mgolawala

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by mgolawala 7y ago
We do not expect people to be honest in other aspects of their life. Just look at the cosmetics industry. Politicians with their campaign promises. Management with their corporate right-sizing and synergies. Kids and Santa Claus. (haha!) An
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by mgolawala 7y ago
It’s marketing man. Next you will be complaining that the burgers look a lot better on the billboards compared to when you unwrap them, or that the shirt looked a lot better on the mannequin than when you put it on, or that car ads always s
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I can see how moderators would be instructed to surface content that is more "appealing" to the audience and beautiful people are no doubt going to be more appealing. It's like the contestants on reality TV shows tend to not
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by mgolawala 7y ago
So Weird, reading your comment reminded me of how this is similar to how the immune system of an infected host can react with such ferocity that it kills the host. Like a Cytokine storm or a persistently high fever. Imagine if our reaction
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by mgolawala 7y ago
First, there is always the possibility that I could be wrong. The markets could hover around these levels and fall no further. Second, I may not know when to buy back in. Do I back in after they have fallen 10%? How about 20%? Should I wait
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I agree with both of your three points. (ha!) It was why I stated that it felt like a panic. The problem is panics are much like stampedes, they can take on a life of their own once they get started.
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by mgolawala 7y ago
To put it into perspective, the last time the market behaved like (multiple drops of this magnitude) this was 90 years ago, in 1929, and it was at the start of the Great Depression. Today was the second largest percentage drop for US Market
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by mgolawala 7y ago
You are entitled to your opinion, but I think you misinterpreted me there. I didn’t claim that they worked in isolation or accomplished it on their own. I was simply pointing out that the work, knowledge and understanding by the very few ha
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by mgolawala 7y ago
It has always been the case that 1% of humanity pulls the other 99% forward. We do not need everyone to be a genius. We just need one. We do not need everyone to be Martin Luther King Jr. or Gandhi, or Michelangelo, or Bach or Einstein, or
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by mgolawala 7y ago
The fundamental problem is that the narrative of the current administration is that globalization and global co-operation has been bad for the United States and that this policy has resulted in the U.S. being taken advantage of. However, th
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What logic ACTUALLY dictates is that once the vaccine is developed, the license to produce it is sold to all countries so that each country affected can begin mass producing it for their populations, and the global vaccine production capaci
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Agreed, but why would it need to be done "exclusively" in the U.S?
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I have had a couple of physician friends describe it as “just a really nasty flu” as well. However, I couldn’t square it with the seriousness with which I was seeing th authorities address it. That’s when I realized, that the comparison is
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Up until recently the natural human condition also involved going through the grief of losing at least one of your kids. https://ourworldindata.org/parents-losing-their-child The human condition evolves. Having said that, w
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by mgolawala 7y ago
The virus is certainly quite concerning, but those numbers are misleading. Italy almost certainly has far more than 2263 infected cases of covid-19. 2263 is just the number of individuals that sought medical attention, were given the test,
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Exactly this. There is plenty of comfort available in air travel if you are willing to pay for it.
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What aspect of the project are you referring to when you say "someone who knows why". I would imagine everyone on the team should know the "why". How about, a Sr. Software Engineer is someone who can work on, whatever t
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I wonder if an intelligence higher than ours were to figure out exactly how our brain worked. Every neuron, every synapse, every hormone and neurotransmitter.. How memories were made, stored and retrieved. Would we appear to them to merely
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Agreed. I don't think the current situation is better. Angelinos are paying the price for it in their time, their health and with their wallets. However, I think moving LA towards higher density development (similar to a New York, Lond
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by mgolawala 7y ago
The issue with LA is the low density sprawl. It would simply be cost prohibitive to build and run a public transport infrastructure that would cover such a large area and transport you around quickly. At least with today's technologies
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Standing desks are better for your health anyway.
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Your post reminded me of how my own perception has changed. I remember when I graduated college I interviewed and got a job and went to work at this company that in hindsight, had these awesome large high end cubicles, with wooden U shaped
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I am not normally a conspiracy theorist.. but I have come to suspect the same. One example, despite all that has come up in the this case, and the number of times Ghislaine Maxwell's name has been brought up, there is no word of her wh
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Personally I use the Notes app available on the MacOS / iOS platforms. I organize it with a folder per project. I love it because it is simple, supports checkboxes, formatting, freeform drawings via iPad+Pencil, syncs across all my dev
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I am sorry you find non-apology apologies offensive, but that is all we have to offer. We're sorry we couldn't do better. ;) On a more serious note though. It is cool that there is a label for something like this, but to me it is
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Until a corresponding increase in taxation is made to pay for a new expenditure. The new expenditure is paid for entirely by debt.
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I dont understand why the response "Dear <user>, We apologize if you found the icon offensive. Please be assured that no offense was intended. Thank you for bringing up the issue so we could clear things up." Was not a suffi
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by mgolawala 7y ago
I agree a car is more flexible and it scales UP very well to allow for longer distances but it scales OUT very poorly. For a unit of sidewalk or road, you can support an order of magnitude more people walking to their work, or stopping by t
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by mgolawala 7y ago
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing" - John Stuart Mill. Often quoted as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Th
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by mgolawala 7y ago
Exactly. You see the high speed rail in Italy, Japan or China and think about just how old those countries are. All have excellent high speed rail. It isn't limited just to the outskirts either. For example, Rome itself has an amazing

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