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by rmk 1y ago
It would not be surprising, because Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair, a renowned filmmaker (who is primarily makes movies for a western audience, but is heavily influenced by Bollywood).
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by rmk 1y ago
This is why there should be tort law in England and other common law locales.
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by rmk 1y ago
lol. I couldn't help but chuckle when I read this comment :)
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by rmk 2y ago
It does mention a previous instance of the Thatcher government failing because the insider had this exact mindset...
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by rmk 2y ago
And what exactly is wrong with that? Asking for TSMC to be sold to Americans?
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by rmk 2y ago
The uncomfortable truth Donald Trump is finally articulating forcefully is that Europe built its welfare state under the US security umbrella, but then started getting cocky with antitrust actions, restricting American companies' acces
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by rmk 2y ago
So, why didn't the judge recuse himself from this case?
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by rmk 2y ago
You mean, show up in a hoodie at the inauguration of the President? Even billionaires are not exempt from certain social mores. Besides, suits, if tailored correctly, are perfectly functional garments, and I'm sure all the billionaires
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by rmk 2y ago
It feels like a lot of people who joined the workforce after 2008-2010 are experiencing their first "tough times". It's natural to respond in this manner. But there is an important caveat: one must seek out good work and deli
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by rmk 2y ago
This is a weak argument. The US has a patchy K-12 system whose quality varies from abysmal to world-beating, depending on many factors. It has, indisputably, one of the world's best universities. Lots of people who have gone through th
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by rmk 2y ago
> At the C-Suite level - even at a deeply technical company like TSMC - the job is mostly investor relations and arbitrating between various business units internally, so while a technical background is nice to have, the business chops a
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by rmk 2y ago
> rewrites your codebase from scratch This almost never happens. It takes a long time and huge amounts of money to come up to parity, and in the meantime, the legacy org is earning money on the thing you're trying to rewrite. It&#x2
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by rmk 2y ago
Sheryl Sandberg does not have a technical background. A better analogy would be Eric Schmidt or Adam D'Angelo.
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by rmk 2y ago
> Well, why not? Are they residents of anywhere? If not, do you see how easily that slides into not needing to provide services for them? Not considering them deserving of anything, in fact? They are not residents, period. They are vagra
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by rmk 2y ago
Whether I am trying to look smart or not is irrelevant. The article fails to be convincing at even a most basic level. By your logic, no company that hires H-1Bs is free to do layoffs, including of people in auxiliary functions that do not
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by rmk 2y ago
Article does not give a single specific example of a senior engineer laid off in order to hire a (cheaper and more pliant) junior engineer. Is that so hard to do? There is a claim that every department was affected, but again, no specifics.
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by rmk 2y ago
The article talks about (well, at least, opens with) instances where Courts have ordered that belongings be restored, but where cities have failed to do so. One example is that of a woman losing her husband's ashes. I think it is callo
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by rmk 2y ago
It puzzles me too. But as the other commenter here has said, it appears to be a habit of the yuppies. If you are time-poor but cash-rich, I suppose this is a good solution. However, in my experience, people do not use their time saved by do
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by rmk 2y ago
This is already the case. American states have a lot of latitude in setting policy and governing themselves.
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by rmk 2y ago
I was fortunate to come across this book in one of the many "Little Free Libraries" that dot my neighborhood. I dip into the massive tome every now and then and am consistently surprised by the quality of the writing. The writing
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by rmk 3y ago
If you are a native speaker, maybe go into technical writing? Or, if you have the eye for it, design?
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by rmk 3y ago
Python Modules of the Week (PYMOTW). Great resource to learn the stdlib. https://pymotw.com/3/
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by rmk 3y ago
> In all seriousness, how does this make economic sense? The company is incentivizing that people move to areas with a high cost of living, but why exactly? What economic benefit does that bring to the company? It doesn't always bri
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by rmk 3y ago
Yeah, his statement makes about as much sense as the expectation that all people must be charged the same for something all over the world. i.e., 50c-equivalent hamburger in, say, South Africa should have the same price in San Francisco. Ai
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by rmk 3y ago
Is the "Stonecipher plan" to make such bad airplanes that they are forced to get out of Commercial Aviation? Is that even possible with the huge number of Boeing airliners in service? I'm assuming that Boeing is still on the
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by rmk 3y ago
Only in America can people spend more on their cars than on their children!
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by rmk 3y ago
That was a great read! Thank you for posting this gem.
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by rmk 3y ago
Why did they lay off people in core engineering? Is it performance management in the guise of a layoff?
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by rmk 3y ago
What's hard to grok? Its capacity was 300 children, so fewer than 300 families at a location where there could have been thousands of families that could have benefited. It served an insignificant fraction of the employees at Google wh
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by rmk 3y ago
Maybe not with big airliners. It's common for small planes to be told to line up and wait while the current aircraft (also usually another small aircraft) is in the midst of taking off.

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