okaram

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by okaram 4y ago
There's two meanings to attractive... One is you like them physically, another is 'a lot of people would like them', or more prosaically, 'a lot of people would like to have sex with them'. You can see who other p
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by okaram 4y ago
I completely understand; I came from Mexico and it took me 20 years to stop seeing the government as always corrupt. Private ownership opens it to all sorts of exploitation of workers or customers, plus if you subsidize it, you just move th
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by okaram 4y ago
I think you're mixing concepts... It's a free market economy if you can choose who to buy from; it's a democracy if the citizens choose the rules and laws, which may prohibit you from buying certain things.
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by okaram 4y ago
I think the big difference is that government is mandatory, whereas belonging to a co-op is voluntary. Both are useful and important.
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by okaram 4y ago
Well, STEM degrees could also be replaced by just reading the course syllabus... It's just a lot harder, just like with humanities degrees.
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by okaram 4y ago
You expect way too much of the justice system... The 'peers' on HN are very different from the peers on an average jury
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by okaram 4y ago
You know? It's called a vacation... We used to have those, even in the USA ;) Notice taxew are not a big deal for small companies... If Thailand wants to send my small restaurant a tax bill, I'd just drop it in the round file. If
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by okaram 4y ago
In theory I don't care where the bytes come from. In reality, there are IP kind of laws, contract enforcement, taxes, time zones ...
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by okaram 4y ago
It heavily depends on usage and weight. 10K steps is 1.5 to 2 hours of walking. I'm quite overweight, and my tennis shoes last me ~6 months in good shape.
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by okaram 4y ago
One factor I haven't seen mentioned is that Amazon has a split-personality problem. AWS is a tech company. Reasonably comparable with other FAANGs, with wide variation within teams. Amazon is a logistics company with a web site. Logist
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by okaram 4y ago
I'm not sure if you already did the PR... I just see a few places where the word the is missing, which is fairly common for non-native English speakers.
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by okaram 4y ago
It's a choice by management,but it's an obvious choice. We should not expect everyone to be a horrible person, only motivated by profit, but we also should not expect people to act against their own interests all the time.
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by okaram 4y ago
Actually many companies will adjust salary if/when they bring you to the USA (usually, not initially to the same level as an equivalent American worker).
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by okaram 4y ago
Please don't see this as a lack of empathy, but I think the only solution under your control is to apply to other positions and leave when you get a better one. And if you apply to many and can't find a better one, then try to s
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by okaram 4y ago
Keep in mind it's not really 50%, more like 65? 2,000 hours means you work 40 hours/week, 50 weeks ... Basically no vacation, just a few holidays or sick days. We budget full time as 1,600 hours
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by okaram 4y ago
Current pop is 220M, already closer to 370 ... I can see it not growing much, but not decreasing.
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by okaram 4y ago
Did you see the word 'appears' there? What does authenticated means in this context? It may well mean 'the emails the times got are those emails' rather than 'the emails were truly between those parties,etc'
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by okaram 4y ago
We already automate things and amplify somewhat the power of a teacher... We've been trying computer stuff for decades (and books before). You still need tons of teachers.
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by okaram 4y ago
> China preparing to invade Taiwan ... There is, as of now, no evidence China is preparing to invade anything. There's always sable rattling, hasn't happened yet. > Wars happen when two or nation's drive for self-preser
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by okaram 4y ago
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by okaram 4y ago
I'm not from India, but ... Think about how easy it is to identify race, or region, or social class in the USA. It's probably the same thing.
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by okaram 4y ago
I've no clue what you are talking about. It is perfectly OK to say mathematically gifted student
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by okaram 4y ago
BTW, if you are in the USA, no, we're not in a recession.
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by okaram 4y ago
They do protect against infection, even against Omicron variants. The protection goes down over time, and it is less for many of the variants, but it is way greater than 0.
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by okaram 4y ago
I don't think it's just to keep them from other companies, it's that the returns on the projects that do see the light of day are so huge, that it makes sense for tech companies to have 10 of those and discard 9.
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by okaram 4y ago
Even when the fetus becomes a baby, it still matters. You are forcing another person to help that baby, in a much stronger (albeit temporary) way than any other. Think about it; you are not required to help somebody if they're in a
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by okaram 4y ago
I think you're not giving us enough information. Do you have numbers/percentages for each stage? Is the problem that you aren't getting enough applications? At what stages are you filtering what percentage of applicants? This
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by okaram 4y ago
This really means that Tesla wants to reduce their workforce by 10% ;) OTOH, the pandemic is probably over as a big public health problem, which doesn't mean we won't have local, short-lived lockdowns in the USA.
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by okaram 4y ago
I haven't found the safety data, but was very surprised when my new car was way cheaper to insure than my old one. I assume the insurance companies have the data. This may not be safer as in better crash resilience, but safer as in you
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by okaram 4y ago
> my favorite and least favorite country on earth. You just summarized my thoughts exactly.

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