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by potatote 11y ago
Not trying to undermine your point, but I believe it won't take much long to re-train those "imported" doctors. Only those who are ambitious and bright would come to the US and I have at least a handful of friends from the me
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by potatote 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your journey like that. I have added your channel to my watchlist on Youtube and will be learning from it very soon.
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by potatote 11y ago
One thing that I never understood about the US medical education is the requirement of the bachelor's degree (pre-med) before applying for most med schools. In my home country and many others, you can directly apply to med school. Now
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by potatote 11y ago
Not sure if someone already has pointed this out, but one small caveat I'd add is that learning the table of 11 is not that difficult. I think the extra effort required to learn 11 and 12 tables are, therefore, a bit overestimated.
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by potatote 11y ago
Actually, it all comes down to whether you can see and appreciate the skills involved or not. I didn't realize that in the beginning, but now I do. You have to know that there's a lot of skill and practice involved in making the w
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by potatote 11y ago
What ISP do you have? Mine is Time Warner and it started with $35/month (after applying their first-time subscriber discount) >4 years ago. The first 3 years, it was 15Mbps, then it was increased to 20Mbps. But the cost eventually i
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by potatote 11y ago
Does anyone know what visualization library was used to do this? I am interested in learning data visualization and always wonder where to begin.
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by potatote 11y ago
Is it fair to assume that the model of voluntary contribution/donation doesn't stick with the major publishers because they could potentially make less money by adopting such model? Is there any major content publisher which adopt
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by potatote 11y ago
This (anonymity) is impossible in my opinion. Research projects can be so focused/narrow that anyone who is following the conference proceedings/papers could narrow down at least some of contributing authors in some papers fairly
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by potatote 11y ago
Thanks for chiming in your opinion about the Philly weather. I personally prefer Philly or DC's weather than Boston's, but these are all subjective. :)
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by potatote 11y ago
I'm just wondering if there's any bad/good connotation about Philly weather in general. The way you wrote above make it sounds like it's bad(?), but from my college years studying a few miles outside of Philly, I never t
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by potatote 11y ago
The introvert vs. extrovert part just sounds like what I experience. I consider myself decent in writing and reading skills, but when it comes to speaking and communicating ideas, it doesn't come natural to a non-native speaker like my
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by potatote 11y ago
I wonder: How much Helium does each balloon takes and how long does each last once it's filled up?
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by potatote 11y ago
That's what I wonder every now and then, too. Like a couple of comments noted here, I have never heard of peanut allergies in my country (Myanmar) until I came to the US. Myanmar people eat a lot of peanut-based snacks (including the f
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by potatote 11y ago
You are not alone. I'm also the same type of person, who become nervous when interacting with the interviewer. I am fine talking to coworkers one-on-one or contributing ideas in the group meetings. But when it comes with the pressure o
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by potatote 11y ago
I was one of those kids. Grew up in a Southeast asian country. Shop snacks and stuff from grocery stories up to 5 blocks away from my house (blocks are about the same size as the ones in SF downtown). Beyond 5 blocks, my parents would not a
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by potatote 11y ago
Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by "cultural meaning of family unit"? How did slavery take away from the african americans?
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by potatote 11y ago
Please read my comment above. I lost hope on these UN and NGOs since I interned at a few INGOs (three) before going to college. I'd certainly recommend you to donate to charities that gives directly to the people (not the middle manage
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by potatote 11y ago
I also have a friend who works in the stats department in NYC. Back in 2011, he was getting paid almost 90K salary (not including benefits like you mentioned) and he told me that he loves his job because there's little or no responsibi
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by potatote 11y ago
Cursing at a country for what? Hate China that much?
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by potatote 12y ago
Can someone help me--who isn't familiar with future trading--understand this article by providing a "layman" explanation? I read this twice and from what I can gather, Kraft bought futures for a different type of grain and as
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by potatote 12y ago
US Work visas? No...unfortunately. There is not only a cap on it, but the demand is way much more than the cap can handle (also thanks partially to companies like Infosys which abuse the system).
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by potatote 12y ago
I see it differently. I personally don't do well when somebody told me to solve a problem (regardless of the difficulty) in an hour or so while that person is around. I want to think quietly in my head or write down stuff where I need
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by potatote 12y ago
As someone who will be graduating in less than a year of PhD in comp sci., I would like to encourage you to not give up on all PhDs with such assumption. Like you, I am not impressed with the prospect of academia and research in general. Bu
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by potatote 12y ago
What kind of diet do you follow? Could you give a quick example of your daily food for the week? Sorry, it's a bit off-topic to be asking this on HN, but I am hitting my 30s and want to make sure I eat right from now on.
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by potatote 12y ago
Can someone explain why one can't simply average the individual average results as the author wrote below: "" No, we can't run averages on worker nodes, and then average those out. We need to have each worker node comput
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by potatote 13y ago
Can you explain a bit on what innovation means in financial industry? This is not a sarcasm or a mockery, but a serious question. I have a friend in financial industry who works for Barclays and she always complains that the regulations are
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by potatote 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. There is a huge difference between two pools of H-1B labor
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by potatote 13y ago
So which one is the novel contribution here? I get that he is combining a bunch of EXISTING technologies, but does he need to be in the video? Are his motives just to show off the technology HE invented or just a way to publicize his compan
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by potatote 13y ago
Yeah, I wonder why the author didn't give Feynman credit for that. Left a comment on his blog in case he forgot to do so. :)

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