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by screye 4y ago
I mostly follow Razib Khan's reporting on this work. It is really dense and uses domain lingo, so it can be rather hard to parse. But, here are some narratives that are changing: 1. Genetic findings among South-East Asians indicate tha
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by screye 4y ago
Note that a lot of professional-archeologist or professional-historian beliefs are also turning out to be false over the decades. Population-genomics is dispelling many commonly held beliefs of the field. Professionals hate people like him,
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by screye 4y ago
I was not aware of that. Thanks for clarifying.
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by screye 4y ago
Katahdin is truly a hidden gem. The crowning knife's edge traverse is till date the most rewarding hike of my life, and that's counting more towering west coast mountains. I kinda love how inconvenient it was to get there. Really
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by screye 4y ago
> isn't the system rife with cheaters? No ? All of the high stakes entrance examinations CAT / JEE / NEET / Civil services are completely cheating free and the systems goes through great troubles to enforce it. I beli
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by screye 4y ago
Don't Maine residents have free access to all of Katahdin ? I thought the reservation system was only needed for out of state people.
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by screye 4y ago
Start with sensible trash disposal ? The city literally lacks alleyways which leads to uncollectable trash on the main streets. 15th century London had better trash disposal, and those people threw their poop out of their windows. (or so I
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by screye 4y ago
It is the family pathway which is available only to very small communities whose (mostly) brothers immigrated to the US in the 80-90s. That's because afaik, it also has a 20-ish year waiting. So the convenience store owners are very li
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by screye 4y ago
> topic beaten to death, and it's edgy to say It's sad that that when a big enough part of a population reaches the obvious conclusion, it is considered edgy because the magnitude of the damage that was caused is so large, and
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by screye 4y ago
I mean, people aren't asking for infinite slots for Indians. Hell, they aren't even asking for more slots. They are asking for one or multiple of : 1. Use of lapsed green cards slots from other categories to be used for pending g
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by screye 4y ago
> changing our architectural practices to support multigenerational households This is true about so many things. Infrastructure and architecture around us lead to a majority of emergent properties in the way society interacts. In the 3r
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by screye 4y ago
> unless you have a job offer or significant wealth Isn't that exactly the same for the US ? If anything, because of the lottery, having a job offer is only gives you a 30% chance to actually get the visa. The USA (practically) has
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by screye 4y ago
Car-centric Suburbanization is the root of almost all problems faced by the US today. Of course, nothing is monocausal. But if it were, that faulty would be 'car centric suburbia'.
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by screye 4y ago
Sorry to break it to you, you have me all wrong. I am a young-ish immigrant whose most recent partner worked in one of the SJWiest professional jobs. I am best friends with many communists (like real ones, who have immigrated from countries
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by screye 4y ago
> I can’t identify one monolithic hyper-normative “correct” credo in mass media. In my lifetime I have seen the variety of speech (US based tho I understand it is a global change) conveyed thru mass media explode in variety I can't
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by screye 4y ago
> Despite being banned by the supreme court This is a weird situation where the interference of the Supreme court feels inappropriate. For one, the Supreme court has no job interfering in what should be bills and governance related probl
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by screye 4y ago
> Delhi is also downwind of many agricultural states such as Punjab (Haryana is a red herring [ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgkMn_nUoAAZ5dd?format=jpg ]) This is a unique year, because for the first time Punjab and
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by screye 4y ago
This is really good. I am personally a big fan of Alltrails and their pro-subscription (with offline maps), but it is huge achievement to string this together in a couple of weeks.
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by screye 4y ago
I dunno why the technical bits matter at all. I would use a 'better' twitter even if it consumed 2x the data or had 2x the latency. The thing about the backend, is that it is the 'back' end. The UX will be central to suc
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by screye 4y ago
That's the conundrum. The incentives for junior and senior engineers are not aligned. My intuition is that you need some seniors to be co-located. These are the people who focus on direct mentorship and eventually graduate to people ma
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by screye 4y ago
> Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself Isn't this the best kind of company to acquire ? A product that has such inherent value that even a bumbling clown car of company could not sabotage its abi
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by screye 4y ago
I'd say that the junior -> senior transition years are best done in office. In those years, you need hands on mentorship and you build out your early network. Both are best done in person. As I see it, once you are the senior member
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by screye 4y ago
I feel like the US's focus on high school sports means that the jock stereotype stays at the top of the highschool social hierarchy. The macho/ball-breaking culture of jocks means that the typical nerd gets bullied. Also, college
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by screye 4y ago
Thanks ! Really appreciate the insight.
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by screye 4y ago
Hey genuine question : what does being ex-hindu mean to you ? I'm an Indian Atheist myself, but I never found my move away from Hinduism to be difficult or grating. My parents & community just sort of accepted it and moved on. If I
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by screye 4y ago
I am a mosquito magnet and have among the coldest extremetries of any person I've met. So, anecdotally this does not track.
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by screye 4y ago
A price-slump in emerging markets with a ton of startup money is practically guaranteed. Bangalore's real estate has been propped up by speculative investor money leading to overpaid employees for a decade, and I can see it collapsing
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by screye 4y ago
Sounds harsh..... but stop seeing the same big artists ? Most small artists have concerts that cost under 100$ while you can stand within touching distance from them and even meet them later for autographs. I wonder how much all of these ti
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by screye 4y ago
> sound like something I’d see back home in India I have started appreciating bribery and corruption as a necessary lubrication for any excessively bureaucratic system to work. Trying to go through all of the legal rigamarole of the Indi
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by screye 4y ago
Is the SF Bay Area the worst managed "successful" economic urban area in the world ? It performs pretty badly on public transport, safety, affordability & sanitation. All its pros seem to exist despite the management, and not

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