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by vthallam 8y ago
I don't understand why people are discounting the fact that the said companies wants to do business in China and you can't do that by accepting the Chinese state is trying to hack their companies. IMHO, this is a very big aspect a
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by vthallam 8y ago
> The White House requested periodic updates as information came in, the person familiar with the discussions says. You can't make this up, at least not in Bloomberg, that too in a front page or cover page write up. Truth could be s
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by vthallam 8y ago
I think you are being down-voted for just making a generalized claim with no mention of why? care to explain, what areas does PHP out-perform Go?
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by vthallam 8y ago
This was my exact thought. It's great they increased the wages to $15, but it might also be because now they are in a state to hire fewer humans in logistics and carry out majority of the work through machines. May be with less humans
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by vthallam 8y ago
Paperless Post |Senior Software Engineer (Golang) | NYC | On-Site | Full-time | https://www.paperlesspost.com/ Paperless Post enables users to define beautiful online invitations and cards. More about Paperless Post - http
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Caldera – Ready to run boilerplate service generation in Go(github.com)
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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users(nytimes.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
stop this "what about the western world". I see this pattern every time there's a critical article about China. When there's an article about the west's censorship, we would be happy to talk about it, but for now, l
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by vthallam 8y ago
you link anything to `thewire.in`, I would call it propaganda. The other commenter on the thread asked a question about why can't the said journalist back up the claims about a $10 app. Hate the govt all you want, but the Aadhar as you
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by vthallam 8y ago
yeah blame the good internet service for people being lazy or stupid? For every lazy person who spends time just watching videos, there's someone in the village looking at how to use some pesticide or what medicine to take for a certai
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by vthallam 8y ago
You can't pick one index to your convenience and even then, I have looked at the website - https://rsf.org/en/india which I think is your basis of the rankings. Their headline was > Deadly threat from Modi’s n
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by vthallam 8y ago
Why did they even build apartments under a bridge or a bridge over apartments? Can't think what would of have happened if the whole bridge collapses.
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From a maths teacher to India's leading option seller: The inspiring journey(moneycontrol.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
microservices, deployed in containers like dockers and orchestrated through docker/swarm kubernetes. This is the very typical setup I have seen. people love to use go because it's simple, fast(goroutines for concurrency.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Until your domain gets pulled off by your registar for whatever weird reason. There's no absolute way to escape, sadly.
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Fortnite Mania Fuels Epic Growth to $8.5B(bloomberg.com)
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Donald Trump, Meet Bill Browder(wsj.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
It sucks to be in the largest city and yet could not try the scooters or electric bikes. I think it makes more sense for NYC to have them and would be a great way to avoid subway for like 2 miles.
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MoviePass Parent Files to Raise $1.2B to Stay Afloat(variety.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
Paperless Post |Senior Software Engineer (Golang) | NYC | On-Site | Full-time | https://www.paperlesspost.com/ Paperless Post enables users to define beautiful online invitations and cards. More about Paperless Post - http
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Trump Spouse-Visa Shift May Hurt Workers, Push 100,000 from Jobs(bloomberg.com)
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If Fund Managers Back Bitcoin(nytimes.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
No wonder. Anecdotal of course, but I see my friends spending more time on instagram and people on the train or bus browsing instagram. I don't remember seeing FB on someone's mobile in the last 6 months. It will only grow bigger
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by vthallam 8y ago
More and more traditional money will flow into Crypto, not because Crypto is the answer for everything, but people just want to bet on the something that might in some form change everything in the future. I really get surprised by the bool
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by vthallam 8y ago
> The US is pretty unique in having absolute freedom of speech Does hate speech against a religious community protected under freedom of speech in the US? Because my comment earlier was in that context.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Beyond your first 2 arguments I don't believe a thing you said is true or relevant. > The Indian government has been curbing free speech and attempting to increase its control on speech over time. Any specific examples please? >
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U.S. lawmakers want Google to reconsider links to China's Huawei(reuters.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
I'm really surprised you including India in the list. India is as democratic as the USA. The laws were put in place in India at least around Crypto to save people from being scammed.
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by vthallam 8y ago
Exactly. The US just hopes the money will be used for the welfare of the country and hoping for some soft power when it's required. On the other hand, the Chinese are just loaning the money and making other countries explicitly owe the
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by vthallam 8y ago
I know this article is more about tech companies, but China is winning everywhere. They have started a very ambitious OBOR to connect Europe, Africa and Asia. The Chinese investments in Europe is just mind boggling [0] and the infrastructur

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