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by raincom 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this podcast. It is helpful to understand functionalism in the historical context.
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by raincom 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. This piece helps me better understand the New theory of Reference, in the historical context. Here is the book where Soames, Smith engage with each other: https://www.amazon.com/New-Theory-Reference-Origi
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by raincom 4y ago
There was a glut of RNs, CNAs that time. Almost all CNAs want to work in a hospital; no RN/CNAs want to work in nursing homes. Nursing homes are the last choice for these people. This CNA friend, who told me about how CNAs work at nurs
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by raincom 4y ago
I am with you on fixing problems. The issue is not nurses, the doctors who run these nursing homes are culprit. They are as bad as PE guys. That's my point.
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by raincom 4y ago
Before PE firms' take over of nursing homes, many nursing homes are run by entities controlled by doctors. In such places, they don't hire enough CNA nurses. You know what such nurses do? Just do critical stuff; everything else, t
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by raincom 4y ago
Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32582802
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by raincom 4y ago
This is what happens, when the goal of politicians is to acquire wealth for ten generations, and the welfare of people becomes secondary. This leads to "brain drain". The only people are left: the old, the weak, those who can&#x2
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by raincom 4y ago
Printers in offices leave some hidden prints on any printed paper. That's how many people got caught, including a serial killer who used a library printer. Whenever one uses company fax machines, these faxes are recorded: some executi
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by raincom 4y ago
Apple care can deny accidental coverage. Maybe, applecare+ can cover with $99 for screen or $299 for other accidents
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by raincom 4y ago
First, the contracting company will ask you to sign a clause saying that you don’t seek contract with their clients. Here, you can add a conditional: it is valid for 6 months after the contract. You can quit and do c2c directly after 6 mont
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by raincom 4y ago
A good criticism indeed. But look at the growth of the IT sector since y2k. Companies need managers, and it was easy to become a a manger when the field was new. It is like startup, where early joins end up in high positions if they play th
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by raincom 4y ago
Just because Tamils don't help each other, it doesn't mean that telugus or hindi folks help each other. You are not just deeply involved with Telugus or hindis or gujartis. There is a special name for this, but I forgot: doctors s
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by raincom 4y ago
There are so many issues conflated around 'caste' and Indians. Let me unravel a bit using my experiences in the corporate world and anecdotes from friends. 1. Whoever first came to USA on H1-B (just before Y2K) are in high positio
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by raincom 4y ago
That’s how people in the third world borrow from 100 people who don’t know that the borrower hasn’t paid back to 99 others. One fine day, the borrower disappears from where he lives and then files bankruptcy.
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by raincom 4y ago
You are absolutely right. Yesterday I watched a documentary by DW on Lebanon: https://youtu.be/RZuKyIYMSEw Since i watched it, I understand your comment far better.
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by raincom 4y ago
For a broader context, watch the recent documentary by dw: https://youtu.be/RZuKyIYMSEw
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by raincom 4y ago
Just as the third party doctrine is used to subvert the fifth amendment, now the surveillance capitalism is good to subvert the first amendment. At least in the third-world countries, and countries ruled by tin-pot dictators, ordinary peopl
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by raincom 4y ago
Legal transformations wrought by the Church abolished "trial by ordeal". What replaced "trial by ordeal"? In the continental Europe, "confession under inquisition"; in England, "jury trail" "Betw
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by raincom 4y ago
Good to see Chinese make progress in sciences, without buying off brains from the third world in the name of greencards, so-called values, etc.
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by raincom 4y ago
It's like a bull market, where 70% of the value of shitty companies is driven by the bull market and the vertical they are in. Same goes for employment: during good(bullish) times, one doesn't need to deliver much and still can co
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by raincom 4y ago
This is how govt employees treat their jobs in various countries. In the private sector, there is no job security. What happens when one gets laid off with rusty skills? That's why folks want to use the existing job to improve skills.
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by raincom 4y ago
Lessons from such cases(or case law) make one specify expected dates.
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by raincom 4y ago
After Perelman’s fiasco, many universities have started offering professorships without putting people on tenure-track. For example, manjul bhargava and June huh are two examples. Also add Yitang Zhang, an adjunct lecturer became a tenured
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by raincom 4y ago
I know of an ISP in CO, which has a massive splunk ingestion of all stuff that it’s customers browsing history.
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by raincom 4y ago
Be careful about being scammed by astrologers, palmists, reiki readers, psychics.
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by raincom 4y ago
In 99% of the cases, it is SEC who catches these people, not the company where the insider works at. https://www.reuters.com/article/bc-finreg-data-analytics/sec...
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by raincom 4y ago
Just like the third party doctrine to subvert the fifth amendment, visa/master function as a similar loophole
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by raincom 4y ago
I don’t think these “crazies” employed by the Saudi govt constitute a small percentage. That’s why we shouldn’t call them crazies, as a large section of Saudi bureaucracy supports Salafis. The king of Saudi can’t eradicate them, as they are
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"There shouldn't be intermediaries between God and human beings"--is a Protestant doctrine. This doctrine has gone secular: separation of church and state. In other words, protestant Christian ideas have become the foundation
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by raincom 4y ago
Who is going to the bell the cat? Unless at least 20% of FAANG, unicorns, stop using leetcode, this show will go on.

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