KorematsuFred

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by KorematsuFred 4y ago
I will be able to tell you in a moment as I am installing it at the moment.
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
Brilliant summary. I would need a VPN mostly to visit some sites while spoofing my location, testing my competitions ux in other countries etc. I can also see because of Mozilla's reputation employers offering these VPN free of cost to
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
These are precisely the areas where government has a role to play but more often than not, this is precisely where FTC, FCC and rest of the alphabet soup seems to fail.
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
If you government pays for it someone in Washington would. Ideally (and how it happens today to some extent) this much be determined by market. PS: Note how many folks on HN are making fun of Gender Studies course. This is a great signal fo
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
The demand for subsidization of college education is coming from very woke academics who want more taxpayer money for their "woke programs". College education in USA is ridiculously cheap if you are not looking at top colleges. Pl
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
There are some very good arguments as to why government should not be paying for college education: - Loosely speaking K-12 can be seen as a public good because of which it may make sense for the society to pay for other people's educa
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> Data residency gives a government willing to bully companies a lot of power. It's simply a lot harder to access information stored abroad and you have a lot less leverage. You have no clue how much uncontrolled power Indian govern
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I have been a party to some discussion around the laws with mid level government officials and this was a bit like an episode of Yes Minister. One of the government consultants spoke about "Data sovereignty". When someone asked wh
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
American telecom industry has done much better after US government ended government granted monopoly to bell labs. Plenty of literature on that topic actually. Same for aviation. Whatever bad things you see with ATT and Comcast are actually
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> I think the should literally be nationalized and have their tax software platforms absorbed into the IRS. This is an extremist view and basically advocating theft. I do not think IRS has competence to build and run a complex software s
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I find this criticism somewhat weird. It is very common for companies or even individuals to promote and support policies that benefit themselves. Intuit is seeking self interest here. But why would IRS and our elected representatives cave
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I remember that John McAfee was a strong supporter of prostitution. In one of the Libertarian party debates he said he is the most qualified person to support this issue because he married a prostitute. McAfee represented the old west style
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I have not worked as a janitor but I have done menial work far worse than mopping a floor for assured hourly rate. Being poor sucks everywhere but it sucks less in USA. My claim is not that being janitor is some kind of gold standard or asp
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I made no such assumption. When I moved to USA from India I would have happily moved in as Janiter. Life in USA as a janiter is way way better than a middle class person in India.
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> That wouldn't even make sense if freedom of speech weren't a general concept. Free speech as a general concept is irrelevant in the eyes of law unless you have some specific law governing the specific scenarios. (Employees be
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
You have to see this with two lenses. Free speech is always about freedom from government control. Your employer can put whatever restriction on your speech that they so desire even outside of your workplace. In that sense famous people do
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I am from India and I have lived in UK and USA. Personally I think it is pretty stupid to compare USA and UK. I would rather be a janitor in USA than an engineer in UK. This is not a criticism of UK or its people in any way but USA is far f
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I think article conflate a lot of complex variables to come to conclusion that it wishes to draw. It is not just dumb hard work that was regarded as American virtue. In fact Americans are quick to embrace technology to reduce workload, Amer
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
The 3900 number is mostly spread by a single researcher at Harvard who is quoted and self-quoted and cited by his own students somehow making his shoddy research some kind of "fact". Anyone trying to question this basically gets s
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> Genetic claims play a role in that you can see in which direction certain genes flowed, and how old they are, and how they’re distributed. I am not very familiar with Genetic theories to be honest and only work I have read on this topi
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
There are subtle differences in Rakshasa and Asura indeed but they are nearly interchangeable.
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
Out of India theory is not fringe at all in fact a pretty dominant theory in India which actually matters. It gained even more importance after the marxist scholars like Romila Thapar basically changed their stance from Aryan Invasion Theor
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
HN is not the forum for the flame war but not providing any evidence and attacking some researcher has "he is not approved by white people" is not a valid defense. I am not entirely sure how genetic claims could even play role in
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
Yes. I think not having a 'homeland' that pumps in money to spread the God's word like Joshua Project also helps a great deal. Many years ago I attended "Meeting of Elders" an amazing conference between Hindu monks
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
I do not want to start a flamewar but Indians should most certainly come out of the shoddy colonial scholarship and their control over Indology. Horse, Early British researchers claimed Harrapans (aroun 3500 BC) did not know horses and sinc
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
The most ancient book of India is Rigveda. The first of Vedas. Exact timing is up for debate but could be easily 5000+ years old. I think in one of the early chapters the book describes a war, a war of 10 kings it is called. Leaving the mys
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Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?(youtube.com)
9 points by KorematsuFred 5y ago|0 comments
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
You might like this as well: https://www.humanprogress.org/how-the-cost-of-light-has-fall...
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> I think electric aircraft need another doubling or two in specific energy to become feasible, so another few decades We have plenty of fossil fuel so if most of the world stops burning gas we can run aircrafts on fossil fuels for centu
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by KorematsuFred 5y ago
> Is there a huge compliance cost for something like providing schematics for your devices? Yes. How much cost do you think a large company incurs to make few documents publicly available. Note that it is not just a document you share, y

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