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by ekam 4y ago
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29964/w299...
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by ekam 4y ago
Why on earth would asians be uncomfortable with cursive or serif fonts?
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by ekam 4y ago
This makes me wonder if short guys were getting more jobs during the pandemic since more job interviews were virtual and height wouldn’t factor in as much
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by ekam 4y ago
Also went to CC but I highly disagree, it was great saving two years of tuition costs
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by ekam 5y ago
Nah it’s actually a real issue, but concentrated among South Asians generally. Nobody cares in the generation born in the US but immigrants still have that mentality unfortunately
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by ekam 5y ago
My sibling and I are were like this and we were definitely not the only ones. You’re out of touch if you think this just stuff from the movies.
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by ekam 5y ago
Yes I’ve also gotten locked out of my account for using their website
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by ekam 5y ago
Which space?
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by ekam 5y ago
Relevant: https://www.gwern.net/Language
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by ekam 5y ago
I’m skeptical of this last sentence; I’m not sure that science is so responsive to new data either. After the myriad papers published on the replicability crisis, citation rings and the like, academic institutions have failed to change subs
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by ekam 5y ago
Really great post
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by ekam 5y ago
Why not turn it on?
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by ekam 5y ago
Just tried it and it sends without an issue
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by ekam 5y ago
Seconding this, dark mode would make it perfect. Great work otherwise though
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by ekam 5y ago
Very fascinating - there’s strong parallels here with the Sikh system and the stages reached in meditation
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by ekam 5y ago
Location: San Jose Remote: Yes but willing to work in person Willing to Relocate: Sure if it’s a good place Technologies: Currently a law student skilled in web dev and python looking for either legal work in tech or internships in data sci
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by ekam 5y ago
That’s not a stereotype- it’s true. Racial disparities is why the SAT got cancelled.
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by ekam 5y ago
Thanks for highlighting the protests-it’s getting really bad over there. My dad is a farmer from Punjab originally and while he’s in America now and doesn’t farm he has a slightly different perspective. He tends to be far more concerned abo
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by ekam 6y ago
This doesn’t work at all, many companies don’t have lawyers of their own but keep big law firms on retainer. And companies could just offload more onto JD-advantage employees/ law student interns anyways since they’re not “lawyers”
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by ekam 6y ago
Your “careers” page is 404’ing FYI
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by ekam 6y ago
Great take
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by ekam 6y ago
Urbit is interesting but $120 for a planet is egregious
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by ekam 6y ago
There’s a disparity sure but I don’t see how that necessarily proves discrimination
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by ekam 6y ago
The $50 refers to their own story not the one mentioned in the article
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by ekam 6y ago
What’s wrong with Bitcoin?
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by ekam 6y ago
King von?
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by ekam 6y ago
Greg brockman has said before on HN that if you have a cool use case you can email him and he’ll see what he can do.
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by ekam 6y ago
What’s the name of the documentary?
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by ekam 6y ago
Not the person you replied to but there’s many different ends that people aim for via meditation- out of body experiences, building mental fortitude and discipline, expanded awareness, ego-death, overcoming trauma, etc
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by ekam 6y ago
There’s websites using the underlying technology (Spleeter) that are free to use like ezstems.com or splitter.ai.

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