esalman 5 days ago

I never even heard of this website/magazine and even they have a Paywall.

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jaredwiener 5 days ago

It's almost as if their desire for getting paid for their work is unrelated to your awareness of them.

treetalker 5 days ago

I mean, what's an extra $120–$299 per year to subscribe to this website, especially when it's of such high quality that it already has

> 5,00,000+ subscribers [sic]

?

puzzledobserver 5 days ago

It looks like the website is based in India.

Instead of the ones(10^0)-thousands(10^3)-millions(10^6)-billions(10^9)-... system followed in most other parts of the world, the Indian numbering system uses ones(10^0)-thousands(10^3)-lakhs(10^5)-crores(10^7)-...

So, for example, half a million subscribers (500,000) would translate to 5 lakh subscribers (5,00,000).

esalman 5 days ago

Does this website also have a print version, and maybe counting those subscribers? Not really familiar.

flakiness 5 days ago

Another day, another trivia tidbit :-) Love HN. Thanks for sharing.

ripe 5 days ago

Seems to be using the Indian numbering system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

achierius 5 days ago

It's the Indian English convention for placing commas in numbers -- one comma after the first three digits, then one comma after every two digits thereafter. e.g.

1,23,45,67,890.