mohanmcgeek

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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
yes. Let's turn this place into r/technology
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> Exogamy between castes remains very low, even between different high castes. What are you basing this on?
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
Then why publish it at all? Not to mention, the article made no effort to establish that it's describing the world 2 years prior to this being written
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> I wish journalists would stop simply reprinting intentionally misleading company spin like this without any attempt to refute it. That's exactly what reporters _should not_ do. Why would i want them to mix their opinions in when r
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
This isn't what a hostile takeover is. Is it?
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
It wasn't true even when they wrote the blog. Realistically this should read 2018 because apparently they waited two years before writing this blogpost.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
I remember when this article came out, everybody was pointing out the fact that they used a go version that was several releases older. Perhaps if the intent wasn't to convince their managers to let them write it in Rust, they would ha
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
The difference between the last 3 realme phones would be: a different camera, a different screen, a different brand of processor between each of these and they would have been released 3 weeks apart.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> They've been making iPhone SEs in India for a while now. They've been making 11s,12s in the same plant in the OP The 13 production started only now.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> vs. $799 in the USA vs. $829 in the USA 799 includes carrier discounts. You get bank discounts in India which would get the price down to little over $800 iPhone 13 costs about the same as it would if you bought it in the US. But 13 Pr
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
Several Indian states have a lower gini coefficient than the US and it's still possible to hire household help here.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
So SV pays 4-5x or 0.85-0.9x adjusting for cost of living And EU/Uk pays 2x or 0.4-0.5x adjusting for cost of living. Devs in India are getting paid _more_ now adjusting for cost of living.. It's just that, cost of living stops ma
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
You don't want to indentify as an Indian or a person of Indian origin. Yet you couldn't keep yourself from commenting on this thread. > If you are a guy (or worse a girl) who insists it’s not that bad in india, then you grew up
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
India taxes petroleum that much not to generate more revenue -- for they can always raise the sales tax rates -- but to reduce consumption and keep the balance of payments in check.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
Digital arsonists who do it for the attention
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology They did have a strong ideology and they worked towards building the world they wished to see. Not by breaking
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> eager to default at this point as doing so could cause financial damage in the West. What about Russian banks and Russian bond holders? External debt is generally only a fraction of the total debt
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
Google fails miserably over there too. First page is full of results from a handful of sites.
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by mohanmcgeek 4y ago
> The vast majority of thinking here is not very sophisticated about these types of topics Oh it's the classist "I'm smarter than the average person in my country" crowd again. Why do you assume you know better? Perha
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I wouldn't call it so much the implementation of ML but rather from when they decided they were an AI/ML company. The Amazon recommendations engine, the poster child of ML in 2014 isn't any good at recommending products that
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> It's the government. If that's your logic, it's very hard to argue with it. It's literally a separate entity even from what you described. > Where do you think coins and federal reserve notes come from? the feder
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Yes. It doesn't. Not only that: the government cannot and does not create money.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
But now with the benefit of hindsight, we do know how it turned out for c++. right?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then Has anyone considered the possibility that all this Machine learning and AI models is what made Google and YouTube searches worse?
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> Somewhat ironically, the only way to avoid this is to query via Google (site:youtube.com [term]) where you will get a much larger set of results. Even more ironically and many here would have experienced this themselves: the best way t
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> a whole new level of the entire world trying to game their search I think their #1 problem is their product managers trying to do "something" to add said something to their resume and making the product horrible to use in the
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Your comment implies that you think bonds and Banknotes are the same. And you clearly have no clue what the gold standard was.
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
Anybody making this argument needs to tell me why the government needs taxes/bonds if it "can just print money" I want to see the kind of mental gymnastics that people have to do fit in the false idea that government creates
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
That's how I felt in 2015. 7 years later, i still haven't learnt Rust and i don't see companies around here using Rust anyway
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by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I neither understand how that's insulting to you nor how that justifies you insulting these OSS projects. Did you write Borg or something?

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