jezclaremurugan

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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
1. Having more of something - gives one the tolerance to lose some of it without feeling the pinch. 2. Again - the ability to take risks increases - this is one reason the rich get richer - they can make riskier investments while the poor c
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
where their worm shall never die..
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
This contradicts the advice others are giving but in my experience here's what has worked for me. * Communicate early * Document the warning signals - have an email thread - this is critical in saving you later * You will be asked to h
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Show HN: DAPP – Smart Contract for WC Bets(etherbets.app)
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
Mixed emotions here - on the one hand - its not an accounting firm and they are very clear that it wasn't done in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and so that gives the firm FSS a cop out should anything go wrong.
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
Yes - pay/benefits are mostly related to hierarchy unless someone is a tech star mostly. And even if not - the folks higher in the chain also get to decide what gets to be worked on.
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
But promotion is one of the incentives to be best - so unless the other incentives are stronger - promoting randomly or promoting the worst performers will remove a strong incentive and will pull down the productivity of the organization an
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by jezclaremurugan 8y ago
> Whether a business is a failure or a success is 99% based on the relationships and contracts it forms. Typically, unskilled managers and executives will forge the deal FIRST, and then go get the expertise and skilled laborers after. Ma
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
It just happens that a capitalist writing a large number of checks happen to write a couple of right ones. And often we need them to write some wrong ones too.
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
25 points in less than 30 minutes - the rate at which it gets attention matters in the ranking AFAIK
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Noise cancellation tech will catch up too.
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
> The market exists for us, we don't exist for the market And we are also the folks who create the market - deliberately or not. Its our collective decisions which results in corrections. We need a safety net for the people - the jo
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Paypal has a fee for international transfer - and they also don't cover India. Same for venmo.
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Its more of a global currency than a US specific one. Speaking from my experience - moving large amounts of money as a student or as someone who wants to send money back home across international borders when one starts earning becomes a pa
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Hmmm, while bigger patterns might emerge in a connected network, it is still driven by individual choices and actions. Emergent behavior still depends on individual choices. I do agree that it might be skewed. But I believe there is a suffi
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
The influence may not all be equal, but at least in the developed world, for the sake of a contrived example - the number of people who can choose to spend $2-5 on a coffee vs a non ad-supported app is pretty high - and unfortunately, peopl
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Profit - rather the Willingness to Pay - indicates the true preferences of society/individuals. While we may claim otherwise, at the end of the day, we sometimes value pleasure over health. And if society truly cared about quality of l
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
If everyone is a PhD computer scientist - then the wages of babysitting will rise to the true value of that service, and a babysitter will earn as much as a computer scientist. Currently due to abundance of availability of low skill resourc
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
And still that would result in all the data/email/messages syncing to the apps in the mobile. Just powering up -- fires up a whole bunch of background activity without one "actually using it".
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Has local access plus has a weak master password.
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man... - this qualifies for me
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
Crappy service doesn't give a license to steal. While the entertainment industry has done a lot of harm like all the DRMs etc. the ethical way is to boycott and not steal. For ex. if you believe in free software use GNU software - don&
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by jezclaremurugan 9y ago
I think there is a distinction here - the Mafia protects people from itself - but Google doesn't itself sue startups.
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
Why can't military spends be in one classified bucket and the rest be open and 100% transparent? I don't think information on how much is spent on roads, healthcare, police, education will affect security.
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
I'm not saying these machines are unhackable, but with the addition of additional constraints they are _almost_ perfectly secure. For ex., On election day, mock voting and counting is done in the presence of all party representatives -
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
Balanced score card!
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
But the availability of spare parts influences the resale value of the car (at least in India) which in turn influences the buyers of new cars to buy from manufacturers who provide spares at a reasonable price (Ex. Maruti in India). But I g
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
I read a quote somewhere "remember in the dark, what you saw in the light" - what I do is list the reasons why I believe in a plan or something, and when the doubts come, I validate it against the list of reasons. If the doubts ac
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
Learned optimism - or at least this blog post - https://github.com/raganwald/presentations/blob/master/optim... Changed my whole outlook.
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by jezclaremurugan 10y ago
Not the OP, but what convinces me is mostly the historical argument for Christianity - the (historical but not scientific) claims of resurrection and the rapid growth of Christianity despite being severely persecuted. Christianity spreading

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