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by vmurthy 6y ago
Never split the difference : Chris Voss [0] & Start with No : Jim Camp [1] opened my eyes to tactics used by sales/"business" folks when they negotiate with me and provided some tips which help me in my own negotiations.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
>When ("if" is more often the case) that client starts to see the kinds of traffic that necessitates a full-scale AWS Bang on. The capex costs of BYO IT setup was the bugbear(real one FWIW) that AWS and other cloud providers we
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by vmurthy 6y ago
"The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Great answer by Mike Ounsworth [0] . I learnt about something called FIPS-2 today :) [0] https://security.stackexchange.com/users/61443/mike-ounswort...
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Can you share your thinking around why someone would want to do that given that a combination won't be tested (at-least rigorously). Are you seeing benefits from a logistics point-of-view?
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Text Only NPR(text.npr.org)
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HN Style simple website for NPR. Bonus : CNN seems to have a text only website as well - https://lite.cnn.com/en
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Banned? Perhaps you are under the impression that the data has been reviewed by the FDA? IIRC, the EUA analysis is in flight (for a December timeframe) and that is to ascertain that the data is up to the mark and not to take what the comp
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Agree this won't get everything back to normal but think of it as an equivalent of "defence-in-depth" of info sec. Rapid testing and isolating (I doubt the US could "enforce" it but you have to give the benefit of
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Not OP. Indirect answer. From the website [0], it appears that they have hosting services, domain registration services etc. None of these per se are high margin , so I am going to assume that their "web consultancy" business[1] h
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by vmurthy 6y ago
> We can't vaccinate all the bats. It is possible. It isn't "vaccination" as we traditionally know it but there are gels that take advantage of bats' grooming behaviour. Put gels that kill virii on some bats. Oth
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by vmurthy 6y ago
"What is We <3 Trebek?" Thank you Mr Trebek. You played well. You fought well. For inspiring millions of young geeks, you are our champion tonight.
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Thank you for this. I didn't remotely say that China isn't innovating. I meant to say that if China has ambitions of becoming a world leader in innovation, this kind of party sponsored innovation / innovators isn't pro
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Given that free speech/free flow of information is a fundamental building block even to economic innovation, I'd say this matters more. You can have all the economic innovation in the world but if it offends a party, it's unl
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Colour me biased but how is innovation supposed to thrive in an environment where a "miscalculated talk" is enough to halt a $37b IPO? I had heard Matt Ridley speak about how [0] innovation thrives where there is "freedom&
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I miss home already :) (I'm from Bengaluru/Bangalore referenced in the article and Coorg is ~5 hours drive). For some of you who may not be familiar with some of the terms: 1 lakh = 1 hundred thousand
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Obligatory "old" style reddit URL -> https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/8utitu/john_mcafe... The new reddit makes my eyes bleed :(
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A slight technicality that I only recently learnt. You catch a virus . In this case it is Sars-CoV-2 . The virus causes a disease. In this case Covid-19. So , how this ladders up (in my understanding at-least is this): People can catch t
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Thank you for the refresher. I originally read it https://www.damninteresting.com/bad-blood-in-tuskegee/ and found it depressing :(. The rest of the site is , well, damn interesting :)
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Not OP but from the reports I have read, people who have been given placebos will be informed if the actual vaccine is found be really effective. This is for ethical concerns (in the sense that it would be unethical to not vaccinate pe
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The subtext of the article seems to be the loss of "freedom to tinker" and the loss of control over your gadgets - both valid. Personally, I find the NUC a nice hybrid that is portable and modular enough to keep my inner nerd sati
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Thinking through the question, I think a slightly better question would be : Why isn't finance a part of the core curriculum at high school / college (before under-grad ?) I honestly can't answer this from the school'
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Nice interface and idea on how you do this : "When I am exploring alternatives to a product or service, I often to go Google, type "[product] vs ", and just see what it autocompletes. That usually tells me the most popular co
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Everyone forgets about ACT,mate :)
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If memory serves me right, Western Australia , South Australia and Tasmania haven't had local community transmission in months. Queensland had a couple of small outbreaks but seems to have been contained very quickly.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
When you say "all", do you mean Wim Hof's methods or in general breathing techniques? Do you have links to studies which have conclusively proved that breathing techniques are no better than normal breathing?
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Given that the barber has limited resources and time, perhaps he might think twice about constantly changing his partners for a couple of hundred dollars more per change,no? Remember, there are switching costs for these sort of things. Pers
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Somewhat related : Warren Buffett seemed to have an interest in such "low-cost" hustles[0] nearly 75 years ago and seemed to have done well with it:) [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/19/warren-buffet
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Somewhat agree. One of the life hacks I have picked up (not necessary from him) is to look at the advice without the associations with the person. E.g., I really admire Warren Buffet and Bill Gates a lot but doesn't mean I all their
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by vmurthy 6y ago
While I can understand why companies need something more than hardware(* see below ) to have better margins, I really hate the trend towards companies gathering more and more data about me to essentially show me ads - so this is a no go for

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