take some load off of ACLU, EFF etc
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If it's enough to entertain a person, why would a pig not be entertained? The difference is that the human has the option of choosing to play the game or walk away. The only option available for pigs are roam around the small cage

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