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by pratik661 5y ago
Also, the capital of a major economic/military power will usually attract the ambitious people from the surrounding regions. Its equivalent to saying "wow, so many famous actors lived in Hollywood!"
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Theres been some research in modern day Bangladesh that seems to suggest that a presence of a garment factory in a village (aka sweatshop to some people) is associated with higher educational attainment for women and school completion rates
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I would be wary of the 95% figure. Another user on HN (who currently works at FAANG) pointed out that he took the test used in that survey and failed. The interface for the coding test was not reflective of how actual software development i
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by pratik661 5y ago
My mind was blown when I realized NYC and Barcelona are at the same latitude.
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Fire and agriculture fundamentally changed human evolution to the point where most humans won’t survive without fire or agriculture
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by pratik661 5y ago
I didn’t skip the line, but I don’t fault anyone who did (in the US) after the vaccination criteria was expanded beyond the elderly and a the immunocompromised. The vaccine hesitancy rates in some communities were absurdly high. The justifi
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The oldest artefacts/ruins of Dwarka can be reliably dated to 1500 BC, which is well past the age of city building in that region. Most of the ruins are from the Vedic age (although it may have been a Harappan city before). The article
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by pratik661 5y ago
So in 4000 years, archeologists digging up the the Midwest will theorize that Ohio valley was the center of a vast industrial society. They will theorize that it may be linked to a settlement that was known in ancient times as the mythical
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by pratik661 5y ago
That makes sense. Hampi and Angkor had a lot of buildings made out of stone. But what about Patna and Mathura? Ancient primary source accounts mention lots of buildings made out of stone.
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I always wondered how you go from a thriving city to an 'ancient ruin'. A lot of cities in India have been continuously occupied for over 2000 years (Kalyan, Ujjain, Bharuch, Patna). A lot of them don't have any obvious ruins
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I don't think thats really a contradiction. As far as science/engineering professions go, I think doctors tend to be the most religious.
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Can a hiring manager just do an anonymous mock interview with OP over Zoom and offer actionable feedback?
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Scott Galloway once proposed taxing the endowments of universities that don’t expand their accepted admissions pool in accordance with population growth at a higher rate. The logic being that these universities are essentially providers of
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by pratik661 6y ago
I wonder if the elderly man he’s referring to is Buzz Aldrin. The age and description checks out.
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UK has historically had low church membership. Even novels from the mid 1800s (Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy) talk about how village churches lay mostly empty due to lack of adherents
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by pratik661 6y ago
I always wondered this: If you are an external consultant (with no prior knowledge of the company's systems/processes/hierarchies) brought in to "fight" a particular fire, how do quickly get ramped up to a level of
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by pratik661 6y ago
Its insane the level of generalizations about Indians/Asians that are tolerated in "woke" spaces like this forum. If someone made a similar comment about black people, they would be excoriated (and rightfully so). As an India
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by pratik661 6y ago
I think we might be the same background. What notable experiences have you had working in Atlanta? I'm curious because I have never worked there professionally, but have heard some stories.
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by pratik661 6y ago
Agree with everything except for the music scene. If you are into hip hop and rap, its arguably one of the best music scenes in the country.
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by pratik661 6y ago
Thats a really good point. Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburg meet the research university criteria. Perhaps a tech center needs temperate weather (hard to convince a new grad to move to Pittsburg vs moving to Austin of Bay Area)? In that case,
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by pratik661 6y ago
I hope I don't open a major can of worms by my parent comment. This is based on a sample of my own personal experience of 1 Austin interview and LOTs of Atlanta interviews. As a SDE with 4 YOE, I was offered $110k ish in Austin vs bare
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by pratik661 6y ago
I grew up in metro Atlanta and studied at Georgia Tech. The state government subsidizes college education for grads with a certain GPA (HOPE Scholarship). However, I (and most CS grads I knew) left Atlanta for better paying jobs in NYC&#x2F
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by pratik661 6y ago
I was overweight when the pandemic started (24% bf). I lost 10% of my body weight in a few months. It’s insane how much your athletic ability jumps just from that. I used to work out intensely before and would make marginal improvements in
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by pratik661 6y ago
I was wondering if GameStop would use their once in a lifetime overpriced valuation to raise money to invest in a game streaming platform (ie Netflix for games).
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by pratik661 6y ago
In an ideal situation, short sellers are supposed to "keep markets honest". There are specialized hedge funds that trawl through data to seek out companies that might be engaging in fraudulent activity. They then investigate those
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This doesn't really need to be hypothetical. There are plenty of contemporary and recent examples of countries experiencing collapse: Syria + Libya in the 2010s, Yemen now, etc.
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I mentioned this phenomenon in a comment on an HN article about caste in India: “ Something I've also noticed in Western media is that when covering issues about other cultures (ie India, Middle East, etc), the bar for evidence is piti
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by pratik661 6y ago
I find this euphemistic renaming amusing. It’s like calling a state backed hitman a ‘termination consultant’
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Some of them are from 1875 to be precise. I know because a section of Mission St collapsed when I was there. The causus belli was a decrepit sewage tunnel from the 1870s.
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What triggers that?

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