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by eshvk 13y ago
Why is Russia a bigger suspect? A study of foreign policy and defence would appear to suggest that Iran perceives that it is under threat of invasion from America.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Their regime is about to get bombed. Taking down twitter is low on their priority list. But it's quite good timing for a propaganda campaign against "hackers" and now allows the US government to label hackers as terroris
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by eshvk 13y ago
#2 A huge enterprise company would probably reject you for nickel and diming on their behalf. The billing rate is incredibly high mainly because they just want their job done. #3 A consequence of high billing rates is that you will be requi
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On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever (2009)(eff.org)
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by eshvk 13y ago
The point to realize that America is not fucking Israel. We are not under threat the way Israel is. That is a country that is struggling for its existence; in missile range from Iran; surrounded by hostile forces on all sides. In America, t
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by eshvk 13y ago
The most popular argument against the TSA that I have heard? They spend too much of their time searching the "wrong people". You know the kind that wouldn't "hurt a fly"? Weasel phrases that in essence mean that the
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by eshvk 13y ago
This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a fri
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by eshvk 13y ago
The lottery is different from that. The red flag being raised when you don't get a green card is mainly because your previous application process's issues still exist. For example, if you are scamming the system on a fake asylum r
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by eshvk 13y ago
Nice. Way to miss the fucking point. Let me break it down for you. The article was an article on sexual harassment and rape in a specific country. Not this country. A different country. Totally different cultural values, objectives. You ram
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by eshvk 13y ago
> What bugs me are people, largely motivated by financial interests, in my opinion, who downplay the massive cultural and social advantages we still enjoy in the west over places like India. We may be dealing with demographic challenges
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by eshvk 13y ago
I will bite. Women in Pornography are paid to do that (mostly). Women who get raped on the streets of Delhi aren't paid to do that.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Let me offer an anecdote too. I am of Indian origin. I lived in the country for 7 years; I speak multiple Indian languages quite well too. I was there recently. There are several distinctions between the two countries. 1. Things get more re
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by eshvk 13y ago
That was stunningly beautiful. I am really digging the new spate of literary articles that have been showing up in my HN feed. Thank you OP.
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by eshvk 13y ago
What is it that you find offensive? The part that he was a drunk? The part that he kicked another human being? The part that he kicked a woman? Would you have been OK if he was sober but kicked women? Would you have been OK if he was sober
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is funny you should say this. A friend recently had me interview for his company. He is a great guy, works too much, wakes up in the middle of the nights when he is on call. His boss started off by agreeing that yes, the friend worked to
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by eshvk 13y ago
Women was an excellent book. A complicated book that works on many subtle levels. On one level, it is in essence, the T.V. series Californication. On another level, it is the story of a man finding himself through his partners. Ham on Rye w
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by eshvk 13y ago
Quick summary on the U.S. side of things. Only way you can get in here is through a H1B. O-1 will be tough in your case unless you have published a lot of papers (or have a PhD). Since you were not born in the U.S., you may want to look at
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by eshvk 13y ago
> But In reality what defines being "patriot" doing what you believe is right for your country? That is a very loose definition. By that definition, every soldier including William Calley [1] is a patriot. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by eshvk 13y ago
Once you have done this outing and shaming, what do you expect to do? Burn the engineer or contracting agency at the center of the town hall? Have a fifties style whisper campaign where you refuse to go to their cocktail party? Apart from t
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by eshvk 13y ago
Agreed. I don't mean to construct a strawman here. However, it surprises me how this is not relevant. Code doesn't exist in vacuum. Ultimately, software engineering is about applying yourself to solve real world problems. Includin
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by eshvk 13y ago
Slightly offtopic. I would love to hear more on how you made the switch happen. I sort of understand OP's perspective on the whole deal of people who work with code being considered to mere cogs and am also thinking about a switch.
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by eshvk 13y ago
If I get hit by a car here, I can ER treatment. In India, a person can spend precious minutes on clogged roads while hospitals turn that person away just because they don't deal with the fucking paperwork of dealing with a dead body. Y
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by eshvk 13y ago
Things have always been grim. The crows are just coming home to roost in America. Why do you think so many Indians and Chinese people are doctors or engineers? Fear. It is not about competence. It is not about passion. It is the fear that d
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by eshvk 13y ago
> If I were the one pulling the strings of Horse_ebooks, I would probably focus on building a statistical model that uses the number of favorites per tweet as its training data, and looks for linguistic features that are highly correlate
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by eshvk 13y ago
She uses the phrase "spam robot". Is that semantically equivalent to automated? If so, for the love of god, can someone tell me how I can build something that auto-generates beautiful existential poetry like that? (I am only half
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Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page(en.wikipedia.org)
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by eshvk 13y ago
1. Just because he is rich and famous doesn't mean he is an oracle with a time machine. He puts on his pants one leg at a time; makes predictions just like the rest of us, gets them wrong too. 2. After thinking hard about it, I have de
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by eshvk 13y ago
Not the OP; I have been rather taken with the prose of Bukowski. Reminds me a lot of Naipaul. Simple, spare sentences, that are elegant. Do you have suggestions of that type? (Don't care particularly about the themes, really. )
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by eshvk 13y ago
I disagree that prose doesn't exist anymore as it once did. It is merely that there is not that much of a market for prose. America, for better or worse, consumes the kind of fiction that is sappy, feel-good. Ultimately, intellectually
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by eshvk 13y ago
Fair. I apologize if my message sounded snarky. Let me try to explain. 1. There are people who support TOR as a technology here in HN. There might even be people who "need" TOR and gain sympathy here. However, this doesn't ne

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