senthil_rajasek

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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
I am from India and have lived in the U.S for over 2 decades. I have observed "affirmative action" arguments in two continents. I am going to answer your specific questions, >Why not just.. well, let poor people come first? Ra
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Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions(npr.org)
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Bitcoin and Crypto Hype man loses $1M Bitcoin bet(hachyderm.io)
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SEC files 13 charges against Binance and founder CZ(marketwatch.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
Socializing with "in groups" like Indians getting to know Indians is not what I was referring to in my original comment. I was talking about socializing outside of "in groups" which is what I found challenging.
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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
I played tennis in a rec league a long time ago. It was not community but a substitute for light social interaction. I guess similar things exist for Golf and pickleball. I grew up in India and now live in the U.S. Socializing or being a pa
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by senthil_rajasek 3y ago
I was hoping to get an insightful answer, something new but alas no. A vague connection is made between toys, Descartes and a Pascal quote. And no mention of toys from ancient civilizations, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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SEC penalizes robo-adviser Betterment(marketwatch.com)
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New Steve Jobs book offers thoughts on life, work and death(marketwatch.com)
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C3.ai’s stock dives 25% on short seller’s accounting allegations(marketwatch.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
Overall a good article. I learned that the financial news company Bloomberg has built a ChatGPT called BloombergGPT trained on a corpus of 700 billion tokens. Here is the actual research paper from , https://arxiv.org/pdf&#x
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
Despite the title "Choose What to Dream Tonight", "Just 10% to 20% of people are regular lucid dreamers". Lucid dream, "is when a person is aware that a dream is happening and can sometimes influence events within i
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
Oh boy, this is an article from April 2015. I had to look this ( innerText vs textContent) up yesterday and MDN had a much clearer explanation. "The innerText property of the HTMLElement interface represents the rendered text content o
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
I found this article very shallow. It covers only spyware that are installed when a device is physically compromised. I was hoping it would cover spy/malware that install remotely through many more infection vectors like clicking text
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Stablecoin USDC breaks dollar peg after revealing $3.3B SVB exposure(reuters.com)
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My trip to India in pictures – Bill Gates(gatesnotes.com)
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FTC to Ban BetterHelp from Revealing Consumers’ Data(ftc.gov)
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FTX co-founder Nishad Singh reportedly pleads guilty to criminal charges(marketwatch.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
> I don't imagine this world being likely. Just imagining that there is no reason these points have to be backed by US dollars There are so many hypotheticals and logical leaps here... This is not a useful argument anymore ... it&#x
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
>Ah, but that counter assumes that there isn't some transaction aid that crypto currency also brings. Except it doesn't.
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
My counter argument was only to your comparison to paper money.
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
The value of paper money is in it's utility as a transaction aid. It has currency.
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
>Same as the paper in my wallet. Except paper money is understood and used by all today to make transactions and thus useful.
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Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson arrested on fraud charges(marketwatch.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
What type of tasks do you get help from ChatGPT? Curious to know some solid use cases of productivity improvements in real world?
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Best ways to learn a foreign language(domenicodefelice.blogspot.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
I've read the Little Schemer and based on that, it has a unique style of teaching. Every new concept begins as a fun little question and through a series of more questions expands to a whole concept. It worked very well for me in learn
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Coinbase CEO Warns an SEC Crackdown May Be Coming. It Could Hurt Ethereum, Too(barrons.com)
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
Thanks for flagging the rayiner comment. rayiner's original comment was defending colonialism. "If it wasn’t for British colonialism, both of us would be subsistence farmers right now instead of on HN." If you read his subseq
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by senthil_rajasek 4y ago
India has great pre-colonial era architecture. There is no Indian architecture in the last 100-200 years because of the brutal british colonialism.

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