redditmigrant

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India and the Internet(medium.com)
1 points by redditmigrant 8y ago|0 comments
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
America or more specifically California has tried local responsibility for zoning of housing and it has created a crippling housing shortage. Local or centralized, sustainability comes from the right incentive structures.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
Why wouldn't the residents then become even more anti housing because more people will lead to corridoring? This is how all these anti housing debates go, a well intentioned person with just a no and no thought on any actual solutions.
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
I think the local control approach has absolutely utterly failed. And we have had plenty of time for local governments to adapt, but they haven't. So now its probably time to take away local control. People won't learn unless ther
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
Yet another failure by an American state to do anything about an absolutely huge problem. As I see it, wages haven't risen materially for decades and governments are failing to do anything substantial about the big things people spend
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by redditmigrant 8y ago
"There needs to be a way". Like what? Given the dire housing situation in California, making perfect the enemy of good will end up badly in the long run.
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
Thanks for the response! > There are various feature engineering and feature extraction techniques. Filter methods, wrapper methods, and embedded methods. Principle component analysis, autoencoding, variance analysis, linear discriminant
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
Based on your angel list page - https://angel.co/lumen5 , you dont offer any equity for the roles listed above? Is that accurate?
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
As someone who is trying to learn ML, all the courses available are hugely helpful. One thing I wish I had easy access to is the process that someone goes through while trying to build a model on a real dataset. Specifically following quest
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
I think the one good reason to make a phone for the budget market is app developer mind share. While developers obviously cant avoid building for iOS, the more data you see of overall users/your users coming from Android, you implicitl
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
You are shouldering risk, by presumably not working at big co and having an assured higher paycheck.
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Coinbase ordered to report 14,355 users to the IRS(theverge.com)
15 points by redditmigrant 9y ago|0 comments
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
American people allowed Trump to win. Its a democracy and there is no government media control, so American people had access to all the information they wanted and they made an active choice.
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
> Especially during heavy commute periods, there are trains every 5-10 minutes. Looking at the schedule. there is no time when there is a train from MV to SF within 5 minutes. The best case is trains at 7:04, 7:11, 7:25 in the morning or
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
The problem here is that a lot of people are on limited data plans. So if wifi is poor in one corner of my home, I dont want to accidentally chew up half my monthly data allowance.
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
This is a survivorship bias article. - "People are building fantastic free apps. They are finding new and creative ways to make money off these apps" People drop $4 on coffee at new coffee places/restaurants all the time, so
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
there is dharma.io on second day.
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
If there is one studio that can pull off its own streaming service, its Disney. They are being smart in acquiring BAM Tech also, so that they have a good technology in order to launch a solid streaming service. Disney's great library c
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
Diversity by its essence is about diversity, and hence accepting people who are opposed to diversity is antithetical to the idea of diversity. So this argument of accepting diverse viewpoints including those against diversity is non-sensica
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
Marissa's tenure at yahoo was not successful. She was unable to turn around the company, made acquisitions that were too late, or didnt work. What about her tenure at yahoo was convincing of her ability to be a good CEO?
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
>The colloquial form we speak at home doesn't do it any justice. In a certain sense the spoken form of a language is its true form. The written form are rules that get frozen at an artificially defined moment in time, but the spoken
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$185M in 5 days: Block.one sets new ICO record with its EOS token(venturebeat.com)
25 points by redditmigrant 9y ago|33 comments
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
He didnt feel an iota of moral responsibility for the rape victim in India whose medical records were obtained by an uber exec and were shown to Travis. I find it hard to have sympathy for someone who couldnt do the same for another human b
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
There is also the matter of obtaining medical records of a woman who was raped by an uber driver in India, which to me shows abject moral bankruptcy.
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
I feel bad for Travis' loss on a personal level. But clearly he didnt feel bad enough when someone got raped. https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/the-victim-in-ubers-ind...
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
Its very easy to talk about "problems" in the abstract. This happened under his watch - https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/the-victim-in-ubers-ind... Anyone with an iota of a moral compass would be able to
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
I have an idea. The western populace especially the US, needs to take ownership of the wars they have voted for and the power vacuums they have resulted in. ISIS and taliban are proofs that if you vote for unecessary wars half way around th
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
The biggest issue with calling anything "modern JavaScript" is how much of a moving target it is. Javascript, especially with react and react native seems to be at an opportune moment to become the de-fact user interface language
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
You fail to mention how medium's UI discourages non-"narcissistic Silicon Valley" developer from creating posts? As far as I can see they have tried to remove cruft so you can just focus on the writing. What about that is ali
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by redditmigrant 9y ago
I don't think Twitter and facebook have allowed people to communicate across social/educational/economical boundaries. Yes you do get an odd an interaction here and there, but by and large both these platforms have become gia

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