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by saisundar 2y ago
>>> The vulnerability is based on “traffic analysis,” a decades-old network-monitoring technique, and relies on surveying internet traffic at a massive national scale. The document makes clear that WhatsApp isn’t the only messaging
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Robinhood acquires X1, the credit card upstart(techcrunch.com)
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by saisundar 4y ago
You are absolutely right. Yes, Tesla did introduce a seismic shift into the automotive industry. Their stock was an appreciation and acknowledgement of that? They were valued more than all of their ( major) competitors' market cap aggr
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by saisundar 4y ago
A grim day. As a tech worker, my solidarity is entirely with the employees of Twitter. The irony is that Twitter, more than any other social platform, helped create the aura around Elon, Tesla in particular. In some sense, Twitter was quint
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by saisundar 4y ago
Also worth noting That ev platforms are now essentially closely engineering the power train and the battery systems to work and extract maximum juice ( similar to Apples battery/cpu control on the iPhone). When the above is executed we
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by saisundar 4y ago
a) I really like how Paul G had phrased this - http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html "I had plenty of happy times before I had kids. But if I count up happy moments, not just potential happiness but actual happy moments
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by saisundar 4y ago
Given the recent influx of EVs, some of these charts explain why certain brands seem to have launched them now. Hyundai, kia and Genesis for instance, share the same ev platform. Volvo and polestar too,with their EVs. Audi, Vw, Porsche too
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by saisundar 5y ago
Yikes, ring, the security system is also down. Wonder if crime rates might eventually spike up if aws goes down, in an utopian world where Amazon gets everyone to use ring.
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by saisundar 5y ago
Becoming the next smart TV platform is the real war here. By becoming the go-to platform for smart tv apps, the winner gets the following advantages - rich access to search and voice data (which, by the Amazon playbook, is super valuable fo
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by saisundar 5y ago
4 way dipping. Roku also takes a cut for every transaction that goes via its platform. If I end up subscribing to HBO via roku, Roku takes a cut too. On a related note, is it just me that's flummoxed by the lack of Ad disclosures for t
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by saisundar 5y ago
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html This might be the second or third (and possibly redundant too) Tim urban blog post here. This uses a visual representation to drive home the point that the time you
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by saisundar 5y ago
Reddit currently supports many third party freemium clients ( Ala Twitter 2012). These third party apps offer a no ad experience too. Unsure how much revenue reddit shares with these apps though. It helps with growth(more options for users
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by saisundar 6y ago
I usually schedule these on my calendar as small self-contained chunks, scoped to 25 minutes (recursively break the next actionable step into it) That has helped me a bit in making progress on things that are important, but not really excit
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by saisundar 6y ago
This will certainly help give Google an advantage if they enter into health insurance. Aplhabet has non trivial stake in Oscar health, and this fitbit acquisition plays right into being price health insurance policies for users.
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by saisundar 6y ago
Congrats to Doordash! The pandemic certainly helped accelerate this process, but I will add that within the bay-area, anecdotally, my first circle were all Dashpass subscribers for a while before 2020 too. Their partnerships with Chase, amo
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by saisundar 6y ago
Pre ordered a model Y RWD around 15 months back. Have received two calls from sales reps to move or upgrade my order to Model Y AWD, and take the delivery ASAP. Held off on both occasions due to these quality reasons. The Tesla cars seem li
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by saisundar 6y ago
Replied above, I use headspace a lot.
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by saisundar 6y ago
For me the most effective one has been following my breath. The principle there is that nothing can get more real than your breath right now. You are , only if you breathe. ( or atleast it resonates a ton with me ). If thoughts come into my
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by saisundar 6y ago
Had a severe stutter as a child. It wasn't until I started meditating about 4 years back, that my stutter no longer holds me back. My experience here lines up with the experience cited by others on the thread. To phrase what seems to h
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by saisundar 6y ago
Well O 1 visas not dual intent though. In order to actually obtain permanent residency, you would still need to move to a h1b. There are several valid reasons to seek permanent residency - which I don't want to dive into here or morali
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by saisundar 6y ago
I am wondering why there are two separate rounds of layoffs. Isn't it better for morale to just have the band aid ripped quick, once and for all? What context does Uber have now, that they did not when the initial layoff wave happened?
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by saisundar 6y ago
Uber's q4 2019 revenue was 4B $. A drop of 20 million (ignoring the fact that quarterly results look at YoY, as opposed to quarter to quarter) from expectations would be... quite impressive? ( quite in contrast to other reports of a 80
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by saisundar 6y ago
Nit - I think you mean April 28.
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by saisundar 7y ago
It's fascinating how Ring's business model benefits from local crime prevalence, which in turn might lead people to invest in home security. It is also fascinating how media companies are likely to pounce on the slightest of flaws
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by saisundar 7y ago
https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b... - might be relevant.
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by saisundar 7y ago
>"The growing number of complex components made it difficult to retain an open source version stripped of our internal specifications. This complexity is the main reason that we archived the open source Scribe project. The current v
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by saisundar 7y ago
Would Airbnb even be under scrutiny with regards to this bill? Airbnb is a marketplace, where the hosts can set their own rates, with minimal intervention from the platform. This is not the case with Uber/Lyft though.
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by saisundar 7y ago
I believe it's 3 times per level or role. One could interview 3 times for l5 SWE role and thrice more for l6 when they are deemed eligible again.(With more experience etc.)
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by saisundar 7y ago
Aforementioned Bloomberg article - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/inside-el... Quoting - On the other hand, Tesla had received about 11,000 customer orders for Solar Roof by May, a backl
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by saisundar 8y ago
This might not be a direct answer , but reading " Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29369213-peak" certainly helped nail down in my head that learning is

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