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Google's True Moonshot(stratechery.com)
168 points by scdoshi 3y ago|123 comments
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by scdoshi 4y ago
Signal announcement: https://www.signal.org/blog/announcing-signal-president/
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by scdoshi 6y ago
This follows a 5.7B investment by Facebook
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Google backs Reliance's Jio Platforms with $4.5B India investment(reuters.com)
1 points by scdoshi 6y ago|1 comments
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How to Sit Properly at Work(theguardian.com)
2 points by scdoshi 7y ago|0 comments
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The Hummer is coming back as an electric vehicle(npr.org)
38 points by scdoshi 7y ago|60 comments
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Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang(nytimes.com)
200 points by scdoshi 7y ago|5 comments
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by scdoshi 7y ago
Interesting set of videos by Jansen explaining systems used to create strandbeest: https://www.strandbeest.com/explains
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Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds(wsj.com)
228 points by scdoshi 8y ago|229 comments
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Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft(nbcnews.com)
2 points by scdoshi 8y ago|0 comments
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IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans(bbc.com)
1 points by scdoshi 8y ago|0 comments
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Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site(nytimes.com)
169 points by scdoshi 9y ago|104 comments
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United Airlines engine disintegrates over Pacific, forcing emergency landing(theguardian.com)
1 points by scdoshi 9y ago|0 comments
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New California declares 'independence' from California(usatoday.com)
4 points by scdoshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by scdoshi 9y ago
Thanks for that link. Also found this which goes into some more detailed comparison with rectangular grids: https://github.com/uber/h3/blob/master/docs/doxyfiles/usecas...
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by scdoshi 9y ago
S2, linked from the README[1], does the same hierarchical subdivisions in squares, with each square having a string ID. Squares divide into sub-squares exactly, but hexagon's don't sub-divide into hexagon's neatly.[2] Can som
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Stranger Things pop-up bar asked to shut down with humorous cease-and-desist(businessinsider.com)
2 points by scdoshi 9y ago|0 comments
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Kaspersky: The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security(mobile.nytimes.com)
41 points by scdoshi 9y ago|63 comments
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by scdoshi 9y ago
Monitoring aquifer health seems like a good approach to start with. Great to see you have thought about the issues. Water is an ethically challenging area to start a business in, but the status quo in India is pretty bad, so I hope you do w
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by scdoshi 9y ago
Looks like a really good idea. How do you plan on scaling without becoming part of the water mafia (or at least enabling them)? After all, there are only so many independent suppliers with their own water source. Would love to hear you thou
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In India, SoftBank Tries, Tries Again(nytimes.com)
3 points by scdoshi 9y ago|0 comments
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by scdoshi 9y ago
Many (if not most) companies do stock refreshes annually, don't they?
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Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies(thinkgrowth.org)
410 points by scdoshi 9y ago|245 comments
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India, Once a Coal Goliath, Is Fast Turning Green(nytimes.com)
506 points by scdoshi 9y ago|151 comments
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by scdoshi 9y ago
This might be just me, but the most important thing to me when I get advice is: - who am I getting it from - what do I know about their life/experience - under what circumstances Because that let's me adjust how much importance to
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by scdoshi 9y ago
I might be missing something, but seems to me like the products are still recycled, but as raw materials, not as full devices. This makes sense, given data is almost certainly bound to be present on phones etc. Maybe there's a more nua
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by scdoshi 9y ago
This has been a fun blast from the past. viaCycle was in YC (S12). And yes, we shut down in 2013 around 3 years in.
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by scdoshi 10y ago
The article describes a hypothetical scenario. It's clear if you read carefully and pay attention to the dates, but this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards. Disappointed that shock value and clickbaity titles are be
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by scdoshi 10y ago
Okay, but he's basing this argument on his paper, where he sets out to show that immigrants are in fact, not exceptional. However, if you believe my reasoning, then he isn't really measuring anything. So, we don't know if imm
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by scdoshi 10y ago
Okay, so obviously, an employment based visa program does create conflicts of interest and in general, is not good for the immigrant employee, compared to a non employment based visa. However, the claim that immigrant employees are somehow

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