I live in Dubai, and the rains this year appear to be more frequent than the last two years. Perhaps the new seeding material is showing results
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In all frankness, I have no interest in letting Wikipedia die either. I just feel there are enough people who donate today that makes it easy for the foundation to do stuff beyond just keeping a Wikipedia on. Will probably donate again if their contributor pool ever shrinks.
And that attack was largely coordinated thanks to extensive recce of the city by David headley.
Security concerns were valid because the government had the infrastructure to check the legitimacy of every foreigner entering the country. But a Headley-like recce could be possibly done by anyone from anywhere without the government knowing it.
Yes, there are workarounds, but The government was not wrong in taking it's time in giving clearance to something like this
I was single and unmarried in 2008. Was working in a startup that made an innovative new kind of ads (SMS ads!!). Was laid off and spent the next year building the next TechCrunch. It flopped, of course, and I moved back to a day job later. But I would have never made that move had I not been fired.
My personal circumstances are different today and would not make such a move now. But if you are young and financially-covered, you should see that as an opportunity.
Imagine a Facebook or Instagram not mining your data to show you what they think you want - the results in your timeline will be a grand hash of all the think that's new and happening.
That would have been a vastly different experience.
Except for perhaps Reddit, every other big site today personalizes your content and this has made the internet boring for me.
The only place i discovew new content is Reddit, but again its front page is full of memes and American content.
In other words, it's in almost every corporate's best interest to push people towards offices.
Add to this the fact that they get to lobby politicians many of whom invest heavily in real estate.
Do not be surprised if governments create tax hurdles for companies operating remotely.
It goes without saying that some of my outreaches get thrown there too by default.
So, as the sender, I don't really know if you saw the message and didn't want it, or if you were too busy to reply, or that you did not receive my message in the first place.
There are, of course, many email tracking tools available. I do not use them though.
Some people also reply with a sterner 'no, don't reply again'. To them, I do not even reply with a 'Thanks, no problem' message since I'm scared they will mark me as spam!
In each of my follow-ups, I mention that I am reaching them because I did not hear from them the previous time, and ask them to reply one way or the other.
It communicates to them that if they just reply a 'No', I would stop,
Also, I do not persist forever. My follow ups are always 4 levels deep, and in the final mail, I make sure I tell that it's the last one and I won't send another one.
So anyone like OP who's delaying it simply because they are busy tend to reply.
Again, I am not sure if these are ideal tactics, but they seem to work for me.
There is another company in India, Tzar Labs, that has been working on a similar test and is almost ready to launch as well.
https://epaper.livemint.com/Home/ShareArticle?OrgId=75ef980c...
In the past one month alone, more than a 100 medics (who are all fully vaccinated), have died - albeit due to a different vaccine and higher viral load in their workplace.
It's a little premature to ask for masks to go off
Anyway, is there some relatively unknown startup that everyone thinks is crazy at the moment? Like Twitter of 2007? I remember blogging their demise back then.