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you forgot: Amazon, 1,528

> How it works in general is that the business visionary has a close relationship with one bank, and the ability to sponsor a lot of friends and family in the old country. in both …

definitely exists in India to a large degree. I personally find it annoying that actual refusals don't carry much weight, because they are most often interpreted as rituals of poli…

the same reason you trust external companies to do all sorts of other stuff for you: specialization. in the average case, they can probably do it better than your developers becaus…

Not sure if you read the linked article: > The 70 kilogram remote sensing satellite is to be used for agricultural, climate, mining and environmental observations, allowing the Hor…

Your friends are probably not the best source on the matter. Go on YouTube and listen to interviews with actual sex workers in places where it is institutionalized (e.g. Amsterdam,…

Yes, I think you haven't been following Linux closely enough. Ubuntu, at least, has been very aware of this problem for years now. Their "software center"/package management is pro…

mods (@dang) can you do something about this unsubstantiated and inflammatory comment

I think you assume that the insurance market is competitive. In the U.S. it is not.

Yep, also I think the barriers to entry for the insurance market are extremely high. Not only is there a huge fixed cost of actually negotiating rates with every individual doctor/…

Don't you have to adjust Amazon's 2.8 billion for inflation?

Dry pasta likely cannot be made to hold up to a hot beverage though, can it?

If you or anyone else are not generalizing how are WiFi SSIDs relevant to anything?

The paper assumes that innovation is incentivized by the "top" income received through it by the innovator. Under this assumption, since taxation reduces "top" income, it thus disi…

Check out my comment below about Dobbie and Fryer 2011 (AEJ Applied Economics) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878703

I think you need to source the claim "There is no educational / societal intervention that can reverse its impact on Black kids' education" Consider, just as one example, the paper…

previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17761104

Would you consume news from the BBC, a government news network?

Interesting! But it seems like gentrifying the area around the school is probably not in line with his vision of having at-risk children benefit from the school.

A difficult technical problem, for example, is Google search. It's not just managing the completely of PageRank, it involves creating fundamentally new algorithms to deliver better…

Breathe, it may seem like the world is falling apart, but you will be OK. You should be able to start a low-skill job to make ends meet. If you're in a city, start driving Uber and…

If you are in RI, MA, or NY state, the website https://www.zencare.co/ might work for you. It comprehensively listed all of the mental health professionals near me that were on my …

Ethiopia seemingly has an incredibly good relationship with China. The lion's share of FDI in Ethiopia is from China, and much of it goes towards large infrastructure projects. Fly…