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by vsskanth 7y ago
Well, hospitals aren't required to tell you what a given procedure is going to cost before doing it, so basically it boils down to: If you get really sick, "gotcha".
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by vsskanth 7y ago
The article doesn't mention two very important things working in the programmers favor - leverage and margin. A software product can scale to hundreds of millions of customers with just a few employees (ex. WhatsApp). This increases re
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Good suggestion. Being from India where double majors aren't a thing, it didn't strike me. Thanks.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Serious question: how does a parent deal with their high school kids wanting to pursue college in a field with a low probability of high lifetime earnings (art, theatre etc.) ? Especially when they are middle class without generational weal
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by vsskanth 7y ago
No corruption for basic services, access to decent education, property rights and if in the US, money. Although the access to education is now being heavily gated by property values in countries like US.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
This is focusing on expenses though, which is a much easier problem in terms of accounting (I doubt if this particular approach would work well) The real difficulty is in accounting for revenue contributions
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Thank you for your insightful comment. This explains a lot from my own experience in big firms. Do you have any suggestions on how to encourage efficient delivery over Empire building ? It almost feels like any metric driven incentive can b
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Don't know if you're sarcastic. But high skilled workers would rather leave for other countries or go back home than become illegal immigrants.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
If you don't mind, could you elaborate on your opinion further ? IMO power users in democracy (lobbyists, influencers and special interest groups) will always have more leverage unless the population is educated and informed enough to
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Violation of immigration law should lead to automatic bans on applying for future visas by the company. I always wonder why DHS or USCIS don't go after big names like them harder.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I get your point, but in this case, that arm is operating on its own without complete control by the user (I assume). Its not the same as playing with something. It can go very, very wrong if that arm has a bug and there's no force fee
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I understand this is a prototype, but for your own safety, please use a dummy head to test. This arm should go nowhere near your head unless you're absolutely sure it has all the necessary safeguards tested to not cause significant har
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Tried this out on an underpowered mobile device. Layout doesn't adapt properly to mobile (as warned) but is insanely fast to render and responsive. Great work!
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Thanks for the link. It seems to talk about a knowledge graph type links between entities. It is however in a human language (here, english). I am interested in knowing if there's something analogous to "math" to represent kn
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Is it possible that the inherent context dependent ambiguities of human language make knowledge-based inference so difficult since most current knowledge is stored in human language ? tangential question: is there a standard language for &q
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I'm surprised why people here hate on LinkedIn so much. I'm able to find and contact professionals working on very niche fields (the ones with little online presence) and follow their latest work. This is access I've previous
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Yeah in India local politicians and higher level members of the state government profit from this
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Personally, I'm OK with ads in podcasts. They are based on the general audience for the show and doesn't have any intrusive tracking or personalization. If I'm really tired of the ad I can just skip ahead 30 seconds.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Thanks. I'll check out what eFMU is.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I tried. But the adblocking wasn't as reliable as just using Bromite. In addition to that it was also breaking Google play and Motorola updates. Blocking outside the browser isn't a big deal for me since I don't use any apps
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I'm guessing you still have to describe the differential equation structure in Julia ? Can it handle black box functions that provide the state and derivatives (like an FMU in model exchange) ?
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by vsskanth 7y ago
All I'm waiting for is to be able to install ublock origin. Without it, the borwsing experience simply does not feel fast like it does on Bromite (chromium + adblocker).
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Can some share some insight on why the construction industry hasn't moved to prefab for cookie cutter single family homes ? Does it not reduce labor costs in comparison to the current method of home building ?
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Excellent article, thanks for sharing. I wonder, if one wants to disrupt management consulting, what would it be ? Massive open annonymized datasets ?
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I should clarify - legal status in the US is tied to your employment status, not necessarily to a particular employer. If they lose their job, they have 60 days to get an H1B with another employer before they start accruing illegal presence
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by vsskanth 7y ago
This is basically implying schools haven't updated their teaching methods to consider the access to infinite information through the internet. I've taken courses in grad school where the professor lets you bring a laptop to the ex
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by vsskanth 7y ago
I upvoted you because you bring up a popular myth. So you are correct that they have to be paid market wage. But the details matter here. For the DOL, the "market wage" is the "prevailing wage". This is a function of the
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by vsskanth 7y ago
There is evidence for all three happening 1 - Bootcamps and coding schools are a thing now. 2 - companies moving from on-prem to SaaS reduces the level of customization and the need to hire talent in-house. 3 - Many companies are setting up
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by vsskanth 7y ago
With the expection of healthcare and construction, Canadian work experience isn't particularly unique.
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by vsskanth 7y ago
Honestly this was long overdue. The amount of abuse in the H1B program is staggering especially in IT consulting and staffing agencies. They find all kinds of loopholes to legally pay the minimum prevailing wage to maximize profit. Unfortun

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