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by eshvk 12y ago
When I last used to be interested in Indian politics ( around 10 years ago). The man was supposed to be a local extreme right wing politician with genocidal tendencies. I am rather surprised that "pro-business" was the tagline the
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by eshvk 12y ago
No, I am enraged by the idea of road aggression and pointed out that there are cases where similar things can be dangerous. It is not obvious to me how you using italics in the term "outlier" makes his case an outlier.
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by eshvk 12y ago
How in God's name did you leap to the assumption that me pointing out that an aggressive cyclist is a dangerous thing is me assuming that an aggressive car driver is an OK thing? Or are you participating in the classic but oh Car Drive
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by eshvk 12y ago
Good job on being so aggressive. I suggest you go even further like Chris Bucchere [1] who killed someone and then proudly posted about it online. Maybe one day, you will even make CEO. Asshole. [1] http://abc7news.com/archi
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by eshvk 12y ago
I have been doing experiments by getting stuff from shelves to frames built by etsy folks. It has been working out somewhat well. I do have to add a few modifications on my end. Haven't scaled up to a couch yet.
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by eshvk 12y ago
> if you want to convince an anti-vaxer, you can't treat them like they're crazy, even if you have an impulse to judge. > You run the risk of creating a serious blowback effect, where your condescension drives them further
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by eshvk 12y ago
There is a distinction between trusting a mathematical process and trusting random user "saurik" for example. I don't know you from hell, I would trust you to sell me lemonade. On the other hand, if you gave me a recipe for l
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by eshvk 12y ago
> If I can get in the zone and achieve peak productivity for 8 hours that is an extremely successful day. The reason going to office takes more than 8 hours of productive work is because in an office environment, there is other stuff to
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by eshvk 12y ago
> I don't completely agree with that. People who achieve amazing things working even 16 hours a day are pretty common. I have done that many times in the past. When I did my engineering here in India. Preparing for public exams, and
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by eshvk 12y ago
Yes, this patronymic naming is common in South Asia. Except they go one step further and put the surname in front of the given name. So if your father's name is X and your personal name is Y, formally you are called X Y. I am from Afri
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by eshvk 12y ago
You make some fair points. I am not sure what the right answer then is. I agree that the average lay person is probably not going to know how to reason on these matters. However, if we are building faith as an abstraction, how do we deal wi
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Science is one part process and one part people: you first have to trust the process to provide useful evidence, and you second have to trust the people to tell you what they did honestly. I spent a few years in a heavy math PhD progra
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by eshvk 12y ago
> That's the point: that we have trained people to distrust science I am not sure science is an article of faith to be trusted or not. Science is a continuous process of reviewing evidence and making hypothesis based on that evidenc
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by eshvk 12y ago
From what I understand, the paper did a survey of Vitamin D related statistical studies. Then, went ahead and said that there existed a reverse causal link (Depression -> Stay Inside -> Low Vitamin D) as to why certain correlations ex
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by eshvk 12y ago
I respect your choice to be vegetarian. I am sure there are times where your friends/family members harassed you for your beliefs; I sympathize. However, there are others who are not necessarily vegetarians and you come across as a ove
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by eshvk 12y ago
> That's why the seemingly anti-intellectual advice of "eat a variety of foods in moderation" is actually quite good advice. That is because it is vague, imprecise and can be defined whichever way you want. For example, ho
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by eshvk 12y ago
> NATO attacks. ;) I am not sure NATO is going to attack a country with ICBMs and active nuclear warheads over Ukraine which is not part of the alliance.
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Fuel cell vehicles have never made any sense. The only reason for me to get an Electric Vehicle is the green factor. If instead of my car polluting the environment, there is an increase in say coal factories, not sure how that helps th
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Have you used a vehicle powered by natural gas? I have. For safety reasons, in many places you have to get out of the vehicle while it is being refuelled (the cylinder gets really hot!). And that is a change from your 50+ years driving
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by eshvk 12y ago
> software engineering should also be respected rather than commoditized. I am not so sure anymore. When anyone who has done six weeks in a boot camp can call themselves a software engineer, the semantics of the word are lost. > That
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by eshvk 12y ago
> "Data scientist" seems to be a way of saying, "yes, I code but I also know math, so use me for Type-1 work only". You make it sound like a bad thing? Despite the rah-rah I hear from programmers about how they are un
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by eshvk 12y ago
> There are plenty of "data scientists" who use canned tools and play around with parameters because that's all "the business" thinks it needs. As with a software engineer, it is a role that is different in every
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by eshvk 12y ago
> (2) You may need to use a particular JVM library (there's a lot of really good ones). I would love to hear some examples? It always appears to me that you could use JVM on the backend and have robust services that communicate with
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by eshvk 12y ago
I have eaten quite a few gamey animals in my life (Gator, Yak, Goat, Bison, Kangaroo and Ostrich). The flavor is something that I find enjoyable. Probably because where I grew up, the beef didn't taste the way it does here. Also, $8 ch
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by eshvk 12y ago
> I didn't like it, it tasted a lot like rabbit to me, and sourness in a meat is just weird to me. Odd. I have had both Rabbit and Kangaroo. Both were lean flavorful, the Kangaroo more close to a lean beef than anything. But I would
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Add to the fact that the pure liquid fattiness of the(even raw) bird in my experience makes it a huge hassle Yah. In Grad. school, I once bought a whole duck on a dare. One of those long nights, I decided to stuff it and cook it. The d
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by eshvk 12y ago
> I find all of them hard to work with, because they are all aiming for the modern day "zero configuration" nirvana that Ruby on Rails achieved, and thus enormous amounts of implicit knowledge is required to understand them. &g
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by eshvk 12y ago
Exactly. With Make, I can delve down into the bash code easily and figure out what is happening. With Maven, there is enough overhead that I have to resort to cargo-cult googling.
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by eshvk 12y ago
This is amazing. I have no interest in weapons or whatever. However, from a design perspective, the obsessive focus on simplicity is very cool. Also, they are remarkably optimized around their constraints: multitude of forces, scarcity of r

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