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by blueblisters 4y ago
If your peers in online classes are cheating and you’re not, you’re at a material disadvantage when it comes to grading. Unless the teacher decides to start reporting your peers for academic integrity violations [1]. Same goes for academia
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by blueblisters 4y ago
“Corruption” is an easy scapegoat because it allows the electorate to believe that a new, clean and strong politician can solve all their problems. The reality is combination of low civic sense (why litter in the first place?), under-resour
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by blueblisters 4y ago
> For their part, the (large majority) who think the Dark Matter is out there and we just have to measure harder are serenely confident. For the folks who have spent their entire careers searching for dark matter, what would it take to c
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by blueblisters 4y ago
Software engineering is not easy but no profession comes close to software engineering when it comes to the sheer number of high-paying jobs it creates. I think much of the "alpha" comes from being truly cross-disciplinary - all j
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by blueblisters 4y ago
> In The Future, when we loft hundreds of flat mirrors maintained in an array hundreds of km across, all this will seem pretty pedestrian. Or we use the Sun as a gravitational lens.
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Shopify has a serious performance problem(twitter.com)
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by blueblisters 4y ago
If I like an Airbnb property listed by a business, I often look them up to see if they offer a better deal on their website. Airbnb is a fantastic distribution for such listings. I recently discovered a startup (Limehome) through Airbnb - i
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by blueblisters 4y ago
I think India’s position was much more fiscally constrained to even consider a demand-side stimulus. I think a means-tested demand-side stimulus was still warranted given the number of people and industries who lost their livelihood because
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by blueblisters 4y ago
I think you would still need some form of 3D modeling if you want to achieve a good/accurate fit for apparel on your body.
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by blueblisters 5y ago
> Duncan and Davies actually cobbled together two generations of electronic bottles. Their first generation of devices, the ones that sailed along the Ganges, had plenty of cell towers to ping along the way, so a SIM card would do. But t
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by blueblisters 5y ago
It's hard to find "authentic Indian" food anywhere, not even in India. There is a lot of intra-regional and inter-regional variations and interpretations of dishes, even the popular ones. Indian cuisine and recipes were never
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by blueblisters 5y ago
ASML supplies the machines, TSMC builds the infrastructure around them to maximize yields/make the investment profitable. Both of them have built complementary IP that is nearly impossible to replicate without violating multiple patent
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by blueblisters 5y ago
If you don't mind sharing more: 1. What kind of companies do you consult with? Is it startups, enterprises, mid-size companies? I see you mentioned forming connections with founders so I presume you mostly work with early stage startup
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Somewhat similar/relevant: Taiwan’s Tech Giants Are Being Hit by India Culture Shock ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/taiwans-tech-giants-... )
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by blueblisters 5y ago
How did they even justify the use of a camera-only sensor system for low-light conditions? At least the radar sensors had some complementarity with visible light sensors but they decided to get rid of those too.
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Is the RBI deliberately trying to handicap credit cards in India? The decision to make recurring payments impossible, followed by having to enter card information every time I do an online transaction is making for a very frustrating experi
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Increase in human lifespan (and longevity of "youth") is the most obvious sign of the success of modern civilization. We have doubled the average life expectancy in just about a century, so by your reasoning, past humans would lik
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by blueblisters 5y ago
All of this is true. I would just add one thing - if your peers are raising money, it's often suicidal not to accept money in the current market. The anecdotes about Google, Facebook, AirBnB are very hard to transfer to startups which
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Most of these images appear to be from a single instance of cheating from a state in India (Bihar) with relatively poor law enforcement. I imagine that in more higher stakes exams like the JEE, parents will likely not be able to get away wi
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by blueblisters 5y ago
I agree. I think the most telling sign is the hand gesture for the number 3 when he says "just invested 300 bucks". Don't think Deepfake models can understand intent yet.
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Tesla's stock price has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It seems like Tesla's success combination of a genuinely good product, the Musk hype (and troll) machine, early mover advantage, and most importantly access to cheap capit
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Isn't it good to have complementary skills in the founding team though? Technical founders often struggle with sales, marketing, raising money, operations and their time is better used in building the actual product. Having said that,
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by blueblisters 5y ago
1B is very impressive but more than twice that in the same time really puts the capacity, scale and reach of the Chinese State at a different level. Still I am curious why China is not opening up the borders to visitors?
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Central banks debase currencies to discourage people from hoarding cash and using it as a store of value instead of investing it into productive assets. They are not perfect but they don't pretend to be something they are not. Bitcoin
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Great paper! Things that stood while skimming: - Bidirectional DNS poisoning: China can send forged DNS responses if you try to access certain Chinese domains from outside the GFW. This isn't server-side enforced geoblocking. - GFW use
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I have always imagined China to have more sophisticated tools for monitoring financial flows than Soviet Russia. Crypto (at least Bitcoin) isn't all that anonymous, nor outside CCP control so long as there are exchanges and miners loca
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by blueblisters 5y ago
I think the Indian sub-continent did alright with democracy but I wouldn't say it was always the best choice. Singapore did well with a "benevolent authoritarian" founder who actively tried to minimize ethnic and racial diffe
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by blueblisters 5y ago
what do you mean by "efficient"? Developer productivity or server performance?
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by blueblisters 5y ago
Sri Lankans can probably answer this but Sri Lanka is in a vicious cycle - Covid-19 devastated tourism, which reduced the foreign currency reserves, which weakened the Sri Lankan Rupee, which made imports costly for an island that depends o
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by blueblisters 5y ago
That's the thing with vocationals skills - they make you really good at understanding how something works or how to fix something without breaking something else, but beyond that range of problems and solutions, you need to talk to an

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