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by parennoob 10y ago
Okay, that's a good explanation of why this is wrong. Cool!
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by parennoob 10y ago
The information icon at the top says the database is from http://www.myneta.info/ , another decent site for Indian political data. Myneta.info looks like it is maintained by a group called The Association for Democratic Refo
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by parennoob 10y ago
In case anyone wants to see more specific data, there is a site ( http://netafilter.in/ ) that displays all constituencies, their MPs and the number of cases filed against them on a map.
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by parennoob 10y ago
> ...they are much better off to incentivize people to learn, teach or do charity than to just hand over some money for being citizens. A lot of money does get earmarked for this purpose, and then gets funneled into the pockets of corr
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by parennoob 10y ago
Why on earth is this answer downvoted? I'm pretty sure clock resets can cause HTTPS problems (even though they are unlikely to be in the OP's case, it being a server). And if you disagree, please explain...so that we can all lea
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by parennoob 10y ago
Note that this is a self-report. Without actual data, it loses a large part of its significance. Here is my self-report (also admittedly insignificant) -- when I was at college doing machine shop projects, there would be few girls who wou
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by parennoob 10y ago
Looks like they were somewhat on the right track in 2011 http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/toll-47-bihar-may-decl... : > "A study by the Indian Council of Medical Research concluded that a toxin from kasaund
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by parennoob 10y ago
I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) that a large part of your opinion is based on the fairly offensive word "poach" that implies that employees are the employer's property in some way. If that were taken out of the artic
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by parennoob 10y ago
To refine your analogy a bit, it's like a very attractive married person who has explicitly stated "I'm not interested" complaining about a lot of people hitting on them. It's not something that the person being h
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by parennoob 10y ago
I don't know about the specifics of how this is related to their algorithm, but it makes perfect sense from a philosophical standpoint. You are using Google (the world's most well-known search engine) to search for other search en
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by parennoob 10y ago
> Given the choice to drive for 8 hours or fly for 2 I always chose to drive. Hopefully self-driving or at least largely autonomous cars at an affordable price will make this a no-brainer for everything except trans-oceanic flights. My c
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by parennoob 10y ago
Take anything people with titles like "Asia-Pacific chief" say with a lot of grains of salt. They are used to making sweeping generalizations that only reflect their own view of something and often has little to do with reality or
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by parennoob 10y ago
> Blinding during interviews is obviously quite limiting – I probably wouldn't want to hire someone without having actually talked to them. How about blinding during resume screening? Replace female or male names with a number or ma
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by parennoob 10y ago
> as does starting with something blatantly obvious (dropping the photo requirement for applicants and blinding the names are two common options in my country Unfortunately, very few efforts seem to focus on immediately applicable soluti
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by parennoob 10y ago
In India this is pretty common as well. It makes meals etc. much easier, provides instant babysitters (the grandparents), and so makes it more flexible for a husband/wife pair to work and still have some free time in the evening. Priva
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by parennoob 10y ago
> I always think, what would our system look like if we adequately funded our programs? Would the DMV be such a cesspool? I suggest looking at the article's interactive graph. It tells me that > DMV managers with at least 30 year
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by parennoob 10y ago
> higher related costs like healthcare for a family How exactly is this a concern for a hiring manager ? I thought a company's employees were insured as a pool. In any case, discriminating against someone because of their healthcar
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by parennoob 10y ago
Yes, but the initial thing you said was: > It's almost as if we welcome you with open arms. Perhaps there is something being lost in cross-cultural language or sarcasm, but I don't think "We might be racist to you, but we&
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by parennoob 10y ago
I am an Indian in the US. I get the general idea of what you are saying, but I should note that it has a strong implicit assumption of a very liberal community. In such communities (say in SF or NYC), I am welcomed pretty warmly. On the oth
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by parennoob 10y ago
This is a good perspective. I hadn't thought of it that way --- probably because I was mentally comparing a very large company (Comcast) with a much smaller one (SpotHero). But you are right, in both cases it is decision trickling down
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by parennoob 10y ago
> And nine times out of ten, they're talking to your CSR's - not the CTO, or Finance, or marketing. The CSRs's behaviors are direct results of decisions made by these very same people. If the CXOs at Comcast gave enough of
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by parennoob 10y ago
> Either people in India use the english word "bread" or they have different meaning. The only thing people use the English word "bread" in India for is the sliced white bread that you can find in any store in the US
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by parennoob 10y ago
I agree, a lot of services displayed a shocking amount of incompetence in that post. However, a) The more proofs you have, the harder it becomes to force them. YC for example is one location, and is run (in my opinion) by very smart people
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by parennoob 10y ago
To me, Keybase ( https://keybase.io ) seems to solve the "PGP has a bad user experience" problem correctly for like 90% of the population. You post proofs of your public key to known media (Twitter, Github, your website,
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by parennoob 10y ago
> I have given up on bagging as I check out. It goes crazy every time I open a bag and set it in the bagging area. So now I just pile up my groceries and bag them when I'm done, which wastes everyone's time. This. Trying to do
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by parennoob 10y ago
As a non-American living here, I think it boils down to social attitudes. Remember, this is a nation of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires". The general attitude in the US is more like "Everything is a choice" rather
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by parennoob 10y ago
Yeah, something tells me I don't want to receive random text messages from "X with Z for Congress" inviting me to rallies. My reply to them would be considerably less polite than the one shown in their screenshot.
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by parennoob 10y ago
> My scouts (was Scoutmaster for 20 years) definitely did not fit the 'rich kid' profile. Farm kids, rural community, parents working 2 jobs or driving a truck. Stuff like "farm community....2 jobs" tends to obscure a
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by parennoob 10y ago
This is almost certainly the case. Being a scout/guide strongly correlates with parental income in the US at least – I don't know how it is in the UK. But if that is true, the headline might as well be "Being rich provides a
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by parennoob 10y ago
If he (and by extension thousands more) pay tax, then there's no "get away" involved – the transaction has been done fairly and the Govt. got the requisite amount of tax. The point is, if he has been doing this for 10 years a

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