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by distant_hat 6y ago
The problem here is that naive people think organizations which essentially have a blackmail model to recover dues will stick to purely legal means when they discover you have stiffed them.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
This argument doesn't work in more traditional societies. There was a actress in India who had demonstrations against her because someone morphed her face onto a nude pic.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
YouTube has a huge number of bots on it as well. Patreon is less easily gamed.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
The problem with finding jobs is that the work is far less translatable to other fields unless you take care to make things general which is not really encouraged in academia. As a Physics, Math, or computational PhD you can apply your skil
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Ask HN: What are some open source projects that are single person run?
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by distant_hat 6y ago
This is completely expected. If you look at multiarmed bandits, getting rewards would be exploiting and the other option is exploring. If you have a longer time horizon as children will, it is better to explore and find a better return than
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Why not cook everything at that point and throw a feast. We've done this in India with an extended power cut.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Malnutrition is rife in India with some 40% of children malnourished and stunted. Indian diet is not very nutritionally balanced and as a result, lifestyle diseases like diabetes and heart disease are quite common in the upper income bracke
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by distant_hat 6y ago
But they do benefit employees. I am not a smoker but a number of people in a former company were and they shared a camaraderie that if you didn't hang out with them you wouldn't get. It also cut across levels, so you could be an i
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Yea, my employer is on Google, it is impossible for me to transition out completely. Even though we would like to move out of Google, it is a herculean task since it is so deeply embedded into the organization. E.g., just having all your Go
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Health is strongly correlated with intelligence.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
There's a much greater leeway given to people from a different background, which is why moving to another country is a great way to reset your class and immigrants often make massive jumps in class compared to where they come from.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
I wonder if this is the reason why some mushrooms (which are fungi), such as psylocybes, have such strong mental effects on humans. Shared common pathways from hundreds of millenia old except that in us the effects are limited and dont caus
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Only in US. I had a Google Pixel phone that went had a bad microphone. Google issued a compensation for everyone who purchased the phone in US and maybe Europe I think but left out the rest of the world. Pretty shitty behavior I think. I&#x
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by distant_hat 6y ago
It isn't about the height, it is that spikier conducting things concentrate charges.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
If this is where the open stuff is I can only wonder where the classified stuff is at.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
This. Many of the most water short areas grow water intensive crops and have droughts. Another thing is bureaucrats love droughts, you get extra money from the center for relief and it is a huge opportunity for corruption. There was even a
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by distant_hat 6y ago
42C is 107F, it is way too high it seems.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. This is corrected. It is theorized that nicotine represses ACE2 receptor numbers which the virus uses to enter the cells.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Haha. I am getting downvoted here for just mentioning this :)
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by distant_hat 6y ago
They were vegetarian TamBrahms, they just needed the additional details to be totally sure. This was in J P Nagar/Jayanagar area.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Maybe your experiences are different but from my friends and personal experiences it happens all the time. Two brahmin friend of mine who were looking to rent in a posh locality in Bangalore had to provide their contacts in the village to m
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Its not just remnants. In major cities like Bangalore caste is regularly a part of who people will rent their house or sell their property to and is definitely a major part of marriage discussions. All Indian dating portals have caste up fr
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by distant_hat 6y ago
There absolutely are country based discrimination even if it doesn't say so by having country based quotas irrespective of the population of a country. A country like China or India has the same cap as a country like Singapore for Gree
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by distant_hat 6y ago
A lot of modern art is actively moving away from skill and effort.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
I had a cop friend who told me he lived for high speed chases. Interestingly he died of an illicitly procured opioid overdose at 46.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
Yea, I experienced that too with a new kid. I think I aged 5 years in that one year.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
India's birth rate in villages plummeted when TV was introduced to them. These kind of effects are not that rare.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
People look at the present and feel like that's all that's there. You don't look at a 2-year old and say he barely makes any intelligible sounds yet.
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by distant_hat 6y ago
People don't understand what exponential improvement means. GPT-3 is a 175B with B parameter model. Another few rounds of doubling and we could be seeing models spit out short stories and novellas.

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