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by fhkatari 8mo ago
I want to share a couple of stories of immigration. 1. Personal. In the aftermath of 9/11, a simple switch from F1 Student Visa to H1 work visa became a perfect Kafkaesque nightmare. The consulate denied the visa without giving a reaso
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by fhkatari 1y ago
Here is a thought experiment, especially for people with pensions (unlikely on the HN comments board). PE's are being funded by pension funds. So, as a pensioner, maybe you get a slightly better return. However, the services you will n
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by fhkatari 1y ago
RFID is a possible solution. Tags are now about five cents, and likely to drop further in price with volume. Newer tag designs can be sewn in the seams of garments and shoes.
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by fhkatari 1y ago
This: "Important caveat: I’m discussing only the implications of LLMs for software development. For art, music, and writing? I got nothing. I’m inclined to believe the skeptics in those fields. I just don’t believe them about mine&quot
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by fhkatari 1y ago
You move all the tools to debug and inspect slow queries, in a completely unsupported JSON environment, with prompts not to make up column names. And this is progress?
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by fhkatari 1y ago
I used to live in Oakland, and am really sad to see continued failures of BART. They had started significant expansions right before the pandemic, allowing a long (but no traffic) ride possible from Oakland to San Jose. A key challenge for
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by fhkatari 2y ago
I recently learned that my neighbor works for Partners in Health (pih.org). They have built an open-source EMR, which they use in far-flung regions like Haiti. I suggested that they can maybe sell their software under commercial terms in th
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by fhkatari 3y ago
I am surprised this is getting so little traction on HN. I posted a similar link.The page views just went past 1 million.
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Jimmy Wales is building a new social network(wts2.wt.social)
4 points by fhkatari 3y ago|2 comments
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by fhkatari 4y ago
As a non-Christian, I highly recommend the writings of Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, and his metaphor of 'Two Halves of Lives'. The specific title of the book is 'Falling Upward'.
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by fhkatari 4y ago
I work for a company, headquartered in the Mid West, that has been very public in their support of LGBTQ rights, among other things. Do you think corporations should take a public stance in support of abortion rights? Will tech companies co
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by fhkatari 5y ago
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
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by fhkatari 7y ago
I was forwarded Sacha Baron Cohen's facebook critique ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/22/sacha-bar... ) by a friend, as an argument to outlaw facebook. I brought up how Bush swiftboa
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by fhkatari 8y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. Upvoted
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by fhkatari 10y ago
This strikes a personal chord. Shortly after 9/11, I had taken a short trip back to India. I was transitioning from a student to work visa, and got held up indefinitely by the US consulate. It was a grueling experience, but what I reme