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by nsenifty 3y ago
Indeed. Between roughly 1995-2000 it was the place to be. The hyper growth that followed post ~2002 brought in dilution in talent, benefits were cut (e.g. stock options were discontinued mid 2002) and the emergence of global companies openi
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by nsenifty 3y ago
The whole point was that most of the world was pro-nazi until the events of WW2 and the holocaust. And if you are comparing someone's views in the 30s to the current worldview, I hate to break it to you that everyone's racist and
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by nsenifty 3y ago
There is freedom of speech, but the first amendment[0] ironically added measures to restrict free speech. Even aside from that, it's a minefield of colonial era Sedition laws, blasphemy laws, anti-terrorism laws etc. The state can also
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by nsenifty 3y ago
Ironically fearmongering that there's an imminent genocide is one of the justifications used by the the Government for internet shutdowns and censorship. Law and order is precarious in most parts of the country and anybody can spark an
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by nsenifty 3y ago
> the current ruling party is straight up unironically fascist and descends from the same political party that inspired the german nationalist socialist party. This is false. There is no link between the German Nazi party and BJP. If you
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by nsenifty 4y ago
My middle school enrollment number was 286. The number was significant because it was etched/embroidered/painted all over my belongings. A few years later they renumbered us all. I was a bit disappointed losing this number until I
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by nsenifty 4y ago
That's great! You should add that to your FAQs (spell it out specifically). How do you factor the US taxation at marginal rate (instead of the more favorable long term capital gain tax rate) factor into your ROI comparison between inve
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Do you help US-based investors with PFIC taxation (see Steps 4 and 5 here)? ( https://www.taxesforexpats.com/guides/passive-foreign-invest... ). This is a huge pain point for US persons investing in foreign mutual funds.
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by nsenifty 4y ago
If you are based in the US and directly invest in mutual funds in India, keep in mind the US taxes it in extremely unfavorable terms via PFIC[0]. I browsed through their website and it appears their tax guidance is only for Indian taxation,
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Industrial revolution was funded by the colonies, both in providing resources and the market for the finished goods. For instance, the British starved the local textile industry in Bengal (which had accounted to 30% of global textile market
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Do you have any specific examples of cases being filed against them that the courts are not paying attention to? Courts job is not to police the population. If someone files a case and argues the merits of it, why wouldn't the courts p
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by nsenifty 4y ago
He also said "if you look around you will find a lot more Modis [that are thieves]". In case it isn't clear, he messed up by making derogatory statement based on someone's caste. He should have known better, especially a
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Completed? (like in Never let me go[0]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
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by nsenifty 4y ago
The above case was with FB messenger which is (was?) not e2e encrypted and since Meta already had the data they were obliged to comply with a court-issued warrant. With E2EE, they can legally skirt such demands since they can claim they don
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by nsenifty 4y ago
This brand, along with most other US sourced products (including Paul Stamet's brand) contains more biomass (the grain substrate on which mushroom grows) than the mushroom itself. For instance, one of the FAQ on their site states it ha
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by nsenifty 4y ago
This is true to a large extent in India. My childhood home address in a very small town was something like "person name, behind government hospital, town". Even in the cities, depending on the city, it is usually a combination of
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Is this documented somewhere? As a data point, just a day after my last day at $FAANG, my blind required re-auth. I still have access to my older mid-size company blind via a separate account since 2019. Just wondering what other services B
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by nsenifty 4y ago
I also see ads for Metformin as a "longevity" and "weight loss" drug. I worry for my mom and other diabetic members of my family potentially not being able to get it if it goes viral like this.
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by nsenifty 4y ago
I don't. I've seen this[1] passed around as an evidence to show a much lesser prevalence of caste-based discrimination, but I haven't myself examined this in depth. [1] https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/
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by nsenifty 4y ago
The companies (at least Meta/Google) are paying the full cost of healthcare for 6 months, at zero cost to those laid off.
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Equality labs survey is anything but scientific. The participants were not carefully sampled. They say it was "community organized", which basically means it was a link that was propagated by activists to like-minded people to par
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by nsenifty 4y ago
I was a Staff-level engineer that a BigCo@Bay area laid off in November. My network immediately went into overdrive connecting me with great opportunities, which I am VERY thankful for. Got in pipeline for 7 companies, interviewed for 4 rol
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by nsenifty 4y ago
I remember feeling like how GP (with M1 Pro) feels when I upgraded my 2007 Intel MBP with Snow Leopard and and SSD. Everything was snappy and instantaneous until the wave of Electron apps and Lion and forced convergence with iOS design...
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by nsenifty 4y ago
> Caltrain even lets people drink on the train and its not a problem, but it's because of the crowd they serve. Even Caltrain gets rowdy on the game days, particularly with people on the bike cars refusing to give way to bikers boar
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Same here. However we discovered that the windows service "messenger" had to be re-enabled on the target machine to make this work again. So we'd sneak into a gullible person's computer, log in (each one of us was an adm
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by nsenifty 4y ago
I don't think it's been discussed externally yet. It's called on-demand (some references to it here - https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2022/11/15/meta-de... ).
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Both VS Code and IntelliJ have first class support for remote development as referenced in the article. I have been using Github codespaces for a while now and you can't nearly tell you aren't developing locally. Add to that faste
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Claudia Romeo from Food Insider interviewed the super enthusiastic owner of this place. https://youtu.be/ZyXUzhTn0kI
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by nsenifty 4y ago
> Don't forget the time to look up whether it's vertical | horizontal or horizontal | vertical because I forget all the time padding and margin go `top right bottom left` just like in a clock. So it always start at top and go c
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by nsenifty 4y ago
Ex-Facebooker here: Number of reviews does factor into performance reviews, but mostly as a tie-breaker in calibrations when you're borderline in between bands, not as a primary metric. People who do disproportionately large number of

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