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by kamaal 4y ago
If you were running a cartel you would want to hire the best enforcers from the erst while cartels. I think in the World War Z novel they hired the best administrator from the Apartheid era to enforce Zones of containment.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>People here are effectively suggesting that I shouldn't get my paycheck and that the company I work for should lose most of its money I got no dog in this fight(as I'm an Indian, and stay in India). But I guess what they a
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>If Nalanda counts as a university, then Europe certainly had universities older than Bologna. Yup, a lot of things have existed earlier than we perceive. I do think 0 was invented by cave dwellers when they plucked 2 fruits from a t
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by kamaal 4y ago
Buddhism from its very history exists because Prince Siddhartha walked out of his palace and saw people dropping dead like flies out of disease and hunger. Apparently the sheer scale of suffering drove him to quit everything and become the
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>If this is your sort of goalpost, then even relatively homogenous countries like Germany and Italy shouldn't really exist today, given that they only coalesced in the late 19th century. Yup. The Holy Roman empire, Roman Empire,
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by kamaal 4y ago
One of the big problems with trying to fix history(which is impossible as past can't be changed) as a means for emotional relief for your current pains due to bad politics is you run in all sorts of contradictory situations, where any
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by kamaal 4y ago
Basically nobody invents anything from scratch. It would be a pity if we have to rediscover everything all over again, every time there is a major change in a regions political order. The modern USA is today a continuation of the Europe&#x2
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by kamaal 4y ago
This, and the argument of compounding. That they will take trades that are profitable, and they will reinvest their profits to make more profits and that there are always people who will lose their trades and they will win. People state thi
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>But one big round of layoffs has much less impact than a series of smaller ones. This is one is true. Routine never ending layoffs dent morale. People can never be sure if they are next, hence they don't start working on anythi
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>The parent comment talked about how FB never have any kind of long term thinking. I refute that comment with one example. Having any amount of successful products is the past. Sure it will continue to give you profits. But that is t
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Lots of the folks I meet in the office currently, have more distractions at home. WFH is productive only if you are single. Or have single like benefits. Like kids who are off to school and a spouse who doesn't talk to your for
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>In a few months he could demonstrate that you don’t need as many employees as you thought The notifications feature on Android App is already broken and hasn't been fixed since like eternity now. Messenger notifications don&#x2
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Remote makes upskilling, onboarding and knowledge transfer much less likely and harder. Remote works great for people who are individualistic and in general can make do without peer access and a social stack rank. For people who in
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Anyone visiting a Dutch city can see what a distortion this comment is. Your parent comment is saying the same thing. Stay inside the city, close enough to your office that you can reach it by a bicycle. Of course in that case you c
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by kamaal 4y ago
Not yet available in India. Hope they launch soon!
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by kamaal 4y ago
Only have good things to say about Tata Indica. My dad was a Cab driver. Indica's were big then. We had two cars, both crosses 2,00,000 kms. The last one not only crossed 2,00,000 kms, we still use it. Very durable and value for money.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>And we haven't had a nuclear apocalypse -- in part due to lots of work on things like weapons treaties, monitoring, control systems, etc. Mostly its because no body has been desperate enough to press the button yet. Even in cas
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by kamaal 4y ago
Dogfooding is a thing. And its known to work.
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by kamaal 4y ago
I thought you might be trolling. But then when I looked at the Clojure repo on Github https://github.com/clojure/clojure the last commit was 2 months back. There is some merit in your arguments.
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by kamaal 4y ago
There's a joke that goes like this. There's a man who gets warning that his village is about to be flooded and he gets a warning he needs to evacuate immediately. He says he places his trust in god and decides to wait for god&#x27
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by kamaal 4y ago
It is called 'Up or Out' culture. It is practiced everywhere, even in the military. You don't see 50+ year soldiers, do you? Except may be in 'Top Gun' sort of movies, which just only proves the point. You are suppo
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by kamaal 4y ago
>> The endless drivel of "it's the managers at fault!" Who else if not managers are at fault here. The only reason they are paid extra is because they are responsible for mistakes.
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Last Sane Man on Wall Street(nymag.com)
116 points by kamaal 4y ago|54 comments
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>migration to their cloud mainframe offering was even more expensive for the raw compute Mainframes were always cheaper. The only reason things like Hadoop and MR even picked up for heavy batch jobs, was because in the last decade lo
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by kamaal 4y ago
India's case is unfortunately a lot more worse. The reason why this sort of corruption gets an easy pass is because the public is not necessarily against corruption. They like to imagine themselves as temporarily embarrassed 'mill
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by kamaal 4y ago
The article has lots of factual arguments going. But it misses the 1) point you mentioned. Regardless of whatever people like to believe, that guy isn't going crash and burn, go bankrupt or anything like that. It's fairly simple f
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by kamaal 4y ago
Hire to fire is fairly common. If a layoff is inevitable, It is common in many set ups for managers to hire people new people whom they would want to let go instead of their top dogs who've been rocking their projects for years.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>> If you're a top performer, you're going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair, and you're going to be able to get another job elsewhere fairly easily, even in this environment. Nobody outside of your immediate te
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>when it's really just much better 5x-10x-100x. At seventeen Hussain went on forty-day self-imposed retreat known as a chilla, where a musician practices in isolation until a state is reached in which the music and musician bec
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Every damn body knew that the last 2 years were not representative of the future. In hindsight, yes. But by that definition every decision is a coin flip, because no matter how good we get at predicting things, you are always and al

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