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by vmurthy 7y ago
The fine print says this: n = 4000. This question was only asked to the 11% of total respondents who answered "Yes" to whether they'd share their health data with a tech company So.. HN might be right , after all :-). Knowi
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Not the OP but I dug a little into which company published this. The link takes you to "Bond Cap" which seems to be an offshoot of Kleiner Perkins [1] . Bond Cap is another VC fund according to their webpage [2]. Putting 2 and 2
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Oh wow :-(. I am around your age and this literally sent a shiver down my spine. More strength to you. Hope all will be well.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
With people sharing so much publicly (social media et al ), can't historians learn about what life was hundreds of years ago without having to dig into private data ? :-)
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by vmurthy 7y ago
My bad if I gave you the wrong impression about management types. You're right that things should work. What I meant was this: assume you have technology stack A and B each with its own pros and cons (whether tech maturity, programmer
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by vmurthy 7y ago
> Haha! No wait, you have to click through two levels of "Don't want to give us your info? Click here to get the letter". The first one asks for you email, only after the second do you actually get the letter. Why? They al
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by vmurthy 7y ago
For those of you who do have stamps, the PDF version of the letter is here : https://www.chaseoptout.com/ChaseOptOut.pdf Mailing address: Chase Customer Service P.O. Box 15298 Wilmington, DE 19850-5298 P.S. The website gav
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by vmurthy 7y ago
For those of you who want a quick skim : A great summary on (of all the things :-)) Twitter : https://twitter.com/investing_city/status/113854955878977945...
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by vmurthy 7y ago
For those of you who have the desktop version - it looks like U2F support is a work in progress: "So while it works great as your second factor in those browsers, for now you’ll still need an authenticator app set up to use with the 1P
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Perfecto! As a programmer turned product manager, I see this first hand every single day. The end user doesn’t care what technology you use as long as it solves their problem(s). My managers don’t care what technology my team uses as long a
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Isn’t there a chance it’s the other way round. People might start off arrogant but once they acquire enough superior general knowledge they figure they know jack and forces them to be humble ? It’s a common enough fallacy to get cause and e
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Interesting read. For someone who has the time and patience to gather data against the author's arguments, I would highly recommend going to the source of the data. SoftBank's financials - FY 2018-19[1]. I had a quick skim at th
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Good point on mobile. I use Adguard Pro on mobile after reading about it on HN. Yet to test Pi-hole. The work part is unavoidable, I guess.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I am curious given that I have an Ad-blocker for most websites and am not on FB. How do you even see ads? Have FB et al found a workaround for ad-blockers?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Not really. There must be a small(big?) subset of people who don't want to setup git,nextcloud,dropbox etc. to get encryption/sync working. As a hacker it might offend your sensibilities of "one thing well" but not every
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Couldn't agree more on 2 and 3. What is even more unacceptable to me is that these ad networks track everything I do on the web. It is one thing that I see an ad for a laptop when I search for Chromebook (I'll call it contextu
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by vmurthy 7y ago
How about a project on Raspberry Pi? Something that teaches them how easy it is to control other things with a computer ? Some ideas here https://electronicsforu.com/raspberry-pi-projects
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Sorry to hear about your partner :-( The first part of the last paragraph makes sense. Multi-cellular -> more cells dividing -> more chances of mutations -> more chances of cancer. The second half of your last para implies that c
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I have a Vultr instance that costs me $2.5 per month. Pi-hole doesn’t consume too many resources. While I’ve not done any math, assuming I can handle 10 ppl browsing at the same time, my cost per person is 25 cents a month. Assuming other o
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Can you define current crop? If you think Uber , Lyft etc. you’re right. I’m talking about stock markets as a whole. Not one or two crazy stocks
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by vmurthy 7y ago
“S&P 500 got its start in 1923. 3 years later it was expanded to include 90 stocks...” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-sp-timeline-id...
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by vmurthy 7y ago
You assume that the whole stock market is a zero-sum game which is patently false. Businesses raise money , many if not all use this money to grow their businesses and return money to shareholders via dividends / buyback. Stock appreci
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Might sound obvious but you'll be surprised how much we resist just airing the issue: Have you tried talking to the person (Product Owner/direct manager) human-to-human? Tell him/her that you are aware how stressful it is fo
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by vmurthy 7y ago
A lot of boxes tick for you. * Unmarried * No kids * No debt (it appears so) What's the worst thing that could happen? You spend a couple of years on the side project and your savings will be depleted a bit. But any employer with half
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Many of the commenters have validly pointed out that you need to take care of the legal aspects. I’ve a few questions from the other side of things: Have you identified a customer segment and target group? Ideally these ppl have a problem y
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by vmurthy 7y ago
In the world of tech consulting, consultants follow a model called PPT: People , process , technology. Recognise that people are the weakest link. Like many commenters mentioned, please educate your parents not to fall for common scams. As
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I sure hope this blocking thing is opt-in ;-). How will adu.. ahem .. entertainment websites live otherwise ?
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by vmurthy 7y ago
As a regular visitor on /r/macsetups, I find your site's navigation cool! I look forward to more setups :-)
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by vmurthy 7y ago
I think one big issue is that professors certainly don't care to explain how a certain building-block really affects something in the real world. For e.g. as Joel explains, how having all rows in a DB as fixed length dramatically impro
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Do you think this is why developers need to be made aware of user journeys? In my experience, just spending some time on thinking through the user journeys has done wonders to my understanding of features. Edit : The article doesn't m

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