baytrailcat

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by baytrailcat 4y ago
Exactly. Any one who has ever worked in SaaS industry realizes how many cogs in a wheel it takes to keep it running. Sure, there are always inefficiencies and redundancies. But, I highly doubt Elon figured out in a week that 50% of employee
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by baytrailcat 5y ago
Find a company that is as less ambitious as you. A lot of "work load" in traditional tech sector businesses comes from either the ambitions of the company or ambitions of the higher-ups (nothing wrong with either btw). There are p
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by baytrailcat 6y ago
This comment made me lol.. Not sure if you were just joking or you were unaware that case system is overlaid on racial/genetic subtleties of Indian subcontinent. Brahmin casts tend to be light skinned. For outsiders, all Indians are sa
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by baytrailcat 6y ago
In the twitter-verse, Matt is well known for his occasional "hot takes". But he is among the people who pushes the envelope ever so lightly all time and is still tolerated by woke twitter and I am glad for his role. He made out so
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by baytrailcat 6y ago
I thought Slack was not on AWS, but Oracle.
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by baytrailcat 6y ago
In a base sense, I agree with you. But this way of looking at it will lead to a misinterpretation that it's just our inability to measure it that is behind the weirdness. I tend to think of it like this: nature, at it's core, is f
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by baytrailcat 7y ago
This is my line of thinking too. Let's face it, the entire economy can't be shutdown till vaccines are available. Use this borrowed time (when we can afford total lockdown) to mass produce tests, medicines, ventilators, build hosp
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by baytrailcat 7y ago
Sign of the times. Upon reading the title, I figured the discussion would all be about closed time-like curves and causality violation and what not. But, here I am surprised to see HN commenters as open as a UFO subreddit. No complaints her
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by baytrailcat 7y ago
I believe most of us are living a "Google Bubble". When we are online, our exposure to knowledge on a topic is limited by Search algorithms, personalizations, the availability of content that is digitized and searchable, etc. The
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by baytrailcat 9y ago
Looking forward to more and more discoveries and theories coming up in this field. Apart from providing a satisfactory answer to the quandary of "fine-tuned Universe" problem, there has been some observed anomalies for which multi
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by baytrailcat 9y ago
I think you are missing the whole point here. This is as specific as he can get, being still applicable to everyone - "a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
It's an interesting narrative. But isn't it more likely that normalcy and predictability that we are so used to for the past few decades is the actual illusion? World is inherently chaotic and unpredictable. On top of that, human
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Right on. For those who are encouraging dialogue, please show me one instance in the past 10 days where Trump has shown the least bit of ability to listen to the other side. Sometimes, brute force action is the only way to make your voice
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
That is right. Forget voting, this bill may not even go to the Committee. I am not sure if this worth all this hysteria. If it is proposed by a ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, we will know it is serious.
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Check this out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_the_Tea_P... Pay attention to the 2010 primary races that happened within GOP. There were also some high profile races where the Tea-party/Traditi
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
I really hope someone from ACLU is listening in this thread and doing something about taking anonymous donations (can they even?). This is a genuine fear that many of us non-citizens have.
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing. One obvious thing to do is not claim it as a tax deductible donation, since it will go into federal records, which is easily accessed by law enforcement. Getting your past credit card statements may require on
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Lol.. history and norms. Norms like releasing your tax returns before running for office? You think we are going to a centrist judge because dems kept their powder dry? Outrage is the only thing left.
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
I think this is a Chess vs Checkers issue. It doesn't matter if you lay out a plan based on reason if the other side is playing a different game altogether. Check out this simple strategy from the Republican playbook. They pour money i
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
I disagree that this will not be helpful. The old-guard of Democratic Party hails from these hyper liberal areas (Fienstein, Schumer, Pelosi), and based on what we have seen so far, they aren't even showing a slightest hint of resistan
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Sure, ethno-nationalism has a claim on this mantle. But is it curving it towards the right direction? Remember, we have been here multiple times before (like the pre World War I world order). We had to suffer through a lot of carnage to re
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
To me, what is striking is that USA has always been glimmering example of a civilized society. An asymptote, if you will, of the curve of human progress. It showed other countries what laws are logical ("self-evident"), what is th
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
This has been proven true more than once. Whenever "their turn" candidates run, they loose. See Kerry, McCain, Romney. Socioeconomics aside, Americans love novelty. With Trump in power, the game has been elevated to a different le
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
This is an intuitive way of thinking about this without diving into the math. Here are the postulates: speed of light (c) is same for everyone. And there is no special reference frame; your physics is as good as the physics of your friend m
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
>I'm ok with FTL information transfer Which will lead to the conclusion that Special Relativity (which was extensively validated) is either wrong or incomplete. I have seen a revival of Pilot-wave theory here on HN, but the real con
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
You cannot, as a culture, simultaneously underplay the importance of science and math education (nerds!!!) and complain when immigrants come in to occupy the high tech jobs. There is a big outrage about lack of high-paying jobs, yet there i
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
You have unknowingly stumbled into the heart of Special Relativity :) "travel" is the same all dimensions. If you think you are moving from (x1,y1,z1) to (x2,y2,z2) you are actually moving from (x1,y1,z1,t1) to (x2,y2,z2,t2). If y
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
The wave function collapse and "spooky action at distance" for entangled particles are somewhat different concepts. The collapse idea arises as a part of Copenhagen interpretation, which states that particle always exists in a sup
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Search for "Digital physics", you will bump into some info.
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by baytrailcat 10y ago
Are you entirely sure about that? There has been some solid efforts to explain collapse - like Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory

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