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by umeshunni 1y ago
Isn't that both unhealthier and more expensive ($ and time) than the alternatives?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
And yet when someone tries to cut down bureaucracy, it's called fascism and people start burning cars.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Huh? We have free lunch in all schools in California and they serve everything from pizza to burritos to hamburgers.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
These are the slide decks that McKinsey and BCG consultants leave behind after a 6 month contract. The deck is the work product that the consulting firm got paid 7 or 8 figures for. They are typically 60+ pages slides on something like go-t
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Ha, I was confused too... but in the US, the terms coconut tree, palm tree and coconut palm are used interchangeably. In India, you'd call a coconut tree a coconut tree and an arecanut tree a palm.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember all the masses who mocked the Internet and smartphones too.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
The reality is that most USians and EUians still have some 1990 view of what Asia and China is. Or they cope with some 'freedom' or 'slave labor' anecdotes. My comment on another thread about how China is now a developed
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> Unfortunately, when cheap goods are sourced outside the US "innovation" usually just means "slave labor" or "flouting environmental regulations". Eh, China has 20x-ed its GDP per capita in a generation. Th
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form Oh that's right. You're now giving me PTSD from all this Notes internals knowledge that was hidden away in my brain.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
The acronyms in that story led me down the memory lane - In the early 2000s, I worked at Microsoft building the Outlook to Notes connector. The theory was that we could introduce MS Outlook to hardcore Lotus/Domino/Notes shops and
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Google Cloud revenues were $48B in 2024 vs $109B for AWS. It's silly to call that insignificant.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Whenever I watch videos of robot dogs climbing all terrains (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1n99yruVU ), I'm convinced that half of these robotics companies are defense funded, whether in the US or China.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
It makes sense, doesn't it? When computers were beige, they went all in on color to stand out. When everything started being more colorful, they moved to white and then grey/silver. Now that everything is grey/silver, they&#x
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Maybe India more than Japan
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> Skinner-ized What does this mean? A quick Google search didn't help me
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Funny you say that because this article just came out the other day https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-detects-carbon-dioxide-out...
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> Class consciousness is firmly in the zeitgeist More like people who work in some media companies have certain political beliefs that may or may not be out of touch of broader society. Witness their constant surprise at election results
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by umeshunni 2y ago
>If unions don't increase worker compensation, why would they cause companies to offshore jobs? Because unions are a headache for management to deal with and that headache is much worse than compensation, which is a budget-line item
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Yes I'm sure it's the capitalism in Venezuela that pushed these people into taking these jobs in Columbia.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
(along with everything else published during the Biden administration)
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> who wants to work with nut that was building out siri initially Who are you referring to?
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by umeshunni 2y ago
You're right. On Dec. 27, 1999, Microsoft's market cap hit hit $614 billion. I might have confused it with some "inflation adjusted market cap" I read somewhere.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Something I find interesting about early technology IPOs is how early they IPO-ed compared to more recent tech companies and how much of their growth and value creation happened post-IPO. - Microsoft IPOed in 11years, profitable and at a ~$
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by umeshunni 2y ago
> the U.S. engaged in war for the 90's/00's/10's/20's. but also in the 40s/50s/60s/70s/80s
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Yeah they could just call it the Golf EV and be done with it
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by umeshunni 2y ago
Why?
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by umeshunni 2y ago
That doesn't make any sense. There are 10s of millions of newly middle class consumers in Asia.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
I assume the purpose is to store the excess generated power for high demand times.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
I'm guessing Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
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by umeshunni 2y ago
/Ack

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