devdas

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by devdas 9y ago
It's not that hard. A meal without alcohol? Easy.
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by devdas 9y ago
Or the whole operation would move countries.
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by devdas 9y ago
I'm sure they would love to, but they don't hold inventory or set pricing.
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by devdas 9y ago
The point of calling it a treaty is to be able to reject those who violate it.
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by devdas 9y ago
Tolerance isn't a moral viewpoint, it's a peace treaty.
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by devdas 9y ago
Gandhi, not Ghandi. Gandhi was most effective when the Indian armed forces rebelled. MLK had Malcom X. You need a good cop and a bad cop.
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by devdas 9y ago
You instrument your application so you discover failures very quickly. If you do this right, you pretty much get the reporting people want from business intelligence applications, and use that as your core monitoring metric. It's a lot
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by devdas 9y ago
The tech stack is Perl+MySQL. Ancillary tech is Go, Rust, Java, C. Lots of Javascript. Very high delivery velocity (You will be expected to roll out code in your first week).
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by devdas 9y ago
Nah, hotels are now manipulating prices like airlines, with computers responding in near real-time to perceived demand. As demand increases, so does price. Multiple searches show a rise in demand, so the price goes up, even if there really
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by devdas 9y ago
Agoda is a Priceline subsidiary, like Booking.com
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by devdas 9y ago
Like say, the East India Company?
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by devdas 9y ago
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by devdas 9y ago
Look at all the votes the Democrats lost after a bunch of states effectively blocked blacks and students from voting.
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by devdas 9y ago
"Just doing my job" is the same as "I was just following orders".
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by devdas 9y ago
Have only wealth tax. Require everything to be marked to market for tax reasons.
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by devdas 9y ago
Earning more isn't very true now though.
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by devdas 9y ago
Samsara/Sansara has the connotation of meatspace in Sanskrit and derived languages. Buddhist philosophy says that life in meatspace is suffering, but the word isn't limited to that.
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by devdas 9y ago
Migrating to a new social network is harder as an individual than a group.
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by devdas 9y ago
Job switching doesn't have much to do with starting families. Well educated people tend to get together with other well educated, career minded people, and children get deferred.
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by devdas 9y ago
You can do this on internal subnets. On the public internet, hopefully not without safeguards :)
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by devdas 9y ago
Have a law which makes any loss in a class action lawsuit immediately make the company lose limited liability status. Also, settling out of court will do the same thing, with automatic admission of guilt.
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by devdas 9y ago
Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a moral precept. It is fair to not tolerate the intolerant.
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by devdas 9y ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11763836/Wealthy-pare... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/occupy-... Data disagrees.
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by devdas 9y ago
To visit, yes. To work, no.
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by devdas 9y ago
Don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. -- Mario Puzo
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by devdas 9y ago
No one is going to do that. But having every government (and everything else mandatory) service available in a common language, regardless of country would be fantastic. Push the burden of language on the entities which can afford to absorb
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by devdas 9y ago
All the ones with 8 kids.
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by devdas 9y ago
A general purpose computer, or a very locked down thin client. Like the world of AOL users. I would have suggested the latter, otherwise the system would have been a lot more open. General purpose computers give purchasers administrator&#x2
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by devdas 9y ago
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/97/97664/repo...
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by devdas 9y ago
Though that was mostly a racist vote for Trump.

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