amurthy1

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by amurthy1 1mo ago
There are some parallels here to AI coding where even if the AI can write all the code, it's still valuable to have a human who can read and understand the code to verify correctness. The same is true of AI generated math proofs that h
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by amurthy1 4y ago
Setting aside this specific case, what is a business supposed to do if a union's demands are unreasonable and make it infeasible to keep the business profitable? If they try and replace the unionized workers, that is frowned upon and i
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by amurthy1 5y ago
It happens to a degree in the US with federal research grants, but maybe not to the extent of other countries.
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by amurthy1 5y ago
Reminds me of my last job when an unexpected 1% drop in our team's primary goal metric would trigger VPs and directors to have us launch a full investigation into potential causes. But a similar unexpected increase, no one would bat an
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by amurthy1 5y ago
Among other drawbacks, that would interfere with satelites
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by amurthy1 5y ago
Increased ridership on roads does increase revenues via gas taxes.
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by amurthy1 5y ago
My understanding was Google's rebranding was mainly targeted at investors so that when financials were reported, it would be split out between Google vs. other divisions. It would make sense that most everyday people wouldn't know
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by amurthy1 5y ago
The Saudis support US oil interest by for example selling their oil only in dollars and buying US weapons which props up our military industrial complex. This is why the US govt likes them and much of what Americans learn about the middle e
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by amurthy1 6y ago
The world overall might have too high a birth rate but almost all Western countries have a birth rate below the replacement level of 2.1 (e.g. US, UK, AUS all at 1.7 [0] and falling [1]). Unless you make up this difference with immigration,
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by amurthy1 6y ago
I think this is a good take, most news doesn't directly affect you but is necessary context to make sense of the news that is relevant to your life
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by amurthy1 6y ago
e2e encryption was only added after being acquired. Not sure why FB leadership would undermine the effort that they helped support in the first place
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by amurthy1 6y ago
You have a link?
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by amurthy1 6y ago
The court of public opinion, even if sometimes unfair, still exists and impacts your business's ability to operate. By using the carrot instead of the stick, you protect yourself somewhat from these disgruntled employees tanking your p
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by amurthy1 6y ago
> They also change your behavior in somewhat indirect ways with the goal that you continue to engage with their platform more and more How is this different than any other kind of media like TV, magazines, newspapers, etc.? All of them a
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by amurthy1 6y ago
The product they're working on might be super specialized, but oftentimes the skills needed to do the work might not be.
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by amurthy1 6y ago
> one of the top up-sells is insurance That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility offers them.
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by amurthy1 6y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I wish we could come up with a better word than "greed" to describe the almost universal and constant desire for humans to improve their own lives, which has a connotation that the only way for me to b
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by amurthy1 6y ago
If you followed his MS days closely, like many in this community, I doubt you'd change your mind about him. But I imagine large part of the public knows about him mostly from his philanthropy. Heck I bet some people only know of him fr
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by amurthy1 6y ago
> The employees and the manufacturer can all withdraw the money at any time This isn't quite correct. If all parties go to withdraw their money at the same time, the bank will not be able to give it, because they only actually have
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by amurthy1 6y ago
Sure but the title of the article is saying one is worse than the other, so it's fair to refute that. No one is arguing the US situation is perfect and we shouldn't also seek to make that better.
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by amurthy1 6y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard companies that tried this (something like 3 months unpaid after 5 years tenure) found that most of the employees who take this end up leaving soon after coming back.
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by amurthy1 6y ago
I think the bigger issue is the ambiguity of what constitutes a violation. As written in the article, this guy was under the impression that what he was doing was acceptable. If it's perfectly clear what it covers, then the employee ca
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by amurthy1 6y ago
Whether or not humans are biologically inclined to it, it's still a valid question to ask "Are you considering this potential mistake when telling our story and taking precautions to avoid it?"
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by amurthy1 6y ago
The risk is a bad actor could hack into this network and control the cars
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by amurthy1 6y ago
Author here: I couldn't find any sources that show the number of cases over time broken down by US state / county, so I decided to build one myself. Github source: https://github.com/amurthy1/coviz Let me kno
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Show HN: Visualizing US Covid Trends by State/County(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
2 points by amurthy1 6y ago|1 comments
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by amurthy1 7y ago
Reading news is useful if it helps inform you about issues that you can take action to help address whether via voting or other political action. This is most pertinent at the local level where your vote has more impact and it's more f
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by amurthy1 7y ago
There's a difference between "Corporations have too much power to influence government policy" and "The government will hand over its sensitive personal data records to corporations". I would say the former is a muc
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by amurthy1 7y ago
Just because something is obvious once shown to you doesn't mean it was immediately present in your mind beforehand, so being made aware of it can still be valuable. But agree that there's diminishing returns from these insights a