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by chanakya 6y ago
Yes, their views would carry more weight, but I do think mine are a contribution to the discussion too.
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by chanakya 6y ago
That does sound more plausible. Hiring people you feel comfortable with happens everywhere, and in India that often means people who speak your language or are from your region.
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by chanakya 6y ago
Sure, but as far as I know, that is the only case of its kind in the country, and before we raise the alarm about widespread caste discrimination, shouldn't we have at least one case decided?
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by chanakya 6y ago
I'm an upper caste male from India (now in Silicon Valley), so I suppose by the standards of discrimination discourse, I shouldn't be talking about this, but I will anyway. The evidence for this happening is poor. I have dozens of
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by chanakya 6y ago
The dialog in France is important one for a democracy to have, and deals with real questions. I'm an upper caste male from India (now in Silicon Valley), and there is absolutely no redeeming quality to caste. It's abhorrent and ba
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by chanakya 6y ago
In recent times, I've seen several news stories of widespread caste discrimination in Silicon Valley, but the standard of evidence by which this is claimed seems to be poor. It's basically asking people who claim they've been
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by chanakya 6y ago
As Napoleon said, do not ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
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by chanakya 6y ago
Is this an academic paper? Telling a story the way the author sees it, causal relationships established as if they are obvious, no need to actually show they exist. This is indoctrination, not analysis.
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by chanakya 6y ago
The numbers $300K and $80K are roughly accurate. Yes, you can get engineers in India for $5K or even less, but you don't want them working on your product. Senior, architect-level talented engineers may well cost $80K. And yes, if you
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by chanakya 6y ago
Police are not the only ones who have the incentive to escalate. There are clearly people (likely political anarchists) who mingle with the crowd with the specific intent of escalating and causing mayhem.
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by chanakya 7y ago
It doesn't try to read thoughts. It uses commands that are sent to the tongue/mouth to form syllables. We're nowhere near being able to trace / decode thoughts.
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by chanakya 8y ago
It'll be useful if the title could clarify that this is about metro/subway construction costs in large cities, rather than all construction costs in America.
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by chanakya 8y ago
I don't understand why this is a problem. The actions of index fund managers are constrained enough to be almost automatic (hence the rock bottom fees). They just balance the portfolio to track an index. With this constraint, how does
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by chanakya 9y ago
Aren't other problems getting framed that way, too? Car driving is not inherently a problem in computation, but is becoming one. Robotic control (or other control problems) are certainly being solved by computation. Perhaps treating AI
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by chanakya 9y ago
The brain is a physical entity, yes, so in theory we should be able to model it, assuming we know all the laws it works on with enough precision. This is a big if, but even if that's granted, is there anything which indicates that this
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by chanakya 9y ago
What is the best book/reference to understand why there seems to be general agreement that AGI/"broad" AI will happen? TFA compares the relative likelihood of the various approaches, but says nothing about the absolute
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by chanakya 9y ago
That's a great summary. Wonderful movie at so many levels. History, nawab culture, decadence, cultural distance...
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by chanakya 10y ago
Why are joe_the_user's comments being downvoted? He's presenting a well known view among philosophers, just doing so forcefully.
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by chanakya 10y ago
There is nothing delusional about the fact that the first-person experience exists and is the basis of all science, but is very hard to connect with the scientific view of the universe. If science has to "discard" this fact as inc
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by chanakya 10y ago
Can't say I blame her - she could see he was using those Arabic numerals.
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by chanakya 10y ago
He's talking about Spotinst.com, not Amazon's fleet solution.
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by chanakya 12y ago
A lot of people seem to be dismissing this as "not a problem" or "not well defined". Can you expand on this so I can understand it? It seems to me that there is a disconnect between: - the standard scientific view of rea
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by chanakya 13y ago
Whatever the failings/inefficiencies of college education, I'm not convinced that online courses are the answer. Given the non-credit nature of current MOOCs, they attract mostly bright and self-motivated learners, which leads to
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by chanakya 16y ago
Based on this and many other similar stories I've read, I've formed a general law about offshoring: if you want it to succeed, never ask your engineers/engineering managers to do it. I'm part of the management of a large product development
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by chanakya 16y ago
I had read some philosophy before reading ZAMM, but it didn't seem connected to my everyday life. It seemed to be about abstruse, academic arguments that had been going on for centuries about things which really didn't seem very important t
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by chanakya 16y ago
Just like hand-crafted, well-made old furniture is more valuable than the superstore variety. It's just that the number of people who value it at that level is pretty small. Not enough people care about aesthetics, and for practical purpose
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by chanakya 16y ago
I have to say I'm very surprised at how few people here seem to have liked the book. Going by my experience, I would have expected that HN readers would have thoroughly enjoyed it. I first read it about 25 years ago, and while I didn't unde
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by chanakya 16y ago
RMS is advocating that using free software is in people's interest. As he says in the answer to one of the questions, he rates freedom as the most important self-interest.
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by chanakya 16y ago
Studies have been done on the effect of (other people's) prayers in curing a patient. They've all shown no effect, but let's say the experiment had shown convincingly that prayers of the followers of a specific religion result in major impr
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by chanakya 16y ago
I see what you're saying, but 'expanding the business' is a bit of a euphemism. The article gets almost everything wrong, but I think it has a good definition of outsourcing/offshoring that works: save a ton of money and ship quality softw

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