john4534243

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by john4534243 6y ago
No offence. In my experience Software engineer with an MBA is a person who had found coding is not a skill that suits them.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> I was the first employee Remember that you are an employee unless you have any equity or something more than a normal employee. If you dont just dont sweat, focus on building skillset and move on. IF you don't have the time in you
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by john4534243 6y ago
For what so that my content get censored behind the great firewall of ccp china
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by john4534243 6y ago
> Generally the more educated and free a population, the less church (or mosque or whatever) going there is. This is true in general but some reason it is not the case with islam.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> And you'll replace Christianity with what? Another religion? Atheism? Religion is a disease like cancer and aids. You dont replace it with another disease. Atheism is the cure.
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by john4534243 6y ago
If anything religion is very good at making good people behave bad without feeling guilty about it.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Every major religious book preaches against women rights and other bad stuff. The churches(or any other religious organization's) goal is to make the society conform to the religion as much is permitted at that point in time. > nor
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by john4534243 6y ago
This makes me sad, i would like a democratic country to occupy and set laws on mars not authoritarian.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> OpenAI publishes in closed journals (actually conference proceedings) because that is where all the cutting edge research is published and reviewed. Ok. So whats the point of OpenAI then ?
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by john4534243 6y ago
Its not just non-biologists opinion. Its the opinion of nobel laurates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23877141 . It is embarrassing for chinas ccp.
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by john4534243 6y ago
I know a lot of Christians and other religions where people can openly say they are atheist openly and their family(and society in general) is okay with that. The problem with ISLAM is it is so dogmatic, no one can oppose it irrespective of
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by john4534243 6y ago
You are trying to portray ISLAM as religion of peace. It is not. ISLAM is incompatible with democracy. I understand all types of people exist given the amount of population. With ISLAM it is followed very strongly and that's why even p
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by john4534243 6y ago
With Balaji Srinivasan it is even worse. He is open supporter of Modi current prime minister of India(BJP party) and supports caste system. My advice is if you are not from upper caste(brahmins) do not waste your time with him.
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by john4534243 6y ago
The Arab world failed to use the opportunity. They could have invested more in education and built in home research labs, etc. Instead they used the money to build more taller buildings and imported the tech while the culture never changed.
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China Coverup Coronavirus(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by john4534243 6y ago
Majority of the ISP's provide dynamic IP these days and getting static ip costs significantly more money. If you have a low compute device like raspberry pi running 24/7 which controls all the home network, then connecting(ssh) to
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by john4534243 6y ago
If i want my device to lie about my location for whatever reason it should do that, the device should not control me.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Citation Needed
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by john4534243 6y ago
US is not great, but i would want the US to be the police of the world and not china. I am not a US citizen. The reason is simple USA is built on democracy and individual freedom.
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by john4534243 6y ago
I think yes. If china is isolating itself from the internet, its only fair to not allow china to participate in the internet.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> Currently, users (or attackers) can easily manipulate the location provided to an app This is respecting users privacy and its a feature.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Just in case if you are not aware of emacs org-roam mode and emacs pdf-mode which are quite useful.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Who's TBL ?
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by john4534243 6y ago
Me too amazed at the clarity and completeness of the op's post.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Even software service companies have started to go full remote. WFH is the future.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Non-technical fields are essential but the training and replacement is much easier compared to programmers profession. Not because programmers are genious talented people, simply because in order for a programmer to stay relevant to the fie
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by john4534243 6y ago
In my opinion anyone who does not have verifiable proof for their technical competency is not worth the time listening to their talk. I am not saying they don't have valid points but its too much of an ask.
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by john4534243 6y ago
I can see you point. In technical writing the analogies are useless when the point is clear enough. But in this case I felt his analogies were useful in making it memorable. By the way i wish in the business word or at least in the software
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by john4534243 6y ago
> It's not just the written word. The same applies to the spoken word as well. Writing can not be compared with speaking. Writing has the advantage of thinking over multiple times and editing before sending out the final draft.
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by john4534243 7y ago
What makes some people remain sharp at old age ? My observation is it can be attributed to practicing intellectually challenging jobs continually. For example Don Kunth, Marvin Minsky are and were sharp. Is this observation a surviour ship

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