Akarnani

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by Akarnani 7mo ago
one presumes this is the US sending a message about its demands on Bagram via the Pakistanis who owe one to the US
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by Akarnani 7mo ago
hilariously, this will happen on or about when dictation is Wispr quality or better and you won't need your keyboard as much. I do second the Select All item, it's beyond frustrating.
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by Akarnani 2y ago
if we are not going to export dollars, and we are going to make countries spend more of thier own money, then thier cost of borrowing will go up, they will need to rotate out of dollar assets and then traders who use the carry trade will ne
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by Akarnani 2y ago
Are employees at google not being paid for what they're risking? An investor risks their post tax capital, and then when it works like google gets the upside and when it fails they get...shares in blackberry or IBM. An employee risks t
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by Akarnani 3y ago
Calendar, large plain text notes file, VA helping with things, travel agent
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by Akarnani 4y ago
I have no knowledge of the deal and am not involved in anyway; this sounds like the 409A for the common stock came down not the preferred valuation. Valuations can't be moved without someone buying stock at a lower price to make the lo
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by Akarnani 8y ago
- Cars don't have eyes which means that can't see you and can hit you. - Feelings, names of them and distinctions, all are ok, what is and isn't an ok action to take because of feeling - Animals have feelings. They also have
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by Akarnani 8y ago
I love the Apple Pay / fingerprint reader button. Beyond that, I do my level best to avoid touching it. The volume and brightness features are nice but it would be better to not have had it as I mis-key it all the time and it exits me
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by Akarnani 9y ago
This article is an entertaining read on that considers some of the issues discussed in this thread: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...
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by Akarnani 9y ago
There's logic in these arguments; however, they ignore securities laws. If BTC is a security, which the regulators probably think it is, then yes—you have to have a mechanism to bring concepts like splits, tenders, dividends to holders
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by Akarnani 9y ago
I try to routine-ize as many of them as possible so it's on autopilot. Sunday afternoons get time scheduled in the calendar to take care of one off items.
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Thanks, @pier25 @jdhawk!
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by Akarnani 9y ago
ASK HN: what's the service you use, ideally over the web, where you send a high-quality picture file and they return beautifully printed, large format, frameable prints? Just contributed and need to send this files somewhere for printi
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by Akarnani 9y ago
It's really lovely. Thanks for doing this. I contributed and look forward to hanging it up once I figure out printing. How long did it take?
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Thank you, you've made my day!
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Silicon Shore? of I recall what people were saying a few years ago..
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Bob Lucky, who was one of the directors of research at Bell wrote a number of books and this one is a fun read. https://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Strikes-Again-Foibles-Engineers...
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by Akarnani 9y ago
thanks for the correction. Long night last night :/
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Even as Silicon Valley was still in its infancy, a group of organizations including Bell, MCI, GM, and others hired Fred Terman from Stanford to make NJ more like what Silicon Valley (NJ and SV share a ton of similarities, i did a tedx talk
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by Akarnani 9y ago
There is no logic that justifies attempting to be "not another public company" if you are a public company. Laws. Culture. Press. These things stand in the way of trying to be public while saying you won't act like a public c
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by Akarnani 9y ago
The Right To The Best Available Deal: To have all applicable financial / tax regulations applied to you automatically. This way you don't have to discover tax breaks/credits/deductions — they just get applied to you. Thi
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by Akarnani 9y ago
Everyone who has options is likely still locked up.
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by Akarnani 9y ago
First, Congrats! Second, as you likely know by now, your child is basically a meat computer. It runs pretty well other than it needs routine debugging. It will feel a lot like working through a bit of code you only wrote half of at 3am havi
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by Akarnani 10y ago
An interesting solve here is structuring research grants for outcome replicability. The article implies a real % of grant money is wasted on results that cannot be replicated. Could look like X0% of grant money is held for future researcher
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by Akarnani 10y ago
#3 feels analogous to saying: "I would never walk down the street reading a book without looking where i was going." (or something similar) Makes sense until everyone has a smartphone and then this: http://www.governin
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by Akarnani 10y ago
@wilozxc, thanks for this! what did you use to A/B test, adjust, and track?
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by Akarnani 10y ago
First, pick something interesting to you to work on. Really deep dive. Ask interesting people working in your area and adjacent to breakfast every week day to chat about your thing. Do half the talking. Rinse and repeat a few dozen times. T
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by Akarnani 10y ago
its called the Token Economy Problem. tl:dr; using tokens as an external motivation mechanism transfers away from buidling internal motivation. (e.g.,$5 for each book a kid reads gets a kid to read books for $5 bills and not for love of rea
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by Akarnani 11y ago
Check out Upstart, LendingClub, and Prosper for a quick, reasonably priced loan.
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Ask HN: Password-less login
2 points by Akarnani 11y ago|10 comments

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