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by sremani 8y ago
The OP was describing Snopes Pre-Trump era and much of the 2016 election cycle, I think he was ball park right.
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by sremani 8y ago
In the wise words of Martin Shkreli, who sounds even wiser from jail.. The web media layoffs remind us that there is no money in virtue signaling. Major media will get back to real news. The ‘fakeout’ caused by companies like Vice and Buzzf
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by sremani 8y ago
Comparing mercantile colonial Britain with USA of today is like comparing slavery to low-income job, they may look and feel the same from outside but there is a world of difference.
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by sremani 8y ago
for example a spy sabotages a train track to sabotage a weapons program and some kids die because of lack of transportation to nearest city hospital, does that make the SPY a bad one? Trying to interject personal morality into the grey area
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by sremani 8y ago
What is wrong with Pro-Business representatives? Things are not super hunky dory with CALIPERS, the budget gymnastics of California are world renowned. California is a such a top heavy reliant state, one brutal year in the stock market and
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by sremani 8y ago
You have to wonder because SBI is the biggest and possibly best run public sector bank of India. Given the employment structure of Public Sector Banks, its always a challenge how the tech infrastructure is maintained.
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by sremani 8y ago
Monodevelop has become very polished, its kind of re-branded as Visual Studio for Mac. Its a decent free IDE. RIDER from JetBrains is fantastic IDE on all platforms. VSCode is a good editor, when you want to write smaller (single file) C#&#
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by sremani 8y ago
Capital accumulation is the right word.
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by sremani 8y ago
Type system is like a seat beat, its not going to save your from a head on collision with 18 wheeler. But it will mitigate you pain and suffering in small to medium accidents.
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by sremani 8y ago
I am bit thinking out loud, drive train becomes important if its a plug-in hybrid when you have to change from electric to gas (and vice-versa), but in electric it is meant to be simple, is drive train even an issue of innovation in Electri
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by sremani 8y ago
If you got to any bank website at least the ones I bank with, there is a flashing notice on the front page, if I were a federal worker who needs assistance due to shut down. I am sure, certain workers have easy ways than others but to say t
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by sremani 8y ago
Well, Mother Nature did not read the US constitution. We will realize it sooner or later in life.
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by sremani 8y ago
Honestly, in a real hostage takers situation, you negotiate and negotiate so much they lose the will to hold. Here is an interesting book about it, https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De... So your nu
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by sremani 8y ago
The only situation I can justify this if there is an undeniable proof of FRAUD. That is a different person takes phone interview and from the one that shows up for in-person. Its very likely that some one did not do due diligence and ended
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by sremani 8y ago
A counter-narrative to the dwindling stock got accidentally leaked to a fan site and curated through investor information channels. If Tim Cook were a horse I bet he would win triple crown, accidentally of course.
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by sremani 8y ago
The following two twitter threads are more sober look at Solar and Wind. https://twitter.com/peterzeihan/status/989868124525809664?la... https://twitter.com/peterzeihan/status/10746449717
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by sremani 8y ago
I am trying to understand the logic behind higher taxes for growth, is it because the domestic consumption is so low, that government decided to tax and spend "Bigly"? If they are spending bigly, what are they spending on?
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by sremani 8y ago
note: Not DL practitioner. As of today, if installing pytorch w/ GPU option the assumption is you have a nvidia gpu. Same thing seems to be the case for Tensorflow (did not install tensorflow lately) The first mover effect of Nvidia&#x
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by sremani 8y ago
miles per minute (range per wait-time) goes drastically down after about 80% of charging because of the so-called 'Stadium effect'. In simple terms 0-80 takes 30 minutes but the rest of the 20 percent will take 30 minutes too. So
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by sremani 8y ago
As a person who was born in a family with tradition of vegetarianism, I find this "veggie meat" obsession fascinating and fear a future where I cannot even eat the one veggie burger on the menu.. because it tastes like a hamburger
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by sremani 8y ago
I am usually against these kind of changes, but this argument has convinced me.. http://necsi.edu/research/economics/steeringecon
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by sremani 8y ago
Where did the incident happen (cant click on reddit link)?
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by sremani 8y ago
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will check out Seattle and Portland electricity portfolios. Looks very promising though.
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by sremani 8y ago
But if some one cheats in my family, I will use social shaming to put some heat on them. Our criticism on HN will not even have that effect, but its the closest thing to it. That's all. My only point is, "its legal" is not a
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by sremani 8y ago
Railroading people was legal too. So were many other heinous things. That should not stop people from expressing their distaste for certain "legal" practices. What are we doing here, other than sharing opinions and arguments?
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by sremani 8y ago
You cannot replace ethical with legal. We all understand its legal. But to post on a forum criticizing this is not a permissible action?, but some how supposed to bring the political class to change things...
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by sremani 8y ago
Wind is better than Solar when considering dynamic generation problems, also in terms of output per dollar Wind is gives better return in Texas than Solar. Everything said and done, there are not many places where Solar and Wind can reliabl
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by sremani 8y ago
precipitation is a killer for solar output, that is why Florida also does not do well with solar. Suprisingly Colorado is amazing for solar because of elevation and low precipitation.
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by sremani 8y ago
For wind and solar, the following sites are eye-opening https://globalwindatlas.info/ https://globalsolaratlas.info/ Its very likely the first metro area in US to live off Renewables is going to be Dallas-F
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by sremani 8y ago
Reminds me of how Indian graduate students from New Delhi accidentally call 911 because India code is 91 and Delhi area code is 11.

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