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by phenkdo 6y ago
Unfortunately, I don't have a clear cut answer for you either, but share my experience: 1. I didn't "choose" the idea, the idea chose me. i.e. It took on a life of its own, and we had product market fit. 2. The fact that
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Hi, this is a very interesting project. Are you considering including temporality into this? Video understanding for example.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
This would likely rank among the greatest human achievements of all time, if the vaccine is out by end of the year and is actually efficacious.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
> 1/3 of London burned down in 1666. It was right at the end of the great plague of London kind of like 2020.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
That's a well reasoned argument, I am especially thrilled to hear one that didn't appeal to the extremes, although I don't agree that there is a direct causal relationship between supposedly low salaries and h1b. Here&#x27
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by phenkdo 6y ago
This seems to be the stock answer to everything: "Raise wages", this would raise your healthcare costs many x more. This is as insane a policy as Open Borders and Free Trade. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
How does this compare to mux.com?
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by phenkdo 6y ago
This is a great "follow-up" documentary about the reporter investigating his family's deaths and talking to Pol Pot's deputy "brother number 2" icymi https://enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com/
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Because at some point they run out of people to blame, and turn on each other.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
well played
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by phenkdo 6y ago
Almost the entire G Suite (sheets, docs, slides) - except probably for gmail -sucks.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
All of that is very likely true, but I was arguing that the Argentine military was no match, not even close to a match to the UK Armed forces. The outcome was never in doubt, just casualty counts on both sides.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I somehow doubt this,..even if the UK aircraft carrier were sunk, the British armed forces had _plenty_ of capabilities to bring to bear. While It wasn't quite a US Vs Iraq situation, it was very lopsided in terms of training, equipm
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by phenkdo 6y ago
how does this compare to milvus?
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by phenkdo 6y ago
cough blood and soil cough
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by phenkdo 6y ago
By and large your arguments are that of every entitled spoilt brat ever, who wants mommy & daddy to come rescue them. Get over it! One way or another this is going to happen, the workers you refer to are unemployable in every sense of t
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I think the fundamental premise on which your arguments are based is flawed. 1. Those jobs don't belong to "American workers". "American workers" : <wink> <wink> now, don't we all know what th
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by phenkdo 6y ago
IOW, entitlement.
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by phenkdo 6y ago
"Nuance does go out the window when you or yours lose the means to support a family. " Maybe they shouldn't have been in this profession at all and find a different line work. Jobs are not guarantees, you are not owed anythin
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by phenkdo 6y ago
I too get what you are trying to accomplish. But the vast majority of anti-h1b crowd doesn't have anything even close to the reasoned arguments and critique you offered. The knee-jerk reaction is largely: h1b = cheap labor = takes awa
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by phenkdo 6y ago
It's strange how this "black and white" article seems to gloss over the fact that Asians (Indians/Chinese/ etc) who are also "non-white" and are the dominant labor force in tech. Wonder how their experienc
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Ask HN: Who is your “I knew him/her” person?
1 points by phenkdo 6y ago|0 comments
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by phenkdo 6y ago
The "no-shortage-if-you-pay-enough" dog has caught up to the car, and now the proponents need to show the US citizens can indeed fill many of these positions. I think it will be a unfortunate denouement for both industry and resea
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by phenkdo 7y ago
People are looking for some rays of hope in these dark times, so perhaps the publication can be forgiven to hype up some local researcher's work.
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Ask HN: Wouldn't the US military be able to handle the surge of Covid cases?
1 points by phenkdo 7y ago|2 comments
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by phenkdo 7y ago
have you read the article?
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by phenkdo 7y ago
...and not to mention everything is interconnected in an economy. If food prices rise by x%, there is a cascade effect on the prices of everything, not just groceries.
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by phenkdo 7y ago
I am not thrilled about the situation, but the alternative, unfortunately, is far worse. The people in Ukraine/Moldova etc. will go deeper into poverty, and people in the west will have to contend with sky-high inflation.
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by phenkdo 7y ago
Again such a naive viewpoint, in an economy everything is interconnected. If the prices of groceries rise, there are knock-on effects on everything. Yep, EVERYTHING From healthcare to housing, to transport, and whatnot will rise many-x and
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by phenkdo 7y ago
Somehow I think your keyboard bravado will vanish once you start paying 60-70% of salary for just basic necessities. And even if I were to concede that you - presumably high paid tech workers - were willing & able, imagine the fate of t

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