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Exactly. No one is talking about how a Muslim tailor was killed by a bunch of Hindus and brazenly captured in video which also threatened the country's PM of a similar fate. The Hindu community then proceeded to pelt stones on the Police which came to arrest the killers.

If your first startup is successfull, then you didnt aim high enough.

I have been to one of these scam call centres. The workers there are just paid per 'lead'. They read off a script and the if the person at the other end agrees to part with the information, then they add the information to the form and get paid for it. This is standard call centre marketing and ton of legit businesses do it also. From an operators point of view it is hard to figure out if the scheme is a scam or not. Call centers are getting paid per 'lead' - irrespective of what the business makes out of it - legal or not.

All of these scamming companies are subcontracted to by Americans. The employees there are just poor people manning phone desks - as long as it is wihtin the law they are not doing anything wrong. The Americans who subcontract to them are the ones who are representing the culture of scamming.

All countries have a deep corruption problem. Do you have any data to suggest that India's problem is bigger than others ?

Purpose of a company is to create value in whatever way it has identified. Growth is a corollary of that purpose. Once the company has identified what value it provides, creating more of that value is the next logical step - hence the pursuit of growth.

America is beginning to sound a bit like China. The problem is that China had to roll over a Tiananmen to get here and even then it wasnt easy.

Now either the Democrats+Tech cabal decide to tilt all the way to make America another China, or they loose their hold completely.

In either case, America is lost. Now there is no going back.

Back home the receding snow will most likely spring a war. With America lost, India will fight alone.

The stage for the third decade is set. America has chosen to step back. India will not have an option.

> Tip for acquirers: when a startup turns you down, consider raising your offer, because there's a good chance the outrageous price they want will later seem a bargain.

This isnt accurate at all. Google/Facebook turned down the offers because at the time the offers came, they were 'feeling' good about their business. This feeling changes over time and had google not chanced on the business model of selling ads next to search results, they would have probably regretted not selling earliers.

No one at Google/Facebook knew that the companies would be as big as they became and most startups who say to an acquisition face failure exactly like the 99% of other startups, sooner or later.

I get the stutter when Im anxious. I get anxious typically when I dont get enough me time. Regular doses of solitude keeps my stutter away.

> No one is safe from the propaganda machine, not even the educated, not even the ones in an industry as left-leaning and liberal as ours

How do you know that you are not a victim of the propaganda machine ? How did you keep yourself safe ?

I have tried all these things, but they dont work for me.

How about when you dont feel like working, simply don't work. Do something you feel like and then work when you feel like it again.

Ridiculous meddling by the government. There are a zillion ways to circumvent this ruling - each of which are easier done by big guys rather than smaller startups. The only thing all this meddling ends up doing is making the space hard for startups to start in and increasing the cost of business.

IMO the biggest Indian startups are dramatically reducing the cost of urban living. The fact that India's cities are heavily disorganised counter intuitively helps in this.

The other sectors which is mostly overlooked but just getting started are military startups. IMO this should also scale dramatically over the next decade.

This number might be a record but my prediction is that it would rapidly climb higher over the next decade or so.

You are reading the article wrong - maybe because you are prejudiced to reading it wrong.

The article is part legend and part truth. The robots weren't anything like the robots of today. There were mostly likely simple machines shaped like a human and with some movements. The movements could be orchestrated, for example, by flowing water through a mill which moves a circular disk with knives attached to a human shaped platform.

A lot of the legends are exaggerations and narrative hyperbole which often results when information can also travel verbally. The bigger the exaggeration, the farther the information flows.

I actually didnt go out and got a dog for myself - I somehow got possession of him through a coincidental sequence of events.

I didn't mean that my dog in particular was hard work - I guess all dogs are like this and which is why they accrue the claimed health benefits to their caretakers.

Had to walk my dog after dinner for atleast 30mins EVERY SINGLE DAY while he was around. That itself should account for this.

No its not. India has a ridiculous number of rivers and surrounded by ocean on all sides.

What India is facing is distribution issues and there are already broadly understood solutions to the problem.

Sleeper buses are huge in India. The railways are choked because they are run by the government. For overnight travels outside your city, sleeper buses are the most convenient options for the vast majority of the people - cheaper than flight, and more accesible/cleaner than the train.

There are multiple private operators which provide this service. Personally, I dont have too hard a time sleeping in one. It also offers more privacy than a typical sitting bus or if you are a couple you can book two beds.

There have been a couple of accidents though and people have died. Not too sure if the accident rate is more than normal sitting buses - sleeper buses arent perceived more 'risky' in India as compared to the siting ones.

Actually for India the real electric car has already arrived and it is already seeing widespread usage. It costs less than $2000 and goes around 80kms on a single charge. It looks like a narrower auto rickshaw, most of them are manufactured locally and can be see used widespread in tier-2 cities in north india.

More details are at https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/auto/auto-news...

India auto sector (mostly ICE based) is a bit in the doldrums. It seems to me that govt. just maybe wants to let it be in favor of a longer term move to electric.

They might make good servicing the scooter rental business which is booming in India.

If we are talking pure and simple, ALL business takes what you would call 'fraud' to get there.

Contrarian view. Read the article top to bottom - there is no fraud here. This is exactly how it should be done.

VC's dont know shit about AI and you cant expect them to.

Anyone building a cutting edge AI product, SHOULD NOT build it before selling it product.

First use humans to build/sell the product and then in parallel train the AI to take over. Often the training phase is best done using the human taskers.

The CEO - 'Sachin Dev Duggal' is doing it exactly right. Anyone claiming otherwise, including the journalist who wrote this post, don't know what they are talking about.

Apologies.

I didnt intend for religious flamewar. It is my position that these news are sponsored by christian missionaries. I thought reporting the same in comments is the best way to highlight it. How else do you suggest I claim my position ?

Not sure which of my posts constitute nationalistic flamebait. If you could highlight ill try to steer clear. Thx.

Cherry picked data. Sensationalist headlines. Top of HN.

There are a lot of things horrible about christian missionaries but their internet propaganda division is killing it.

It didnt look that way in Doklam.

I know. But India can. And India should. There is no one else.

Seems to me this is Tiananmen part 2 unfolding before our eyes. And doesnt look like anyone will come to Hongkongs help.

Hoping India will step up and do something. Seems unlikely though.

India has a lot of people whose surname is Modi. Not all of them voted for Modi. And the urban migration didnt start after Modi - it has been happening for quite some time now.

I think urban areas of around 30-40mn are doable. We just need around 30 cities to take most of the population.