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If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef(theatlantic.com)
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by somberi 9y ago
As interesting as it is to see some rough areas, most of the areas have not changed much. I looked at the streets where I used to live / currently live - they largely look the same. Some of the shops are still there. Since someone men
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by somberi 9y ago
Arc of the story in three phases; all from one magazine: 1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/this-lend... 2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-24&#x2F
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https://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OV5NGV6JIJUQ...
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by somberi 9y ago
A similar idea, but edible. http://www.marthastewart.com/913141/sugar-cage-jacques-torre... There was another with Jacques Pepin, that I am unable to find, where explains the concept better.
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by somberi 9y ago
Two relevant articles - one about the amount of plastic in the Ocean, and the other about plastic-eating caterpillars (seems like they don't eat that much to be of use). 1- https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicde
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by somberi 9y ago
In India, Whatsapp is HUGE. I would go as far as to say if it were to go down for a day, we will see a dip in the per-day GDP. It is not that so much business is conducted on it, but also it is the dominant social messaging glue. Whatsapp
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The Urban Revival Is Over(nytimes.com)
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I re-read the article and it does not explicitly say that the 300K are paid subscribers.
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by somberi 9y ago
A related read: The shackles of scientific journals- https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719480-and-how-cast... The problem with scientific publishing https://www.economist.com/blogs/econ
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by somberi 9y ago
To quote NY Times - "Algorithms lead us to Anagrams"
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In the same vein - "Life begins on the other side of despair" -Jean-Paul Sartre
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Some relevant reading before you pack your bags :) https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172167... And someone asked why it is not a state yet: https://www.economist.com/news/u
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Email me.
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Jio Money. Bangalore, India. Many Positions - focus is on cryptocurrency, distributed databases and ReactJS. Full time. The problem scope is large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un&#
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by somberi 9y ago
I find the two evaluations useful and valuable. I am a hiring manager and some of comments if I may: 1. Always use HE, even if it is a SHE. (1) 2. We test our candidates with custom-made case studies that help them SHINE and not focused on
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Somewhat related: Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." And also: "I too had woven a kind
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by somberi 9y ago
Fair point. To be clear - Programmers familiar in Clojure, Erlang, etc.
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Jio Money. Bangalore, India. Many Positions - focus is on cryptocurrency and distributed databases. Full time. We launched 6 months ago and are the top trending app in the Finance section in play store. Approx 30 Million downloads. The prob
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How to Call B.S on Big Data: A Practical Guide(newyorker.com)
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One of my nephews graduated from one of the Top-5 US universities with a B.S Degree in Computer science, last week. It costed him ~250K USD for the entire course (living expenses, all included). He got an offer from one of the Top-3 tech c
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I am over 40 and I normally patronize eateries in NYC or cook at home. Recently after years, I went to TGI Fridays. I was amused at how bad the food was in quality and nutritive value [1]. It was hard to find anything healthy to eat. Until
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by somberi 9y ago
Not to sure how to edit my parent post, but I should have been clearer on the teleportation snark-bomb :) I meant if one had last visited Bleecker in 1980s and never visited it again until today, then....
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I own an apartment in the same few blocks that is featured in the article. And I have lived in NYC for many years (In fact I know the stores from 1990s that are written with forlorn). Yes that stretch of Bleecker had gone fancy and now empt
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by somberi 9y ago
Electric ceiling fan in a small room dries a stand full of clothes in 4-5 hours in a 70%RH climate and costs a LOT less than drum dryers and is safer for the garments.
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Couple of questions. 1. Who decides this is an abuse? 2. What is being abused? The possibility of a visa being earmarked for "High skill" being used for "low cost low skill jobs"? 3. If the companies that do have a need
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A related coverage of the same story by The Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171780...
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Jio Money. Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. We launched on the 15th of Aug and are the top trending app in the Finance section in play store. Approx 20 Million downloads. The problem scope is large, complex and fascinating probl
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I learnt a bit from listening to this Podcast from Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/
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Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, is the great-great-grandson of George Boole, whose Boolean algebra is a keystone of digital computing—has sometimes been called the father of deep learning; it’s a topic he

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