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acd10j··on Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything
He used to , recently got back to bangalore India for starting his own startup in robotics.
acd10j··on OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too
since when RTX 2070 ship with 14GB of GPU Ram, Max memory for RTX 2070 super is 8 GB.
acd10j··on Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
Can @dang confirm it , that it was dead due to downvotes or some bug. I do not see any downvotes or upvotes. You may be right but I Cannot confirm it.
acd10j··on Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
I don’t think it was killed, There are no upvotes or downvotes , It is just at bottom of the comment thread. That being said SCMP might still have some people who are editorially independent now. But I don’t think They would want to push their luck too far. Considering Alibaba group can face consequences of same in Mainland
acd10j··on Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
Can you rely on South China Morning Post (scmp.com) to be unbiased as their current owner is Chinese Alibaba Group ? Apart from mild criticisms, I don't think Alibaba group can afford to publish against Chinese government.
acd10j··on Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
Lots of people here to defend Apple in-spite of their outright anti-consumer stance against right to repair. In this case they could have shown a warning with option to permanently choose to remove/ignore, Instead of scary permanent "service" Message.
acd10j··on Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation
Oh wow, how would we know that some corporate lobbyists or worse some government agency is not monitoring HN right now and propagating their agenda here in comment section. How can we detect that and how can we trust anyone else ?
acd10j··on Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology
Article clearly mentions that these will be ready for production not before year 2022, until then it's all speculation.
acd10j··on Contrary to Musk's claim, Lidar has some advantages in Self Driving technology
you are confusing between Kinect for XBox 360 and Kinect 2 that is Kinect for XBox one, Kinect 2 ( kinect for xbox one) uses time of flight. Original kinect and Kinect for xbox 360 are same and uses structured light sensor.
acd10j··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
also for decreasing transaction cost for money transfer.
acd10j··on Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account
Any Google employee reading here willing to help, Also if possible please ask your leadership to fix your company's customer support.
acd10j··on Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say
Payment sector specially in India is highly regulated, with even WhatsApp current application for UPI payment licence in Legal limbo because Facebook specially having bad name/luck with Regulators. Highly Doubtfull that current regulation will allow Cryptocurrency in any form as payment mechanism. Most that could be allowed would be glorified anti fraud Secure logger.
acd10j··on MailChimp deleted my account with no warning
Are you in any way affiliated directly or indirectly with MailChimp ? Reason for my concern is that this is not a exemplary practice to do victim bashing either. Even if OP is "free" customer , He has some right to complaint. Companies usually don't provide "free" tier by goodness of there heart and have legitimate business plan to do so.
acd10j··on The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts
Quick quiz ? Could someone please let me know what is the new brand name of chat that loads with Gmail Web ?
acd10j··on Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Any Googler who is willing to comment on this here ?
acd10j··on ChuChu TV is responsible for widely-viewed toddler content on YouTube
At least for fire tv stick chuchu tv has separate kid friendly app.
acd10j··on Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply
And will lose one more Ally , Threatening and implementing a sanction to a country like India would surely ruin a growing relationship.
acd10j··on Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
Most of time standard power supplies and cabinet of these Desktop does not support 1080Ti power consumption.
acd10j··on Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
I think blame lies with Youtube team, for them not able to morderate their default homepage. I distinctly remember same crappy default youtube homepage before Jio also.
acd10j··on Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
We should be very thankful with current Net Neutrality situation in India thanks to Facebook's ill conceived plan of Free Basics which led to Strict Net Neutrality Laws in India. This had prevented Platform lock for Jio's chat , movies etc platforms, which ironically is very beneficial to FB Messenger and Whatspp's growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_India
acd10j··on Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet – One Billionaire Changed That
This is why it very important to have HTTPS everywhere.
acd10j··on What drives IPv6 deployment?
I for one find clean slate tech approach adopted by Reliance Jio in India very inspiring. IPv6 support from start which saves it tons of money for buying IPv4 addresses , similar to their decision to adopt native 4G LTE Volte from start that helps it save tons of bandwidth on voice compared to Legacy 2G , 3G voice options.
acd10j··on SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round
Does anybody else worry about having Wall-E kind of situation, Commercial space launch being cheap, We might end up having lots of space junk. At least with the previous price point, this was less probable.
acd10j··on How Many Tesla Model 3 Cars Have Been Made?
how many among these 250,000 leafs sale are for new model, for proper comparison ? This seems like total sale of all Leafs ever sold.
acd10j··on Snap Revenue Surges 72% on User Growth, Advertising Gains
if you are job posting it would instill greater trust if you use company email id rather than generic gmail.
acd10j··on Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For
Not everyplace has Tap water available to fill your bottle. In many tourist locations it is very difficult to find Taps could be considered safe for consumption.
acd10j··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
I am updating my resume to list Unix to Unix Like , did not thought that i was lying on my resume till this date.
acd10j··on Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper?
I think the logic that his work is unpublished itself is wrong, he published/posted his work for world to see in arXiv , He has very strong opinions about current scientific publishing status quo, hence did not go through usual route of submitting in journal, He did published/posted on arXiv. Who are we to decide that posting your work in Blog post , arXiv etc does not constitute published.
acd10j··on x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong
This seems directed at Microsoft's attempt to emulate x86 on ARM/Qualcomm chip. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/249292-microsoft-decla...
acd10j··on An anti-ageing startup is offering transfusions of blood from young people
This will discourage voluntery doners from blood donation. It's really shame that there is no regulations to prevent this behavior.
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