svenkatesh

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by svenkatesh 13y ago
>If you could convince enough drivers Good luck with that. If you even tried to convince drivers to do that, they'd scream about a conspiracy to track everyone's movement (beyond the tracking that already exists).
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Er... you think you're startup (microcosm), which is glorified forum software, will change "political systems, the structure of them and how populaces engage with them?"
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
He had enrolled in, and dropped out of, a PhD program for Physics at Stanford by 2002.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Use any email provider. Encrypt your messages with PGP.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
From the cited BBC article: "The investigation team also reported, however, that in many other instances the Indian Army had behaved well and protected Muslims. The backlash was said to have been in response to many years of intimidati
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
I'm a bit lost. What genocidal violence was it, that caused the formation of the state of Pakistan?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Are you referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Polo "After a stalemate in negotiations between the Nizam and India, mass killing and rape of the Hindu population by Razakars, and wary of a hosti
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Would you care to point out some of the inconsistencies/falsehoods in the article?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
>It is much more civilized than many nations and has much of the institutions that make a modern nation. Just that the military and religious extremism Given that the Pakistani military and ISI control so much of Pakistan's governme
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
This is the full list of places where they're used: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/customers.ht... Most are universities.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Apps for Education targets Universities.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Right, fraudsters should be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Why would he be refunding someone for a free trial? ...
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Moore's law is about transistor count; what does that have to do with battery life?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
>you're a Newsweek shill. Has Hacker News really fallen to this level?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
For the same reason we should listen to Jenny McCarthy about how to prevent autism .. oh wait.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
What, in your opinion, is the best way to structure a market and incentivize agricultural R&D?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
>what about a random software developer with a degree vs one without? Maybe I'm misinterpreting your question, but the way you phrased it, there's already some survivorship bias -- the ones who don't have a degree but got
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
I'm replying to myself, but for the curious: FDIC covers bank accounts; SIPC covers securities accounts.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Maybe you should stop being a domain squatter.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
SEC has consumer protection rules for stocks. Even if they're managed by a brokerage, they're yours, even if the brokerage falls into insolvency
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Why use this guy's overpriced service when so many cheaper, well-established hosting businesses exist, like OVH's http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers.xml
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
That sounds interesting. Do you have a link to more information?
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
None of what you made makes sense. Why wouldn't pirates just go back to pirating when the price increases for the service? If pirating with RSS feed + torrent client is so easy, why would they move to the legit service in the first pla
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
I guess it wouldn't follow your narrative to point out that a few months ago the price was around $1200/BTC.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
I have a trading account at Ameritrade (through ThinkorSwim). Cash in your account that is not invested in a security is still FDIC insured.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
That's perfectly reasonable. I do that all of the time when I have a hosting issue. I whois the website to get the contact info for the owner. Because whois info is always correct. /s
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Ask Apple.
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Yes! Security by obscurity works! Even though we know about it, there's no chance people whose job it is to know about it, know about it! /s
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by svenkatesh 13y ago
Okay internet tough guy. People say this all the time, but users still went to the SEC when Pirate@40's Ponzi collapsed, instead of meting out justice themselves. AFAIK no one who has had money stolen in any of the countless bitcoin sc

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