jnaut
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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
I haven't seen such subtle observations of mind laid out so cleanly and perfectly, ever before. I was going all thru such "unnecessary drifting" disputes/money, for quite some time in recent past, but realised it just now. Feels like enlightened!
I need to change the top idea in my mind for sure. But as pg rightly noted and I quote: """Money matters are particularly likely to become the top idea in your mind. The reason is that they have to be. It's hard to get money. It's not the sort of thing that happens by default. It's not going to happen unless you let it become the thing you think about in the shower. And then you'll make little progress on anything else you'd rather be working on. """ I will still need to do something about it, without letting it become the top idea in my mind.
Thanks!
Comment · 17 years ago
My demo is down too, hope this comes back soon. :(
Comment · 17 years ago
Can you give me some numbers to substantiate "costs will be low in Pune"?
I agree with events at Bangalore but I guess Pune is lately picking up on that too.
Comment · 17 years ago
I am a bit surprised here, its been 4hours+ but no answers!!
Comment · 17 years ago
You're welcome!!
Comment · 17 years ago
Add the prefix "Ask HN:" to your question, otherwise it will not get the visibility and attention you want.
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Here are my two cents on the issue:
Imagine the country going to vote without Identity/SSN verification (registration) and only asked to put down address (IP), how many times a fraudulent person would vote? once?
Even online registration is not fool proof 'coz one can register many times using many emails, but it does create a filter to keep the spam low.
By looking at your site's name 'BuyersVote' I was reminded about a controversy associated with ebay once (not sure of now), some of the the sellers were creating bogus buyer accounts on ebay and creating fraudulent positive feedback for themselves and this was a 'with-registration' system.
So I guess voting systems today are open to abuse, registration just creates a filter and keep the abuse rate low. This will remain the status-quo till the web gets a universal, neutral online identity provider. (OpenID is there but doesn't seem to be catching enough attention and is not an ideal system in my opinion)
I asked the same question on HN 1450 days ago, see the responses I got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916622
Jaipur may not be the best place to start at this point in time but it definitely seem to have some future promises to offer.
I would like to bring to your notice that Entrepreneurship/Startup radar has picked up in Jaipur lately. Several events, groups have come up:
Some examples are:
groups:
startup jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jaipurtechies/
ceo jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/CeoJaipur
startup saturday jaipur: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssjaipur/
events:
Startup saturday event is happening every month
Startup Jaipur also meets physically , a little infrequently though, since December last year. And I plan to do hackthons and stuff under this (I am one of the founding members and an admin on FB), a little short on bandwidth though, would like to take the lead and try a hand?
CEO Jaipur the first co-working space for/by/of the entrepreneurs started some time back. They have space to host other events too.
Then there were some events from TIE like 'TIE mashup' that recently happened.
more events:
Bringing startup weekend to Jaipur is in process.
Overall, it's heating up but agreeably not as mature or vibrant as Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad or Pune. ( Lived and experienced the first three cities and their meetups personally.)
I am from Jaipur too and I run a startup ( http://startuplabs.io/ ) here.
Let me know if you would like to meetup and hangout.