haram_masala

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by haram_masala 3y ago
Saudi money in the startup world isn’t new. SoftBank is bundles quite a bit of it under a less-noxious brand.
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by haram_masala 3y ago
Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor. Texas is contending with a simil
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by haram_masala 3y ago
The NSA does exactly that.
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by haram_masala 3y ago
The time plot of CO2 in the bedroom is sobering - it seems that they’re reaching levels where CO2 causes cognitive impairment.
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by haram_masala 4y ago
Reminder, with Facebook’s restructuring, it’s no longer FAANG, it’s G-MAAN.
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by haram_masala 4y ago
LinkedIn is a career and promotional tool. Some people use it to discuss their work, some people discuss their work environment.
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by haram_masala 4y ago
If you want to call people out for passive aggression, well, that’s your choice, I guess. Not what I’d do, but hey, whatever makes you happy.
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by haram_masala 4y ago
Seems like a lawsuit magnet.
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by haram_masala 4y ago
This is probably an API gateway fronting Spark NLP and a mini GPT. They have 25 engineers, what do they all do?
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by haram_masala 5y ago
That all sounds great, but you’d better be sure about the “causes of criminal behavior.” Not everyone agrees on that, and as such, you might be unpleasantly surprised at what ultimately gets “attacked.”
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist mora
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Why would the police arrest a suspect if they already know the suspect won't be prosecuted That's what's really happening here.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
This is the first time I have ever heard the claim that the CCP's hold on power is anything but rock solid. Unless you mean that specific leaders within the party have a tenuous hold against their party rivals.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Sorry - what’s a CRUD startup? CRUD as in create, read, update, delete?
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by haram_masala 5y ago
My strategy is to ignore the license and do whatever the hell I want. So far I’ve been 100% successful with it.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
For those of us who want to start an indie one-person SaaS, this is sobering - because it means that for a while, you’ll be doing all 50 of these jobs. And, paid far less than any of them.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
As much as I hate _Kelo vs. City of New London_, I can see the temptation in this case to invoke eminent domain and hand over those vacant properties to another private owner who will put them to good use.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Same here. Weeding and trimming my small yard now fills my weekly compost bin, that never used to happen in the past couple of decades.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
The quotations excepted from his videos are unsettling but ultimately positive - apparently he’s talking about his journey to overcome anti-Semitism. But in a way, the central message is irrelevant. If you’re a VP of Developer Relations, yo
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by haram_masala 5y ago
The score is a masterpiece though.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Thanks for bringing some sanity and perspective to this discussion. Just like we judge some ancient civilizations for human sacrifice as a way of securing prosperity (or whatever), someday people will look back on our use of psychiatric dr
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by haram_masala 5y ago
The political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has done some very significant work in showing exactly that, and has built robust and successful empirical models demonstrating and predicting it. His book “The Logic of Political Survival” co
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Totally agreed with this. MongoDB’s default security posture is ridiculous, and amazingly it used to be even worse.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
I’ve seen 4chan. I honestly mean no offense to you, but I can’t imagine there is anyone who contributes here who could tolerate that.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
I’ve done it for making fake ancient coins - like another responder, I used a Smooth-On kit and it couldn’t have been easier. Though I was casting bismuth alloy rather than resin. One tip, be sure to dust the mold with talc to allow air to
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by haram_masala 5y ago
“Because cryptocurrencies are anonymous, convenient and global in nature…” One out of three ain’t bad.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
I’d say startup culture has changed quite a bit over the past 25 years. It was always highly competitive, of course, but it has IMO lost some of the honor and unspoken rules that it had. Employees are much more likely to be screwed out of
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by haram_masala 5y ago
That would be one sturdy suitcase, given that osmium is the densest element. Though I’m not sure you mean volumetric suitcase-quantity or not.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Not investigating would provide fuel to group 2a, the people who will defend China at any cost and against all evidence, and their Western enablers who engage in performative anti-racism.
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by haram_masala 5y ago
Whether or not I agree with everything you wrote and sourced here, let me offer some enthusiastic praise for such a comprehensive and well-informed writeup. We should all aspire to be able to post something as substantive as this.

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