sometimes_all

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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
> You seem to either not have an understanding of ground reality (if your father was using Diners Club in the 60s, he was in the elite). Well, I wouldn't say "elite", but well off (at that time), but that still doesn'
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
Well, yes, but you conflate that credit cards would've worked, had they been available/easy, in a place like India, which in many ways rejected and still sometimes rejects the kind of thinking which makes credit cards successful i
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
The content is good, but the crore/billion toggle is fantastic. A great addition, I hope it catches on in India-specific websites. I just wish it had a tooltip because its purpose was not immediately clear (CR/BN is a bit cryptic)
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
NEFT and RTGS are free if you do it online. UPI is free. Many banks waive off IMPS charges. NEFT and RTGS were introduced in the mid-2000s. IMPS in 2010, UPI in 2016. It's been > 10 years since the latest instrument launch. Enough t
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
What does this have to do with credit cards? India always had credit cards at a scale comparable to most countries, and they always were a regularly-used of payment for medium-sized "white" transactions; they just weren't tha
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
What I am really impressed by is that experts and the army itself is open to criticism and commentary (I am sure there are limits, and censoring will be happening on the more important parts), but coming from a country where the government
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
Interesting, I am not able to see it, and I have memory enabled.
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
To quote Don Draper: "that's what the money is for". By all means go work for big tech if you want to, it's a free country, but then you don't get to wash your hands off the bad things your company's doing by s
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
> Employees are not in a position of strength Employees that are paid multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars plus equity, and likely can jump ship to another company without a hitch are not in a position of strength? Please. Meta is o
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
> Only it was all a ruse to ensure people didn't jump ship too quickly and make the bleeding too heavy You go when we tell you to go! Not before!
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
Seems that they didn't add explicit options for resination/indifference, but there is at least one archetype you get at the end which does fit that mold: The Shrug patron saint: Matt Levine AI is a thing that exists and yo
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by sometimes_all 2mo ago
I figured out fairly early in my career that if a company/team really wants you, the recruiter is going to roll out the red carpet, irrespective of seniority. It's happened multiple times for me, and has led to the few successful
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
India has about a billion debit cards, but people mostly use them for ATM cash withdrawals, if that (banks used to give them by default during account opening, but have stopped this since UPI came into the picture). Only a single-digit perc
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
I use LLMs for structured learning of old economics and philosophy books out of copyright. Is quite useful for me, given that I have no background in either of these areas.
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
Reading the article, it seems that they didn't set out to do _only_ that, but it was one of the few things that worked.
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
It is my opinion that while you do not judge people who have to choose between integrity and dinner, you can definitely judge people who made decisions and structured their life in such a way that they had that choice, and not only did they
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
I for one am happy that they were only able to ban Telegram (and by the looks of it, they weren't really successful because there are reports that the app continues to work). Nothing of much consequence happens due to this, and the gov
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
Funny, when I was in the US, my Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Mexican, French, British, and 99% of the American coworkers had absolutely zero issues with my Indian accent, except that one American guy who would ask me to keep repeating even
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by sometimes_all 3mo ago
Minor nit: Fastest ever recorded ball bowled was 100 mph. I believe you were thinking 150 kmph. Also, if we're talking about street/amateur cricket, or even higher-level cricket a couple of levels removed from international, you a
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
The extreme steps some of the people took according to the article is really sad. But it makes me wonder what they were thinking? I left the US a long time ago after only a few years of work because I felt it didn't make sense that it
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
That's nice, but used to what end, especially if you are not a Instagram/Facebook user, and have a decent ad-blocker set up?
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
The only reason I pay for M365 family is for the 1 TB per member storage. Excel is a bonus, and Word and Powerpoint are basically not needed any more. If a better storage deal comes along, I'll happily cancel.
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
There used to be a time when it was just accepted that most of the good conferences/gatherings would be in the US, and it would either be important to go to, or be relatively straightforward to reach and attend (especially for Canadian
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
Oh wow, you went from one place to some totally different place at the drop of a hat. Where did me "coming" to Western Europe come into the discussion about racial stereotyping about Indians? I'm not in Western Europe, and I
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
I'm sure you do. But your real life experience is not everyone else's real life experience, so there's no really need to make blanket statements about people.
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
Way to paint with a really broad brush...
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by sometimes_all 4mo ago
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
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by sometimes_all 5mo ago
> sure Americans tried prohibition and all that but its not gloom and doom > Why can't you voluntarily try to influence your alcohol consumption by paying a "alcohol tax"? Gujarat in India is a dry state. UP has an alco
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by sometimes_all 5mo ago
Apologies. I haven't even spent a minute in Blighty, so I took their post in good faith. I should've learned from my experiences with their news...
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by sometimes_all 5mo ago
Why would you have to apologize? If I had to apologize on behalf of all the drivel Indian newspapers write, it'd take me more than a month. It's pretty clear that newspapers around the world are now decoupling from the actual wish

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