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by vmurthy 7y ago
Too much of a time sink
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Tired of fake news
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Never been on Social Media
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I hate their business models
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Not OP, but his profile says this: "Allround developer, currently setting up a large network of agricultural communities"
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> However, I love them and they rely on me. I made a choice to bring them into the world and I'm not going to neglect them. This is probably the most heartwarming thing that I'll read in a long time. Made my day :-).
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That’s one way to look at it. Unfortunately, Indian banks have been granting billions of dollars of loans to the coal sector[1] and if solar power cost drops and we can’t export excess power, we’re in for trouble . Talk of second order effe
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Work includes but not limited to : - Competitive analysis ( what’s happening in the market today) - scenario planning ( what happens if Google gets onto our turf) - Operational readiness ( how do we get to where we want to be ). Will a
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I’m afraid I don’t quite know how EAP works and am sorry to hear about your addiction. One advice If I may : no one quite cares about you for their judgements to matter. Your life is yours alone and in the interest of your life and health,
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From the story: "It gets to the point that it’s not about being high, it’s about not being sick". That's scary! Of course,I don't see the point of using Boeing in the headline. Robberies notwithstanding, the problems of
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The article mentions the kind of dependency on the Android and iOS platforms. I believe this is the right time for Iranian entrepreneurs to start porting or start installing Google free Android as a service on customers’ phones and then hav
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Sorry! I tried so bad to find it but couldn't :-( Someday ..
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One possible reason: the site owners nowadays use the likes of Foursquare/wix/whatnot which means reCaptcha etc are just a checkbox item. Custom anti-spam may be beyond their technical capabilities or interest levels.
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Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger are big fans of checklists,too.[1] Obviously, in a field like investing no checklist is perfect but at-least it'll help you avoid common pitfalls. Source: Many of their shareholder's letters con
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As a technologist, I agree with your view. But in cases like sanctions, I think the "Let me show who has the power" mentality takes over. So, a country (say USA) can pressure its companies (like Microsoft in 1998) to stop provid
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An interesting aside: In 1998, India tested its nuclear weapons (Pokhran-II [1]). Almost immediately, US imposed sanctions. One of the terms of the sanction? "Bar the export of certain defense and technology material" [2]. I ca
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Great idea! One word of advice though: Kids get bored very very soon. Better have a large and good collection of videos :-)
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> if your choice is YouTube or YouTube Kids, I would assume the latter is far preferable. It is intuitive to think of it that way,yes but my friends have had bad experiences with what it recommends. In addition, reading articles like thi
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> Every time my young daughter is watching youtube, I can see how what it is recommending and how easy it is to manipulate her. I hear you. While it may be impossible to stop the tracking or the fingerprinting, I follow the steps below t
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I am someone you might consider early adopter. I enjoying tinkering with the latest gadget, getting that fancy domain name with an extension like .ooo ( yeah! not kidding :-D ) but .. when it comes to FB, I don't mind being a luddite.
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My bad! Apologies for not catching this earlier.
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Assume that the price of an item is $100 today ($200 original price - so a 50% discount). A week from now is Black Friday. The retailer has said 70% off on all goods. Now if the retailer increases the price to $333.33 (100/(1-0.7)) a
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Given that the sun will die in about 5B Years, this is a bit of a gimmick :-D
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The link is 7 months old. I am geniunely curious how this is relevant to the discussion. Can you clarify please?
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An age old tactic I have encountered: Deep discounts (after raising the prices of course). For e.g. (Harvard research paper - WIP) https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/18-113_16977... https:/&#x2F
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by vmurthy 7y ago
From my experience, I found that the Livescribe and their ilk depend on a razor/cartridge model. The pen itself might be cheap(the razor) but the refills/special paper (the cartridges) are ridiculously expensive. Any particular re
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I used a Wacom Bamboo Spark[1] during my Post-grad and am really impressed by it. You write on regular paper using a special pen (ball pen) and the notes get synced to their app called Inkspace. Your own hand-writing , regular paper. No dep
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Great projects. I tried clicking the link for 1. Looks like some of the URL is truncated. You may want to update the link :-) This worked for me : https://medium.com/@thekeithchester/gigasnap-a-prototyping-s...
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Peter Bevelin[1] has made a wonderful compilation of the lessons one can learn from Sherlock Holmes. The book is a great aid to thinking better. I have also heard that Mastermind by Maria Popova[2] is a good read [1] https://www
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I went through the site out of curiosity . First of all, kudos for taking the initiative. You will hopefully grow big because it seems like a big problem (or soon to be one). I have a suggestion regarding the UX: Can you have a couple of f

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