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by vinay_ys 2y ago
A lot of people who eat this produce and don't take any supplements are healthy and doing fine. If the nutrient levels have really fallen so much, then, how come malnutrition isn't an epidemic?
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
> For example, if you love football, and you're good enough at it, you can get paid a lot to play it. good enough doesn't get you paid enough to cover your injuries.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Hook up different kinds of alerts/notifications to office intercom and announce outages and pages! Gives the feeling of a real sense of urgency and danger! :-) Sev1 alerts, DDOS attacks etc. You can do this for positive things too – li
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
This is beautiful. Maybe useless, but still a lot of fun to learn.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Surprised to find a bunch of anesthesiologists hanging around here. How come?
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
> That's not low risk, that's higher risk. Letting the founders continue in Founder Mode can be both lower risk, and higher expected value, at the same time. It depends on how the founder and their investors perceive risk. If t
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
There's a fundamental point missing in this analysis. That is the difference in skin in the game and upside/downside game theory dynamics for people involved. An early "founder" by definition has a lot of upside and very
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Since you asked for warnings about what not to do, here's one – don't share passwords! With shared accounts, you won't be able to tell who did what. If it is an important thing to which you are sharing passwords and bad thing
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
This made me wonder about postgres. Is Postgres at risk of being taken over by some corporate? What can we learn from all these free open-source databases that has gone enterprise commercial.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
And, that's a dis, why?
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Also, food in general wasn't poisonous. And if those royals actually lived even a modestly healthy life (not drinking too much, not using lead based makeup, or their doctors poisoning them with mercury etc), then they could easily live
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
If you are IT team for a large impactful organization, you have to control updates to your organization's fleet. You cannot let vendors push updates directly. You have to stage those updates and test them and then do a gradual rollout
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Google gives most privacy controls than any other major Internet company and actually works really hard to honor it. Still, you can do two things to maximize your privacy: 1. In https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Isn't there challenges with slippage and managing the volumes while exiting? And isn't speed also about processing the data feed as fast as possible to time the exit decisions accurately?
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
Here's a pcisig article talking about symbol rate in terms of GT/s: https://pcisig.com/blog/pci-express®-50-architecture-channel...
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
PCIe 1.0 to 5.0 used NRZ (non return to zero) electrical signaling for transmission. In NRZ signaling at high rate and over long distances, there are challenges w.r.t clock recovery, DC balance and error correction. To deal with this, enco
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
There are many such local laws limitations that big techs have to bow to (that smaller obscure companies choose not to). For example, Google won't offer its VPN service as part of Google One in India. Whereas, proton/mullvad works
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
It is supposed to be simple for its users so that users own systems don't become complex. It is not supposed to be simple underneath its hood.
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
ncurses!
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
> With a web-of-trust, friends or family could vouch for your name, age or location; landlords could vouch for your address; employers could vouch for your skills; customers could vouch for businesses; and so on. As it doesn’t rely on go
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
> However, I am uncertain about how to plan the product. Can you assist me with this? List your fav features of IMDB that you want to emulate in your project. Then, scope your project to something you can do in 3 months and do it and sho
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
I've been a decision maker on $100M+ of engineering hardware/software/services spend per quarter and here's my perspective on this problem: 1. If you are making developer tools, make sure current/existing developers
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by vinay_ys 2y ago
A nice framework that's constructed retrospectively. Will it hold true in the future, maybe, maybe not. The thing that makes the most difference are not these broad ontological things, but short time horizon tradeoff equations around t
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
No, it was routed directly to the jet engine's bleed-air system. Interestingly, jet engine was said to be a tad bit more efficient because of it.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
It would have made more sense if you have context on the local politics in India or followed the supreme court case on this matter. > That’s not an unsubstantiated claim, that’s literally how you deal with sensitive contacts and informat
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
I'm clearly refuting this – "because Modi complained" in the GPs post. And your linked article is making an unsubstantiated claim based on "source with direct knowledge". That's just not credible enough.
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Well, supreme court ordered panel investigation into this spyware scandal didn't find any evidence of actual spyware. So there's that. Also, if government wants to investigate someone, they have so many powerful ways to do that (a
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
If you were the hacker operating a remote command and control for such a targeted attack, you would immediately know if Apple or some other mechanism silently blocked your exploit kill chain. This notification to users tells you nothing new
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
iMessage has been one of the most successful delivery vector for these spyware attacks. So, if you think you are a likely target of a state sponsored attack, best thing you can do on an Apple device is to turn on lockdown mode, turn off iCl
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by vinay_ys 3y ago
Cost of labor might be significant in some countries, but in a lot of countries, cost of materials is still the significant cost barrier to installation of solar. If the cost of materials were to come down significantly, even if it is at th

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