adharmad

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by adharmad 7y ago
If one is cushioned by unlimited amount of VC money, then it can take a while to realize that the vision was untenable.
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by adharmad 7y ago
WeWork is a cargo-cult startup
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by adharmad 7y ago
Apart from being a snarky article, the author does not propose any actual solutions. So what if a few folks try to hack sleep? Whatever floats their respective boats....
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by adharmad 8y ago
It might be related to Maslow's hierarchy.
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by adharmad 8y ago
Imperial college, LSE, Groningen, Moscow Univ, Utrech
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by adharmad 8y ago
Going public, they can get better at respecting local laws and regulations, and still sacrifice their customers (and of course employees) at the altar of their shareholders. (At least that is what I read the Op is saying).
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by adharmad 8y ago
Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century - Istvan Hargittai
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by adharmad 8y ago
And a recursive acronym to boot!
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by adharmad 8y ago
Yes there are no laws but I always wonder about this. If people are serious about testing this premise, why not be upfront with the investors and actually tell them that "maximizing profit is not one of our (primary) goals"?
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by adharmad 8y ago
And Oracle.
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by adharmad 8y ago
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multi
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by adharmad 8y ago
World chess ( https://worldchess.com ) has live streaming with Judith Polgar commenting. Chess24 also has the same with Peter Svidler, Guramishvili, Anish Giri and Grischuk commenting.
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by adharmad 8y ago
Spies too.
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by adharmad 8y ago
James Damore
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by adharmad 9y ago
Also sports budgets.
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by adharmad 9y ago
Don't companies like Glassdoor solve this problem? You don't need to know everyone's salary as long as you know the average, median and maximum in a specific corporation in a geographical area. I don't see how making eve
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by adharmad 9y ago
Same here. I was expecting some cool animation about what happens to the aircraft if the emergency door opens and how the turbulence spreads. Instead, what I got was some stock pictures of wine bottles and the pantry.
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by adharmad 9y ago
Maybe the butterfly effect analogy was a bit facetious, but I don't see David Bonderman resigning and Amit Singhal being forced out in an alternate universe where Susan Fowler does not write the blog.
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by adharmad 9y ago
In retrospect, it is interesting to see that a reflective blog post from an engineer ended up in the casualties of CEO, most of the senior leadership and a few board members. Maybe the cracks were already there but nevertheless it has been
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by adharmad 9y ago
This! With the reduction in workforce caused by increased automation or robots, there is going to be a large number of people who will be out of work. If there is a way of training them with newer skills and making them productive, that wou
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by adharmad 9y ago
Foster city real estate is an enigma. Had anecdotally heard from a lot of people that houses close to the bay are sinking very gradually. Nothing seems to affect the prices though :-)
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by adharmad 9y ago
The ability to use knowledge does not come out of thin air. It is unlikely to find someone who knows how to program C++ extremely well, or solve problems in Quantum Field theory, but does not remember most of the language constructs or math
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by adharmad 10y ago
I think he meant "higher salaries than they would make at home".
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by adharmad 10y ago
Won't such people find other ways of getting in trouble or losing their money? How many such avenues can the government block?
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by adharmad 10y ago
As a curosity - why should the surplus go to everyone? Shouldn't it go to the initiator of the innovation? The market distinguishes between the users (eg - people using MS Excel or Google search) and the initiators (in this case Micros
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by adharmad 10y ago
The problem is that, capital will flee any company that tries this to more efficient competitors. As long as it is a public company, there is no easy way to try this without any repercussions to the stock price. Countries can legislate this
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by adharmad 10y ago
Very sad to know that RethinkDB is shutting down. This was one company that I wanted to see being successful! A great tech team taking on a hard technical problem. Even if they are closing down, I hope they have changed the landscape. Also
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by adharmad 10y ago
It is a lottery if H-1B filings are oversubscribed in any calendar year. However, there are no country specific quotas AFAIK.
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by adharmad 10y ago
Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).
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by adharmad 10y ago
Fidelity as well

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