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And if you rather hear just the podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-joe-rogan-experience-142216/107...
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Language construct trip - Less Sugar vs Sugarless. On a separate track - Is it the sign of my age, that I am either concerned about developers not knowing the impact of their code on the hardware, or just whimsical and miss the days when on
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There could be multiple reasons for this, two of which come to my mind: 1. The person who said it may be fancying his own role as tech-heavy and might relate to his/her imagination of what tech-pure companies do. Saying, we are like G
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Would have liked to see a "gallery" of writing that I can subscribe to. Sort of like how ecommerce platforms have a list of stores that were built on this platform. On a side note, I like how you have written the body of this pos
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A related read (1): A big trend in American business is the collapse in the number of listed companies. There were 7,322 in 1996; today there are 3,671. The number of companies doing initial public offerings (IPOs), meanwhile, has fallen fr
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Voting this up. I came here to opine something similar. My POV is similar to that of the parent (Founder and Investor).
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Jio Money. Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. The problem scope is large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this. In t
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A fascinating, related read: A Man for All Markets (by Edward O. Thorp) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733505-a-man-for-all-m...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy
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I have been managing large teams (Anywhere from 100 to 300 people) and in my experience I would phrase it differently. 1. In a going concern, which has found traction, a manager is often the _reason_ for people to leave the company. 2. In a
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" Microserivces desire springs up because of a lack of communication culture and desire for siloification" - Would have upvoted this more than once if possible.
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In Buddhist thought, one of the afflictions (Kleshas) is that of Attachment to a desire (Raga). It is seen as just as debilitating as other Kleshas (Ignorance, Ego, Aversion and Clinging). For Raga, it prescribes the following mind exercis
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A book by Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, argues in favor of this approach where, wealthy individuals or nations help write off debt of poorer countries. The cost of servicing this debt is often crushing enough that no meaningful uplifi
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If anyone from Skype product-team is reading this - Please bring back the ability to dial from the local contacts, without having to Sync my entire address book. This is my minimum request. If possible, just put the old Skype interface bac
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I am not associated with the site below, but I find it useful to book itineraries that show up in Matrix (but you cannot book from them). https://bookwithmatrix.com/ Also the original WSJ article is written by its Editorial
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"Either seem as you are or be as you seem."(Rumi) On the other hand works of Paul Ekman and others have shown that consciously and wilfully changing facial muscles changes the emotional state of mind. https://en.wikiped
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Amazon Prime shows me rating from IMDB (or Rotten Tomatoes), which I find more useful in making a decision on what to watch, than these tweaks. For me, these are cool, but will not move the needle much. Also I am not sure if I want a differ
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For what shall I wield a dagger, O Lord? What can I pluck it out of Or plunge it into when you are all the world? (Devara Dasimayya 10th century Indian poet)
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https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21716630-not-go... For engineers like me who went to the US in the mid-90s on H1B, spouses were not allowed to work. The US government changed it, to be in sync with o
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The Charter-school crusader(theatlantic.com)
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My mother-in-law lives in an active community where old people live. The other day I had gone to visit her and she was playing bridge with a dozen people. I thought to myself "There is a 1000 years of history here in this table"
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"Prayer is merely the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view" - Emerson.
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I found this podcast, an interview with Charles Koch, interesting. There are two parts to it. Whatever the ideological issues may be, I found he spoke in an engaging way. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-b
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Came to type this. The testimonial section is the best I have seen in a long time. Funny and touching.
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I was curious about the Veterinarians and their dominant switch to Actuaries. From what I understand, both of these are "licensed" trades (at least in the US). Can someone please explain the logic behind this. https:/&#x2F
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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...
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I would like to add photo.net and particularly Philip Greenspun's "Travel with Samantha".
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Thanks for your response. Why not email me and we can talk more. Email in body.
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Hey Manoj - We are hiring in Bangalore and Mumbai. Sorry.
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Jio Money. Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. The problem scope is large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this. In t

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