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nebulaon Ask HN: Is it safe to perform credit card payments over TOR?

The reason I am using Tor in this case is not for anonymity. I am using it to circumvent IP filtering by the said website.

nebulaon Iridium satellite constellation

What was the reason for bankruptcy? was it because it was not able to compete with Cellular operators?

nebulaon If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be charging you more

In North America what you described is true, where as in developing countries it is not.

Not true. The game was conducted in "developing countries" as well, and the results seem to be same. I can't locate the references right now, but a little googling might help (Especially I remember the results being mentioned one of the TED talks.)

nebulaon Nestlé to use humanoid robots to sell Nescafé in Japan

Oh, and if you're helpful to Nestle with regard to your office, you get a free machine for home

doesn't it amount to offering kickbacks?

nebulaon A startup CEO drives for Uber

<i>Whatever the reason, I’m beholden to no shift schedule. There is no conflict between the demanding schedule of my startup career and my moonlighting as an Uber driver. It is truly a symbiotic relationsh</i>

Is it just me or does it really sound like a PR exercise of Uber + his startup?

nebulaon Dirty medicine – Long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy (2013)

Thanks. Hoping you won't mind if I drop a mail.

nebulaon Dirty medicine – Long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy (2013)

Thanks! interesting ideas. High school level introduction to pharmacology is an excellent point. It will bring in a lot of awareness. Thanks for the pointers on FDA feeds. Your contact is not there in profile. Do you mind sharing your contact info?

nebulaon Dirty medicine – Long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy (2013)

Do you see any possible way to bridge this gap, and help people identify and avoid substandard drugs? I am planning to work in patient empowerment, would like any ideas in this regard.

nebulaon Introducing Tweet-a-Program

In this case they are using twitter because of the marketing value.

nebulaon Introducing Tweet-a-Program

Their twitter bot seems to have gone crazy. It keeps sending the results for my program again and again. Think there is a bug in the bot, and it is picking up old tweets again from the timeline.

nebulaon Do you need Front end? I'm looking for early adopters for my startup

I am starting a new project. Would love to use your service for frontend. My gmail id: nebulasri

nebulaon Miracle health device crowdfunds $730k, but might be bullshit

Agree with what you are using as a rule of thumb. However there is the other point of view also.

Unexpected leaps forward in a scientific discipline, especially in medicine, should be met with great skepticism.

Many advances in medicine also seem to have been suppressed by vested interests: E.g., http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes

nebulaon The 4 AM Army

And you forget that your "first world" was built on slaves, colonies, cleansing of ethnic races who were living there originally? Mostly that is where the "higher median standard of living" that you refer to has its foundations, that was the launchpad. So, yes, to you your world looks equitable.

nebulaon The 4 AM Army

<i>Some people don't value freedom, they value food, shelter and health.</i>

I hope you understand that if you are chronically starving, "freedom (of what?)" is the last thing in your mind. That doesn't mean some people prefer slavery; it might just mean that their current situation is so horrible they are willing to trade their freedom for a mouthful.

nebulaon Windows 8.1 Preview

They are doing what they are extremely good at :)

nebulaon U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

Just don't tell anyone in the whitehouse :)

nebulaon Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information

The blog says the fix was made in the DYI tool. That means they would continue to maintain "shadow profiles", but would stop letting others know that FB has a shadow profile on you. Al these blog posts and notification emails are just a PR propaganda to make gullible users believe that FB cares about their privacy.

nebulaon U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage

Only 2.7K needed now.

nebulaon Aereo Wins Appeal - Trial Likely for Streaming TV

For that matter the 'private one copy per user', is even simpler to maintain without actually requiring to store multiple copies. All they need is a deduplication mechanism at the storage layer, and store the files block wise. Legally they could prove that they are recording a copy per user, while they would be paying close to a single copy cost in terms of storage.

nebulaon Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

Is that why Paul ran off to YC, as soon as it's done?

nebulaon US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth

I'm sorry how does the variance in surface temperature help us find it?(especially with current technology). As I understand it pretty much all the exoplanets so far have been found using Doppler shift. The size of the planet, more precisely the mass, and its distance from the star would influence the magnitude of the shift and hence detectability.

nebulaon East India Company brand returns after 135-year absence

I have one word for the guy: mercenary Obviously he is using that name for publicity reasons.

nebulaon East India Company brand returns after 135-year absence

Yeah right. 'The holocaust also had a huge role to play in Jews getting their homeland'. What British colonialism did to Indians was nothing less than the holocaust on creating human misery and deaths. But of course, for people sitting on the other side of the planet reading history through the eyes of the plunderers, British colonialism was benevolent towards Indians in many ways. I can't blame you for that. Winners get to write history and sadly Indians are too busy subsisting, to get their history right at least within their borders.

nebulaon India makes good on vow to sabotage ACTA

'Individual rights' in India? I would be pleased if you can point me to something (an event, a case won, etc.,) that highlights the fact that there's hope that eventually India would move towards respecting individual rights.

nebulaon Facebook leaks user's IP addresses

IMO, Email systems originally have been designed that way to facilitate traceability. When webmail came, it's natural that they followed this practice.

Facebook is a closed system. When you send a message to someone on Facebook, you presume that you are adding that message within Facebook. The notification email that Facebook sends to the recipient is just that, a notification generated by the Facebook system. You, the sender of the message is not part of this notification system, though you your action triggered the notification. There is no reason why the sender's IP should be exposed in this flow under normal circumstances.

nebulaon Pit of despair

Not to sound pedantic but you do realize that those two qualities are not necessarily mutually exclusive in people right? If we condone such cruelty to other living beings in the name of scientific curiosity, there is no limit to it. It's not ok to go around torturing others because one is 'scientifically curious'.

nebulaon Photos of Bird Stomachs

That sounds like a decent explanation, but won't they sense that something is wrong when they touch these objects? I mean stuff like plastic caps are stiff and hard, while fish are not. May be the fact that they evolved to swallow their food instead of chewing it may make it harder for them to distinguish a fish from a plastic cap even when it's in their beak?

nebulaon Man arrested for filming Boston police with cellphone camera sues city, officers

I'm a little surprised at the tone of your observation. I thought U.S. citizens were the most empowered on the planet.

More transparent government is clearly the desirable. If the outcome of this case can determine that, then the outcome should be in favor of transparent government. If the law of the land doesn't agree, then it's time it's changed; isn't it?

Well that's what it looks like to me trapped under an oppressive government on the other side of the globe, idealizing the freedom of American citizens.