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For a country with 1 billion people, India is handling the situation better than most countries from a numbers perspective.

As of today, India has around 1.19 million cases with 28,732 deaths and more importantly, 753k recoveries.

Comparatively, the US has around 4.04 million cases with 145k deaths and only 1.2 million recoveries.

What is missing from most conversations around COVID is how to strengthen your immune system to resist the more deadly symptoms of the virus.

The Indian diet, based on Ayurvedic principles, emphasizes the use of spices and other ingredients that are naturally anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial. It is common in many Indian families to treat seasonal illnesses through home remedies rather than immediately resorting to medication. Doctors in India are recommending COVID-positive patients to do the same. These home remedies include eating "soonth goli" (a mix of ginger, piprimul jaggery, almonds, and ghee), drinking turmeric milk, and various forms of steam therapy, to name a few.

When almost 75% of COVID patients are recovering, clearly India must be doing something right.

Followers of Jainism have been doing this for hundreds of years. There are multiple variations of intermittent fasting. For example, you can fast one day, feed once the next day or fast one day and feed twice the next day.

During the fasting days, people only consume boiled water between sunrise and sunset. No foods or drinks of any other kind are consumed. On feeding days, there are restrictions on the types of foods you can consume as well.

As a Jain, it's interesting to see research and studies being done around religious practices we've been following for years and more importantly, what the data and outcome shows.

For a bit more info, I recommend taking a look at this study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240069/

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Ask GaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Give and Take by Adam Grant

Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg

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I wonder how long before Apple acquires this company.

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I agree with his overall point, but I don't think the example he used was strong enough to support his case.

The scenario I was imagining is when we're both in the same company or same business. Obviously, he shouldn't/wouldn't care how much I make if I'm some random person. The idea is that if you have two employees within the same organization and they both make the same amount of money despite one employee doing less work, it definitely would anger the other employee, wouldn't it?

The point isn't about money. I agree with Seth on that. We shouldn't be chasing money and trying to one-up those around us. But the fact that the work I do as an employee is not viewed in the same regard as someone's else work is slightly jarring.

> They quit a good job, a job they liked, because other people got a raise.

> This is our culture of 'getting ahead' talking.

That's a pretty bold conclusion without any evidence. The concept of a salary is to pay someone in return for work performed. How would Seth feel if I make the same amount of money as him just by sitting at home (obviously an extreme scenario from one aspect)? It would undervalue his contributions, his hard work and dedication, the obstacles he had to overcome, etc. Any reasonable individual would have second thoughts about working at a company that considers a manager as an equal (financially, salary-wise) to a janitor (for example).

It would be safe to say that those two people didn't quit because other employees got a raise. It was probably due to the fact that their contributions didn't hold the same value anymore.

Hey Hannah,

How do interns apply? I wasn't able to find internship postings on the link you provided nor on the Priceline careers page. Have you started looking for 2016 summer interns yet?

Thanks, Viral

Thanks for checking it out!

Google's working on something called YouTube Gaming, which inspired this post, but it's basically their competitor to Twitch, rather a competitor to Meerkat/Periscope/Facebook Live.

It would be interesting to see what else they could bring to the table.

What's your point? I can do a simple search of any keyword and get back hundreds or thousands of results. There's no harm in sharing a recent article about a topic to spark discussion.

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Would love to get in touch with anyone interested!

May I suggest Pied Piper?

I totally agree. As a college student, Startup School definitely opened up my eyes, and it was amazing to hear from people who were in a similar position as me.

I wrote up a blog post about "What I Learned at Startup School," if anyone wants to check it out: https://medium.com/@virjog/what-i-learned-at-startup-school-...

Hey Joel,

I checked out the jobs page on the site and there doesn't seem to be a listing for internships? Do you guys offer any internships, specifically for college students?

Thanks, Viral

Same thing with the diamond merchants in India. A lot of deals and much of the communication is now done over WhatsApp. People in India get a smartphone for the sole reason to use WhatsApp, whether the individual is a servant or a rich businessman.

Is it possible for Tanja to have seen the photo in Ticker from a mutual friend who liked your photo? Or does Ticker adhere to the privacy restriction as well?

Jainism has been advocating fasting for thousands of years as a way to purify the soul, but with the knowledge that it has numerous health benefits, many of which you discussed in your post.

So, it took BBC 30 years to make a news story on this guy just because it was relevant to today's issues?

Squarespace, I've heard, is also very good.