Xx25

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by Xx25 4y ago
> South Asia was captured by the East India Company Funny, they chose to call the company "East India company", instead of "South Asian company" :)
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by Xx25 4y ago
> jobs just don’t exist any more. This seems more like propaganda. I come from a small village. No one in the village is jobless, or hard pressed to meet basic necessities. In fact there is acute labor shortage in agriculture. I have a
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by Xx25 4y ago
I lived in Indian villages for several decades. I have never seen a single instance of this "village bands together and gather resources to give that one kid a university education" . Of course, people do help each other etc.,
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by Xx25 4y ago
Nominal GDP is not the best way to compare countries in these matters. Purchasing power parity might be a better metric as we are talking about service Indians can get in their own country.
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by Xx25 4y ago
What happens if we mandate that hospitals cannot charge patients more than the lowest negotiated price they have for any procedure? That is to say, if you have offered to perform a procedure for $X, you can not charge anyone more than $X fo
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by Xx25 4y ago
> YC's current portfolio value of nearly $1T I don't think you mean portfolio value. That would mean YC actually owns $1T in the companies they funded, at their current valuation. The following on YC front page is more meaningf
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by Xx25 4y ago
Was reading about Apple's "Find My" network. This caught my eye: "The traffic sent to Apple by finder devices contains no authentication information in the contents or headers." This allows anyone to write a program
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by Xx25 4y ago
Is there any independent analysis of this end to end encryption of location data, that confirms that Apple can not really access the location even if they want to?
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by Xx25 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. >To think at the time that just five years later it would all come to a rather quick end was unthinkable. What do you think led to such a quick end?
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by Xx25 4y ago
Ah! I read it as disk camera, and thought Kodak had cameras with hard disks for storage. For a brief time in the 2000s that may not have been such a bad idea.
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by Xx25 4y ago
Why bother with water supply when you can use the air flow :(
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by Xx25 4y ago
HN never ceases to surprise! I am really curious how you happen to know such details about India's nuclear bomb.