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by alephnerd 12d ago
All NA beers I've seen prominently point out that they are 0.5% or less in ABV. That said, AB InBev owns the IP for actual 0.0% beer and all of it's products are fairly good. Their NA Stella and Budweiser tastes exactly like the o
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US nonfarm payrolls surge in August; unemployment rate steady at 4.1%(reuters.com)
5 points by alephnerd 12d ago|2 comments
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by alephnerd 13d ago
It also makes it harder for so many immigrants who are following the straight path. There are so many hustlers and that forces the American system to be so antagonistic for those who do follow the rules.
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by alephnerd 13d ago
It truly sucks for his kid who is a US citizen - just like how I became a US citizen even though my parents had to naturalize. But millions of immigrants naturalize in the US without committing crimes. It isn't that hard - don't c
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by alephnerd 13d ago
"In 2014, he and his sister Uchechi Onyekwere were charged in a $13 million medical fraud scheme. ... According to the FBI's report, the operation took place from approximately 2008 through at least the end of 2013." "As
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by alephnerd 13d ago
Yep! Totally agree with ya! We're all a team and no one is above or below each other, and I always made sure to manage out people who had a superiority complex - even if they were gifted (and they usually weren't) they would just
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by alephnerd 13d ago
The absolutely are copy editing, writing, and translating with AI but keeping a human in the loop to steer, edit, interview sources, and do research. These were entire divisons that made up the majority of a newsroom. Most members of a ne
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by alephnerd 13d ago
> sony is a giant corp with a reputation and a monopoly on playstations. That's like saying Volkswagen has a monopoly on Volkswagen cars. Sony clearly does not have a monopoly on the video game industry, and a plurality of video gam
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by alephnerd 13d ago
This. Those of my friends with kids moved to neighborhoods and suburbs where other households of a similar age existed. You see this in SF, with singles primarily living in the Marina, Russian Hill, or Rincon Hill and then upgrading to Miss
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by alephnerd 13d ago
The Beeb [0], WSJ [1], Guardian [2], NPR [3], The Economist [4][5], and others are using generative AI as well. The reality is that everyone is using it, and has been using forms of AI and ML for news writing and copywriting for decades. Fo
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by alephnerd 13d ago
> Wow, this announcement is good content marketing. Why do you think companies hire PMMs?
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by alephnerd 13d ago
LLMs are also a mixed bag. The core issue is limited Viet-English corpora aside from what can be found in local government documents in the US and Canada given the huge Viet Kieu community requiring local governments to create Vietnamese la
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by alephnerd 13d ago
You got downvoted but I know what you are talking about, but there were other ways to write that sentence. Basically what OP is saying is interpersonal relations can be confused when using the Vietnamese and English definitions of both word
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by alephnerd 14d ago
> where "here" is California > It doesn't mean we can't get along or have a peaceful world full of diversity in language and culture. We just need to get better at nuance and understanding Wasn't making a judg
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by alephnerd 14d ago
My SO is Vietnamese and a Bac Si trained in Japan and here, and even she has made similar ESL mistakes. Some of the tools and dictionaries used for Viet-English are wonky, and depending on when they were educated the English teachers were e
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by alephnerd 14d ago
When I was a PM, I was brutally honest about my heuristics, thinking, and product vision and made sure to give as much visibility as I could to ICs without overstepping executive leadership mandates. And if an engineer thought I was talking
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by alephnerd 14d ago
Bolt (the CEE ridesharing app) is the primary player in Nigeria. In Uganda it's primarily a bunch of local startups.
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by alephnerd 14d ago
Submarine article. Also, back when I was still a PM I found most these kinds of tools to be a waste of time. Tools don't solve ownership. I found just talking directly with my sellers and engineers in the same room would solve these ba
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by alephnerd 14d ago
They should, but much of Australian media (which is largely Murdoch owned media) never brings it up. It's why so many Australian journalists ended up being poached by the The Guardian - especially after what happened at "The Austr
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by alephnerd 14d ago
I don't want to be that guy, but Murdoch also owns much of the Australian media and the "nerd" reich.
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by alephnerd 14d ago
Yeah, but Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian employees work longer hours and get paid less. Even ignore Asia - Poles, Czechs, and other CEE residents work longer hours than Germans yet are similarly as productive (based on GDP per capita) an
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by alephnerd 14d ago
Why do you think GCCs are a thing and Google India wages [0] are now reaching Poland levels [1] for mid-career Googlers. These are multinational companies - not American companies. No one complained when Google and their like moved hiring f
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by alephnerd 14d ago
A couple larger GCP customers requested this for sometime, especially on the cybersecurity side. A SOC/IR or AppSec team doesn't need a generalized model that knows when Chaucer lived but it absolutely needs a model that can effic
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by alephnerd 14d ago
IMO, the EU's small parcel tax and packaging tax along, the tariffs on China and Vietnam, and the ExChina thesis made SHEIN's IPO much less impressive at it's intended valuation. They could have IPOed on in the LSE in 2023 at
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German industry pushes to restore 40-hour working week without extra pay(ft.com)
6 points by alephnerd 14d ago|10 comments
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US may ask parents to prove citizenship to get passports for their children(reuters.com)
9 points by alephnerd 15d ago|6 comments
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by alephnerd 15d ago
This is a common issue I face on HN as well. A lot of "folk wisdom" on here is divorced from how stuff actually operates.
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India preparing rollout of agentic payments on UPI(reuters.com)
1 points by alephnerd 15d ago|0 comments
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by alephnerd 15d ago
Take that Cory Doctrow [0] [0] - https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/do-webrings-next.html
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Nepal seeks compensation from China, US, India, other large polluters for floods(theprint.in)
14 points by alephnerd 15d ago|0 comments

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