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by nus07 5y ago
I worked for a large healthcare system in the past where a lot of the data that I was providing bio-statisticians with required combining with some files from NIH,CMS and other websites. Now ideally there should have been ways to use APIs t
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One of the things that I noticed that when I lived in India and England, I never felt lonely . It was more walkable and there was less of a comparing salaries and lifestyles and more of hanging out and ‘chilling’. Maybe I was younger . But
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Fantastic answer. In 30 years time we have no idea how the youth then will view our race for urban living, yoga, tech hustles and high inequality, juice and vegan diets, electric cars, open concept houses, social media, tech surveillance an
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"It took me some time to piece things together. The reality is that leadership wants senior leaders to stay disconnected. It makes it significantly easier to make decisions you wouldn’t make if you personally knew the people those deci
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Ask HN: Should I tell hiring manager about a rude interviewer and future peer
6 points by nus07 5y ago|5 comments
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I mean all FAANG has morphed into is ads, content and monetization and selling you things. New tech coming from there is also how that can be monetized . The kind of folks who went into derivatives in 2001 are now going to FAANG (and burni
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Ask HN: How can I get involved in newer tech stack and projects at my job
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Someone visionary and humble like Sundar or Satya might work. Preferably an engineer or engineer-minded rather than a lawyer or MBA.
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My friend first moved to Hong Kong since they had a strong crypto community and something to do with regulations. After the recent issues with China in HK he moved base to Dubai . He told me it’s something to do with regulations of crypto -
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I mean I graduated top 5% of my class and make early 6 figures. My friend who graduated bottom 5% is now a crypto millionaire living in Dubai. Meanwhile I can write complex Scala code but I have no idea what blockchain , NFT , crypto is all
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Thank you . That was a fantastic and very detailed response. Obviously seeing a few of those posts made me think there was something to those insinuations so its good to get those clarified. Ball is now on Bolt founder's court to back
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With all due respect there have been 2-3 HN posts in the last few months about YC and HN being biased towards Stripe. Surely it cannot be so much smoke without a fire.
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Is this the end of Silicon Valley and the tech utopia - when HN also starts acting like a paid media with vested interests like Fox News or CNN . Assuming of course that Ryan’s accusations have any truth to it. Then again HN moderators and
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Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill Restricting Big Tech Platforms(wsj.com)
5 points by nus07 5y ago|1 comments
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Look man this is the United States which is a corporatocracy. If me taking off my shirt will increase shareholder or investor value then that will be it. This guy took the brunt but he had some time to chill , play golf, do yoga at a resort
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I don't think I care about salary so much especially when I hear that the other countries have a better social safety net. As a software engineer I am confident I can make decent pay for the area. I am not looking to send my kids to pr
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The more I read and experience such things along with the healthcare scam and sudden bills from hospitals and haggling with insurance, the more I wonder why I immigrated to the US when I could have taken my software skills and education to
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I suffer from depression and oscillate between days of high productivity and days of listlessness. I am a fairly decent programmer who has cracked FAANG interviews and got PIPed out of one in the past mostly due to my depression . I now wor
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Portland like mentioned about European cities and towns is also incredibly homogenous culturally and racially by most American standards . Lived there for 6 years as a brown person and glad to have gotten out.
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You might enjoy reading this - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/chinas-reform-...
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Back in 2004 I saw an interview of Larry Page who talked about how they wanted to be different from Wall Street and be more humble and nerdy and less evil.As a nerdy kid I became a huge fan of the Google counter culture against the evil Wal
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Tesla faces investor lawsuit over Musk tweets on 10% stock sales(reuters.com)
3 points by nus07 5y ago|0 comments
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What are the odds that the profits from these recordkeeping failures exceeded $125M? If you did this as an individual you would be in prison. As a corporation like JPMorgan a fine as a slap on the wrist.
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Ask HN: Best Books for Data Engineering
2 points by nus07 5y ago|1 comments
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A lot of these things run on sentiment . About 15 years ago the supposedly smartest people and greed was on Wall Street . Talking derivatives and investment banking was where all my college friends with the best grades went .They were the b
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Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia(newyorker.com)
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/lina-khans-bat... A rather long read but it’s starting to make sense .
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Ask HN: Postgres can solve pretty much everything that AWS or Azure does
2 points by nus07 5y ago|3 comments
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Nothing new here . Both Facebook and Google’s business model thrives on addiction and almost all their revenue comes from ads. However much as the NYT and WSJ try to berate them these modern day tobacco companies are here to stay. Their rev
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My brother-in-law and his wife are so called minimalists who moved back east from California. Buying a 5 bedroom 750k house wasn’t minimalist to start with .But they had to go car free and so needed to be in a walkable and hip part of the c

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