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by akudha 4y ago
I was looking for a book a while ago, it was something like $150 in the U.S. Out of curiosity, I looked up the price in other countries. It was 150 times the exchange rate. 150$ for a book is a lot of money even in the U.S. How do publisher
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by akudha 4y ago
Not sure what your point is. Sarcasm? Funny? Honest press is vital to a healthy society. It is not wrong to hold press and journalists to higher standards
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by akudha 4y ago
In a financial services firm I worked for, I had to help this intern (maybe 19, 20 years old). She was well dressed, well spoken etc, but didn't seem too keen on doing any actual work. Later I found out that she was the kid of a VP w
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by akudha 4y ago
How do these magazines write glowing reviews of people like this Sam kid? I understand it is hard to do due diligence on entities that are purposefully opaque etc. But shouldn't these magazines question everything, isn't that the
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by akudha 4y ago
I don’t know about other predictions, but at the end of 2022, if someone denies climate change, it is just dumb. My guess is that these older people probably think they’ll be gone soon anyway, so why give up air travel, gas guzzling cars et
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by akudha 4y ago
The other guy is not female, white or blonde. Studies have shown that women get less punishment for the same crime than men. Same way, good looking criminals also get less punishment than not-good looking ones.
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by akudha 4y ago
Google, Apple, Amazon all make products that are useful, whether we like their business practices or not. If Facebook disappears overnight, I don’t think it will matter much. If anything, it would have a positive impact on society. If Twitt
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by akudha 4y ago
What you are describing is one part of the problem. I have friends who earn in dollars. They can easily afford to buy a couple of apartments every year. They do this and let those apartments sit vacant for a few years, waiting for them t
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by akudha 4y ago
During my dad's time, it was much easier to buy a house on a modest salary. And the houses were well built too. These days, it is near impossible to buy a house unless you are a very high earner, as all available real estate is being g
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by akudha 4y ago
Not everything is rosy though. In cities like Bangalore, real estate is super expensive, thanks to software salaries. The same is happening in second, third tier cities now. But generally speaking, yes, all it takes is one person from a fam
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by akudha 4y ago
they instead push narratives that increase emotions Isn’t this the default mode of operation for the media? Are there any countries (Nordic?) where most of the media isn’t corrupt, fear mongering, clickbaity etc?
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by akudha 4y ago
It doesn’t matter if Twitter burns to the ground. Some other shitty website will take its place. Instead of raging against shitty media, we should concentrate on creating better media. It is exceptionally hard though. There are independent
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by akudha 4y ago
I don't know why people work for Tesla/SpaceX. I can take a guess though - there are only a handful of companies that work in space related field and only a few companies that make electric cars. So it is somewhat understandable
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by akudha 4y ago
lol. Suppose their salaries reduced to half of what they are making today, how many of them do you still think will continue to work at these places, for the technical challenges and whatever else they have told themselves is the real reaso
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by akudha 4y ago
Are we deluding ourselves here? Why do you think hundreds of thousands of extremely bright people work for horrific/products companies like Facebook, Palantir etc? Money. Money talks and talks very loudly. Most people have a price at w
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by akudha 4y ago
I'm learning Cyrstal. Do you have any advice on which of the two frameworks you listed should a newcomer try?
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by akudha 4y ago
It would be nice if he can control the deforestation of Amazon. Among the most urgent issues Brazil needs to address
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by akudha 4y ago
Yes, but Apple is exceptionally wealthy, has a huge brand following etc. Unlike other big corporations. They can make large bets, set examples etc. They won’t, it will hurt short term profits. They’ll just do a little and let their marketin
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by akudha 4y ago
Genuinely curious - what more weapons do we need? Especially western superpowers? Do we not have enough weaponry to destroy this planet million times over? What more destructive power can AI provide, beyond the already existing drones/
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by akudha 4y ago
It is all marketing. Apple patted themselves for their “courage” (hahaha) to remove headphone jacks. I forgot which company it was - they gave some money to charity, but spent 10 times more on ads that highlighted their one good deed of
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by akudha 4y ago
I remember going to an event that had Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé etc. It wasn’t anything special - we had to wait for hours to get in, we weren’t allowed to take even water bottles, long lines for the bathroom, even longer lines to buy overpriced
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by akudha 4y ago
I don’t have an answer to your question. That said, if every experience is sold to the highest bidders, only rich people can experience these events, isn’t it? Maybe I am just old - what is so special about these events anyway? Everything i
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by akudha 4y ago
Life is too short and there are big problems to deal with - my grocery bill went up by 25% in the last couple of months, and my salary is still the same. My rent went up by more than 9% this year. I don’t feel bad for people dropping hundre
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by akudha 4y ago
There is more than 50% chance that Herschel Walker is going to win. He is definitely not bright. There are many such examples. Then there are Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley type politicians who are definitely smart, but say/do insane stuff beca
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by akudha 4y ago
How would a six figure fine help? If I made 125k for a few mins of insider trading work, and I get fined 100k, I still made 25k profit, right?
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by akudha 4y ago
lol. For every person doing it blatantly, there must be more people doing it quietly? Like letting a friend of a friend in another state/country trade on the info? Are there ways to track these trades too?
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by akudha 4y ago
Last year, some idiot opened a bank account in my name. I was lucky to find out - I tried to get in touch with the bank. Zero human contact - the only way to communicate with them is via email. No phones, no chat, no in-person - nothing. Ju
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by akudha 4y ago
Setting money aside for a moment, one can do much more good in a government position that as a private entity (unless you have Bill Gates level wealth, but that is a different conversation). My dad worked for a nationalized bank - we were p
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by akudha 4y ago
Britain, Brazil, Australia, Philippines, India, Turkey, U.S … it is mind numbing that of all the good, talented people these countries have, only the dumbest, worst of the worst end up in positions of power. Depressing. At this point, we ca
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by akudha 4y ago
Glad it worked for you, but in my experience, this doesn't always work. Making everyone a developer and a business analyst is a super stupid idea. This is not something subtle like rotating people to work on different parts of the sa

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