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Saudi sovereign wealth fund pitches kingdom as AI hub(reuters.com)
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I wonder if those accounts ever make it back up to the C-level executives and the board of directors.
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by tareqak 3y ago
What about when companies are doing layoffs but still continue hire at exactly the same time ? Sometimes, they even hire for the same positions that were just laid off. Are there ever conversations where employees are asked to take a pay c
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A brain pacemaker helped a woman with crippling depression(apnews.com)
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Following the link for Gasoline took me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Etymology > The term gasoline originated from the trademark terms Cazeline and Gazeline, which were stylized spellings and pronunciat
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by tareqak 3y ago
> The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
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by tareqak 3y ago
My question is, "was the defect tracking process influenced negatively by spending cuts?" Shareholders are more than willing to reward the relevant executives for cutting spending, but they rarely hold the same people who made tho
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by tareqak 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437387
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by tareqak 3y ago
Some numbers for context/sense of foreboding: https://layoffs.fyi/ 159 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 41793 employees laid off in 2024 (as of 8:26 AM PST February 20, 2024). I have been applying on and off for much l
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by tareqak 3y ago
The TARP bailouts should have have been conditional on allowing the affected to borrowers stay in their homes. Those borrowers could have paid a monthly amount corresponding to fraction of their loan that the US government ending up taking
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by tareqak 3y ago
Thread from 9-10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39331771
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by tareqak 3y ago
What about having paid internships / apprenticeships for everyone regardless of whether or not they have started or finished a diploma or degree program?
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by tareqak 3y ago
This story parallels the stories here of people staying at their employer hoping to get raises, but then ultimately switching to another one who values their experience more than their former employer.
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The kind of experiences that the post and I am talking about are where the platform user or the customer end are dissatisfied by the platform's conduct. The question of the company itself being defrauded by some number of customers and
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> In my social circles, many people have read James Scott's Seeing Like a State, which is subtitled How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human World Have Failed. A key concept from the book is "legibility", what a state can
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by tareqak 3y ago
OK, fraud exists. Irrespective of whether or not a platform is small or large, can they make their customer whole 100% of the time? Why or why not?
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> The traditional capitalism has ideology rooted in liberalism and the concept of meritocracy. You are good at what you do, you sell it in the free market, you make money. So how this transformed in the cloud feudalism? "Move fast a
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by tareqak 3y ago
I was thinking something closer towards "total cost at maximum vertical integration", but expressed succinctly in a word or phrase.
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> "Start by eliminating the margin stacking," wrote Keller, implying the cost or profit margin added by each participant in the supply chain to deliver a product to the end user. "There are two–three layers. Is margin-stac
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> Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see "Breakfast"), or to the met
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Somewhat related to your question: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333... Previous threads with about this article: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&amp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island for anyone interested.
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by tareqak 3y ago
This part seems like an unfinished thought. I thought they meant to say that being on the inside of the arm would mean that the crown is less exposed towards splashes, debris, and whatnot from the outside.
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> There’s another less obvious protection as well. A watch on the outside of your wrist will have the crown facing down (when hands are down). On the inside, the crown is protected. This matters when you’re knee deep in water and mud slo
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by tareqak 3y ago
I think we should find ways to get ahead of the disruption that construction creates. I know people and cities do not at all work in the way that I am about to describe, but imagine being able to shift the population of a city and all its n
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Dinner has to end on or before 5. No calories from 5PM to 9AM.
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They want to filter out people who would potentially unionize.
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I honestly think there are many such situations today, and they should be identified so that those who have qualms can avoid those sorts of industries and businesses in the same way people avoid allergens, addictions, and other harmful subs
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> The FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement is a lifestyle movement with the goal of gaining financial independence and retiring early. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement
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Even when there are no events in those stadiums? It might be the word of these drivers against the stadium owners/operators, but I am still willing to entertain these accounts enough to see people perform preliminary investigations. I

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