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by yashg 5y ago
I find TrueCaller immensely useful. Especially to filter out and block spam callers. Spam calls and robocalls are a HUGE problem in India. TrueCaller flashes spam callers in red, you can reject the call and save a few precious minutes of yo
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260/160. Yes, that high. I had a retinal bleed which blurred the vision in one eye. Over subsequent days they got my brain, kidneys and all vital organs scanned for damage. Luckily no long lasting damage to anything.
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It's a combination of both. The book alone wouldn't have made me motivated to workout. The catalyst was obviously the health scare, but what the book did was to help me get regular and build upon my habit. The book essentially tel
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MIT. If money is the only issue not to go to MIT, that's a solvable problem (debt, future scholarship etc). A higher ranked prestigious school will help you throughout your life. Go for it.
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Where do I find the answer?
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Atomic habits. Last year I had just came back from 3 days in Hospital for extremely high blood pressure. I took up walking as a daily workout and listened to Atomic Habits audiobook. It provided me enough motivation to continue and build a
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Congratulations. Last year I launched a PDF generator API here on HN, got zero upvotes, you have managed to get to front page. Wish you all the success.
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This childish response reminds me of Piratebay mocking legal notices and posting them on their website in the early days. Regardless of the legitimacy of the government's demand, such a response makes me feel it's being run by ama
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Yes
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Banks suck! Death to the central banks! Down with fiat! Code is law! All hail the future of finance.
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I've used regexr for years. It has helped me build some really complex expressions.
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For sending emails Amazon SES is what I would recommend. SPF, multiple domains, SNS for bounced mails. It has it all. You have to gradually grow the reputation. Been using for many years now. Never faced any issues.
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I am definitely beyond 50k files because it also has code. Volume would be around 300 GB. Haven't faced any issues so far.
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Yes. I have a suit of watermarking apps under the uMark name. Although I also have a full time job, I make as much money from uMark as I make from my job. I can easily live on any one of the incomes. The app is developed in .Net way back in
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OneDrive + 2 offline copies in two separate disks. Organization is in folders. Intend to keep one disk at a different location. But right now everything is at one place.
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Who knew natural selection worked through a podcast? But it does.
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Most of the companies that tout blockchain seem to be doing so to attract free marketing and VC funding. Once they have that the real products seem to use the same old reliable tech that runs the entire internet.
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PoW is what makes Blockchains of BTC truly permissionless and decentralized. It's a solution to the 51% attack. Yes PoW is resource hungry and expensive but it's a feature not a bug. If we remove PoW to reduce cost and stop wastin
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Do you know of any logistics company that actually uses it? What exactly do they store on blockchain? Who gets to add blocks to the chain? Are those permissioned blockchains? Can a private permissioned blockchain even be called blockchain?
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Those per transaction limits are for YOUR protection so in case someone hacks into your account they won't empty it and you can ask the bank to raise the limits. Banks ask you the reason for transactions beyond a certain amount because
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"DLD has created the blockchain system using a smart and secure database" A blockchain system using a secure database. Makes it abundantly clear, how much they understand what a blockchain is. Truly, future belongs to blockchain s
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If I am in a country from where I can legally send money to Dubai to buy property, should I still convert money to BTC for buying property? Common sense says no. It may be legal but I don't need to add another layer of complexity. If I
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You don't even need black market. On one the largest crypto exchanges in India (WazirX), P2P is the only viable option left to get money into exchange because most banks have stopped dealing with them.
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> There are all kinds of limitations in how exactly you are allowed to use your money. Where are you getting that from? If the money has been earned in a legit manner and you want to spend it on a legitimate thing, who's stopping yo
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You have cash (like a ton of cash in bank notes). The cash has unsavory origins. You go to a shady local dealer who will take your cash and give you crypto in an offshore exchange. That is cross border money laundering. You then use that cr
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Why shouldn't I buy the house directly with legit money then? Why add one more layer and pay some amount in commission and also deal with volatility in BTC prices?
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> How will they convert it into something they can use to pay rent and buy groceries? Exactly my question. Exchanges where you can sell the crypto for real money are still regulated and require KYC. > My biggest concern about cryptocu
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OK so a privately owned and controlled blockchain which only allows trusted users to add blocks is still a blockchain? What would be the advantages of using a private, permissioned blockchain over a MySQL/Oracle/SQL Server databas
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Code is law, until someone writs code to steal your monkey jpg or worse, a real house. Then you realize the law and lawyers were there for a reason.
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You can't trust a central database but you can trust a central blockchain? A proof of work blockchain which is trustless and permissionless and has many nodes can be trusted to be tamperproof and immutable, but it is also slow and inef

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