L_Rahman

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by L_Rahman 5y ago
Like you I was a 50km/30 mile wake up and go person regardless of baseline health before the pandemic. Since I got the original strain in March 2020, I struggle to break 10.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
Vendors in Bangladesh, where I grew up and where my family is from and where I look like I was born, try to rip me off the second they get the slightest inkling I'm American. Very little to do with skin color, it's just most often
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
Places like this ask about your dietary restrictions during either the reservation or before the beginning of service. The chef will make on the fly adjustments based on each diner's needs. My brother and I went to Eleven Madison Park
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
The French Laundry was only $250 back in 2017? No wonder it was booked out forever, they could (and I believe now are) charging easily 2x that number.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
One of the weirdest things about going hiking around Kyoto is coming across valleys of identical trees spaced evenly in neat rows. Absolutely eerie feeling, I was so creeped out I didn't even stop to take pictures.
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
So many things in Japan are terribly inefficient. They just get some things right that we don't out of sheer necessity. Those clearly marked subway stations are there because of the inhuman rush hour crush that is the Tokyo Metro at 5P
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by L_Rahman 5y ago
I used to think this until I spent some time bouncing around East Asia. Tokyo is not even that dense relative to other high functioning Asian mega cities. Seoul is 3x, Taipei is 1.5x. They're much less polite places than Tokyo and mana
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
I've always thought that a team like this is critical to keeping a company running. Any org that's 1000+ needs a 5-7 person team outside of any department that the CEO can throw at problems, but no org that I'm aware of has a
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Critically, if someone within the org volunteers to organize and manage the cross departmental knowledge they'll be shut down by people within the company for trying to accumulate power or stepping into someone else's turf. Only a
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
I spent a few months in São Paulo working on a project with Hospital das Clínicas. No matter how many times I saw it, the sheer number of contests in which people and websites would ask for a CPF was astonishing. For Americans, imagine if y
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
This a peak comment of a particular style of hacker news commentator - the I will die on a hill for one very specific thing and I don't understand why other people cannot see it my way. Question to OP: do you see a distinction between
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MTA – New Live Subway Map for NYC(work.co)
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
This examples fails to account for the fact that radiant floor heating is a default feature in all new Korean homes.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Which is why I find it better to get business analysis from people who've made it their job and not overly excited tech journalists: https://diff.substack.com/p/to-understand-jio-you-need-to-un...
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Where do all these roosters live? I kept an eye out for them wherever I went in Da nang, but I never saw any of these roosters. Definitely heard them every dawn though.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Let's leave Vietnam out of this. They're not hiding their numbers. It's difficult for the rest of the world to admit this, but Vietnam beat the virus because their leadership acted quickly, ruthlessly and over time. In the ea
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
> DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams Has this is water become so widely known that we can simply reference it in conversation like this?
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
I respect the call out in this comment.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
In the interest of intellectual honesty, it's possible that I'm an extreme outlier in this respect. I've spent the last year traveling around the world, I find it really easy to share emotional vulnerability with strangers, a
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
The final claim is hyperbolic. There absolutely is another option which is to find people who aren't interested in performing amiability or socializing exclusively in the safety of their ethnicity. I made friends because we loved talki
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
I went to Hopkins to study bioengineering. This ended up being a tactical mistake - the media hype around the field gave me unrealistic expectations, the life of an underpaid academic no longer seemed appealing, coursework was incredibly di
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
As someone who was accepted and got to see their financial aid package, I have to mention that it's extremely generous as well. They don't just cover room and board and tuition, there's an understanding that you're poore
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
They do not. The higher price for the SUV is a product of American market preferences for SUVs that have nothing to do with utility and everything to do with branding and self-image.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
His challenge is that he has to write about bond market liquidity as both an inside joke for the regular audience and as something comprehensible to a first time reader. I do enjoy the compromise he's found.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
I setup Wireguard using Algo on a home server I kept behind a home router with no problems. It was definitely a dynamic IP because Comcast doesn't provide static IPs for residential connections. Am I misunderstanding the limitation you
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
That is the case now, but this does not have to be true. It's entirely possible for Arizona to meet its household energy needs renewably.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Half of the reason I want to run my own company is build this culture and hire that role. The team librarian position is probably the single best value for money multiplier possible on team productivity and yet almost no one wants to invest
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
Exactly! This is why I chose to put "property values" in quotes. While it is something that they think about, it's mostly about excluding people they have prejudices against.
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
The prime opponents to new housing construction aren't people who complain about gentrification or luxury housing. Those groups don't have that much political power. The proof for this lies in the fact that most new housing constr
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by L_Rahman 6y ago
It's visually extremely inelegant as well. Seeing a kanji character next to a single stroke katakana character in the same word is ridiculous and yet somehow commonplace. I would be more surprised that the Japanese haven't done mo

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