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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Imagine the worst, most power hungry, little-napoleon office manager you’ve ever had and then imagine one in three of the staff have that mindset. This correlates with whatever I've seen over the years with various teachers, an
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by kamaal 4y ago
This argument can be made for any country on earth. Pick up a globe, close your eyes and randomly put your finger anywhere and you will see the point under question was under different (political)boundaries every 300 years or so. Boundaries
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by kamaal 4y ago
Speaking in the context of India, you can argue secularism has sort of failed here too. The problem happens to be with the top-down approach. You can't exactly ram down these political concepts down peoples throats. And when the popula
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Because voting is just a small part of Democracy. Democracies need strong and independent, judicial, law making and executive branches. Voting itself is an averaging process, and you get the average of what ordinary citizen wants. It is har
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Lebanon beforehand, it is important to note, was not Muslim majority at all. It was Christian and Druze, and that was the very foundation of the country itself. It was never the country of Muslims in the first place. As a part of Sy
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by kamaal 4y ago
'Colonial Influences' were exactly what they were - 'Colonial Influences', Here in India, British barely spent money on education, or industrialising the country. Whatever little infrastructure got built, was done to ens
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by kamaal 4y ago
Yeah, land, like college seats, and gym memberships come in limited quantities. There is no infinite supply of land, college seats, or gym memberships. So whoever acquires a hold on a resource of this nature stands to benefit a better retur
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>>Most landlords I have met buy properties and then outsource their administration to property management companies. And the cost of buying a property and outsourcing its maintenance is 0 right? The landlord magically pulls a home o
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US doesn't go around bombing and invading every nation it wants to control either. Greyzone ops, color revolutions etc. There are many ways in which China could achieve its goals without a full fledged war.
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Some level of hubris everybody has. Go read any thread here about Russia-Ukraine, almost unanimously most comments read like Russia is destined to lose, no matter what they do. You will also read how China is absolutely a weak military powe
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by kamaal 4y ago
I've done this in the past for years and it ain't fun. Eventually you will burn out working 18 hr workdays, without breaks, vacations, family time, exercise and if you don't see much financial success at the end you will suff
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Would you use the same argument if your company could easily pay you 2x your current salary but just pays you x?
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y'''(t) = job hopping(rate of increase of raises) Perfectly explains grifters.
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by kamaal 4y ago
My own health issues, and then Dad's old age illness(heart attack, knee replacement surgeries)- Forced me to quit the code superstar life style, and I prioritised four things as the most important things in my life- Health, Side income
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by kamaal 4y ago
Never miss twice is generally a good doctrine to follow. Of course not breaking the chain demands a certain precondition, let not getting sick. Not neglecting minor chores daily, that they might some day take a week of your time. Things lik
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by kamaal 4y ago
Civil services, even state civil services were designed from the perspective that they would defacto govern the country. Which is actually a fact. No politician can hold a candle to civil services cadre in a country like India. Even before
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>However, the biggest dread now in Bangalore is stepping out of our home or the complexes. Don't wish to make presumption, but please if you stay in those gated communities, I have to say you know nothing about Bangalore. That e
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Bengaluru’s unlivability is entirely due to the failure of the public administration and widespread corruption. As somebody whose several generations have lived in Bangalore. What you wrote could be true. But Bangalore's curren
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>>It often seems the players don’t have the patience anymore to play it Not enough monetary incentive either, it doesn't pay as well as T20. Second problem is bowling doesn't pay as well as batting. And that brings only bats
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>>competitive coding or leetcode Absolutely yes. There is a big difference between inventing solutions to novel problems, and being 75,386th person to solve a problem on a website. The latter just makes you a sophisticated newspaper d
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by kamaal 4y ago
Cricket had a different problem. The game moved to be very batsmen centric(pitch construction) for a good part of 90's and 2000's. This caused most games to end in draws. Batsmen would just play days to make records. Ricky Ponting
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Carlsen clearly feels that the World Championship is not important enough to sacrifice a large chunk of his career for. Which other tournaments are considered like the top levels of Chess competition, and what are the criteria for b
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Say a player just rote memorised moves from a chess engine and just played it. Would that be considered cheating?
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For those of us who don't follow this closely, why is the format such a problem? Is it because its stressful, and demands too much work and prep from participants. Just asking as competitive sport at the top level be it chess, football
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The point is by the time you reach mid 40s, ensure you don't have to depend on a salary to run a family.
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>>10 Be prepared for old age Like my dad adviced me. As you age worry only about four things: Health, Relationships, Side income and Free time. Forget about career, accolades, titles, awards or recognitions, nothing is really remember
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Having it as debt instead of in the bank sounds even better as inflation eats your debt away. This is a crazy hack, in countries like India where a home/rent-income is a defacto investment, being in debt is cleverest way you ca
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>>Sri Lankans cannot entirely absolve themselves of blame for repeatedly electing a populist regime. If you have bigoted populace, it's dead easy to bait them into voting for some immediate emotional relief. Sri Lankan's wan
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I live in the UK, a country that hasn't been able to feed itself using only its own produce for centuries From the past few centuries, Britain has been doing just fine colonising bulk of the world and taking their resources. I
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by kamaal 4y ago
Yes its in the context of Clojure, his point is tail calls should be provided in JVM itself, it can then be added to Clojure.

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