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by raincom 6y ago
Of course, that's how two rival paradigms(research programs) 'rationalize' their own testing/outcomes.
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by raincom 6y ago
Thousands of undergrads are happy to even get that job in India. That's what TCS/Infosys/Wipro pay for fresh graduates; that's why they milk from the billable hours model.
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by raincom 6y ago
That's what Duhem-Quine thesis in the philosophy of sciences is. The thesis is that "it is impossible to test a hypothesis in isolation, because an empirical of the hypothesis requires one or more auxiliary/background assumpt
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by raincom 6y ago
Exactly, that's the reality at majority of companies.
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by raincom 6y ago
At one of my old gigs, I asked my then-colleague a bunch of questions about the codebase for a task I was assigned. He was always like "you are a senior resource, you should not ask such questions; if you want to find answers, look int
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by raincom 6y ago
That's how these offshoring consulting companies make money: for every 7 fresh undergrads, there is one senior person. They pay $3500 per annum for these cheaper resources; the senior resource gets paid about $16000 per annum. Profits
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by raincom 6y ago
So, it is to signify the use-mention distinction. BBC doesn't use it, but mentions it.
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by raincom 6y ago
"revert back to you" and "please do the needful" go hand in hand. Anyone who uses the former phrase uses the latter phrase too.
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by raincom 6y ago
It is called ad hoc explanation.
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by raincom 6y ago
Even iFixit batteries are not good. So, be careful. One of the problems with aftermarket batteries is that these batteries were made at least 2 years ago or so.
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by raincom 6y ago
Here is an interesting blog on Political correctness and the use-mention distinction http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005349.h...
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by raincom 6y ago
Two accidents in the last few days, both involving tourists: [1] 14 killed at 4 Am in Kurnool District in the state of Andhra Pradesh. 18 people were in mini bus, heading to Ajmer in Rajasthan from Madanapalli. [2] 8 killed in Araku valle
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by raincom 6y ago
Of course, one can pass the test by reading a DMV booklet. That's not the issue. Lets take a DMV test paper, and remove questions that deal with numbers (speed limits, alcohol contents, etc), and just give a subset of questions that ar
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by raincom 6y ago
In India, drivers don't know what safe driving is. Constant tail gating; overtaking where it is not safe to do so. Add this to the lack of enforcement. I would say 99% of Indian drivers will fail any DMV tests (both written and behind-
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by raincom 6y ago
Author missed one more method of corruption: writing books. These politicians write books, sometimes using ghost writers. And the publisher pays them millions of dollars, then the said politician goes on book tours and visits their 'p
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by raincom 6y ago
I used to believe in the thesis that "all are almost equal, only nurturing accounts for differences in talents". After reading various cases in the works of the late Dr. Oliver Sacks, nature (parents/genetics) also matters. H
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by raincom 6y ago
In India, RT-PCR test costs Rs 500, about $7 at any private testing centers. And one can get the results in four hours. Also one can get Covid-negative report for travel purpose for $12 (a certificate in addition to the test). Even we qua
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by raincom 6y ago
One of the exceptions is nation-state actors. Any hack will end up being attributed to nation-states.
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by raincom 6y ago
The issue is deeper. War on drugs has created many little cartels, many of them don't make much money off of transporting drugs to USA. These local criminal gangs are there to extort money from businesses, kidnapping, selling drugs loc
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by raincom 6y ago
This works if there is no collusion between politicians, the law enforcement, cartels and criminal elements.
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by raincom 6y ago
How does ethics framework help? In every country, almost all politicians and bureaucrats engage in lawful yet unethical acts.
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by raincom 6y ago
The modern "Insanity defense" is a secularization of Christian Law (say, Canon Law). What does secularization consists of? Replace the theological reasoning with non-theological ones. Here is what Harold Berman says in his "
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by raincom 6y ago
When neurologists just postulate virus to explain the problems like you had, they are just BSing. Oliver Sacks described many cases of neurosyphilis in his books. These doctors are just extrapolating based on that.
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by raincom 6y ago
Interesting to see how Democratic party has been captured in order to win elections.
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by raincom 6y ago
> Now lets say I buy a widget that is worth 100 dollars for 200 dollars. Then I sell it for 100 dollars. I now have converted 200 dollars of worthless illegal money into 100 dollars of legal money. You washed the dirty $200 for clean $10
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by raincom 6y ago
Not everyone can infer genders from non-European names.
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by raincom 6y ago
If something works on-prem, it also works on clouds: after all, just get compute, and run. However, that's not how Redhat sells Openshift.
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by raincom 6y ago
It's advantage is being on-prem. So, it goes with the on-prem k8s like Openshift of Redhat/IBM. Who are the likely customers for on-prem solutions? Insurance, banks, healthcare, etc. That's where you see these solutions.
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by raincom 6y ago
All these vendors had earlier incarnations in the open stack era (Iaas). Openstack is a big failure. Now, these vendors have moved to the next one: CNCF
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by raincom 6y ago
It depends on the customer. If a customer of that master carpenter is a good carpenter, this master carpenter should take note of it: either perform it the way that customer says or provide good reasons why it is not so. In this case, this

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