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by jogjayr 10y ago
I understand, and I really wasn't going for bare necessities (that's why I threw transportation and entertainment in there). I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps there's something wrong with society's perceptions
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Agreed. And that's the part that I take the blame for. When you're adrift in a culture, you should ask for help. In my (relative) immaturity, I thought asking questions would be considered annoying, rather than being a way to buil
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> 95% of people in the western world can't afford society's perceptions of "basic needs" You're saying 95% of people in the Western world can't afford food, shelter, clothing, education, transportation, heal
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Not many. I too enjoy meeting people from different cultures but...it's difficult, for me at least. I mean I find it hard to make friends period, regardless of culture.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> How exactly do concerned citizens raise their voice in India? In general, much the same as other countries. Call/write/meet with your municipal corporation member/MLA/MP (though it's doubtful you'll get an
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> international students are cliquey. It might help if you understand why they're cliquey. Many of them are living away from home for the first time, so hanging out with familiar faces and having shared cultural references is comfor
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Serious (and off-topic) question: did Silicon Valley name Hooli XYZ as a nod to that domain name? A whois seems to indicate that the domain was created a year before the second season of the show, when Hooli XYZ made its first appearance.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I thought California DMV rules only said you had to treat a red-light right like a stop sign. Make a complete stop then move. I don't recall reading anything about 6 seconds and the article doesn't mention that either. NB: you sho
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Ever since I saw that, every single time I wait for people getting off a crowded train, I wonder "Why?". Cost reasons. Wherever you adopt this, you need two platforms to serve a train instead of one. Not saying it doesn&#x27
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I've made 3 separate attempts to get into DF: read tutorials, watched Youtube videos, the whole shebang. The incomprehensible UI drove me away every time. Having said that, I love that something like DF exists, even if I can never enjo
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by jogjayr 10y ago
A lot of webapps already use this type of scheme for cache-busting, though of course the hash algorithm isn't mentioned. I assume that's important so that the browser can do verification?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Yeah, that's mostly my reaction too. OTOH, there's no reason that sort of email can't be generated from a list of templates either. My favorite was when a recruiter obliquely referenced something I'd once tweeted complai
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I agree. In current usage "humbled" just seems to mean "I'm staying humble despite my achievement" rather than what the word actually means. Even if it's over-used, it shows class to give credit to the people a
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Serious question: is the whole deal with the Python GIL solvable if some BigCo decides to throw a ton of money and engineers at it? Like Google with V8, for instance. Or is it a truly hard problem that will take something special to solve?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
At a previous company, my 100% remote co-worker spent all day in a Google Hangout and his team had a monitor in their area with the Hangout running. If anyone had a question, they could simply turn their heads or walk over to the monitor an
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> After all, if you're making $10 per customer per month, it's bound to be an uphill battle to convince people you should change to a business model that makes you $5 per customer per month. That's something I just didn&#x
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Thank you! Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient for success. (Almost) everyone successful is a hard worker. Not every hard worker is successful.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
How? The logo image request goes to google.com then, and not Lastpass, right?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Stupid question: why can't LastPass encrypt the URL as well and decrypt client-side to show the logo, like they do (as I understand it) with passwords?
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> but there will probably never be a way to make heating/cooling a house or manufacturing physical products a magnitude more efficient. You'd be surprised how much more efficient houses can be with pre-existing tech and very li
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by jogjayr 10y ago
No more so than coyotes. Or mountain lions. Both have been known to make appearances in American cities. Mumbai is also unusual in being a large city that has a national park within its limits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Seeing that most people desire only a relatively small subset of careers (and almost no one want to be for example a dentist, an accountant, not to mention telemarketer or toilet cleaner), I don't think it's going to work. O
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by jogjayr 10y ago
There are definitely problems with the 401(k) system but I think the article missed a couple of the big ones or misattributed causes: 1. High fees - this is largely because as an employee you're stuck with whatever 401(k) provider your
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> How exactly does this translate into 25-30x annual expenses (assuming safe withdrawal rate of 3-4%) ? It doesn't, as far as I can tell. Any rule of thumb that answers the question "How much should I save?" but doesn&#x27
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> The big problem with this table is that it assumes that you want to live on the same amount that you do while saving. That's probably the best way to reliably predict how much you'll need to retire. It's a mistake to thi
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> but you chose to interpret that phrase literally. But when we're dealing with geological timescales I think a literal interpretation may be the right way of looking at it. Would it be sad if 90% of Earth's species died off? C
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> You can't just "commit" as in subversion, you must understand what are you doing. Further I'd argue the subversion "just commit" model is potentially toxic to the quality of the codebase and SCM logs. It m
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Not necessarily. Especially in the big cities and among the wealthier or more educated (i.e. Indians you're likely to encounter on HN). I don't have statistics on hand but "love" marriages constitute a non-trivial percen
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Why is the government, and by extention you and me, supporting liberal arts degrees that will do little to support economic growth? As a taxpayer, I'm happy to support liberal arts even if it doesn't lead to economic growth.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Indians actually don't care about climate change and global warming and will not care for a long time to come. Granted I only visit India about once a year but that was not the impression I got at all. Climate change is discussed

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