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Job Terminator: Can robots learn your skills? [Interactive Quiz](washingtonpost.com)
1 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
Labor is only 5% of the total manufacturing cost. Even if you pay $0/hr in china, the (lack of) cost of transportation + low price of oil/gas due to fracking makes the total cost lower. Though it seems to be true for energy intens
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by npalli 11y ago
Uber takes 20% cut on the fares and taxi drivers are happy to take the deal. By what process do you think venture capital is subsidizing the fare?
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A world without work(theatlantic.com)
192 points by npalli 11y ago|184 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
Even in the best case (for China), the Chinese had suzerain rights over Tibet according to the convention. That is not at all the same as Utah and the US. Also, being an independent kingdom with antiquity Tibet has a right to challenge stat
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by npalli 11y ago
Tibet's relation to China is nothing like Utah and the US. Why would you get that idea? Utah was a US territory after the Guadalupe treaty with Mexico in 1848. After it became a US territory, mormons were encouraged to settle into Utah
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by npalli 11y ago
Strange coincidence, I just read a reddit comment discuss how studies linking iron deficiency to autism are not very significant. http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/39iyys/in_a_study...
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by npalli 11y ago
> auto company VP The VP is not in charge of a software company. Presumably some sort of widget/manufacturing operation ("cycle reduction"), so it is unfair to accuse him of not knowing what is going on in IT (at the level
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by npalli 11y ago
> Oh, and why does bloomberg.com want to use my web cam? To capture your photo in the certificate of completion.
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by npalli 11y ago
Sorry, but this guide is not as comprehensive or updated as the official documentation [1]. Just compare the generics or memory management sections to see why you would want to read the official documentation. Maybe a high level tour of swi
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by npalli 11y ago
Even China has only 45K greencards. They seem to follow the same pattern as India for immigration, so what category are they coming in. Last I checked both countries (India, China) have similar number of immigrants in the US.
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by npalli 11y ago
Is there some filter on this data? Green Card for a certain type of job? India has 280K greencards and Mexico only 40K greencards in 16 years? That doesn't seem right.
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Why lots of ‘Uber for X’ startups may be in trouble(fusion.net)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 11y ago
I meant China has approx. the same population as India.
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by npalli 11y ago
I was curious and looked at vacant homes across the world. So the US has about 13 Million vacant homes (with 1/4th the population of India). [1] China has anywhere from 69 to 85 million vacant homes (approx. same population as India) E
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The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears (Is AI a threat?)(rameznaam.com)
2 points by npalli 11y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 12y ago
There was a very good blog post about why shutting down the website makes a lot of sense in India (and many parts of the world). http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2015/4/6/tech-miscellany
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by npalli 12y ago
Microsoft, please port Visual studio to OS X.
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by npalli 12y ago
> The first is the obvious, you-see-it, you-want-it, you-know everyone-and-his-cousin-will-want-it-too something, like the original iPod The original iPod sales looked like this [1]. Tell me if you think if it falls into your first categ
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by npalli 12y ago
Large public works projects are a problem in Germany. http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/disastrous-publ...
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by npalli 12y ago
One key insight the original paper (by Dean Simonton) had was that creative peak varies by field. So, some fields like poetry, pure mathematics, theoretical physics admit of early peaks (by twenties). Well, turns out this is not true. Consi
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by npalli 12y ago
It is worth noting that the S-1 listed one shareholder (among 10 or so individuals) who owned 10 bp of stock. Facebook thought that was worthy of disclosure. Like the commentator above, I'm highly skeptical that employee #100 got 10 bp
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by npalli 12y ago
yeah, i know you can scale it. Will it look good though? In addition, it has a pretty weak processor, so we will have to see how the performance works out if you scale it. Especially if you drive a monitor.
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by npalli 12y ago
Looks like apple has finally introduced a netbook or iPad with a keyboard. Frankly, I'm disappointed with this macbook as I was expecting a full scale retina macbook air. After seeing the Dell XPS 13, I was hoping apple will take the r
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by npalli 12y ago
This list is static and not really useful given the swings in net worth of people. A far better and modern list is the bloomberg billionaires index, it is updated nearly daily. http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2015
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by npalli 12y ago
Not a good summary. 1. If the static method is trivial enough, the compiler can inline it removing the need for a function call. In that case, a virtual function call for a single increment op is 6 times slower. 2. If you disable inlining f
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by npalli 12y ago
Pretty sure 2x-3x number is bullshit. H1-B visas are transferable between employers. If someone is paying you 1/2 or 1/3 the market rate, it pretty much a given that some other employer will easily pay you 20-30% more and hire you
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by npalli 12y ago
Apple has $180Billion in cash. The total it spends on employees is $18Billion per year. So, in essence Apple could pay its employees just to sit around and not sell a single product for 10 years before running out of cash. Ponder that. Appl
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by npalli 12y ago
What difference does it make if they are from the past. They are produced and shipped today, components have to be updated, they are sold today, their supply chains have to be managed today, iOS has to run on them today, they get the same w
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by npalli 12y ago
Wasn't Xiaomi temporarily banned in India because of concerns that it is uploading data to China? This lack of confidence is going to be a roadblock if the end goal is take over the home. My understanding is that Xiaomi sells very litt

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