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by wsxcde 9y ago
On the contrary, both Infosys Research and the TCS Innovation Lab are organically growing research labs who have been steadily producing quality scholarly work for some years now. I'm not aware of anything of note coming from Baidu res
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Why do Baidu and Tencent count, but Infosys and TCS not count? Each of these have companies with >10B USD of revenue, so it's not like the Chinese companies are any larger. And don't tell me, it's because of the difference
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by wsxcde 9y ago
> The Mughals eventually came to see themselves as "Indians"(sic) and built their homes here. That is the key difference. The British were never interested in anything but looting India. The Mughals were more like the Normans i
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Isn't a glib dismissal of the rest of the article? What would it take for you to be convinced about systemic problems in American election financing that wouldn't just be "hand waving about systemic corruption"?
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by wsxcde 9y ago
I made a mistake. I should have said 300 BC not 2300 BC. Also, yes, they are in an older form the language.
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by wsxcde 9y ago
In India, it ends up being the availability of records that are (a) decipherable and (b) recognizably in that language. Among the so-called Indian "regional" langauges, the oldest Tamil records date back to about 2300 BC, while th
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by wsxcde 9y ago
I'm a computer security researcher. At some point I posted a public key for people to send me encrypted email. Nobody ever did and at some point I lost that private key. Point is, key management is hard problem for big corporations wit
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by wsxcde 9y ago
And are we expecting normal people to do key management?
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by wsxcde 9y ago
"I think you're so focused on detecting a dog whistle that you're missing the key point being raised." There is no need to detect a dogwhistle. We have an explicit statement from Wax ( http://www.thedp.com&#x2F
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Let's not get bogged down by the all cultures are not equal strawman. That is not at all the key point here. Amy Wax/OP's argument is problematic because it conflates very different things using a subtly disingenuous argument
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Z3 and similar tools use a combination of canonicalization followed by brute force search. The canonicalization uses techniques similar to what the OP describes. (+ a (+ b c)) and (+ c (+ b a)) are both rewritten as (+ a b c). These rewr
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by wsxcde 9y ago
What insurance were you using? I've looked into some of these cheaper insurance companies, but I worry about whether they would really stand up for me if something did go wrong. One scary story I heard from a friend of friend was relat
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by wsxcde 9y ago
> If you buy a car, you're going to spend more than that for the next few years, but if it was a fairly inexpensive used car, you might pay ~$250/month for 3 years and come out ahead in 8-10 years. Do those numbers include ma
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by wsxcde 9y ago
I wish I'd done the math on Uber when I bought my car some years ago. I ended up paying ~$80 a month on insurance alone. Add in the initial cost of the car, maintenance and fuel, it was not at all worth it in comparison to just shellin
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by wsxcde 9y ago
I don't buy the climate explanation. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and much of the north east including New York and New Jersey are all much colder in the winter and have somewhat comparably hot but shorter summers. And yet the per cap
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by wsxcde 9y ago
What does social media include? Will I have to list my HN and reddit usernames? What about throwaways, am I expected to list those too?
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Which means there are rare bugs in the FMA4 they've not been able to iron out. So they decided to turn it off at release time using a chicken bit.
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Is it really a fine line? Lyft explicitly say you can't use their API to compete with them. How can violating their terms of service be in any kind of grey area? I'm not posing rhetorical questions. I'm asking you an honest q
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by wsxcde 9y ago
I'm not talking about faculty members in any halfway reputable university. They obviously publish in reputable journals. I used the word "these" here refers to faculty members at the bottom of the academic ladder, many of who
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by wsxcde 9y ago
The problem with these journals isn't that they accept low-quality papers. They're called that because they don't make an honest attempt at peer-review, and the publishing/editing fees are pocketed by the publishers. IEE
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Yes, it is the editing fees. Nth-tier universities in many countries are pushing faculty members to publish more. This is all done with the best intentions -- we all want faculty at the cutting edge of research. So many of these universitie
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by wsxcde 9y ago
That is simply not true. You don't even have to look too far in the past to see examples of meaningful differences even if you restrict yourself to economic/financial/business issues. The most recent example is the internet p
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Yes, it is 6.67%. That is literally the definition of a small fraction. And that is assuming a gross overestimate of 240k employees for Indian consulting firms in the US. Exact numbers are hard to get but here are some more facts: Infosys h
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by wsxcde 9y ago
You can't stay for more than 6 years on an H1B unless your employer files a PERM application, has that approved, and then you/your employer files an I-140, and that is also approved. In other words, if your employer never filed a
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Although Infosys and the like apply for a lot of H1Bs, they make very very few (we're talking double-digit numbers) successful applications for green cards. This means most of these people on H1Bs for the consulting companies are actua
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Cows being sacred is no more funny than God killing his son to forgive humanity for the crime of some couple in ancient history eating an apple. Religions are weird. If you find some funny but not the others, you probably have blinkers on.
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by wsxcde 9y ago
India is a third-world country, there's no doubt about that whatsoever. And we are weirdly nationalistic, or at least there's a vocal minority who are overly nationalistic. But making fun of the other things you mentioned is reall
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by wsxcde 9y ago
You and the GP are both right. We're terribly insecure, but that is in part fuelled by how much we get looked down upon. The Indian reaction to mockery and racism during the British era was pumping up nationalism and self-pride. That
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by wsxcde 9y ago
The fundamental problem isn't that grant funding based on peer-reviewed evaluations of research proposals is a bad idea. It's that: 1. The pie has shrunk a lot because federal funding of research has seen a huge decrease when meas
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by wsxcde 9y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. I was referring to labster's situation not, the Kazakh situation.

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