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by screye 3y ago
Yeah, 1000 years of being the easiest target of foreign raids erodes all culture down to the bone. I don't think it has much to do with minority oppression. If anything, these states have been run through minority favored govts for a l
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by screye 3y ago
> shit hole states like BIMARU Holy sh*t, you're supposed to reserve the rabid mask off racism for private spaces. UP and Bihar were run by local minoritarian govts, mostly allied with the national minoritarian party. They ran crimi
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by screye 3y ago
Operation Blue Star was run by Indira Gandhi, the child of an atheist socialist and an atheist Parsi. It was a hard decision, it was badly executed, but it was not rooted in religious extremism.
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by screye 3y ago
Watching Americans map their ideas around rabid white nationalism onto Hindus says more about the naturally violent tendencies of the west than it does about Indians. Typing hindu in all caps does not change the heterogeneity of the people
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by screye 3y ago
There are a few omissions here. > Hindu nationals This might be the only case over a decade of Modi's term where the entire Indian political class is united. The Sikh insurgency happened during the term of a party that's famous
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by screye 3y ago
It's especially annoying when your job only needs 3-5 meetings every week. If a task can be fully explained in a ticket, and the architectural design has already been done by someone higher up, then why do you need to see the foot sold
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by screye 3y ago
The primary victims and perpetrators of the Khalistani movement in Punjab were fellow Sikhs. The vast majority of Sikhs were killed by Khalistanis during the years of terror. > the murder of muslims in India in general? Your accusations
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by screye 3y ago
I have a simpler reason for the same belief. You can fake everything except a well designed A/B test. At FAANG scale, a statistically significant A/B test requirement will stop the worst fraud before it hits the user.
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by screye 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
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by screye 3y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 The Khalistani perpetrators of the worst terrorist act on Canadian soil, second only to 9/11 in deaths, walked free. I can't comment on Canada's ju
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by screye 3y ago
LA is a misleading because it does not have a proper downtown. LA downtown is effectively a block from Skidrow (US's worst drug addled neighborhood), which means most people never want to be seen anywhere near downtown LA. The next mos
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by screye 3y ago
The real question is whether Wyoming should be a state at all. With 1 million distributed over a vast rural area and no real city.... ofc young people are leaving. America has a 40x gap between its smallest and largest state. Leaving Wyomin
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by screye 3y ago
I have to wonder. What percent of Tesla's success is attributable to not having legacy union baggage. Unions are the tech debt of the manufacturing world. It starts with a good idea, but if you let it fester, then it quickly becomes mo
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by screye 3y ago
I can see benefits tied to wildfire R0 (in infectivity terms). A few fire resistant plants might play a role in decelerating the rate of wildfire spread and limit scope of damage.
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by screye 3y ago
The older I've gotten, the less patience I've had for tools that take a couple of extra google searches. My time is valuable, and I don't want to be fighting my own tools to do simple things. I understand that it isn't l
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by screye 3y ago
If you think Como, Incheon or Reading are anything like Beverly hills, Brookline or Piedmont, then I'm not sure you're getting my point. All 3 of my examples are within 10 minutes walking/driving from the downtown core of the
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by screye 3y ago
> Neilly-sur-Seine https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8863259,2.2692631,3a,75y,38.... This does not look like low density suburb to me. The town only gets a commuter rail, and driving into Paris is a total nightmare. S
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by screye 3y ago
US cities are broken. Majority taxes are collected by residential zip code, and every person who works in the city, lives in the suburbs. The suburbs get wealthier off the economic productivity of the city. Only in the US would cities like
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by screye 3y ago
In a service economy with limited urban housing, all productivity gains go into rising housing prices and Landlord wealth. If AI writes my emails for me, then spending hours getting personalized ai emails written for each recipient is 1 was
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by screye 3y ago
A CS degree from Stanford is how you get a red carpet entry to a $500k+ entry-level AI/VC/Trading role. An astounding amount of tribal knowledge is hidden behind elite-CS-spaces. Some high-school hackers are the right combination
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by screye 3y ago
If you're wealthy enough to self-actualize, then self-actualize. With a qualification in place, it's good advice.
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by screye 3y ago
A lot of these justifications sound like, " if you make enough money, you can't complain". Also,Yes, some people, some of the time don't need these protections. Switch it to an early in career person in a terrible econom
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by screye 3y ago
American scale and polarization make it impossible to have moderate conversations around social tools like unions. A union doesn't need to be a mediocrity enforcing, all-encompassing beaurocracy. Programmers don't need a union to
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by screye 3y ago
NYC, Boston and Chicago ?
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by screye 3y ago
We constantly joke that Brooklyn is a village. I know like 20 people in the city, but somehow run into 1 of them every time I go out for a walk.
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by screye 3y ago
The current P/E ratio puts Nvidia at 10x that of AMD and Intel. Nvidia is currently charging extortionate prices to all of the big FANG companies. At that point, I think it is more likely that the FANGs pour money into a competitor tha
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by screye 3y ago
corrected it sorry.
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by screye 3y ago
As old people stay healthier, there will be an increasing market of old-people-for-old-people services. Social media & the instant global marketplace have made a lot of new part-time-careers possible. There's doom and gloom around
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by screye 3y ago
I have been in a big company where a single incident of possible PII leakage happened. (turned out it was a non-issue but) It was the biggest fire I have ever seen, with everyone bringing out every apology, every on call engineer, every law
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by screye 3y ago
Apple's core incentives are misaligned with stealing your data. And that's why they are more trustworthy than facebook. It's that simple. Apple is first and foremost a lifestyle company, then a b2b platform company, then a ha

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