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
#2Popup ads to be had here. Perhaps an inspiring story, but marred by some unethical practices by the paper itself.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#3Calcutta is famous for its musketeering personalities.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#4Popup ads to be had here. Perhaps an inspiring story, but marred by some unethical practices by the paper itself.
Try using an ad blocker.
I use the AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and RequestPolicy plugins for Firefox, along with Privoxy, and virtually never see ads.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#5Calcutta is famous for its musketeering personalities.
What ? Are you sure "musketeering" is the word you wanted to use here ?
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#6Popup ads to be had here. Perhaps an inspiring story, but marred by some unethical practices by the paper itself.
Try using an ad blocker. I use the AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and RequestPolicy plugins for Firefox, along with Privoxy, and virtually never see ads.
My point is really more that I question the veracity of the site, and thus the story.
Incidentally, I can't get those on my iPad.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#7That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#8That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
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 someone interested in nuclear physics. There are some poor physics graduates who worked for 10 years in research VS. upper-middle class make-up artists.
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#9That is why they call America the Land of Opportunity. If you work hard enough, you dreams will come true here.
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.
Re: Calcutta girl who fled home & marriage at 17 returns as millionaire US innovator
#10Calcutta is famous for its musketeering personalities.
What ? Are you sure "musketeering" is the word you wanted to use here ?
I was searching for a better word. I thought of pioneering but it was too tame, swashbuckling but it was too far out. Can you suggest something better? I mean they are go-getters and bending the boundaries of the system.