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by screye 3y ago
The original quote [1] is nuanced. This claim is trivially true. Microsoft is a company that says 'yes' to every feature request with no regard for how it comes together as a whole. "Everything and the kitchen sink" is n
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by screye 3y ago
Aggressive outsourcing is hilariously out of touch. Western consultancies win contracts to build IT systems. The project is outsourced to India for low cost. Indian outsourcing team hires the cheapest talent possible. Cheap talent provides
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by screye 3y ago
Agreed.
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> In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians I haven
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by screye 3y ago
Technology like this raises a moral conundrum. Minimizing deaths is the humane approach to war. So we move away from broad killing mechanisms (shelling, crude explosives, carpet bombing), in favor of precise killing machines. Drones, target
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by screye 3y ago
I'm Indian, I would seriously question anyone who considers India to be an 'economically successful' democracy. 400 million Indians still make less than many sub-saharan African nations. India is admittedly stable. But it was
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by screye 3y ago
As a cynical idealist, I once tried to find 1 country of decent size that could escape the poverty/mis-governance trap while being a democracy. I found zero success stories. Every 20th century economic success story was a defacto autoc
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by screye 3y ago
huh, could you elaborate ? I've been on here long enough that my authenticity is secure. But, I am genuinely curious about why my writing comes across as 'fake' ? Is it just this interaction or my comments in general ? I&#x27
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by screye 3y ago
It might be reflecting my tech bias. The typical tech person only hangs out with young highly-educated transplants in NYC. Racially, those demographics are fairly similar between NYC and Boston. Philly simply does not have the high concentr
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by screye 3y ago
Boston is in a mildly risky position right now. Boston's main draws are slowly becoming less appealing. We seem to have reached peak education a few years ago, and I don't see it growing much more in the next decade. Their public
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by screye 3y ago
It is a slow subway train that requires transfers at Jamaica to the airtrain and then an internal airport people mover. Some people need multiple transfers from WTC/Penn/14th street are centrally connected stations that should hav
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by screye 3y ago
As someone who never uses Apple devices, iMessage is the only true form of monopoly based control that Apple imposes. Apple's 30% costs are harsh, but it is not like Google or MSFT charge anything less. Such cases always seem to reach
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by screye 3y ago
Exactly. every Nvidia/Tesla employee who became a millionaire recently CHOSE to hold onto their stocks after the vesting period. That was a bet. If they hadn't made the bet and sold stocks as soon as they vested, then the returns
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by screye 3y ago
You could have been investing in Nvidia the whole time. Decision inertia means that employees often don't sell vested stock, and end up being lucky. Similarly, external investors aren't willing to put 30-50% of their networth into
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by screye 3y ago
This is important to highlight. The worst issues show up in deep blue cities. SF is the worst offender. It's more so a generation issue than a red-blue issue. Urbanism is bipartisan.
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The hilarious bit is how confident they all are about people wanting SFH development, yet refuse to legalize everything else. Imagine banning every android device from the US, while also proclaiming that no one would've purchased andro
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This would be a compelling complaint if the rest of the world didn't exist. Every complaint about apartments stems from American inner city dilapidation. My first culture shock when arriving in the US was the sorry state of American ap
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by screye 3y ago
If you scour my archives, I once made a heavily down voted post about how 'doctors were evil'. It was obviously meant to be provocative and tongue in cheek. But all medical boards are exclusively run by doctors, so you have to ass
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> trying to That's an understatement. It is blatant and deliberate.
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> Maybe another method is needed then? What would be useful is a historic example where another approach has worked. I don't approve of Israel's methods. I'd prefer an egalitarian solution. But, I'm all out of ideas.
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That's a remarkably small number. It makes me think journalists weren't present in the warzone at all. Irrespective of which side you support, Hamas is notorious for colocating themselves among civilians. An elevated civilian deat
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by screye 3y ago
2023 saw the decimation of funding in every non-AI industry. AI even more than CS, has a dearth of black practitioners. Some of these outcomes pair with obvious hypotheses. Researchers should do their due diligence trying to validate/i
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It comes from a place of necessity, not want. In many product engineering teams, a solution doesn't exist until there is a UI experience to interact with it. It allows data scientists to showcase the benefit of their model as a full ex
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> Chernobyl The worst designed reactor that led to 60 deaths ? > Fukushima As in, the reactor that was struck with a generational earthquauke and where no one died? ________ Compare this to other energy sources Coal - 1500 [1] Coal wa
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I have never met an ADHD person who is inattentive under stress. An ancient human did not have to be 'productive' for long durations. They had to have intense productivity on short spurts and not be a huge mess the rest of the tim
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As a major proponent of gentrification, I feel obligated to put in a good word. Compared to global cities, American cities are woefully under-built and underutilized. 70s white-flight, interstates and inner cities made cities the place for
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by screye 3y ago
We used to be on ScraperAPI, but moved to ScrapingBee after more frequent failures from ScraperAPI. If your scraping needs have realtime requirements, then I'd recommend ScrapingBee.
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The EV push makes so much more sense for China than it does in the US. The warm climate leads to better battery performance. The availability of HSR means that cars aren't needed for road trips, subverting the need for range. The money
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This version of Microsoft has learnt from the mistakes of its predecessor, coming up with an even more potent model for making money. "Embrace + extend + embed" makes more money than "embrace + extend + extinguish". As l
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History is brutal. If the native group's genetics don't get eradicated. The alternative can be just as grim. Often, the winners genetics in a person can be the result of wide-spread rape of the native population after the native m

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