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by kshacker 4y ago
Same for us in Bay Area with 7 AM calls to talk to our euro brethren. It is not all rosy. And with the on call shift (when on call, not every week) going till 6:30 pM, sometimes it is 12 hour work days by design. on the other hand, they don
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by kshacker 4y ago
I am not sure it is a correct comparison. Wallets are here to stay so if you are anyways investing in wallets and payments, how much more work is banking? Especially if it is being done by someone else (Goldman Sachs)and if Apple is looking
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by kshacker 4y ago
> how many people (including on client teams) does it take to manage this much sprawl? Being remotely familiar something with similar complexity, I say "very few". Automation is not one time, it is ongoing. You start with somet
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by kshacker 4y ago
We will need to design it, but India has a biometrics system (yes big bad privacy issues) called aadhaar which is used for authentication in so many systems. As long as you can build and secure such a system, and people get used to it, as t
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by kshacker 4y ago
We could create a affiliated but a 3rd party bounty hunter business :) Ok, I lost my luggage in Brussels, provide the "bounty hunter" my information (i.e., location), give them a legal authorization, and they go claim my baggage f
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by kshacker 4y ago
I have received messages over Russia (traveling from US to India, 2-3 years back). And I received from one more country that I do not recall. It happens.
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by kshacker 4y ago
Wonder if the CEOs can be made to sign (and stand behind) such statements, like CEOs/CFOs were made to stand behind financial statements. Although I guess financial statements are quarterly, PR statements are dime a dozen.
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by kshacker 4y ago
If done right, I don't see what's wrong with it. A dozen weeks back, oil was 120, now it is less than 80. We should be able to fill it back and make money while doing it. We did the same thing saving GM more than a dozen years bac
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by kshacker 4y ago
I agree. This is how I describe KGF Part 1 has shot / camera angle changing every 2 seconds, like an American music video (movie is not musical just talking about the video) Part 2 is more traditional with the camera angle / shot
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by kshacker 4y ago
And I think years back you used to be able to do it from iTunes when the phone was connected with a wire. It disappeared over the years probably when they moved to Finder, but I think maybe even earlier.
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by kshacker 4y ago
Spamming, like many other things in life, is a field of bleeding edge technology. :) They were not using your area code a decade back, then they realized your area code works better - it probably did for a while. When it loses effectiveness
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by kshacker 4y ago
(Joke Alert) If you do not know, you are not supposed to know :)
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by kshacker 4y ago
Even a 6.7 likely has a few people giving it 1/10, a few people giving it 3/10 and a few people giving it 10/10. I have probably rated a couple of things 1/10 out of the 20 odd ratings I may have provided IMDB, but that
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by kshacker 4y ago
I am just trying to understand what the parent commenter meant by "nation of refugees".
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by kshacker 4y ago
Nation of Children - sure. Nation of Refugees - now or always? Now due to floods I can understand. But if always, I do not understand. They have been a "stable" country for half a century. When I say "stable", I mean wit
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by kshacker 4y ago
I have always ignored them as I did not know what DALL-E was, but last night got reading the multiple stable diffusion posts and liked what I read. Interesting stuff. Now after having read, I think it is good to have one odd post here and t
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by kshacker 4y ago
It goes in cycles. We go to extremes and then swing back and sometimes in unison across continents. We will go back to some centrists although whether it takes 10 years or 50 is hard to say.
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by kshacker 4y ago
Fundamentally decent man ... don't want to jinx it but reminded me of Jimmy Carter. Separated by 5-10 years in their peak power, with similar difference in their age. Both well regarded by their followers but eventually significantly i
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by kshacker 4y ago
> The Fed’s new payments system will compete with privately-held The Clearing House, which was launched by a consortium of large banks in 2017. It processed 41.2 million transactions valued at about US$18 billion in the second quarter. F
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by kshacker 4y ago
Well once the disk was worn out, and you had a backup, you could re-sell the backup Of course this may be abuse of the fair use backup copy, but when talking digital, we are anyways inventing philosophies. Other way could be the backup coul
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by kshacker 4y ago
Not sure if imgur is allowed so adding an image as a separate comment: https://imgur.com/8ordbZp I plotted the growth of the above mentioned data, and I compared each value with its value exactly 4 years back. So I compared
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by kshacker 4y ago
1. A bad graph. I know it is an government website and not something you produced, I need to call it out. From 1970 to 1980, the metric jumped to 300% (an increase of 200%). From 1980 to 1990, the metric jumped to 210% (an increase of 110%
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by kshacker 4y ago
It is as they say "perfect being the enemy of good". There are just too many people who create this perception because of their one off bad experience. Given the Wikipedia model of open edits, they should go fix it rather than cre
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by kshacker 4y ago
I just riffed off the word "ashamed" from the parent comment. I probably could have described it differently if I wrote it without that context.
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by kshacker 4y ago
I can understand the rationale for 0 and 1. I can even understand the rationale for a arbitrary range (from -5 to +10) in current era where languages have iterated for many generations. However I did not understand why they would have a ran
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by kshacker 4y ago
I am reading "a peoples history of United States" by Howard zinn. It highlights US in a very negative light so with that caveat out of the way, it appears we are continuously ashamed of things we did just a century back. Always. M
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by kshacker 4y ago
> Does it mean it costed the US of potential opportunities? I don't think it made any difference in the US. But it surely helped in his home country. Our immigration service hands out N visas a year. You reject one, someone else wil
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by kshacker 4y ago
It is also a response to handful of people who (rightly) want to get paid for their 3-5 minutes each clock in to open a shop. When you are negotiating 5 minutes this way, then the corporate negotiates 5 minutes that way, and pretty soon it
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by kshacker 4y ago
Yeah did not expect any different from Labor and Lib Dems, was curious about the 2 candidates. Interesting to see Sunak taking a non "modern conservative" approach, quite different from Grover Norquist school of thought. Wonder if
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by kshacker 4y ago
Care to explain the opposite views? They both come from the same party so presumably have lot in common as opposed to Labor and LibDems.

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