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by ngc248 5y ago
The core product ... which would be in this case search or the DL teams etc.
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by ngc248 5y ago
unions are not a panacea ... Where I am from, in some of the states, all manufacturing had to move out because unions kept going on strikes and lockouts. So its not only American unions that are bad, there are bad unions everywhere. I feel
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by ngc248 5y ago
I feel its a cycle ... the absence of unions creates problems, people unionize .... having unions creates problems .... unions are disbanded ... rinse and repeat. On a general note ... life in general seems cyclical.
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> I think I've noticed a correlation with more noise and lower economic class people This is true and it is true all over the world.
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by ngc248 5y ago
We are in fact the meat.
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> At least one cooking show (Rick Stein in India) explored the "curry is just an indial dialect word for gravy" thing. And others have noted all the varietal restaurants of the sub-continent in the UK appear to depend o
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by ngc248 5y ago
>> As for "tyranny of the minority" - I hope to never see that phrase again. Protections for minorities in democracies exist for a very good reason. I digress, but how are these protections an inherent feature of democracies
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by ngc248 5y ago
Godwin's law is not exactly a law, but an observation. Your comment is justified, because the current zietgeist is "majority wrong and minority right" and your comment is highlighting the dangers of such a process.
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by ngc248 5y ago
Cyberpunk and head crash by bruce bethke is also good
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by ngc248 5y ago
aptitude is a real thing and interest is another thing. Then there are other externalities like access to resource etc. Not everyone can do everything, maybe due to lack of aptitude or interest. So in essence, "anyone can do anything&q
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by ngc248 5y ago
The name is apt then, since its nowhere :)
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> In other words you can predict the outcome of someone else's endeavour, because of your own experience, you could tell them your prediction, but they'd go ahead anyway because experience has to be lived, and is seldom
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by ngc248 5y ago
We need a series of books which would chart out all of the software, innovations and the people involved during that era. I would definitely buy and read it. The history of that era is really interesting.
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by ngc248 5y ago
Because web3 decentralization is not the solution. The web when it started out was pretty decentralized. Consolidation and centralization happened because of economies of scale and it was convenient for the users also as compared to self ho
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> there can be an inherent competitiveness in white-boarding interviews. the interviewer can implicitly want to show their superiority over the candidate This can be present even in non-FAANG interviews. Early in my career, I had
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> We keep moving the goal post It's more like climbing a mountain and seeing higher peaks. Researchers may have been thinking that creating a human beatable program may get them insights into how to create an AGI, but they j
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by ngc248 5y ago
These institutions are nothing like coaching institutes. Read up a bit about these for ex: elan.
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That is how American should be used, its like saying "I am European". Only thing is popular usage of "American" refers to US citizens.
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> I fear a guy like Trump as president would probably ruin it for a variety of reasons. I am not a trump supporter, in fact he started the tough policy on china, the quad etc Why would he mess it up. He may talk shit, but at leas
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by ngc248 5y ago
Those shrink wrapped sandwiches are equally bad everywhere
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> Because if it doesn’t, this puts a question mark over the whole idea of democracy all around the world. When you say democracy, what exactly do you mean? Most democratic countries have representative democracy, where they choos
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by ngc248 5y ago
It traveled back in time then, must be a new beta feature :)
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by ngc248 5y ago
No Idea, but the the range is huge, on the one side you may have small consultancies which may be paying like 8k to 10k INR a month, which translates to 1.2k USD in annual compensation. At the other extreme, you have these unicorns and FAAN
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by ngc248 5y ago
>>> I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals. Well people with little connection to Asia got corona, heck almost everyone across the wor
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by ngc248 5y ago
Even the Indian hiring market is on fire. Very hard to recruit right now, we have had open positions for months. We have been taking endless interviews, those who are good have multiple offers and shop around. We have seen lots of attrition
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly .... Another issue is, if there is an advantage to be gained by saying that there is caste discrimination, people will use that. Let's take an example of an upper caste manager and a lower caste IC reporting to him. If the mana
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by ngc248 5y ago
Luck is they got into tinkering with TVs which led to tinkering with computers and hence tech. If they had worked hard in laying bricks maybe they wouldn't have had so much success probably.
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by ngc248 5y ago
There are 22 official languages in India and there is no national language. In most schools in most cities it is english first (at home anyways you would be speaking your mother tongue) >>> English dependence can be viewed as why i
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by ngc248 5y ago
Dontcha know, with the new release of kubeflow, all this is possible :)
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>>> That isn't to say the west hasn't done anything wrong. But by my account, we can pin the following on Russia: >>> - Installing puppets in foreign governments >>> - Schroeder >>> - Trump &#

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