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by vaidhy 2y ago
Let me the clear.. with a countrywide blackout with no specific eta on restoration, it creates potential for crime of opportunity. We should fix the root cause, but we should also take efforts to reduce the potential by higher police presen
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by vaidhy 2y ago
I think if escaping from garrotting is something you should consider when buying a car, you are better off sitting in the backseat and let someone else drive you around :)
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Shameless self plug.. but my favorite artist is myself. My photography journey is documented here - https://vaidhys.world Most of the photographs are around Seattle and focused on wildlife and landscapes.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
I am surprised you do not realize that cities have different civic requirements than countryside. A rolling blackout is generally done during the day with specific targets. Industrial power is shutdown, residences lose power etc..but hospit
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by vaidhy 2y ago
6% after inflation? The problem with 30yr bonds is that it is effectively 2% assuming 2.5% inflation rate. Stock returns have been generally around 10% even after accounting for inflation. A good mix is critical and what is a good mix depen
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Thank you for talking about it. I am a guy and dive occasionally with a dry suit, but this is something that most people are not comfortable talking about.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Salary is not the same as paying a contractor. So, while salaries for senior engineers is 100k, as a contractor they might be charging 150K per year ($75/hr).
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Which government are you talking about? Like the US banned tiktok because Israel did not like it [1]? Let us be honest here.. China censors directly. US censors indirectly through the private companies [2] and through covert use of force [3
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by vaidhy 2y ago
It is not a zero sum acceptance.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
CPI is not used for benefits calculation. Only OPM is used and OPM formula is 3x of USDA low-cost food plan. Nothing about rent, healthcare, age of the people etc. If they use CPI, it would be a much better scheme. SPM uses more variables,
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by vaidhy 2y ago
It is even worse if you consider the actual reality. US poverty measures OPM and SPM both underestimates the actual poverty. OPM is set to 3x USDA "low cost" food plan and was created in 1960s. It has only been adjusted for inflat
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Why compare market valuation with something that is annual? GDP is an annual number and the comparison should be based on annual revenue of these 688 companies.. If you are going to compare the valuation, then compare it to the total wealth
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by vaidhy 2y ago
US discriminates in the exact same way.. You can be on H1B, pay all the taxes and still will not be eligible for unemployment or social security even though you pay all those taxes. It is a bit ironic that an american is suing Taiwan for th
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Is it tiktok or the fact that people are discontent with the existing governing parties? The far right candidate is still the leading contender after all the effort to cancel the elections.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
If that were the case, then you are right.. However, the current crop of LLMs seem to be good at understanding the context. A scientific data point about bears is unlikely to have Goldilocks in there (unless talking about evolution of life
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Not everything can be broken down into 5 line patches. Some of the bigger features need bigger code. You can look at the impact radius and see if the patch is behind a feature flag to make a decision. In this case, it seems like it is elect
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by vaidhy 2y ago
At this point, I do not know if this is sarcasm or an actual reply.. it is whooshing over my head :)
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by vaidhy 2y ago
and the far right never cares about the environment, animal cruelty or anything beyond unsustainable resource extraction. What a stupid statement..
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by vaidhy 2y ago
Very funny.. where is the compensation money coming from? Taxes, right? Who pays the most in taxes - the people in the urban area.. So, a bunch of people voted to spend their money to ensure wolves are reintroduced and you are saying they d
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by vaidhy 2y ago
You end up with the tiktok situation. Bytedance is a singapore company, but it is forced to sell to a US entity.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
I am really curious how welcoming do you think US is to new comers.. Most of the early immigrants in 1800s and early 1900s were blue collar workers (exactly like the people coming from the south of the border). Do you think there is any par
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by vaidhy 2y ago
You do not like efficiency??
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by vaidhy 2y ago
I think we are use passive income to mean different things. One of the meanings I tend to use it is capital preservation. I have worked and created savings for $x. What can do so that I do not lose that money and make it work for me? Index
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by vaidhy 2y ago
What are the repercussions? If there is no reaction from the international community, did this action really happen?
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by vaidhy 2y ago
I meant .net runtime dependency which most people are not familiar with and there is not enough trust in MS as there is trust in say, apache foundation.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
The fact that it requires additional dependencies that a lot of system administrators are not familiar with..
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by vaidhy 2y ago
This is interesting for a different reason too.. MS has 1/4 the number of nodes, while claiming 1/2 the performance. If it is were just numbers game, MS supercomputer has a much higher processor to performance ratio.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
By this logic, no emotional arguments should work because they are logically incorrect, right? (This is your first point) However, since you seem to like logic, let us take it to the extreme - Can you do anything you like? Because, the thin
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by vaidhy 2y ago
More of a pedantic nitpick - but 100 bpm is still zone 1 for most people.
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by vaidhy 2y ago
We are talking about the same Elon who tweeted the picture of the judge behind bars in an masterful attempt to resolve the issue, right?

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