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Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by hermaj »

btilly wrote: post #19

If the story is true, then I question her ethics. As http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/cosmetics_p... (among many other sources) points out, we do not have good regulation of the cosmetics industry. Which is kind of scary, because the cosmetics industry is deliberately seeking biologically active stuff, and smearing it all over people. Stuff that, in her case, does things like change your natural skin…

How many serious scientists would be on the board of advisors for RUMi OM™ YOUR SOUL VACATION™ HOME:

http://www.rumiom.com/index.php/board-of-advoisors.html

This is a nonsense story designed to promote some kind of pseudoscience yoga resort.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by raverbashing »

btilly wrote: post #19

If the story is true, then I question her ethics. As http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/cosmetics_p... (among many other sources) points out, we do not have good regulation of the cosmetics industry. Which is kind of scary, because the cosmetics industry is deliberately seeking biologically active stuff, and smearing it all over people. Stuff that, in her case, does things like change your natural skin…

I really don't know what's worse, cosmetic companies putting whatever they want or this exaggeration of risks

Among that list of "dangerous substances" we have: talc, silica (sand).

Exaggerated alarmism and "think of the children" mentality. I'm sure there's some people that die after consuming Vitamin C supplements, but that doesn't mean it is 'dangerous'.

Do you know what else is carcinogenic? Sunscreen. Of course, standing in the sun without it is more carcinogenic.

Living is the leading cause of cancer. Of course, not smoking, not standing in the sun too much and keeping away from radioactive sources help.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by hermaj »

shiven wrote: post #35
solutionhn wrote: post #22

A shiny example of a country filled with incompetent people, including the ones who frequent HN. How can a journalist be such a fool to publish something as ridiculous as this? A simple Google search can confirm that she is fake. With this article behind her back, don't be surprised if she ends up on a '50 under 50' list within a year.

Wow! By this metric if you can't find my life's story on Google, I must be fake . And, pari passu , anything you find about me on Google must be not fake. Unless, of course, your post was an attempt at trolling... In which case, I must admit, you've succeeded. ;-)

She is on the board of advisors for RUMi OM™ YOUR SOUL VACATION™ HOME:

http://www.rumiom.com/index.php/board-of-advoisors.html

The other members are:

A mystery man who's biography is a copy and paste of the next mans bio.

The head of the International Schizophrenia Foundation, the ISF plays a vital role in improving health by 'Orthomolecular medicine'

Jerry Garcia's third wife Deborah Koons Garcia (A Filmmaker)

A Former Soviet Special Forces physical training instructor.

A medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has researched shamanism.

A family physician practicing 'Integral Theory'.

I don't know any scientist who would be associated with this much nonsense and be expected to be taken seriously.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by jacquesm »

zaph0d wrote: post #37
bosky101 wrote: post #15

I was more surprised when I found out that Freddie Mercury (vocalist for Queen) spent much of his childhood between Africa & India [1], moving to the UK only after the age of 17 under trying circumstances. ~B [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury

Of course. His real name is Farokh Balsara.

Farrokh Bulsara

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by jacquesm »

jordanb wrote: post #9
da02 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for most musicians, actors, actors turned prostitutes, lawyers who are waiters, near-homeless programmers who read HN, startup employees who got screwed by finance people, etc. ;) I'm just saying there might be other factors: like the industry you work in, your interests, govt subsidization of your industry, saturation/supply/demand, etc. Someone interested in makeup is going to have a different life than some…

> near-homeless programmers who read HN You have to screw up pretty hard to be near-homeless as a programmer in this environment.

It is surprisingly easy to end up like that, no matter what your qualifications. Go to a homeless person and ask them to tell you their story for some food and coffee, prepare to have your worldview shattered.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by gebe »

suyash wrote: post #7

That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.

Well that's not true. Hard work alone is usually never enough and certainly not in the 21st century US. If I was dirt poor and looking to emmigrate I would probably try to get somewhere where they take better care of less fortunate and where they offer equal opportunity regarding education, health care and so on to everyone. If I was looking for the American dream I wouldn't go to America.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by mikecane »

kidgorgeous wrote: post #20
jordanb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> near-homeless programmers who read HN You have to screw up pretty hard to be near-homeless as a programmer in this environment.

Well I guess I screwed up royally

Hang in there. I hope you will have better days.

Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator

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Post by mikecane »

thewarrior wrote: post #13
suyash wrote: post #7

That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.

Yeah but this girl got two lucky breaks , She found an old lady willing to give her 30,000 dollars to go to Harvard , and there she ended up meeting Linus Pauling .

She was also willing to do the grunt work -- clean petri dishes. How many people here would be willing to join a start-up as a janitor? She would have been -- because she knew any in is an in. And in is always damn better than out.
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