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by akudha 4y ago
Shitty people push/bend the rules as far as they can, to see what they can get away with. If they lose, they don’t lose much. If they win, it becomes the new normal, in their favor. I too hope they lose and are shamed (assuming they fe
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Ask HN: How do you secure your personal computer?
2 points by akudha 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What is your retirement plan? After retirement, what?
48 points by akudha 4y ago|96 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
Across the country, many laws are passed by red states that might not hold up if they are challenged in Supreme Court. But how many cases can SC take on? How long will these cases take? Primary objective of these laws is to scare people and
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by akudha 4y ago
I happen to catch part of conversation between two young, very good looking female colleagues of mine back when I still used to go to office (same cubicle, sometimes I heard things even though I didn't mean to). They were disappointed
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by akudha 4y ago
18K USD is a LOT of money in India. Real estate in bigger Indian cities is super expensive. Everything else is much, much cheaper than western countries. You can get fantastic food (tasty and healthy) compared to the U.S, very cheap. Things
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by akudha 4y ago
This philosophy of praising exploitation I read that comment as sarcastic. I don't think your parent comment is praising him
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by akudha 4y ago
I feel like Zuck is just lucky. While some amount of luck (right time, right place etc) is involved in every bog achievement, Zuck seems pretty pathetic when compared to Gates or Jobs. He is doing one thing well though - keeping Facebook co
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by akudha 4y ago
There are ways to support immigration without ceding one's country to foreigners. I am not suggesting they import 50 million people overnight. Japan has very little interest in allowing even modest amount of immigration. And Immigrat
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by akudha 4y ago
Is declining birth rate really that bad? We are at 8 Billion humans already, how many more can the planet support, with all its environment and inequality problems? That said, birth date decline is not uniform around the world. And countrie
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by akudha 4y ago
It depends on the importance of the business. Hospital mistreating the patients? Sure, escalate it. Try to get it fixed, as politely as possible. Local Dunkin behaving badly (my recent experience)? Just stop giving them my business. I can m
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by akudha 4y ago
I am terrified of affecting someone's health, freedom or money (especially health and freedom) unknowingly, mistakenly etc. How do people who lie in court, use unproven tools etc to screw someone's entire life sleep at night? This
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by akudha 4y ago
I dunno, if I had a property with art that is 10,000 years old, I will try my best to preserve it. Regardless of whether they were made by my ancestors or not, because it doesn’t matter. It was made by humans. So in a way, they are my anc
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by akudha 4y ago
The battle is lost the moment data is collected. It will be leaked, misused, stolen etc. The question is not IF, the question is WHEN. All the laws, promises, good intentions etc are not worth the paper they are written on. If there is da
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by akudha 4y ago
So how much money does Google make from their music streaming service? They can exit the business citing the shitty, unfair practices of music/movie licensing. But they won’t. They aren’t in the business to ethically make money, just l
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by akudha 4y ago
Not you parent comment, please share more details. Thank you
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by akudha 4y ago
I did the same, looks like it is Spotify only? https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/episodes#show-tab-... Assuming that is the show they are talking about. God, I hate these walled gardens
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by akudha 4y ago
I really enjoy this one - https://callingbullshitpodcast.com/episodes/ It is about the gap between companies' stated goals and their actual behavior. Citations needed - https://citationsneeded.libsyn.co
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by akudha 4y ago
Are people more racist, sexist, dumb etc today, compared to 50-100 years ago? I’d guess no, but it feels that way because of the global and instant nature of the internet. YouTube is filled with videos of people doing dumb things. Similar
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Ask HN: What are some good language learning games?
1 points by akudha 4y ago|1 comments
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by akudha 4y ago
It is greed for sure. But it is also the lack of legit opportunities to invest, unless one is an accredited investor. I found a handful of places I wanted to invest, but I can't, because I am not an accredited investor. I am left with
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by akudha 4y ago
Is there a reason why these big layoffs are done just before thanksgiving, Christmas etc?
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by akudha 4y ago
How so?
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by akudha 4y ago
Ok, fair enough. The truth is, if you and I were raised there, we probably would But that is kinda what I said though, isn’t it? Anyway, I wasn’t trying to make them sound like monsters (except the rulers, they sure are). I’ll try to word
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by akudha 4y ago
Why don’t you have an opinion? They’re treating women so bad, their policies are stuck in 1200s, and we are in 2022. Does that not bother you at least a bit? Honest question about the argument - how would you phrase it (I wrote that comment
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by akudha 4y ago
Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not No normal, rational human being would want to cover their face. If they do, then it means they’re raised that way and brainwashed. Or they’
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by akudha 4y ago
Countries like India have multi party system. That doesn’t seem to have slowed corruption/bribery at all. How would it help in the U.S? In a way, corruption is the U.S is worse because it is legalized (campaign contributions). If there
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by akudha 4y ago
My default mode is to trust everyone until they break my trust. Now that I am old, I have realized that trusting everyone by default is not a good idea, especially big tech. In cases like this, I think it is better to assume malice, even i
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by akudha 4y ago
He is 76. He has had more than 3,000 lawsuits against him. He has been breaking the law for decades. Still nothing. There is a reason why he is called “The Teflon Don”
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by akudha 4y ago
This is the person who took classified documents including nuclear material home. Nothing happened to him, as usual. What effect is some rule on a shitty social media site going to have on him?

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