akudha

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by akudha 3y ago
Not everything in life needs to make a profit. Kiva is not an investment instrument for making profits, it is to help people who are less fortunate than us. I am now out of touch with Kiva (though I still make loans) but I have been to many
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by akudha 3y ago
Every recruiter I have interacted with, in the last decade, has been nasty individuals. Changing my resume without my knowledge, stealing my wages (been fighting two years now, to get it back), paying late consistently (we are talking 4-6 m
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by akudha 3y ago
Yup. And electing people to office with at least an iota of conscience. One area the current admin is better than the previous one - labor issues. Not perfect (they screwed the railway workers) but better
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by akudha 3y ago
Do you have more info? Blog?
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by akudha 3y ago
how do they make sure the user doesn't things like "rm -rf *" or something?
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Ask HN: How to let users run code on a website, for learning? Like educative?
2 points by akudha 3y ago|4 comments
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by akudha 3y ago
All through the night about a dozen people were watching movies or playing games on their phone with the sound on This was surprising and irritating to me, when I first came to the U.S. I have had the pleasure of experiencing this everywh
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by akudha 3y ago
I've a team member who is about a year out of college. He calls me 2-3 times a week asking for help on whatever task he is working on. His timezone is 10 hours ahead of mine. Mentoring is doable. Couple of months ago, there were some d
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by akudha 3y ago
I don't even turn my video on these days during calls. Most of my team mates don't. Some of them don't know how I look and I don't know how some of them look. And yet, we work well as a team. We are all in different citi
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by akudha 3y ago
Thank you, especially the link to the course.
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Ask HN: Could you recommend beginner Bioinformatics resources?
1 points by akudha 3y ago|2 comments
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by akudha 3y ago
Getty Images also filed an AI lawsuit, alleging that Stability AI ... lol, bad karma? So it is okay for Getty to steal from others, but not ok for others to steal from them? I don't have a dog in this fight, but the goddamn the hypoc
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by akudha 3y ago
Bootstrap Studio looks good. Is there anything like that for Tailwind?
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Ask HN: What uncommon/unusual knowledge has improved your life, positively?
4 points by akudha 3y ago|1 comments
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by akudha 3y ago
Netflix has been going downhill for the past few years. It is inspiring to see individuals succeeding on Substack - https://growthinreverse.com/archive/ It proves that people will pay for quality content and it is pos
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by akudha 3y ago
Similarly, I’ve seen government bodies try to use WhatsApp as their official communication channel. There is at least one college that I know of, where every announcement is made on Facebook, and Facebook only. Students are forced to have
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by akudha 3y ago
Genuinely curious, not being sarcastic or cute here. With hype everywhere, and job ads filled with buzzwords and acronyms, how does one choose what to learn? Something that is sane, that is joyful to work with, that will be around for at le
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by akudha 3y ago
We can keep debating this all day long, nothing is going to change. The best thing to do is stop using these services. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok... We can easily live without them. Our lives might actually be better without them.
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by akudha 3y ago
Few years ago, Kuwaiti government wanted to collect DNA samples of all humans within its borders (citizens and foreigners). https://www.newsweek.com/kuwait-becomes-first-country-world-... I don’t know if it materialized or
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by akudha 3y ago
I don’t like compulsory military service. That said, with the rise of obesity and other health problems, this might make a small difference in getting people (men?) take their health a bit more seriously, once they leave the service. I am
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by akudha 3y ago
I don’t understand HN sometimes. Why is your comment being downvoted? As other comments are pointing out, it is practically very hard to ban anything when nation governments are the ones doing the very thing that much of humanity would like
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Ask HN: How are you fighting apps for mundane things, extreme data collection?
2 points by akudha 3y ago|2 comments
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by akudha 3y ago
I work very long hours for the Internet Archive, and I am making a huge difference in the world working for them. It wouldn’t be right or useful for me to take on any other job. I also don’t want to be doing something like making “stuff” t
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by akudha 3y ago
I have had more than 10 jobs in my life - big companies, small companies, even a non profit. The one common thing in these jobs? Firing at will, with zero thought for anything other than saving a penny. Same story among the people I know.
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by akudha 3y ago
It is amusing that an entity as obscenely rich as the Vatican isn’t providing official high quality images of their own flag. Maybe it isn’t as important in the grand scheme of things?
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Making a Masterpiece with a Vintage Typewriter [video](youtube.com)
2 points by akudha 3y ago|1 comments
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by akudha 3y ago
This is very humbling to watch, especially during a time where people are rushing to do as many things as they can, with AI
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by akudha 3y ago
Yes. I suppose there should be some minimal rules (no politics, no religion etc) but otherwise people would be free to create whatever they want to. There was an article on HN few weeks ago, about a Russian open source programmer. He was go
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by akudha 3y ago
Depends on how much money I have. I’d like build a small community where food, stay etc will be free. And invite creators to come over and create anything - books, art, software…
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by akudha 3y ago
People like Cruz, Graham know precisely what they are doing, they aren’t dumb. This MyPillow guy though - he seems genuinely crazy and dumb. It is kinda sad to see him rant and rave on Faux

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