virtuabhi

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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Modern day robbery
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
"Over all, around 90 percent of the country’s revenues goes to servicing debt. Even a new president who took office in 2015 on a promise to curb Chinese influence succumbed to financial reality." 90% of Sri Lanka's revenues g
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Are you aware of this case - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar , http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741 ? "Savita, pregnant at 17 weeks with her first b
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> and some alternative kleptocratic dictatorship of any other failing state Are you serious? The only alternative to mega Churches is "kleptocratic dictatorship of any other failing state". There are many countries who have don
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
See reply by "Cozumel" down the thread...
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The same is said about Indian outsourcing (expensive in the long run), right? I think many people miss the fact that boring jobs with low wages will not attract talented programmers. Same holds true when you outsource jobs. Send interesting
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Haha. The references to Indian developers were funny. But this joke works even if you replace Indians by other developers in US. Remember healthcare.gov fiasco?
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Observations are not changing your prior belief. You should change name from "stat(istics)guy" to "con(stant)guy".
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Women from rural areas can start a small business with a loan of 1-5 lakhs INR (~10k $). You should read more. Here is one recommendation http://a.co/fAC8YSQ
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
This is mostly due to GST impl. in July. Manufacturing had stopped and warehouses were no longer being filled from March onwards in anticipation of GST.
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
> the bureaucracy is now larger and more powerful than ever under this government Umm... no. The red tape is now minimal at the Central government level. Digital, removal of archaic laws, clearly defined parameters for bids, etc.
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> Indian governments have been most undeserving of our taxes simply because they've misspent it and/or misdirected it to achieve their own means Can be said of 99% governments in the world.
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"I'm willing to give her a pass on that as pandering to the Republican base" I think it is alright to have doubts on marijuana legalization as long as you can have some facts on your side. But reasonable voters giving a pass
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
(1) Managing Infosys is one part of his resume. (2) Both are big companies - Uber has 12k employees + 300k contractors, Infosys has 200k employees, both have operations in many countries. (3) Sikka moved Infosys towards investing in AI&#x2F
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Yes, but given that Travis & his supporters have board seats + many full-time employees are fans of Travis, a new CEO who is in sync with Travis for aggressive business decisions while at the same is grounded, displays "CEO-style&q
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
I think the perfect CEO for Uber is Vishal Sikka. PhD in AI (cars!) from Stanford - Startup founder - Revitalized SAP with in-memory HANA database - Managed Infosys with 200k employees. Vishal Sikka has both exceptional techincal skills and
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
I think you are missing the point that the service which consumes so much energy should provide some value.
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
More from this person - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH19ti0XkAUC175.jpg
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"The average alt-right-ist is probably a 28-year-old tech-savvy guy working in IT," white nationalist Richard Spencer who coined the term alt-right told Mother Jones shortly before the election. "I have seen so many people li
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Okay.
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Any real scientist knows that all "peer reviewed research" are not equal, there can be very low quality research. Almost in all "citations", he made a jump from a small experimental study to women in STEM field (or, mayb
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
> Why is this man now being classified as ”alt-right”? (1) Sexism is an integral part of alt-right movement. Most alt-right communities are anti-women as well. (e.g. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-tr
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Also, James Damore interview with alt-right troll Milo Yannopoulis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2J5E8sSdsI Most recently, Milo had posted images of several Google employees who were gay, lesbian, or transgender.
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More from Silicon Valley Alt-Right Posterboy, James Damore(twitter.com)
3 points by virtuabhi 9y ago|9 comments
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by virtuabhi 9y ago
Who is being killed in this video? The top comments (liked by the uploader) are vile.
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Vishal Sikka resigns as Infosys CEO after rift with founders(vishalsikka.blogspot.com)
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Vice Just Released Chilling Footage from Behind Charlottesville’s Battle Lines(motherjones.com)
17 points by virtuabhi 9y ago|6 comments
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There are many, many reasonable criticisms of the memo that do not focus on writing style. Here are a few examples - https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-... https://www.theguardian.co
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Cloudflare is helping defend a neo-Nazi website from hackers(businessinsider.com)
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> Even if all you say is true and the guy is an odious anti-feminist, the points he made should be debated and refuted, not silenced. Why? Why should everyone debate ideas which are made up by biased sources[1]? Should we also discuss wh

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