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by shas3 12y ago
Why China? $10k is a very normal price for high-end watches world over. It's only a question of whether Apple has the same appeal as say, Omega or Rolex- two other watch-brands that sell in that price-range.
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by shas3 12y ago
Freeman Dyson was still publishing top quality articles at 88. http://www.pnas.org/content/109/26/10409.full.pdf+html
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This is incredible. I wish more professors in universities incorporated this stuff in their teaching. I occasionally use Wolfram Demonstrations: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ But you take it to another level! Congratul
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by shas3 12y ago
Huh? Medical professionals, lawyers, accountants, actuaries, etc. are all license-based professions. There is a very good reason for this, because a big part of the job is about adhering to important laws, regulations, ethics, etc. A big re
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by shas3 12y ago
It is a hard problem, but there isn't enough evidence to link legal immigration to the shortages and unemployment that you have cited. It is as easy to say "there is some unemployment, so we should make life difficult for non-immi
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by shas3 12y ago
Why is there an implicit assumption that the H1B visa program engenders fraud? A lot of H1B discussions on HN focus on fraud and avoid talking about legitimate talented foreigners because that stuff is not as interesting. H1B discussions on
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by shas3 12y ago
Wow! Being an Indian (assuming you really are) doesn't make it any less inappropriate to make such sweeping generalizations!
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The 'western rim' is not inside the National Park [1]. The 'legit' Grand Canyon, the one covered by the National Park is very accessible (the rim)! [1] http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/skyw
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by shas3 12y ago
> the readers of wsj are brokers that might take them public, investors that might invest pre-ipo, vcs, pension fund managers that might be investing in vc funds, private equity guys looking to acquire companies. There are 300k brokers
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I think the refugee policy is a very important plus for Minnesota. As a foreigner, I get nervous in places where there isn't enough diversity in the police force or other governmental services, for example. But in Minnesota, it is very
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Aren't you using 'technical talent' too narrowly to only refer to CS? There are some pretty solid non-CS science/tech companies in the mid-west that employ a large number of elite talent in the respective areas: mechanic
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This is a very skewed view of how things are for these construction workers. I'll give you the benefit of doubt that you have chosen a terrible example to make your point. But in general, 'jobs that don't come back' are
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by shas3 12y ago
...and p.d.f's convolve when you derive the distribution of a random variable defined as sum of other independent random variables.
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Your comment presents an excessively gloomy view of academia. I am yet to find a productive graduate student / post doc in engineering or CS at a decent university, who hasn't been able to find a tenure track position. I think aca
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by shas3 12y ago
I grew up in India. It wasn't uncommon at all to see people of my parents' generation with pockmarks from Small Pox or handicaps (and stories of deaths) from polio. Their generation saw first hand the horrors of these diseases and
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Can we do this computationally? Dokmanic et al say yes in certain situations in their paper "Acoustic Echoes Reveal the Shape of the Room," PNAS, vol. 110, no. 30, 2013. Daniel Kish is mentioned in the paper to motivate the proble
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by shas3 12y ago
> In the talk he makes a note that the book does not try to explain why... Ummm, the book was published only in 2011. The TED talk is from 2007. Even without seeing the TED talk, one can claim that your observations don't add up. I
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by shas3 12y ago
I think the flip side of this approach is that one may get bogged down in doing tasks which give you short term satisfaction but don't do much in helping you progress on real projects. I faced this problem often as a graduate student.
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And what did you get out of it, then?
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And Indian H1B workers who match those skills for the high-skill / high-paying jobs will settle for less than industry average? Also, in the current system, even if he wants to steal people from other tech companies, there is a good ch
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by shas3 12y ago
I am surprised each time I see this kind of casual bigotry on HN. Seriously, "school in India called, Institute of Suspiciously Obscure Technologies"? I don't think there's any other way of reading your comment other tha
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by shas3 12y ago
You do realize that all that you said, and all that Wendy Doniger says can be simultaneously true? Attempts at a singular interpretation of the Indian epics will always be incomplete. As the late University of Chicago scholar, AK Ramanujan
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by shas3 12y ago
Your analysis is too simplistic. Do you mean software companies have higher margins? Top 20 profitable companies in the US only include 3 'software' companies: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-wor
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by shas3 12y ago
Every time this issue is brought up on HN there's a ton of people hijacking the conversation with talk about tech-worker shortage [1,2]. You even fail to note that two of the people- Dutch and Swiss, mentioned in the article aren'
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by shas3 12y ago
Interesting point! Let's say you start a company that creates 5 jobs, you are classified as an entrepreneur. But let's say you invent/propose something as part of a bigger company or university, and that generates 5 new jobs,
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by shas3 12y ago
I think there are a lot of misconceptions on this thread, especially since the article mostly talks about OPT! US domiciles' desire for protectionism is understandable. But it cannot be couched in language of fairness and equity. In a
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That's what Thinsulate was invented for, and in Minnesota. http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Thinsulate_Insul...
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Google is a public company, and I think the average Wall Street investor is even more 'short-term' than VCs. In fact, it should be a surprise that investors are not questioning such spending. What insulates these moonshot projects
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Implicit to your comment is the assumption that "going into science" = "becoming a physical sciences professor." This is unfounded! Only a really small minority of STEM majors (aka 'kids') go into academia! The
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Hope you are not trolling, because your assertions about the 'other side' are egregiously wrong and pseudo-logical. 1) Toddler's do contribute to economy (fertility rate, up to a point is positively correlated with economic g

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