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by eshvk 14y ago
Sorry no offense, but you don't get depression. There are people who may have a "positive outlook" on life, appear to be happy go lucky and one fine day not be able to get out of bed due a to crippling overwhelming feeling of despair. This
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by eshvk 14y ago
Very cool. Just wondering out loud reg. your idea to a have a rick roll detector: How exactly would that work? A brute force approach would be to compare how similar the target video is to some sample rick roll videos, I am guessing music m
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by eshvk 14y ago
You are conflating two very different opinions/groups: One can necessarily be skeptical of CBT without believing that depression is just sadness.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I lived in India and the conditions could be described to be bleak enough to make the most optimistic person sad. Suicide rates there were 10x what they are in the west. I am not even sure there is enough cultural understanding and sensitiv
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by eshvk 14y ago
I went a Electrical Engineering program to doing Computer Science full time and I agree with the other poster who says that you should definitely apply for a Masters in C.S. Try to make your application at least thematically related to Chem
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by eshvk 14y ago
Also, it is very much a western thing. I have a lot of Indian friends and they happily trade salary information amongst each other. This reduces any informational asymmetry that exists in such situations.
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Obama Issues Call for Immigration Overhaul(nytimes.com)
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by eshvk 14y ago
I dunno. I went to school in India where almost everyone is shoehorned into the Engineering/Medical undergrad career. While, I don't think it is particular hard to not succeed at these professions, I am not convinced it is a good thing to d
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by eshvk 14y ago
I live in San Francisco. 35-40% of my income goes to oil the tax wheels, another good 15 % goes to make sure I can live within the city. If you keep doing the math, you don't save much at the end. I am not saying I live paycheck to paycheck
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am sorry, I don't know you from heck. However, I must ask you this: Have you worked at Google in the past two years? No offense but Google has thousands and thousands of engineers. Long gone are the days where each and every engineer used
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by eshvk 14y ago
That is a rather silly argument: Are you saying that excellent engineer A who is being paid $100K won't be paid $300K because that will attract the "wrong kind of people". Why not just make sure you have interesting work and have a process
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Immigration reform: US senators in bipartisan deal(bbc.co.uk)
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 4. Just as a minor point, can you imagine the feeling of being kicked out of the US after earning your Ph.D. here? I imagine it might breed a tinge of America hatred when they get back home. Erm...so? No offense, but someone could tri
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by eshvk 14y ago
> It is the people of the United States that defend our borders, and it is therefore the right of those people to decide who gets in those borders and who does not. The people are entitled to decide for themselves what kind of trade-off
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by eshvk 14y ago
> If you look at immigration practice as being simply that anyone who wants to come to America and work hard should get a fair chance, then that is probably unfair. But there are those who argue that we should be selective and prioritiz
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by eshvk 14y ago
So right now, the way the system is setup, you can in theory move from a PhD from a fairly popular university to a EB-1 Green Card. So it is not like the path to citizenship doesn't exist. (It is another matter that the process is convolute
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Although the general population aren't necessarily aware of this, it has a huge impact on the trend setting enthusiasts and early adopters. Trend setting enthusiasts are not necessarily the same as early adopting technical people.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I was born and grew up in Ethiopia. I went to college in India. I came to the U.S. to do grad. school and I think America is the place I will call home.
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by eshvk 14y ago
If you enjoy it on Spotify, please consider buying the CD. The amount of money independent artists make through spotify is pennies per month compared to the money they would make if you bought the CD.
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by eshvk 14y ago
More importantly, have friends with whom it is completely OK to talk about how much you make, this will give you a good sense for the market. ( In America, there is a stupid tradition where people think the act of telling your coworker or f
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by eshvk 14y ago
If Europe can't take pride and realize the inherent European nature of all of its monuments, languages and people, maybe you guys shouldn't exist as a union.
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by eshvk 14y ago
Caffeine? Illicit drugs, maybe? The whole being tired is your body telling you to lighten up and catch up on sleep.
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‘If the Police Had Done Something, She Would Be Alive Today’(india.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by eshvk 14y ago
Completely agreed. Things like don't text anything that you wouldn't want the other person's parent to know about seem ridiculous. Again as another person in his twenties, I would have refused this silly deal and bought my own damn cellphon
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by eshvk 14y ago
> I think what you have would count as an expensive bike. Since you can get a working bike from a place like Walmart for just about 200. No, that there is a cheap bike. Average bike prices are around $700 or so. An expensive bike is ~ $
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by eshvk 14y ago
How is this relevant at all? Not that the article is great but how is rape in country X relevant to a horrific incident in country Y? Or is this supposed to make the shit that happens in a savage third world country better just cause it hap
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by eshvk 14y ago
I want a tiny tablet with the form factor of an iPad with an active digitizer.
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by eshvk 14y ago
He/She said it shouldn't be a primary driver . I am not seeing how both of you are saying dynamically different things unless your use of the term "Being satisfied" means "I love my job and it is the main thing in my life that drives me".
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Go to Brazil, India, Rift Valley in Africa and contemplate how people could be 10 times more happier than you having 10 times less and think about that. Look at how people live in communities there and not isolated like in the US, whe
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by eshvk 14y ago
The libertarian in me feels that gun ownership or the lack thereof shouldn't be any business of my employer. I am however more offended that what a person does in their bedroom is not protected by Federal Law.

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