himalayan_yak

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by himalayan_yak 1y ago
No, it is not. If A -> B is Not logically equivalent as If Not A -> Not B. Many make this mistake. It is equivalent to If Not B -> Not A. In this case, if a writing that sounds bad is less likely to be right - leads to - if the w
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by himalayan_yak 4y ago
Different take - it is pointless to think life as short or long. Life just is. You ARE in this moment of conscious time (to borrow Descartes). Anything else is either memory (history) or future yet to be. You, your 'self' are def
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by himalayan_yak 5y ago
Perseverance. For some reason, we do not talk much about perseverance and grit. May be some of it is getting lost in the (what I perceive to be) increasingly cynical views on meritocracy (not that questioning the status quo on this topic is
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by himalayan_yak 7y ago
Trying hard not to be political. But POTUS speech seems to make things lot worse than better along anything. The efficacy of this travel ban is questionable (given all these exceptions such as one for UK. Can people coming from other parts
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by himalayan_yak 7y ago
A team with a mix is best if it's not a mix just in terms of personnels but in projects and the way incentives are structured. The culture within the team can go south sooner than one realizes if the 'process' types feel th
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by himalayan_yak 9y ago
> What is it about Americans that make them believe that things that work perfectly well in many other countries (publicly funded television, gun control, universal healthcare) are impossible? What gave you the impression that I am an Am
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by himalayan_yak 9y ago
Lots of respect to the man Swartz. Not a big fan of news (mainly the cable) myself but the absence of it is pretty terrifying as well. Whatever is left of little accountability will pretty much vanish. I'd argue that the problem isn&#x
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by himalayan_yak 9y ago
I think lots of HN readers here are missing perspectives from Facebook users in 'third' world countries, where there aren't a lots of alternatives for information sharing and discovery . As someone who grew up in one of thos