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by vmurthy 6y ago
My bad. My statement should have read "he headline makes it seem like there is some way that the US government/immigration has a bias for "upper-caste" Indians which is a bit ridiculous
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by vmurthy 6y ago
A bit strange to see this headline. The headline makes it seem like there is some way that the US has a bias for "upper-caste" Indians which is a bit ridiculous. Indeed, the headline should have read "Defamation case finds ca
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The scourge of social media :). Quite some research linking depression/anxiety and social media [0] and even though my own experience is not exactly data, I am happy I don't mindlessly scroll through pics and boasts and get time t
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by vmurthy 6y ago
As an engineer who later did an MBA, I found b-school to be a great melting pot for people from different backgrounds. Granted your situation is different, but your uni might be a great place. Depending on what you mean by "non-technic
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I've enjoyed Innovative Whackpack and the series [0]. While I can't say it has given me any "breakthroughs", it is a fun exercise to do when you are otherwise stressed out :) [0] https://www.amazon.com/In
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by vmurthy 6y ago
One of the sane voices I hear during this pandemic is from Dr Normal Swan, a physician and health journalist here in Oz. He speaks everyday on Coronacast[0]. According to him, one of the reasons is also Dexamethadone which has been proven t
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by vmurthy 6y ago
> If that's so, why doesn't starbucks, with all it's money and resources become better than local coffee shops A local coffee shop optimises along a very parameters (let's say taste only) at the expense of scale, cost
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by vmurthy 6y ago
If memory serves right, the CEOs were talking about it late August but from yesterday's announcement[0] : "Nine drug companies issued a joint pledge on Tuesday that they would “stand with science” and not put forward a vaccine unt
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The most interesting thing for me in this report coming out is that societies/governments taking note of this might incentivise outcomes. E.g., if China thinks that 750M is too low keeping its longer term interests, it might tweak the
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by vmurthy 6y ago
By productive if you mean only time-wise, don't forget that single kid families can increase consumption of goods with the saved Yuan leading to higher GDP as well.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Here's the link for reference :) https://members.loria.fr/JCBlanchette/api-design.pdf
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by vmurthy 6y ago
For me this stood out: "The reference projections for the five largest countries in 2100 were India (1·09 billion [0·72–1·71], Nigeria (791 million [594–1056]), China (732 million [456–1499]), the USA (336 million [248–456]), and Pakis
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by vmurthy 6y ago
PDF of the same : https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Slightly tangential but in the spirit of improving meetings: I started using Meeter[0] to notify me of all my upcoming meetings. Between Teams , Zoom and a dozen other apps that have become common now, Meeter provides me a simple icon on th
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Thank you for this :) . Will read this article get the opposing views as well and hopefully improve my thinking.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I don't see a mention of the spike in accidents directly attributable to DST anywhere in this post on HN. I recently read "Why we sleep"[0] and there's a fascinating section on the spike in accidents following the shift
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by vmurthy 6y ago
>For a lot of people, a home lab isn't just to provide themselves a service, they actively enjoy the setup and management. Bang on here. I am a PM at a startup who doesn't really "setup" servers at work but I did enjo
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by vmurthy 6y ago
A friendly warning that the website plays audio when you load so make sure you're on mute if you are accessing this in the middle of a meeting :)
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by vmurthy 6y ago
One of the subtle things about SaaS is far less "up-front" costs or fixed costs. This helps sell to business around the lines of pay-as-you-grow rather than commit to x years of SLAs. Shrink-wrapping software takes away this key s
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by vmurthy 6y ago
"Apple is aggressively stepping up its India-based manufacturing efforts as it seeks to move away from supply chain concentration in China". The keyword here is "concentration" ( I am ignoring the whole anti-China rhetor
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Bengaluru/Bangalore, where Wistron is reportedly hiring has a population of about 12 million people and has ~60-70 engineering colleges so whatever the requirements are for hiring 10,000 people it isn't much of a stretch :). In ad
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Edit : user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jakevoytko has a much more concise view of the same. I swear I didn't steal this from him :) I can speculate a bit but let's look at the product from a VC POV. The
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by vmurthy 6y ago
From the article, it isn't clear how long it will take to get the results. Is it the same as the "traditional" test? Any ideas? Here in Oz, I received a negative in 24 hours (actually more like 14 ) using the nasopharyngeal m
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by vmurthy 6y ago
So, this is Phase 3 trials which are due to start on 12th as per the site. The "Clinical Trials" [0] page has some more info. As far as I can see, no published articles in any peer reviewed journals on the efficacy they saw in Pha
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Seems to be up now (11/8 4:40 AM GMT). I am able to see the setups under /explore and the charts although charts take up ~1s to load.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I've recently started listening to the audio book "Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life" [0] by Inna Khazan, a clinical pscyhologist[1]. For the more skeptical minded who want the data/ more exploration, she refe
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by vmurthy 6y ago
@Author, Would be interesting to understand what "Analysis" here means? Given that this is about marketing and behavioural psychology, I would certainly be interested. Do you /can you cover these examples with some kind of t
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The article hits the nail on the head .. somewhat. I've found that asking a slightly deeper level question more helpful personally. In the article's example : What are we trying to do ? Show a diagram. While it is tempting to as
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Seems geo restricted. I had better luck with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMySF1nkN8o in Oz
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The URL ^^ didn't work for me . This one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMySF1nkN8o worked for me in Australia

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