gooftop
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1 year ago
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on: Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
I had the exact same reaction as d3vmax - and quoting one paywalled article about a failed builder does not make “ghost cities” a thing in India. Yes there are fraudsters who cheat people and never build anything, but India does not have the same kind of ghost cities that China does.
gooftop
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5 years ago
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on: Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
> I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles.
To put that in perspective though.. per Wikipedia, all of Manhattan is 22.7 square miles!
*mindblown*
gooftop
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5 years ago
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on: Amazon Academy India
Whoa.. talk about disrupting the IIT-prep cottage industry!
Of course, I haven't seen the details of whether it's an effective tool or not, but as a free service that can only improve and scale over time .. should be a gamechanger.
(For those outside India who are not aware of the exam that the academy is targeted at, its for admission to a collection of premier Engineering schools in the country. The exam is taken by over 1 million students annually, with a ~ 1% acceptance rate. There is a huge cottage industry of paid 'tutorial classes' and online programs to help students succeed in the exam.)
gooftop
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5 years ago
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on: Google stops selling Nest Secure, still offers support
I’ve heard it come up in an enterprise context, when there was a question about using a Google product - “they have a history of killing products, so let’s pick an alternate if possible”. This was a couple of years back, don’t remember what (could have been Google Glass).
gooftop
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5 years ago
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on: Tax analysis: Ten Quick Takeaways from NYT Article on Trump’s Tax Returns
Looking beyond the political angles, interesting analysis of the tax and financial implications of the returns. Not sure if other tax lawyers would interpret the same way, so I’m interested to hear other opinions, especially from those of you who know/understand tax law.
gooftop
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5 years ago
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on: EasyOCR: Ready-to-use OCR with 40 languages
Anyone know how this (EasyOCR) compares with a service like AWS Textract?
gooftop
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6 years ago
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on: How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser
In the relationship graph that Linkedin builds, suggested connections could be based on a lot of things other than shared connections. Just speculating here, but it could be based on shared email address, shared IP address, shared physical address, membership in same groups, linkedin messages by you and wife to other people within 1-2 degree of either of you .. or some combination thereof for higher confidence.
gooftop
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6 years ago
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on: Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
IMO there's a fallacy among some that _any_ course of study from _any_ college is worth taking on debt. While education is getting commoditized - and there are no guarantees even with so-called high ROI careers - there is a real risk of falling into a debt trap if its not considered carefully. At that point, its no use blaming "college education" for choices about which college and what education to get, that didn't work out.
gooftop
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6 years ago
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on: U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
I wonder how much of this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, aided in part by ongoing weaponization of inter-nation trade discussions by targeting firms from China (arrests of executives, bans, etc).
Of course, I've seen it argued that China has been targeting US firms for a decade in various ways - which only makes the events this year yet another escalation of action.
gooftop
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6 years ago
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on: An Ending
Well, if nothing else, at least GRRM confirms that he still plans to complete the books.
gooftop
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?
The advice makes sense, but isnt it a bit of chicken-and-egg? How do you sell something you haven't built? (or is it really .. build a little, or enough to illustrate; then 'sell' to validate and seek market fit; and then finally truly build?)
gooftop
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7 years ago
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on: Google Data Collection research
In some ways not surprised, but its still a LOT of data (in sheer volume). Does Google even keep the data and analyze it, or is much of it thrown away as digital exhaust? Anyone know?
gooftop
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7 years ago
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on: The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT
Huh.. is that title linkbait? Other than the photo of Andy Grove, I don't see anything about a call with Andy? (Or I'm really slow today)
(edit: oh I am slow today. Its told in story form, the meeting with Andy Grove is several posts down on the page).
gooftop
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8 years ago
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on: Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
In this day and age of FUD, what are the odds that said open source software has a vulnerability or malicious code inserted by some state actor (ours included)?
gooftop
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10 years ago
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on: Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)
Not clear to me if the article implies that totalitarian societies have more coercion - but if it does, should a country like China have more mental illness? I don't know if thats the case, at least in percentage of entire population. What does that mean for the central hypothesis of the article and its validity?
gooftop
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10 years ago
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on: Amazon Underground
Taken in the light of today's news about Fire engineers being laid off, it might suggest that Amazon is walking away from the Android hardware space but wants to stay relevant in the Android App space.
