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So adding on to the labor/fixed cost increase, prices are just inflated since insurance pays for them anyway. In India, people don’t really consider insurance for such routine work due to the hassle of processing the claims too.
Arguments/discussions are good, but a strong leader is needed in the end to draw a conclusion and figure out an execution plan.
If you lose your ID or any other official documents in India, everyone knows how much of a hassle it is going to be to get these documents reissued. Of course the possibility of bribes to move the papers. Insurance claims for lost baggage? I wouldn't rely on it. It might take them a while to save up to buy whatever they might have in their bags too. Laptops, tablets etc. They probably don't earn that much to begin with. This is probably what ran through their minds.
Yes, lives are more important in the end and every second counts in such a scenario. But as an individual they might think - hey, it takes a few seconds to grab my bag and jump out. That would save me SO much trouble. Unfortunately that's what everyone thinks and in the end everyone goes for their bags and waste precious time.
Map shows very few countries - no Singapore as mentioned in the article
Also the article mentioned 190 countries at one point and 130 at other places. Moreover, Netflix claims it has 70M subscribers across 130 countries. How is that possible if they just launched it?
Main magic was in the data pipeline. We tagged products that are Black Friday specific as seen on the merchant specific "Black Friday" category pages and other aggregators. These sites' pages were checked and the products' prices updated more frequently than our regular pipeline.
Everything ran as part of the Semantics3 infrastructure but at the last step we piped the updated information of the Black Friday specific products to a separate Postgres DB as well and that allowed us to run fancy queries that could answer almost any kind of questions we have about the data.
perl -e 'my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";my $output = `$cmd`;my $session_id = $output;$session_id=~s/.?ID:\s(\w+)./$1/si;my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);print STDERR $output,"\n";while(1) { print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n"; my $userInput =<stdin> ; chomp ($userInput); if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) { $userInput = $keyMap{$userInput}; } else { print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n"; next; } my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput"; my $output = `$cmd`; print STDERR "\n$output\n"; if($output=~/Message:/si) { exit(0); }}'
Secondly, like how we all know that company.com/about usually takes us to the team page, the press might try to hit up press@. There is always a fallback - the contactus@ but when the number of emails start exploding, it helps when tagging emails by purpose.
If not for the title, I think you do have a point here. I've had a mac for close to 6 years now and after each installation/upgrade, it feels like I'm back on my old laptop - nothing seems to have changed drastically. And that is a great thing. You get back to work faster knowing that things have been improved under the hood.
That is why they look so similar.
What we meant was you cannot resell the data. We shall fix the wording of that ASAP. Thanks for pointing it out.
We did hear that feedback too. Hopefully our API helps mitigate that issue. Hit me up at vinoth at semantics3.com if you'd like to talk about how our API could work for you!
Or if we find that the existing data that we gathered from our existing sources for a certain vertical could be improved, we add new niche sites to augment the data that we already have.