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by bongoman37 4y ago
Its extremely hard to identify bad middle management, as well as do anything about it. Unlike upper management, which is pretty mercenary and out for itself, and can be fired albeit with large golden parachutes, bad middle management is pre
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by bongoman37 4y ago
I think Facebook user numbers could drop just as fast as they rose. The network effects that drive a social network to add members could operate in reverse as well when higher engagement users drop and the remaining users either leave or be
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by bongoman37 4y ago
Environmentalists are often short sighted and more interested in scoring political points than saving the environment. In a large part, they are responsible for global warming by killing off the nuclear sector.
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by bongoman37 4y ago
As someone raised in India I didn't get the American dislike for organ meats. I love the liver, the tongue, the brain, and pretty much all the parts of the animal in their various forms. Most American meat preparations taste bland and
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by bongoman37 4y ago
By this argument Linus Torvalds would be responsible for everything from child porn to drug marketplaces to nuclear weapons.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
I can empathize with this :), high empathy is almost always a curse and gets taken advantage of. I've also numbed out over the years but its not ideal either. I've been accused of being sociopathic at times simply because empathy
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by bongoman37 5y ago
It is like Hacker News articles. Sometimes an article will have an upvote or two and few comments and sink from news, and then it gets reposted a couple of years later and there's hundreds of votes and tons of discussions.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This is happening in Sri Lanka on a smaller scale right now under the guise of organic farming.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
I've heard of this, but I don't think it makes any difference at all. I don't even mind the low level petty corruption, it actually is a way to reduce the influence of other factors like caste, religion, etc when dealing with
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Anecdotally, a friend of mine in his early 40s got covid, recovered fully, had a fatal heart attack a month later. Seems we will see an uptick in deaths from this for some time.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
You might call it regulatory capture of democracy.
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Apple suppliers in China have links to forced labor programs(businessinsider.com)
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by bongoman37 5y ago
People forget about how hard it is to get through ethics reviews for animal testing. I remember a PI telling me that it was easier to run psych experiments on undergrads compared to rats or mice.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Depends on where you are and how connected you are. In my locality (Bangalore) a bunch of people who tested positive got admitted to hospitals on 'precaution' even though they were all mild and advised to isolate at home.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Yes, this made me delete my Quora account. The emails are vaguely spammy and despite trying to reduce the frequency, every so often they started a new category of email that you had to independently cancel or block.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Given the changes in methods of education, it seems schools are likely not the best places for children on the upper end. It was always a slog to get through the day, and you got bullied and beaten up with the express approval of teachers a
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by bongoman37 5y ago
It seems to have been taken offline now. Here's the archive[1] link for uh.. research. Obviously, NSFW. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20211125154944/http://charts.dft...
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Who is 'we'? Large parts of the world are fine with partially effective vaccines. India does mandatory BCG vaccination for tuberculosis despite a fairly low efficacy. The goals with vaccination cannot be 100% effectiveness because
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Not a spook, but often known devices are not removed because they are a great way to pass on false information. If you know they are listening and they don't know you know they are listening, you could have fake meetings with fake info
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This is true for all other languages. Hindi language content on Facebook is pretty much unmoderated with all that you can expect from it.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Yea, I found this odd that kids in US used diapers well above 2 years. I found a lot of kids potty trained in India around one. My kid's day care prohibited diapers for kids above 18 months!
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by bongoman37 5y ago
In India, Uber (and Ola, Lyft isn't available here) certainly save money and time. I know lots of young people who haven't gotten cars because Uber/Ola is the default. I have a car but often used to take one of those when goi
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Hands and fingers always trip up NSFW detection models. We use them for automoderation and a lot of people demoing nail art, close up shots of someone painting etc get classified as NSFW. My guess is that fingers kind of look similar to leg
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Personally, I am more on the introverted side but I would still like to return to office at least some of the time. It is far easier to zone out at the office. At the house, the 4-year old can be hard to tune out. Right now, a couple of fri
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by bongoman37 5y ago
It isn't just FOMO, its that when you unfollow someone it is seen by the other person has a rejection and people are loathe to reject others. Especially if the other person is important to you in any way, that is a problem. Muting is b
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by bongoman37 5y ago
It isn't just the city of London. It is all the squeaky clean modern financial centers like Switzerland, Singapore, etc that help cleanse black money flowing in from countries like China, India, etc. Countries like Cayman Islands, etc.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
Another store could presumably offer an ice box giveaway.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
One of my engineering bosses once said that the scariest thing in the office is to pass by a sales guy on a phone call who is vigorously nodding his head.
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by bongoman37 5y ago
There are massive bot farms that watch videos, click on ads, sometimes even do a download of the app after clicking and open the app. I've sometimes thought Google could cut out the middleman and just allow creators to outright buy &#x
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by bongoman37 5y ago
This seems pretty obviously something to encourage naive users to find and test and get caught.

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