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by reactspa 6y ago
A personal anecdote about caste in India: I had to move to Chennai to work there some years ago. As I went around looking for an apartment to rent, I was openly told by several Brahmin homeowners that they weren't going to rent to me b
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by reactspa 6y ago
This article delivers a very good understanding of what it's like to be an entrepreneur in India. Kudos. One of the coolest things I've read about Jio is something I read on a previous post on HN: that the name and logo were desig
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by reactspa 6y ago
I skimmed the book a few days ago and thought it looked interesting, and put it in my reading list. Got any other companion book recos? I'm particularly interested in data sets that I could play with in Tableau, Google Data Studio, and
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by reactspa 6y ago
Great points in parent comment. Additionally: the problem of nepotism. The most recent shareholder AGM showed up in my YouTube recos. I didn't watch the video, but in the mouse-over preview there were only 3 people: Mukesh, his mother,
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Ask HN: How can I help startups exploit my state's zero income tax?
1 points by reactspa 6y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Resources for checking if writing sounds contemporary
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by reactspa 6y ago
2 other potential sources of the word "curry" - kadhai (Indian wok) - Kari patta: a spicy leaf, staple in South Indian cuisine (and very tasty)
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by reactspa 6y ago
What I find odd: - why was iOS allowing it in the first place? - why does an app have access to the clipboard unless copy/paste is deliberately invoked from within the app by the user? (my clipboard often contains highly sensitive info
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by reactspa 6y ago
I've always found it a little simplistic that the default cut-off, in most statistical software, for whether something should be 0 or 1, is 0.5. (i.e. > 0.5 equals 1, and < 0.5 equals 0). This seems to be a "rarely-questione
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by reactspa 6y ago
I agree, if a minimum limit is posted. E.g., I remember on some highway it said max 75mph, and min 40mph. 65 in a 70 is just prudence though.
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by reactspa 6y ago
Honestly, I was blind to police racism against blacks. Until I watched this video. ---------------- This is a shocking video: https://www.wral.com/ace-perry-pulled-over-by-sampson-county... + white cop pulls over black driv
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by reactspa 6y ago
Thank you fellow Taleb reader. Also: Scott Adams, in his book "How to fail..." has a chapter on increasing one's luck. Worth a skim if you haven't checked it out before.
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by reactspa 7y ago
Why do you prefer using a VM (instead of using OBS directly in the parent PC)? Is it mainly to avoid the problem of a message popping up on your screen?
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by reactspa 7y ago
Mosquitoes don't pollinate, but they're food for a bunch of other animals up the food chain, no? (e.g. frogs?). So if we did eliminate mosquitoes, it's probably not going to be a clear win.
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Ask HN: how you increase cognitive load of an activity
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by reactspa 7y ago
lol, yeah. Partly because at my workplace jeans & t-shirts are common, and repping the employer is seen by some as "being a kiss-ass".
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by reactspa 7y ago
Start with "How to fail...", then "Win Bigly", then "Loserthink". "How to fail..." is the most important IMHO. Also, read up on this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle&#
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by reactspa 7y ago
E.g.: I'm a jeans & t-shirt kinda guy. However, I now dress a little more formally (business casual) because it leads to better outcomes. I've not gotten around to wearing suits even though that would be even better. A little
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by reactspa 7y ago
This comment is pure gold. I found Scott Adams' recent books and Daniel Kahneman's work profoundly influential in changing my "observed personality" (i.e. the psychology I project to the world), and making me an order of
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by reactspa 7y ago
Thank you for this. I've been curious about Monte Carlo techniques ever since I was strongly influenced by Taleb's ideas. He uses Monte Carlo techniques via Mathematica* to produce curves for very complex probability functions. He
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by reactspa 7y ago
imho, the author's being disingenuous when describing the cringeworthy diversity exercises. The point of those exercises is to make you cringe at name-calling and stereotyping. To take the thoughts out of peoples' minds and put th
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by reactspa 7y ago
I use Launchy in "Portable" mode (because my work PC is locked down and I may not install Launchy on it). After some 1) significant amount of config-tweaking, 2) learning curve involving moodiness on Launchy's part, and 3) le
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by reactspa 7y ago
1. Nobody was stripped of citizenship. They couldn't prove they had it in the first place. 2. You won't learn this from the media's narrative about it, but: the reason why most protestors are protesting the Citizenship Amen
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by reactspa 7y ago
Fantastic talk. Portable Apps on Windows are a hedge against some of the angst he describes. (E.g. the part about updates changing a lot of things around or causing failure-to-launch problems). E.g., I still use WinAmp to play mp3's. I
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by reactspa 7y ago
> There are apps for watching movies for language learning (which adds subtitles, dictionaries, etc.) I've been searching for such apps (for watching movies/audio-visual content). Got any names to share? Thanks.