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by iamshs 8y ago
Professor mentioned in this article still has what seems like foreign educated students working in his lab, so maybe he has put in additional measures already? http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/people.htm
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by iamshs 9y ago
Yesterday, I was logging onto Australian MyGov site, and forgot the password, it sent SMS code for reset to my mobile phone, but then would not let me proceed without answering the secret questions. I usually put last word of the question s
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by iamshs 9y ago
China already docked a submarine in Sri Lankan port that they were building in 2014 and later took the lease off. Sri Lanka later rejected the Chinese request of docking a nuclear submarine. So, I think it is on case-by-case basis and if lo
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by iamshs 9y ago
Caravan Thug Juggernaut Guru Avatar Karma Nirvana Cheetah Jungle Are just some Indian words loaned by English. Two interesting words that Punjabi/Hindi has loaned from French is Savon (sabun) and Cartouche (Kartoos).
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by iamshs 9y ago
Thanks to the original comments on the blog for setting this ball rolling. They did not hesitate to call the prof out. I love this kind of freedom and knowledge. Big salute. Also, good investigative journalism.
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by iamshs 9y ago
Well Shepparton and Mooroopna has quite a substantial number if Chinese farm workers. In Safeway, nearly whole Saturday is busy with Chinese farm workers shopping. I haven't really enquired on which specific farm they work, because the
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by iamshs 9y ago
Mark Zuckerberg covers microphone: https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929/ph...
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by iamshs 9y ago
So your debt becomes their problem. Nice.
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by iamshs 9y ago
India has glorious public money burning corporations like Air India, BSNL, DoorDarshan, HMT why not add one more?
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by iamshs 9y ago
Microsoft has monopoly in a market. US/EU response: anti-trust regulations. Uber/Ola have monopoly in a market. Indian response: burn taxpayer money. This is how license raj is created. It will not create revenue but burn money li
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by iamshs 9y ago
And undoing with two horrible policies:- 1. Creating a taxpayer funded Uber competitor, all to break up a monopoly. Looks like they don't know concept of a regulator. https://qz.com/1037837/indias-uber-ola-cab-war
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by iamshs 9y ago
You probably left your whois open. That's where they got your email, not namecheap.
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by iamshs 9y ago
Not much spice in this gravy. Could not understand the story despite reading it twice. Pando is just trying to make hay while the sun shines, or as we say in India, "Behti ganga mein hath dhona".
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by iamshs 10y ago
Why is this comment down-voted? It is absolute truth. British empire was racist, made Indians slave, and was imperialist murderous entity. Good riddance to it. I hate that India was ever colonized by Britishers. They brutalized the populati
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by iamshs 10y ago
And hence the British slavery is acceptable.
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by iamshs 10y ago
One of the best sweets ever. In Punjab, we majorly use buffalo milk, and my grandma used to feed one of the buffalos special diet of "varhevein" (mustard seed pith cake after de-oiling), then the milk underwent process of "ka
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by iamshs 10y ago
Now I want to turn into anti-carrot lobbyist, as this was a ploy to increase carrot consumption through fake news propaganda. My father had me eat so many carrots because he fell for fake news :( Now if I only know who propaganda'd tha
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by iamshs 10y ago
Actual news: "The two companies have agreed to a new code of conduct designed to ensure that websites that stream or host pirated material are scrubbed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engine..."
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by iamshs 10y ago
Here:- https://i.imgur.com/VZAFXWi.png For giving $300/week to all 16+ years old citizens. Poverty increases because higher taxes have to be levied on income earners (PDF says 44-48.6% range). Single person householder
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Samsung considers splitting into two(thehindu.com)
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by iamshs 10y ago
Victorian countryside government offices finish at 5:06 pm. It is due to 36.8 hours work week. Absolutely strange.
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by iamshs 10y ago
If you have chrome installed, can it not interact with the beacons? So no need to have a separate app installed? http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/02/chrome-android-bluetooth-be...
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by iamshs 10y ago
A related Google story:- In Canada, I used to have a rooted nexus device which used to be my daily driver until I choose to switch over to Apple around 2 (maybe 3) or so years back. Before moving to Australia, I totally wiped it all up, and
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by iamshs 10y ago
Hell man, I even miss Edmonton. Haha. I also moved to Australia.
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by iamshs 10y ago
If the start-ups were taking a chance on me, they always had their 3 months of probation. Don't take it out on my pay. That stuff affords me my milk and eggs. I learnt ML, sensor stuff, R, python and all other stuff in my first job rig
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by iamshs 10y ago
I have engineering background, just not comp sci one. In the end, I made six figures and some hefty bonuses right out of school. Don't offer me the job, but don't try to lowball me.
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by iamshs 10y ago
I am a UofA graduate. Back when oilpatch was throwing big money at companies, me and my manager identified a solid start-up opportunity. I contacted two UofA comp sci guys, and they were not willing to come onboard because they were going t
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by iamshs 10y ago
They were all coding/programming roles. I am not from comp sci, was fresh out of uni and only had limited programming experience. I asked the recruiters why are they extending me the offers at all then?
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by iamshs 10y ago
When I was searching for jobs, could not just believe the startup offers. $35K - $45K in Vancouver. I would have felt like a slave working for that kind of money in Vancouver. Albertan co-op guy would easily earn double that. I have not res
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by iamshs 10y ago
You think IT guys in ABS do not know about AWS? It is about what the management thinks. And management needs code.gov like initiative desperately. Otherwise we will keep bleeding money to IBM time and time again.

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