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New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

prasadjoglekar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:50:14 +0000

Very much dependent on age, rest and general conditioning. I went from sea level to 14K at Pikes peak in 1 day and it was quite uncomfortable. I managed, but folks who lived in Denver with lower physical fitness levels than me, did better.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

prasadjoglekar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:49:17 +0000

$100B isn't a startup. And if there's a $100B deal, you better believe the cash is there. Case in point - Netflix/Paramount wanting to buy WB. Or the $44B that Musk had to raise to buy out Twitter shareholders.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online"

prasadjoglekar — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:40:30 +0000

Take it to it's logical conclusion. Free universal choice of schools rather than being tethered to your home address.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

prasadjoglekar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:16:46 +0000

The revenue is in the ads. If they hit a decent run rate prior to the IPO then there's a viable path to profitablity and justification for the insane capex.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6B valuation"

prasadjoglekar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:51:53 +0000

More WeWork than Theranos. Theranos was a fraud.

WeWork was a legit real estate business with a SaaS multiple on valuations.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "CBP says it can't comply with refund order"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:37:52 +0000

The headline is absolutely declarative. CBP can't comply. Period.

That's not what CBP said, and the article itself has the nuance that the headline doesn't

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice"

prasadjoglekar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:26:03 +0000

True. But just changing the prompt to include "cite me cases" expands the search to court systems and actual cases. It's pretty useful as a first pass to get a sense for the issues, precedents and laws at stake.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

prasadjoglekar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:46:55 +0000

There are rules. Networks have entire departments called Standards and Practices. But only because broadcasters don't pay for spectrum. Cable has laxer rules and almost none on anything streaming.

Across all of these, if any government or pseudo government body attempts to restrict advertising because of the content, they will get sued. Any advertiser making materially false claims will likewise also get sued.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

prasadjoglekar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:12:27 +0000

The down votes really reflect the groupthink here. American implementation of 1A is not perfect - tyrants still get around to suppressing speech they dislike.

But it's so much better than these alternatives.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

prasadjoglekar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:37:20 +0000

Start by calling (or visiting the area office of) your senator and congressman. If you are reasonably articulate, they engage and listen. Doesn't matter if the listener is not a techie; they will ask questions around policy and why it affects constituents.

This is 1000x more useful than online petitions or other passive stuff. Politicians know that one person to have taken the effort to do this, means 1000 others are feeling the same thing but are quiet.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

prasadjoglekar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:51:42 +0000

> There is no technical or economic reason to want coal power today.

A quick look at the PJM interconnect data would disagree with you. About a quarter of the live power is coal.

https://www.pjm.com/markets-and-operations.aspx

That serves 65+ Million people in the north east and is keeping them from dying of cold this past week, including today (Temp outside in the mid-hudson valley is 15F / -9C), and overnight will be 8F / -13C).

Just for context - electricity somehow powers everything in most homes. Your oil or propane furnace needs a power hookup to ignite.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

prasadjoglekar — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:21:22 +0000

There's also the unfortunate stick of a much larger parking ticket that is even more trouble to contest.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

prasadjoglekar — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:53:04 +0000

A combo of your IP, browser fingerprint plus the fact that you logged in somewhere and that links to your actual name etc. Identify you in isolation is not very useful. It's connecting that identity to another place that's valuable.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:15:24 +0000

China, Russia are not members of the ICC for the same reason the US is not. They do not want extra territorial entities applying laws to their citizens and soldiers.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:13:35 +0000

Of course they can. Good luck trying to serve and execute that warrant though.

And non ICC countries are squarely within their rights to retailiate. Most minor former colonies of the EU countries can't, but the US, China, Russia can.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:15:00 +0000

TLDR: he's a member of the ICC. Issues warrants against Israeli political leaders. Neither Israel nor the USA (nor China, Russia, India) are parties to the international conventions that formed the ICC.

He's being sanctioned as a result by the USA, which flowed down to US companies who must follow US law.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Being poor vs. being broke"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:23:15 +0000

Sometimes, a visible example does that. I know of numerous people in Mumbai who do servant jobs, whose kids have gone to engineering schools and gotten corporate jobs. This sort of story - 1st in my family to go college - needs to be prominent for a parent to want to aspire to that for their kids.

Doesn't work for the absolutely destitute of course.

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

prasadjoglekar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:44:40 +0000

That's what the court is for. Weighing the different arguments and applying precedents

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "How Airbus took off"

prasadjoglekar — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:57:12 +0000

There's a very nice video from Mustard about the Airbus story.

https://youtu.be/ln-ffJM9sJc

New comment by prasadjoglekar in "Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site"

prasadjoglekar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:19:29 +0000

Down the rabbit hole we go.