akudha

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by akudha 2y ago
lol, there are “managers” making 40k a year (with 3 people reporting to them) that have huge egos. It isn’t surprising that world’s richest man child has the ego to match his wealth. Something wrong with society as a whole. People being cru
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by akudha 2y ago
One thing that I notice often - people just do not take 5 minutes to appreciate someone or send 5 dollars to a project that they use daily etc. Not just in the software world, but life in general. Someone I know works full time, takes care
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by akudha 2y ago
What did you like about him until 2018? He is not some visionary or genius or even smart. Neither is/was he a decent person to deal with (read up on his PayPal days). He is however, extraordinarily ruthless and thin skinned. So what is
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by akudha 2y ago
What an incredible resource. They have so much data, even from tiny countries - https://tradingeconomics.com/countries I wonder how (where) they are able to get so much data. Maybe they are paying for data?
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by akudha 2y ago
Why are the datasets deleted though? Biden or Trump, Democrats or Republicans - What do they gain?
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by akudha 2y ago
Lets say 10% of people have a side job. Are we gonna put stupid rules in place and piss off the other 90%? That dude who posted updates on the wrong channel? He deserves to get fired. That said, lets say he was doing his job well and he was
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by akudha 2y ago
I asked around, got these as reasons from various people (management or otherwise) for forcing workers to come to office 1. Effective tool to force people to quit, instead of laying them off 2. Smart, fast workers have figured out ways to d
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by akudha 2y ago
While interviewing candidates for a critical role in my organization, the recruiter mentioned that she is finding it hard to get good candidates who want to come to office. And yet, management stuck to "minimum 3 days from office"
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by akudha 2y ago
Maybe I feel this way because I am not a smart human, but why is being intelligent so important, at the cost of being kind, ethical etc? What is so special about Peter Theil’s philosophy if that man is part of the billionaire club who are u
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by akudha 2y ago
The quicker we make peace with the fact that hard work alone will not get us ahead (in most cases) the better it is for our mental health. We can put as much effort into our jobs as long as we accept that the only guaranteed result is our
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by akudha 2y ago
I have an American address and card. I suppose I have to provide extensive documentation then?
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by akudha 2y ago
How smooth is the signup process? I remember reading they require passport copy etc, which makes me uncomfortable
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by akudha 2y ago
It all depends on the family, how close they are/were, their shared interests etc. Not sure we can pass generalized comments - what if my dad left me 40K books and he and I shared interest in books? It may not be rude for my dad then t
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by akudha 2y ago
I don’t understand why companies/people don’t respond. Apply for a job, they talk to you for months and stop suddenly. Go on multiple dates, then the person stops responding. Etc. A simple polite “we’re not moving forward with your ap
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by akudha 2y ago
Isn't scale a difference? How much damage can one guy do from a street corner VS the other guy operating a large marketplace where anyone can buy anything from anywhere?
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by akudha 2y ago
if they hadn't gotten it from the silk road they'd have gotten it elsewhere "If I don't do it, someone else will" - I suppose this is a convenient excuse that can be applied to anything unsavory, from the little g
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by akudha 2y ago
Sure, I get your point. But there are lots of tiny things that we can do to make our lives a teeny, tiny bit better - these things are fully in our control. Example - someone makes a large spreadsheet, but without locking the header row or
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by akudha 2y ago
I once got a call to recruit me to the company that I was working for ! Recruiters are worse than used car salesmen, it is just volume and quantity for them. And I am not even some hot shot engineer, just mediocre run of the mill dev
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by akudha 2y ago
Can you run a 1M, 10M dollar business ethically without screwing over anyone - employees, customers, suppliers, environment etc? Sure. What about 100M, 1B, 10B, 100B businesses? How many Billion dollar businesses can we name that are run et
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by akudha 2y ago
Not just capitalism, luck applies to even ordinary things like getting jobs etc. This is not to say we shouldn't try or put effort into whatever we are doing, but luck does play a big part. In one place where I worked, this 18 year old
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by akudha 2y ago
When I was a kid, I read about Jack Welch and thought he was great. Later I learned of all the shenanigans he pulled, not just unethical, but illegal stuff. And the way he trampled people. Bill Gates is a respected philanthropist today, he
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by akudha 2y ago
I can't remember the names of people or the video title now, but I remember watching it few years ago - this family moves to a remote place and builds a cabin there. Their son (25 years old, I think) dies. They live there for a while a
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by akudha 2y ago
But this model can be used for more than generating code, no?
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by akudha 2y ago
Apologies for the dumb question - can these models be used at my work, i.e, for commercial purposes? What is the legality of it?
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by akudha 2y ago
Your logic seems to boil to “Person A is a bully, so let’s bring a bigger bully, aka Person B, to bully A”. Nobody (other than billionaires) is happy with congress, their approval rating is the lowest it has ever been. That doesn’t mean we
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by akudha 2y ago
“Tax the rich” isn’t just about the money. It is more to the power that comes with a handful of people having insane amounts of money. Money is power, whether we like it or not. Why else an unelected private citizen (Elon) is able to bull
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by akudha 2y ago
I remember reading somewhere that over 80% of the grains grown in the U.S is for animal consumption, not human. Those animals are then slaughtered for human consumption. I don't know how true that number is, but even if it is half that
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by akudha 2y ago
Seems easier to improve the process and ethics of killing animals for consumption rather than reducing meat consumption at a society level. This is the point I am also trying to make. At least short term, I do not see meat consumption goi
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by akudha 2y ago
I never asked anyone to stop eating meat or even reduce it. I only tried (very politely, because I know this is a sensitive topic) to point out the effects of overfishing etc and in my experience, people don't want to hear it. In many
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by akudha 2y ago
Not defending vegetarians (or anyone else) here, but people decide how much morality/ethics they are willing to go for. There are people who don't eat steak/chicken etc, but eat seafood. Some people don't consider fish a

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