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by screye 3y ago
I wonder if the internet is naturally predisposed towards monopolies, or the culture of tech companies predisposes them to monopolistic behavior. Let's look at similar industries. Better integration and data allows you to sell your pro
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by screye 3y ago
If you're concatenating after chunking , then the overlapping windows add quite a lot of repetition. Also, if it cuts off mid-json / mid-structured output then overlapping windows once again cause issues. Define a custom recursive
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by screye 3y ago
Doctors are a cartel. Every organization that artificially controls the number of doctors is run by doctors. Ofc, no individual doctor is malicious, but their continued support of what's effectively a 5-10 year hazing is at the core of
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by screye 3y ago
I am not so sure about that. In India, the eldest son is also expected to take care of their parents through their old age, and there fore inherits the family house. After watching a good dozen families take care of aging parents, I can say
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by screye 3y ago
This has been an odd article to read. It sounds like it's about 10 years too late, and didn't pass my smell test. I empathize with the stories being told, the unjust tragedies of the subject and the persistence of of dowries. But,
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by screye 3y ago
It's 2 fold, it is both a demand issue and a supply issue. Yes, we need to find a way to move away from oil. But, we also need to move away from decisions that lead to a stark increase in demand. Avoiding things like Car culture, build
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by screye 3y ago
India's most elite have blindly imported Oxford/Cambridge culture to India for a good century. Doubly, social justice issues have been a major part of Indian political discourse for a good century too. So it's not surprising
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by screye 3y ago
This is most evident when it comes to English speaking nations that have separate internal cultures but also have an integrated American diaspora. India, Ireland, South Africa, and Philipines are some examples. The diaspora is loud, but vie
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by screye 3y ago
NYC is remarkably car friendly for a place so unsuited for it. The most expensive waterfront property in the world is cannibalized by 2 coastal roads in West St & FDR drive. Unlike Europe, the roads are littered with massive SUVs, clear
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by screye 3y ago
The alarm around possible exploitation due to public medical data far exceeds the ground reality. At the same time, it has stifled progress in the field leading to more deaths than we should have to tolerate. Big Tech is not a thing, just l
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by screye 3y ago
Cool, but ugly. I won't wear it, but I'm glad it exists.
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by screye 3y ago
We need to call it what it is : Hoarding & Extortion. By artificially limiting housing, the house owners get to charge whatever they want. Housing is the biggest 1 time expense of any person's life & the biggest contributor to
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by screye 3y ago
> It's the same in China, in Brazil, in Australia This is conflating a real problem with an artificial problem. Sprawling Anglo-phone cities (NA, Australia, NZ, etc) have very different problems from truly dense cities in places lik
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by screye 3y ago
Thanks, corrected
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by screye 3y ago
A Halo device is not meant to sell, it is meant to impress. Apple doesn't want to sell this Headset at all. They want everyone to wish for a headset when it is able to sell one for $1000. This is what long term planning looks like. You
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by screye 3y ago
> Acne (from sitting on the same parts of your face all the time) This might actually end up being the hardest bit to solve. VR has to create a dark room for your face, so removing facial contact is practically impossible. There are very
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by screye 3y ago
Now I am a lowly programmer + VR enthusiast, so my opinion does not count. But, how do big companies allow Apple to get away with such easy wins !?? Apple said : "We are going to throw infinite money at a pilot product that's basi
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by screye 3y ago
The same reason that only 10% are some 'Chinese hacker from Shenzhen'. Indians & Chinese are invested in their local ecosystem, so you are unlikely to see their efforts reflected in the type of western-repositories that we&#x2
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by screye 3y ago
> Digg losing to Reddit are over I strongly disagree and I can give you a clear reason why. Internet forum / niche communities serve a few purposes, and the advent AI (I know, bear with me) destroys their existing moat. A reddit ser
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by screye 3y ago
A house is a house, if you want to burn it down, burn it down. We can't give houses to 100 meth heads who're about to kill themselves, because 1 of them might actually kill themselves via immolation is a hard argument to defend. Y
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by screye 3y ago
> Most homeless where I am have severe mental health problems, drug addictions, or both If drug addicts don't have to pay rent, then they do drug addict stuff within the premises of their house. It doesn't solve the mental heal
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by screye 3y ago
Canada has exceptional control of its borders thanks to a big USA absorbing low-skill labor shocks. The Canadian immigration system is based on points, which also means that they can easily control what kind of immigrants that are able to m
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by screye 3y ago
I am skeptical of podcasts which reach a conclusion that is always within the overton window of the era. "This incredibly complex question has a solution that perfectly fits within the moral-mores of this decade." It is the John O
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by screye 3y ago
It is multi causal. Part of it is the routine stuff around activist-abolitionist DAs, lack of housing, NIMBY-ism, weather, decriminalization of drugs, etc. The review Shellenberger's comprehensive book on west-coast homelessness is nic
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by screye 3y ago
> The scarier thing should be the rewriting of the history section of CBSE. That is the one I am looking forward to. Indian history today is freedom struggle - mughal empire - freedom struggle - mughal empire - gandhi - nehru - akbar. Is
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by screye 3y ago
This makes no sense to me. This highly unlikely to be a political move. Science education is not political in India. Evolution, abortion, chemistry are not debated at all. This is more likely for the reasons to be innocuous. > In explain
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by screye 3y ago
The Balkans, Africa & the sub-continent are proven examples of the kind of blood that's shed during partition, secession and civil wars. If you're a proponent of the balkanization of India, then you're by default a propon
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by screye 3y ago
Did you even read my post ? > China is a "proper liberal democracy" as per you? The exact line you quoted, literally ends with an "if at all" in brackets right after. > Source please? That Rahul Gandhi is the 6th g
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by screye 3y ago
It is a conundrum, because the same NRIs oppose bills that would solve India's problems. The ban on crop burning (main cause of Delhi's pollution) was central to the farm bill. But protesting farmers (widely supported in the west)
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by screye 3y ago
This is counter to everything I know. I have only grown in times where I absolutely pushed myself to my known limits, only to realize that my limits stretched much farther than I could have imagined. There is also something about have a fir

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