padmanabhan01

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by padmanabhan01 7y ago
It's not always logic vs guts. Logic is great when you are dealing with theoretical problems that are well defined and you know the variables involved etc. In real life problems, often there are way too many variables, are time bound,
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by padmanabhan01 8y ago
//No Transferwise/WesternUnion Ok, who set up that ATM. If not western union, there is supposedly some other company taking some percentage doing this?
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by padmanabhan01 8y ago
Isn't government the quintessential "single place" or "platform" problem?
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by padmanabhan01 8y ago
has there been any generation that laughed in horror and derision at anything in history till now?
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
what's the difference?
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
The same way you make sure democracy or the majority has the right "fundamental principles"..
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
>couldn't they have worded this a little more sympathetic and a little less lawyer? Sure, if all the lawyers will promise not to take some statement out of context and sue them over that.. As long as such lawyers exist and that&#x27
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
Wait. Isn't the right approach to make sure money doesn't influence litigation or legislative process, than trying to ban someone from funding another party's litigation. If money can influence litigation, isn't that a b
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
Most are dysfunctional. You have to specifically look only if you want functional ones.
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
Aren't you hijacking the topic of homelessness here then? When people say homeless they don't mean someone who is homeless out of choice and can get out of it whenever they want to?
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
>I recently sold everything I owned and started living out of my converted dodge caravan while I was prototyping what I wanted to build next. With an eye on my burn rate, I lived as cheaply as possible. I can tell you without a doubt tha
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
I think its the state violating individual human rights if what consenting adults do with themselves without violating anyone else's rights is considered illegal. I am curious to understand how it is not or counter arguments if any.
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
//Apple could borrow the $600B at dirt cheap rates and go private asap Ok, so you mean Apple (the public company) borrows money, and then goes private. Now who would that private entity be? And which entity would be repaying that
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
Share buy back is one thing. Going private using share buyback is another thing. share buy back cancels the shares that are bought back and that enriches the value of all remaining shareholders. to go private an individual has to buy back s
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
//Slowly, over time? It's not as though $600B cash is exactly out of reach for Apple You do know that the cash Apple has in its balance sheet belongs to its shareholders and that Apple can't use that to buy itself and go
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by padmanabhan01 10y ago
I find it to be one of the mysteries of bay area. I don't understand how a city this size can manage to have nothing open after 10 pm. Is there a reason to this? Surely it can't be all shop owners getting to gather and saying ok l
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by padmanabhan01 11y ago
Aren't you using different standards for the journalist and the individual? if what the journalist is doing is disturbing, so is what the individual is doing.. if the individual is breaking no laws, neither is the journalist by outing
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by padmanabhan01 11y ago
I don't think anyone likes spending money on people who've broken the law. But given that the options are 1. Incarcerate and spend more or 2. provide assistance and spend less, it doesn't look like much of a choice.. unless s
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by padmanabhan01 11y ago
Software having bugs is understandable and people live with it. But there are a few areas where such fuckups are just unacceptable. Deleting files, photos, security stuff etc fall in that category. And as more and more stuff move to the clo
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by padmanabhan01 11y ago
Seems like an open glaring flaw in the trading systems if it can be manipulated in such ways. Why not focus on fixing such flaws instead of legislating against such trades? So, the law says it's legal to place order and then change one
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by padmanabhan01 11y ago
I wonder how they are able to legally prevent new development just because it will decrease their land value.. Can such an argument hold up in courts? If it was because of safety or congestion issues, it makes sense. But how is maintaining
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by padmanabhan01 12y ago
Well, one can still remote wipe if the phone is lost. So, while this may still be an issue, it's not as bad as what it would have been if that weren't an option..
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by padmanabhan01 12y ago
//We have enough digits to print 1424978922 on a watch face - that is standard Unix time. Why humans can't just learn to read that simple number is beyond me You really think people should be using 1424978922 instead of 5:30
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by padmanabhan01 12y ago
//Apple is a hardware company. How is a company that makes OS X, iOS, iCloud services not a software company? Sure it sells hardware, but not hardware that's a brick.. People buy the hardware so they can use the software whic
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
years lost indeed..
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
//He said the average joe should acknowledge that it is a good idea I'd rather have average Joe ignore and boycott vendors that install bloatware and make the vendors realize that's a bad idea..
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
Seriously? Why on earth should Joe Average be made to clean reinstall OS after buying a new hardware?
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
Articles like this help to show all the work involved in the path from a vague idea to a finished product. That's the hard part. Guess that's why they get upset when some other company just sees the end product and just makes a cl
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
It's time they take some responsibility for the laws they make.. If your tax laws are full of loopholes, start by fixing them. If it got so complicated that loopholes can't be avoided, try simplifying them. Ranting about companies exploitin
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by padmanabhan01 13y ago
if there were such an oath, programmers would write the code and the business will fill it with content.. //It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic profess

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