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elango··on Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review
Tooth decay and Myopia have industries built behind them, there is no motivation to fix them.
elango··on Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
it is not recruiters, most folks in corporates look at startups as competition, insubordinate, have a bias for action and understand business drivers much better
elango··on I worked at SpaceX. It was the most efficient company I've ever worked for
i am unable understand how do they figure out what to work on ?
elango··on I will work for free on your Ruby project
i can use a ror expert to peer review my code in 5 hours. Or refactor a piece of ugly mess.
elango··on Today's regional conflicts resemble the ones that produced World War II
The world is in business now, almost everyone outside of conflict zone have a good standard of living that they wouldn’t want to be compromised.
elango··on New analysis of tooth minerals confirms megalodon shark was warm-blooded
my kid is a shark lover and would love to gift him one, any idea on where to buy and how to validate if it is original, thanks
elango··on Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]
At a famous Investment Bank, the guideline is “imagine what you type or say is a headline in front page of newspaper”
elango··on FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges
We have seen multiple firms and individuals breaking rules and regulations in a heavily regulated capital market. How do can things go by rules in a unregulated environment?
elango··on Directory of canned responses. If you lack inspiration
thank you, can you please add a few for linkedin responses - congratulations on new job, promotion and sharing useful content.
elango··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
what kind of interest income that this 70billion generate ?
elango··on Ask HN: Is Ruby on Rails still relevant?
It is good for getting off the ground when validating an idea, but when it comes to 10+ team it gets difficult to hire or train people as there is a several fold larger pool of accessible Java developers.
elango··on How we paid for the War on Terror
Military, Finance and Health spending by govts in turn fill the pockets of Enterprises, hand in glove with central govts, I am unable to even think of a remote possibility on how to break this nexus.
elango··on AWS Identity service handles 400M API calls every second
would be interesting to see how much each server can handle, that is engineering
elango··on Tesla spent $1.5B in clean car credits on Bitcoin
i have to be on the news and talked about by everybody. i say this !
elango··on AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
for Elastic to be truly open source, we will need adoption and push by major players and the key difference is Google cloud and Azure not looking at Elastic opportunity
elango··on AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
very good point on lucene contributors making money
elango··on A Month of Terraform
A very good summary, this resonates well with my views. Terraform survived because devops folks mostly come from non- programming background and have low expectations from a DSL. When developers look at TF, there are obvious things that glare
elango··on Are Index Funds Communist?
and we don’t talk about the enormous fees taken away behind the scenes in active investing
elango··on Are Index Funds Communist?
stock markets are a joke now, we have to give time for money to work or be invested by any company and wait a bit to see returns.

With micro-seconds investing by bots and algo, it has become more of gambling than investing.

elango··on 3D airplane visualization
responsive in mobile and quite addictive to play in mobile

good job

elango··on GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
Gitlab is not ready for prime time, we tried setting up 2 weeks ago and were welcomed by several 500 errors. Our team was frustrated by the time we could on-board 4 members and ditched it.
elango··on Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming in software engineering?
Draw.io is a gem, with gdrive integration, it is easy to collaborate, embed and cross reference diagrams. We tried creatly before locking on draw.io

It is free btw

elango··on MoneyGram Signs Deal to Work with Currency Startup Ripple
Are there any other blockchain use cases at scale more than that of RippleNet?
elango··on Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?
Manage your phone better https://hackernoon.com/@elango_11461
elango··on The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track
There is a burst of NY times articles with annoying paid plans
elango··on How Corporations and the Wealthy Avoid Taxes (and How to Stop Them)
Individuals also create corporates to spend money, i can create a single owner entity and spend money like i am from my personal bank account
elango··on How Corporations and the Wealthy Avoid Taxes (and How to Stop Them)
Are publicly traded companies not obligated to disclose profits and expenses, doesn't auditing help cover theses irregularities
elango··on Efficient pagination of a SQL table with 100M records
Can u share a real-life use case for this problem, even in google, folks don't get past the 5th page. Last five can be accessed by reverse sorting.
elango··on India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes
Though it sounds like a bold move, it will not be a Richs to Rags story, most of undeclared wealth is already invested in Gold and Property (in proxy names).

A lot of people having undeclared wealth are going to lose 1% to 5% their wealth (which had held as cash for liquidity), no big deal.

elango··on Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines
Well written and balanced. Clearly steered away from conflicting topics.
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